New Life for a Historic Building
The Dempster Building at 609 – 617 N. Central Street is getting a major makeover. Located in a developing part of the city, the historic building had hit hard times by the end of the last...
David Dewhirst
Electric Company Lofts Opens Quietly, Extends Downtown Fringes
While it might seem that the stock of older, pre-war downtown buildings available for redevelopment has been expended, there are actually quite a few. Not necessarily located in what we now think of the downtown core,...
A Look at the Fire Street Lofts and The Emporium (AKA City People Home Tour 2017, Part Three)
Today we’ll take a final look at a rainy, but successful City People Home Tour. While we each probably had our favorites along the way, the homes this year seemed, to Urban Woman and myself to...
A Market Square Business Leaves, Another Downtown Business Takes Its Place
A number of you have noticed that Local Motors has left downtown and its 11 Market Square Address. Both when I first wrote about their opening and when I wrote about their retail re-boot, a number...
Downtown Knoxville to get DreamBikes
DreamBikes, a 501(c)3 formed by Trek Bikes in 2008, is an organization that has “refurbished and returned 10,000 bikes to the community,” while, “providing jobs for over 100 teens.” The organization achieved these accomplishments through two...
Daylight Building Offers Downtown Homes For Sale
Five years after accepting its first residents, Dewhirst Properties is offering what have been leased apartments inside the Daylight Building, located on the 500 block of Union Avenue, for sale as condos. The historic tax credits...
City Council Votes to Impose Historic Protection on Cal Johnson Building
City Council meetings sometimes provide a bit of drama and such was the case last night when it considered placing the Cal Johnson Building under historic zoning or H1 protection. Essentially, this means it cannot be...
What Makes a City Beautiful? Keep Knoxville Beautiful Finds the Answer in Downtown Buildings
Keep Knoxville Beautiful is a local organization devoted to just what their name would imply. Their mission statement indicates that they love all things “clean, green and beautiful.” To keep it clean, they organize major litter cleanups,...
Mill and Mine Set to Open For Big Ears – Full Operations By This Summer
A bit of a media frenzy ensued when a press release announced the opening of the Mill and Mine at 225 W. Depot, an entertainment and concert venue and complex of sorts. Mercury ran with it, the...
An Anniversary for two Missing Buildings and an Empty Lot
Yesterday an anniversary of sorts passed without so much as a thought. It’s something that some people would rather be forgotten. It’s something that only the most spiteful among us might be interested in celebrating. I...