Inside of Knoxville

Christopher Robin Arts Opens at 418 South Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 13, 2021

New downtown businesses have opened in a steady stream during the pandemic. In the case of Christopher Robin Arts, owned by husband and wife, photographer Chris Rohwer and oil painter Robin Rohwer, the business had operated...

Status Dough Doughnuts and Coffee Shop Opens on Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 6, 2019

When I wrote the original article, Jimmy Wooten said he hoped to open the downtown store at 418 South Gay Street in January. They missed it by a day. Jimmy told me that after a hectic...

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...

Covenant Health Opens Convenient Care Downtown

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 30, 2016

It’s been more than a year since Eddie Mannis announced his plans to bring a pharmacy and a walk-in clinic to the Phoenix building on Gay Street. In October of last year the Phoenix Pharmacy opened its...

Downtown’s Phoenix Pharmacy is Open for Business

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 29, 2015

It’s been a long time coming. When I first announced the planned opening of Phoenix Pharmacy, it was February and the plan included a summer opening. Spring and summer passed and, while it seems like a...

City People Home Tour 2015, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 5, 2015

We’ll start the second half of the revue of the tour with one of my favorite homes in the city, in one of my favorite buildings. The Holston was one of the first to be converted...

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...

A Peanut Shop and other Changes of Note

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 21, 2013

Sometimes I’m the first to break a story about downtown and often others get the scoop. Even when something has been reported elsewhere I often note it here, as well, because I’m not sure my readers...

Bill Cook, Jr. and Other First Friday Moments

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 8, 2012

I suspect it was me. I came home from work tired and my First Friday partner (Urban Woman) declared a night at home on that most active of nights downtown. So I left home alone, tired...

Phoenix Building

Christopher Robin Arts Opens at 418 South Gay Street

Status Dough Doughnuts and Coffee Shop Opens on Gay Street

A Long-term Downtown Business Closes

Covenant Health Opens Convenient Care Downtown

Downtown’s Phoenix Pharmacy is Open for Business

City People Home Tour 2015, Part Two

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

A Peanut Shop and other Changes of Note

Bill Cook, Jr. and Other First Friday Moments

Broadway Market to (Softly) Reopen

Regal Celebration of Lights Kicks Off the Holidays

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/28-12/7/2021)

Celebrations, Small Businesses and More

First Creek at Austin Signs First Leases Today