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Pryor Brown Garage to be Demolished

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 25, 2023

Yesterday evening, Knox Heritage released the following statement regarding the Pryor Brown Garage located on the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street. The caption above this article is theirs. On December 14, 2022, a demolition...

34 Market Square Sold to Wests, Rooftop Expansion Planned

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 12, 2023

In a move that further adds to the Wests’ holdings on the east side of Market Square, Hatcher Hill has sold 34 Market Square to the West family for $3 million. With the purchase, the Wests...

Construction Prepared to Start on the 200 Block of Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 11, 2023

I’m not usually happy to see a sidewalk closed and I’m not delighted to see that on the 200 block. That said, I’ve never been more excited to see a fence being erected than I was...

Baseball Update: An Interview with Doug Kirchhofer, CEO Boyd Sports

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 6, 2023

It’s been about nine months since I last mentioned baseball in this space. It’s not that the express stopped rolling, but when I wrote last April that the Smokies would not likely play their first game...

A Family, A Home, and New Hope

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 20, 2022

A small home at 119 South Cruze Street, in east Knoxville, just a stone’s throw from downtown, is shining this Christmas as a beacon of hope for Knoxville couple Alvin and Jeanine Johnson. Married four years...

Emporium Building and Nearby Parking Structure Sold

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 14, 2022

The Emporium Building, built at the end of the nineteenth century at 100 South Gay Street, owned for many years by Dewhirst Properties, has sold to Boghani Properties, LLC. for $24.75 million. Additionally, a parking structure...

Former Marriott to Become Vision Apartments; Funding Requested

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 22, 2022

It’s been a long and arduous journey for the former Marriott at 501 East Hill Avenue (briefly known as Hotel Knoxville). In October 2020, Melrose Knoxville, LLC (DBA Omni Vision Knoxville) a group based in Beverly...

Visit Knoxville Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting the City

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 21, 2022

This past Friday, inside the Sunsphere, Visit Knoxville celebrated its tenth anniversary in its current incarnation as the city’s official convention and visitors bureau for the City of Knoxville and Knox County. Over that time it...

Keys to Urban Economic Development: Trees and . . . Blowing Up Highways?!?

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 16, 2022

It’s intuitive that a city is better served with more trees, right? But exploding highways as a pathway to urban development? Well, yes, in many cases. It was a topic on the table for conversation recently...

Solar Power: Where Does Tennessee (and Knoxville) Stand and Where Is It Going?

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 9, 2022

The Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association recently held its annual two-day conference at the downtown Hilton in Knoxville. Nearly four hundred people, mostly industry professionals and other directly interested parties, attended from Tennessee and surrounding states....

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Development

Pryor Brown Garage to be Demolished

34 Market Square Sold to Wests, Rooftop Expansion Planned

Construction Prepared to Start on the 200 Block of Gay Street

Baseball Update: An Interview with Doug Kirchhofer, CEO Boyd Sports

A Family, A Home, and New Hope

Emporium Building and Nearby Parking Structure Sold

Former Marriott to Become Vision Apartments; Funding Requested

Visit Knoxville Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting the City

Keys to Urban Economic Development: Trees and . . . Blowing Up Highways?!?

Solar Power: Where Does Tennessee (and Knoxville) Stand and Where Is It Going?

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