CNN Visits Boyd’s Jig and Reel?!?
It seemed odd: a notice on Facebook last Thursday night that CNN would visit Boyd’s Jig and Reel. When I learned that it centered on a food topic, that seemed even more strange. First, since when...
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Final Shot of Business News for Your Week
Today I’m mostly going to give you some photographs of business developments I noticed before the end of the year. Next week I hope to use a couple of days to review 2012 in downtown business...
Coming Downtown Knoxville Development in 2013
Yesterday, WBIR ran a piece about downtown development that I thought was helpful, surprising in some ways and at least narrow in focus, if not biased in other ways. A very positive story, as one would...
It’s the Little Things: Changes in the City
So many tiny little changes creep into the city that we sometimes notice and sometimes miss, but taken all together each little increment moves our city steadily along its journey of self-discovery and its evolution into the...
A Tale of Two Bridges
Actually, one is a viaduct, but they are on the same road, aren’t very far apart and where one is currently causing headaches, the other will eventually start to do so. So, we’ll consider them together....
Tennessee Shines Sparkles Tonight
I’ve not said much about the Tennessee Shines series which happens at the Knoxville Visitor’s Center. For whatever reason, Monday seems to be a hard night for me to clear my schedule and make it to...
More Development News from the Southern End of the Center City
Among news items in recent months are a couple of additional developments on the southern side of the downtown area which I wanted to mention. Two properties on Church Avenue, a block off Gay Street are...
Businesses, Buildings Close, Move and Evolve Downtown
A surprising number of business and building developments crowded into the closing weeks of the year. I’ll cover a few today and others in upcoming posts. Most of these have been reported elsewhere, though some have...
An Inside View with Plans for Tailor Lofts, Knoxville (AKA Arby’s Building)
Thanks to the kindness of Daniel Odle of Conversion Properties, I recently toured the Tailor Lofts Building at 430 South Gay Street. Renovation and reconstruction is set to begin immediately with a completion date of spring,...
Happy 2013, Knoxville
I somehow doubted that the crowds would be so big downtown this New Year’s Eve. The excellent “First Night Knoxville,” which had featured great music at multiple venues in the city did not take place this...