Tako Taco is Open!
It hasn’t been that long since it was announced that chef Jesse Newmister planned to open a second restaurant after his Kaizen concept which has been so successful. It took just two months to open Tako...
Depot Avenue
1894 Saloon Building Continues Downtown’s Northward Expansion
Prior to its facade improvements last year by Dewhirst Properties, the 1894 Saloon building might have been overlooked or dismissed as an old, tired and no longer useful building. In fact, the building had been in...
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...
Amazing New Condo and Retail Project Announced: Regas Square
We’ve talked so many times on this site about good urban development. There are a number of common features – which turn out to be not-so-common. We’d all like to see parking lots turning to buildings...
Development Plans for Depot Avenue
Last March I took a stroll down Depot Avenue with a large group from Knox Heritage through some of the development projects planned by Dewhirst Properties. David Dewhirst led the way and talked quite extensively about...
Two Blocks, Two Buildings, Two Different Outcomes
Two buildings caught my attention recently. They are only about a block and a half apart, but they seem destined to quite different futures. One may be a treasure, the other maybe not so much. In...
Below the Surface: It’s the Inside that Counts
I saw this photograph on Facebook this weekend, thanks to Mary Beth Tugwell via Charlotte Tolley and Kim Trent, and felt I should post it as a follow-up to Friday’s article. It’s hard to imagine (at...
Industrial Belting and Supply Building
About a year-and-a-half ago I wrote about the possibility of a development corridor along Depot Avenue. There are a number of reasons to think this street and this area of downtown may experience a boom in...