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Kopita Now Offering Full Dinner Menu at 507 South Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 10, 2022

Kopita opened at 524 South Gay Street in July 2019, becoming downtown’s first vegan restaurant. A pandemic followed in short order and, for a while during the early months of the pandemic, Kopita expanded to offer...

Emory Place Galleries Prepare to Open: More Businesses Coming

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 23, 2022

It was just over three months ago that I wrote about the general plans for Emory Place and the properties purchased by Break Emory, LLC. One gallery was planned and options were available for related businesses...

New Development Coming to Emory Place

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 6, 2021

Remember back in those halcyon days before the pandemic. It was July of 2019 when last I wrote about Emory Place. Tim Hill had owned the buildings on the west side of Emory Place for a...

Kopita and Kopita Meat Consolidate and Plan Cool Outdoor Space

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 2, 2021

If you read carefully last week when I wrote about Fai Thai, you realized that their new address is currently home to Kopita Meat. Owner Avi Zenatti took the space during the pandemic and offered meat...

Hope Brothers Building at 428 South Gay Street to Add Residences

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 11, 2019

The building at 428 South Gay Street, which houses Sapphire in its storefront, was built after the 1897 Gay Street Fire. The current five-story building replaced a shorter, three-story building destroyed by the fire. A shoe...

Israeli Vegan Restaurant Coming to Gay Street (Plus a Ticket Giveaway!)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 14, 2019

It wasn’t that long ago that much of the food available in downtown Knoxville fell generally into one “American” category or another. There were exceptions, but not many. In the last several years we’ve had a...

Ilana Brodt

Kopita Now Offering Full Dinner Menu at 507 South Gay Street

Emory Place Galleries Prepare to Open: More Businesses Coming

New Development Coming to Emory Place

Kopita and Kopita Meat Consolidate and Plan Cool Outdoor Space

Hope Brothers Building at 428 South Gay Street to Add Residences

Israeli Vegan Restaurant Coming to Gay Street (Plus a Ticket Giveaway!)

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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