Friday Tidbits: Gay Street Bridge Funding and More
Lots of news bits slip out and around the city every day. We deliver some of them in full-length stories, while others fit better in a list of sorts. Early this month several hit that fit...
Magnolia Avenue
The Local Smokey to Open in the Former Free Service Tire Building
In the fall, I spoke with John MacCready about his latest development at Whist Court. While there, we took a detour over to the former Free Service Tire Building also owned by MacCready’s group, and I...
Details of New Ground-Up Condominium and Commercial Development Announced
The Courtland Group, headed by Jeffrey Nash, has established an excellent track record with numerous redevelopments of older buildings. Nash began his career reclaiming and redeveloping warehouses and factories in east London, but moved to Knoxville...
Open Streets Moves East – The Clouds Part
It was a slow start for Open Streets Knoxville this past Sunday. Rain had fallen all morning and after walking from home to the route on Magnolia, there was a notable absence of people. To be...
Spring 2017 Open Streets Knoxville
I probably shouldn’t declare the Dogwood Arts Festival the end of Festival Season. Here we are two weeks later and we are looking straight into another weekend filled with festivals and festival-like events. Downtown will be...
Magnolia Records Opens Downtown
It’s a headline that would have been confounding just a few years ago. CD sales obliterated vinyl in the 1980s and predictions held vinyl would become the eight-track tape of its generation. At that same time,...
Last Days of Autumn Brewing Opens on Magnolia
An interested person would need a score card to follow the openings in and around downtown. Last week I declared something of a watershed with the opening of three new businesses in one week: K Brew,...
Magnolia Avenue Corridor Project Unveiled
Last week the city unveiled its latest plan for the Magnolia Avenue corridor improvements. You’ll find the full plan here in great detail and I’ll leave it to those of you interested in that level of...
Take a Sentimental Journey: Parkridge Home Tour 2015
The Parkridge Home Tour fell at the same time as the Open Streets event making for a conundrum of sorts for me and a number of others. Each started at 1:00 PM, though the Parkridge event...
New Brewery: Last Days of Autumn
Just about the time I think I’ve got a handle on all the new breweries coming to the downtown area, I find another. I’ve nosed around the area out Jackson on McCalla over to Magnolia and...