Wayfinding Signs Emerge Downtown: What Do You Think?
Those of us who are downtown all the time don’t give a thought to how to get about, but many visitors to the city, unless they ask a friendly citizen, are dependent on signs to direct...
Development
Inside the Kress Building
There’s an allure to walking around inside an old building. Paying careful attention a person might see clues to its historic past, touch woodwork of a bygone era and sometimes even smell the past. It’s an...
Good News Set to Flow in the Knoxville Streets
One of the fun things about my job is that I get to hear all the good plans people have for our city. I get to hear what they are up to at the peak of...
Kress Building Prepped for Major Renovation
Slowly, but very steadily, each of the remaining historic buildings on Gay Street are being renovated and updated. Work currently is underway in the old KUB Building, the Merchants Bank and Trust Building, the former J.C....
Closure (For Now) on Parking and Development – Plus an Idea: Vertical Gardens
Let me start today’s post with some comments and clarifications after yesterday’s (mostly) good conversation. I tried in my article to give each of the different perspectives on what is a complicated economic issue. As Bill...
Walnut Street Garage Takes Shape: What Do You Think?
It’s massive, it’s changed our skyline and it will hold many, many cars. Over a thousand of them. So far, there’s not much to disagree with. It’s all true. That’s where opinions diverge. I’ve made it...
Latest on the Farragut Building
Just less than a year ago the old Farragut Hotel building was part of our local conversation. Developers from California-based Halo Hospitality Group had an option to purchase and said they intended to return the hotel...
So, What’s Your Big Idea?
You’ve had one, right? That idea that came to you as you pondered how to make a better ice cube or how to get a beer from the refrigerator without leaving your recliner? We’ve all said,...
Improving Public Transport in the City
I recently published a couple of pieces about transportation, written by Just John. The first focused a bit more on the network of roads which could establish more of a city grid. The second focused on...
Road Network and Transit, Pt. 2: What a Transit System Needs
Here’s the second part of Just John’s piece from yesterday and, unlike some of the more dramatic proposals, this one is just a common sense look at how we might enhance our transportation system. Somehow we’ve...