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White Lily Building Sold; Some Apartments to be Sold

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 25, 2024

A major building, at 222 N. Central Street, owned by Dewhirst Properties, has been sold to Thomas Boyd and Will Sims. Constructed in 1885, the 50,000 square foot building operated as a factory making White Lily...

Dewhirst Properties Purchases Greyhound Bus Station: A Conversation with Mark Heinz

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 6, 2022

Dewhirst Properties recently purchased the Greyhound Bus Station at 100 East Magnolia. It’s another signal that much of the focus of downtown development is moving to the north and east. Residential development now sits across the...

New Life for a Historic Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 29, 2019

The Dempster Building at 609 – 617 N. Central Street is getting a major makeover. Located in a developing part of the city, the historic building had hit hard times by the end of the last...

A Look Inside the Keener Lighting Building + Future Plans

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 16, 2017

A reader joked the other day that I must get tired of writing about one building and being asked about ten more. I don’t, really, but it is hard to keep up with all the construction...

Electric Company Lofts Opens Quietly, Extends Downtown Fringes

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 14, 2017

While it might seem that the stock of older, pre-war downtown buildings available for redevelopment has been expended, there are actually quite a few. Not necessarily located in what we now think of the downtown core,...

1894 Saloon Building Continues Downtown’s Northward Expansion

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 16, 2016

Prior to its facade improvements last year by Dewhirst Properties, the 1894 Saloon building might have been overlooked or dismissed as an old, tired and no longer useful building. In fact, the building had been in...

A Look Inside First Christian Church: A Dewhirst Property

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 25, 2015

I’ve sat on about half of these photographs for nearly six months, sort of waiting for the story of the First Christian Church to emerge. The other half of the photos were taken last month when...

A Tour of and Conversation about the Kern’s Bakery Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 3, 2015

Recently Urban Woman and I were fortunate enough to be invited to join friends Karen, John, Robin and Chris for a tour, just over the Henley Bridge, of the Kern’s Bakery Building with David Dewhirst as...

Development Plans for Depot Avenue

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 20, 2015

Last March I took a stroll down Depot Avenue with a large group from Knox Heritage through some of the development projects planned by Dewhirst Properties. David Dewhirst led the way and talked quite extensively about...

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...

Mark Heinz

White Lily Building Sold; Some Apartments to be Sold

Dewhirst Properties Purchases Greyhound Bus Station: A Conversation with Mark Heinz

New Life for a Historic Building

A Look Inside the Keener Lighting Building + Future Plans

Electric Company Lofts Opens Quietly, Extends Downtown Fringes

1894 Saloon Building Continues Downtown’s Northward Expansion

A Look Inside First Christian Church: A Dewhirst Property

A Tour of and Conversation about the Kern’s Bakery Building

Development Plans for Depot Avenue

Where are we? Where are we going?

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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