Bridges, Roads and Garages, Oh My! Heads Up on What’s Coming Your Way
To put a spin on the cliche, in the end, all news is good news – at least in this case, but in the meantime there’s likely to be a price to pay for the improvements...
A Market Square Business and a Union Avenue Business Close
It’s a truth that may be hard to keep in focus in these heady times in downtown Knoxville, but businesses don’t always make it and the ones that are successful for a period of time don’t...
Perennial Question: What Does Downtown Need?
It may be the most asked question in Knoxville at least for this young millennium, second perhaps only to, “Can I have money for the bus?” Metro Pulse used to keep it posted as a never-ending...
Plans Announced for a Major Building on Gay Street
Three weeks ago I wrote about the Conley Building at 505 – 507 South Gay Street. After a range of uses over the years, serving mostly as banks and office space, the building had become entangled...
A Pie Factory is Saved on Central – And Big Plans Are Intimated
Less than a month ago I wrote about a building at 2209 North Central and, perhaps, the beginning of residents and businesses along Central Street taking small steps to organize and preserve the best elements along...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/22 – 10/31/2017)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Ijams Expanded with the Help of Grayson Subaru: Is the Urban Wilderness Knoxville’s Central Park?
In a nice turn, Ijams Nature Center and, as a result, Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness have grown. Grayson Subaru donated $60,000 toward a project that began with the purchase of 13.4 acres adjacent to Mead’s Quary for...
Local Group Pushes for Memorial Statue to Febb and Harry Burn
It’s interesting to ponder Knoxville’s stock of statues and memorials in the wake of recent controversies in other southern cities. It doesn’t take much of a survey to realize we’ve chosen quite a different path from...
Gallows Hill, The Carpenter’s Union Building, Jack Neely and More
Sometimes a word or a phrase just stands on its own to incite or to evoke a reaction or a mood without further assistance. Gallows Hill. The reader immediately knows what happened there. The Knoxville reader...
Culture Hair Studio Opens on Gay Street
Liv Halcomb, owner of Culture Hair Studio has deep downtown roots for a person so young. Born in Knoxville and raised in Karns, she spent a large part of her childhood in the Old City because...