Inside of Knoxville

Another Parking Lot Set to Become a Building!

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 16, 2015

For many years we’ve only seen one-way traffic downtown and I’m not talking about the streets. We’ve torn down many buildings over the last decades and produced surface parking lots. We’ve not gone in the...

Wayne Blasius Named Executive Director of the Community Design Center

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 6, 2015

I’ve touched on the East Tennesee Community Design Center in previous articles, here and here, for example. It’s an organization I first encountered through an early Pehca Kucha presentation. The website best describes what they do, “ETCDC...

Wayfinding Signs Emerge Downtown: What Do You Think?

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 5, 2015

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...

Inside the Kress Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 3, 2015

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

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 26, 2015

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

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 23, 2015

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

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 16, 2015

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?

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 15, 2015

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

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 12, 2015

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?

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 17, 2014

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,...

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Development

Another Parking Lot Set to Become a Building!

Wayne Blasius Named Executive Director of the Community Design Center

Wayfinding Signs Emerge Downtown: What Do You Think?

Inside the Kress Building

Good News Set to Flow in the Knoxville Streets

Kress Building Prepped for Major Renovation

Closure (For Now) on Parking and Development – Plus an Idea: Vertical Gardens

Walnut Street Garage Takes Shape: What Do You Think?

Latest on the Farragut Building

So, What’s Your Big Idea?

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville