Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/30 – 11/8/2022)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Campground Planned on Hillside Bordering Augusta Quarry Property
Bobby Smelcer was born in and has lived his entire life in south Knoxville. It’s a fact he’s proud of and, as a result of those years, he knows quite a bit about that part of...
Honeysuckle Development Announced for South Knoxville
Machinations, the team who brought The Overlook to downtown, is set to begin construction at the beginning of the year on their latest project, Honeysuckle, located on a hill just off the James White Parkway in...
Knoxville Rooted Native Maps Buys Building (Now Sunday Studios) and Grows the Business
When Native Maps founder and owner, David Harman, purchased the building at 800 Luttrell Street in February, it marked another turning point in the business that has grown from very small to a very successful level...
Wild Iris Florals Coming to 629 North Central Street
It’s an address you might not have noticed before. As far as new owner Megan Wright knows, it has been used mostly for storage for at least the last twenty years. She has big plans to...
Wicked Cool (Scary Stuff!) and a Final 40th Anniversary Celebration for the World’s Fair
A couple of things are happening around downtown this week (through next Monday) that warrant highlighting. One celebrates the season, while the other is a final celebration for an event that happened forty years ago and...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/23 – 11/1/2022)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Facelift and New Direction for the Fourth and Gill Neighborhood Center (AKA The Birdhouse)
The Fourth and Gill Neighborhood has been through several swings over the years. In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was a posh neighborhood of north Knoxville. It even incorporated at one point and elected...
Wests Purchase Gay Street Building Announce Plans for “Seven Minutes Early”
Scott and Bernadette West have purchased the building at 413 South Gay Street, marking the couple’s first Gay Street property after owning property in the Old City and numerous properties on Market Square. The couple also...
PopFizz Grows, Expands Footprint Near Downtown
PopFizz, a Knoxville founded and based production company founded in 2013, has expanded to include a building near downtown. Located in the Fourth and Gill neighborhood at 800 Luttrell Street, the new location in a former...