The Five Thirty Lounge Atop the Hyatt Place Opens Today
The Five Thirty Lounge on top of the Hyatt Place hotel opens today. The hotel opened in July 2018 and a rooftop bar was opened in August of that year. The space included about 5,000 square...
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South High Senior Living Opens Today
South High Senior Living, the latest project from developer/owner Rick Dover opens today to new residents. The project started with a building, the former South High School, which had literally fallen in on itself. Mr. Dover...
COVID-19: Impact on Development in the City
As I’ve done with local business owners, I approached local developers with a series of questions regarding the impact of the pandemic and the economic shutdown on their current and future projects. I asked about the...
How would you spend $.75 million and change annually to help downtown?
Start naming projects to help an entire downtown and the money can slip away pretty quickly. Some issues or dreams can’t be addressed with that small amount of money. As massive as it would seem to...
Firehall Apartments at Knoxville High Opens
Dover Development has announced that a portion of the Knoxville High development, the previous Number Three Firehall will be offered as Firehall Apartments. The market-rate apartments will be managed by Senior Solutions, the company which manages...
Evolving Supreme Court Site Development Plans
Rick Dover, DIA Architects, J Davis Architects and Bristol Development Group recently presented their current vision for the Supreme Court Site on the downtown block bounded by Henley, Church, Locust and Cumberland to City Council in...
Knoxville High Independent Living Opens Its Doors
It’s been a long road, one that Rick Dover acknowledges has sometimes been frustrating, but he also says it’s what he enjoys most – making the improbable happen despite the obstacles. I first wrote about Knoxville...
Hyatt Place Holds Ribbon Cutting, Prepares to Open
Hyatt Place Knoxville, located in the historic Farragut Hotel Building, held its ribbon cutting at 10:30 this morning and should welcome guests by the end of the year. Developed and owned by Dover Development and...
2017 Stars of Knoxville Preservation Announced
A mixture of buildings and the people who brought them back to life were honored last night by Knox Heritage. Kim Trent, Executive Director, presided over what will be her last awards ceremony, as she has...
Dispute Threatens to Derail Preservation and Development of Pryor Brown
The trail to this point is a long one. For those of you who may have missed, or don’t remember the earlier developments, I’ll recap. Pryor Brown Garage is a building located on the corner of...