Inside of Knoxville

Another Parking Lot Set to Become a Building!

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 16, 2015

For many years we’ve only seen one-way traffic downtown and I’m not talking about the streets. We’ve torn down many buildings over the last decades and produced surface parking lots. We’ve not gone in the...

A Look Inside the Medical Arts Building: Now Taking Leases

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 21, 2014

It’s accepted by those who pay careful attention to downtown buildings that the Medical Arts Building on Main Street is one of the most beautiful in the city. With its Gothic touches and ornate flourishes, it...

Where are we? Where are we going?

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 7, 2014

Those were the basic questions discussed by a group of around 130 people last night at the Standard on Jackson Avenue at the first meeting of the Downtown Urban Design Forum. Buzz Goss, one of the...

Holes in the City

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 23, 2013

I heard a piece on National Public Radio within the last few days that set me to thinking about holes. Specifically, the report was designed to take up space or a “hole” in the broadcast hour....

Major Decision to be Made About an Entire City Block

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 12, 2013

There aren’t that many city blocks in the immediate area of downtown Knoxville. Given that we are bounded by a natural barrier on one side, the Tennessee River, and we’ve erected boundaries in the other three...

Three Projects Want Your Money – What Do You Want to Fund?

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 26, 2013

Here we go, again. Just a month after two projects asked for a total of $825,000 from an organization that receives roughly $500,000 a year, and $460,000 was granted, we have more requests far outstripping their...

A Tour Inside the Medical Arts Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 15, 2013

Brothers Michael and Thomas Grace co-own and plan to renovate the Medical Arts Building, transforming it from office space to 49 residential units with 77 bedrooms. Additionally, three retail spaces will be included on the first floor. Michael...

Coming Downtown Knoxville Development in 2013

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 10, 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...

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Downtown Development

Another Parking Lot Set to Become a Building!

A Look Inside the Medical Arts Building: Now Taking Leases

Where are we? Where are we going?

Holes in the City

Major Decision to be Made About an Entire City Block

Three Projects Want Your Money – What Do You Want to Fund?

A Tour Inside the Medical Arts Building

Coming Downtown Knoxville Development in 2013

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