Early Summer Business Updates
An accumulation of small updates about a range of businesses seems to be in order. I’ve gotten questions about some of these and others have been in the news recently, but haven’t been mentioned here. A...
Downtown Businesses
The Parlor Set to Move From Downtown
Last winter I dropped in to talk to Josh Sidman, owner and operator of the Parlor at 411 S. Gay Street. I did not find him in a very good humor. Discouraged about the business, he...
Reruns Boutique Announces Its Closure
When I first wrote about Reruns Boutique nearly two years ago, I said it was one of the oldest businesses still operating in downtown Knoxville. As owner Nanci Solomon made the announcement yesterday that the business...
Red Door: Boudoir Photography Comes To Market Square
A second above street-level business has opened on Market Square. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been over a year-and-a-half since I wrote about the opening of Coldstream Market upstairs at 34 Market Square, just above Earthbound...
Jackson Terminal Building Renovations Underway
Never formally named, the loading docks at 123 W. Jackson have now been named the Jackson Terminal. Originally a freight depot for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, constructed in the later half of the...
Frussie’s Deli and Sandwich Shoppe Moving to Gay Street
After nineteen years as a south Knoxville institution at 133 Moody Avenue, Frussie’s Deli and Sandwich Shoppe is moving to 722. S. Gay Street, which some of you may recognize as the current location of the...
New Store: The Impeccable Pig Coming to Market Square
23 Market Square didn’t remain empty for long. Just three months ago, The Peanut Shop closed its doors and we’re now just a couple or three weeks away from having the Impeccable Pig Boutique take its...
Maker’s Donuts: Doughnuts On the Way for Downtown
Now that a pharmacy is on the way to downtown, I haven’t heard a consensus for what we need next. I have heard doughnuts mentioned more than once and, while it might not be the most...
Boxwood Brake: New Furniture, Sundries Store Opens Downtown
Darbi Henley has opened Boxwood Brake, a new store in the West Jackson Workshops at 514 West Jackson, that has a little bit of everything. The door proclaims, “furniture, apothecary, wares.” It’s about as good an attempt...
Waldorf Photographic Art Opens on Main Street
Just a few weeks ago the first retail business in many years opened on Main Street at 603 in the Medical Arts Building. Flow: A Brew Parlor seems to be doing very well and now they...