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Three Downtown Businesses Announce Permanent Closures

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 30, 2020

It seemed likely that there would be businesses which simply could not hang on during months of shutdowns, illness of employees and the discomfort many feel venturing out. Other variables also impact particular businesses in ways...

New Sculptures Added to Krutch Park

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 15, 2020

One of the initial complications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shut down was it all hit just about perfectly at the time we would normally see an influx of new sculptures to Krutch Park....

Startup Culture is Alive and Well in Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 25, 2019

There are so many slices of Knoxville. We may inhabit one and step into another two or three from time-to-time, but there are many of which we know not. My hunch is that most people living...

Updates for Your Weekend

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 13, 2019

Here are a few points of interest from the week and the weekend as you take that well-deserved break: The groundbreaking for the $10 million Urban Wilderness Gateway Park was held Wednesday at the southern end...

Have You Noticed We Have a Race for Mayor? A First Look at the Candidates

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 26, 2019

It’s been eight years since term-limited Madeline Rogero became Knoxville’s first female Mayor. She followed a popular mayor in Bill Haslam, who left to assume office as Tennessee’s governor and an interim of service by Dan...

Help Pick the People’s Choice Sculpture (and hunt for Waldo while you’re at it)

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 19, 2017

Every spring one of the most exciting parts of downtown’s re-emergence from the cold, hard reality of winter is the fact that colorful, often whimsical and sometimes beautiful or moving sculptures begin to spring up on...

A Long-term Downtown Business Closes

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 27, 2017

In 2004 downtown Knoxville was a very different place. It wasn’t all bleak and abandoned, but it was a far cry from what we experience every day in 2017. Many of the goods and services we...

Downtown Knoxville Set to Get Modern/Old Fashioned Pharmacy on Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 12, 2015

It’s been number one on virtually every local resident’s list of businesses we need downtown. What seemed like nothing more than a dream a few weeks ago is now set to become reality: Locally based, family...

Two Magnificent Homes: Mary Boyce Temple House and Glencoe Penthouse

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 23, 2013

This is going to be more of a photo essay of these two beautiful residences. This will be the final post centered on the City People Downtown Home Tour 2013. The first I’ll spotlight is...

Community Design Center Hosts Fundraiser at the Emporium

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 26, 2012

The Community Design Center hosted its annual fundraiser at the Emporium last week. If you don’t know about the center, you should. It’s an innovative organization started in 1969 devoted to “bringing professional design and planning...

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Three Downtown Businesses Announce Permanent Closures

New Sculptures Added to Krutch Park

Startup Culture is Alive and Well in Knoxville

Updates for Your Weekend

Have You Noticed We Have a Race for Mayor? A First Look at the Candidates

Help Pick the People’s Choice Sculpture (and hunt for Waldo while you’re at it)

A Long-term Downtown Business Closes

Downtown Knoxville Set to Get Modern/Old Fashioned Pharmacy on Gay Street

Two Magnificent Homes: Mary Boyce Temple House and Glencoe Penthouse

Community Design Center Hosts Fundraiser at the Emporium

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

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