Inside of Knoxville

Construction on Sunsphere Welcome Center to Begin

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 22, 2024

Visit Knoxville, which operates the Sunsphere, announced this week that construction will begin next week on the second phase of their plans to improve the Sunsphere while adding to its functionality. The first phase of their...

Tennessee Theatre Expands into Neighboring Building at 612 South Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 5, 2024

The Tennessee Theatre holds a spot in Knoxville’s heart like few other landmarks. As it approaches its 100th birthday (it will turn 96 this year), it enters an expansion project that will serve to make the...

Plans and Timeline for Redevelopment of the AJ Building Come into Focus

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 28, 2020

After several years of fits and starts and false-starts, it appears the Andrew Johnson Building — now to be known as the AJ — will finally be brought into a use more fitting for the current...

Three Questions Answered and a Couple of Other Random Pieces of Information

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 13, 2019

One of the fun things about doing what I do is that people are always running into me and saying, “Hey, quick question . . .” It leads to some of my favorite conversations. Often the...

The Tennessean, Knoxville’s New Luxury Hotel, Officially Opens

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 5, 2017

In its soft opening last weekend, Nicholas Cazana, president of the company which owns the property, said The Tennessean Hotel was filled to capacity giving his new staff a good sample of what they anticipate will be...

Architecture Week: It’s All About Building Community

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 29, 2017

“Building Community” is a phrase I hear from so many people. I hear it from religious people, business owners, neighborhood activists and, now, architects. What does it mean? The precise definition likely changes for each of...

Harrogate’s Lounge, Downtown’s Arcade and Bar, Opens on Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 29, 2016

It took a little longer than Anne Ford and Matt Pancetti might have hoped. Last October when I announced we had arcade games on the way to Gay Street, they hoped to be up and running...

First Residents Poised to Move into The Daniel

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 27, 2016

My first visit to what I then called the “John H. Daniel Building” offered an interior (and to a lesser extent exterior) view that is hard to comprehend about nine months later. Assuming you haven’t seen...

A Final Look at Tailor Lofts

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 16, 2014

I’ve probably not been given the opportunity to follow any building more closely than that afforded to me by Daniel Odle of Conversion Properties at Tailor Lofts. When I first toured the building, I couldn’t keep...

McCarty Holsaple McCarty

Construction on Sunsphere Welcome Center to Begin

Tennessee Theatre Expands into Neighboring Building at 612 South Gay Street

Plans and Timeline for Redevelopment of the AJ Building Come into Focus

Three Questions Answered and a Couple of Other Random Pieces of Information

The Tennessean, Knoxville’s New Luxury Hotel, Officially Opens

Architecture Week: It’s All About Building Community

Harrogate’s Lounge, Downtown’s Arcade and Bar, Opens on Gay Street

First Residents Poised to Move into The Daniel

A Final Look at Tailor Lofts

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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