The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner: 1/18 – 1/27/2015
If you want to be certain to be 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...
Closure (For Now) on Parking and Development – Plus an Idea: Vertical Gardens
Let me start today’s post with some comments and clarifications after yesterday’s (mostly) good conversation. I tried in my article to give each of the different perspectives on what is a complicated economic issue. As Bill...
Walnut Street Garage Takes Shape: What Do You Think?
It’s massive, it’s changed our skyline and it will hold many, many cars. Over a thousand of them. So far, there’s not much to disagree with. It’s all true. That’s where opinions diverge. I’ve made it...
Shuck Closes, Holly Hambright’s Holly’s 135 to Open
I realize very well this has been reported elsewhere, but it’s too significant for downtown and the 100 block for me not to mention it. I also was able to speak with Ben Bishop, general manager...
TN Theatre Celebrates: Open House, Tours and A New Book
Ten years ago tomorrow, January 14, 2005, the Tennessee Theatre opened its doors on a new era. Closed for the restoration that brought its appearance back to an opulence most Knoxville citizens could not remember –...
Latest on the Farragut Building
Just less than a year ago the old Farragut Hotel building was part of our local conversation. Developers from California-based Halo Hospitality Group had an option to purchase and said they intended to return the hotel...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner: 1/11 – 1/20/2015
Here’s the second ten-day planner. I’ve had people asking that I extend the calendar and I’m also lining it up to match the upcoming Hard Knox Independent calendar which starts publishing soon. (You have a chance...
Nourish Knoxville and the 2015 Winter Farmers’ Market
Like me, during your visits to the Market Square Farmers’ Market and other random times in the last year or so, you may have noticed references to Nourish Knoxville and wondered vaguely what that was all...
David Denton’s Reflections of the City, Part Two
So, how did you do? Did anyone get them all? Here’s another ten and I’ll put the answer key at the bottom like yesterday. Good luck! #1 East Tennessee History Center #2 Window of CBI (Office...
David Denton’s Reflections of the City
Probably the best thing about my job is that I get the chance to meet, talk with and get to know really smart and creative people. Yesterday I introduced you to Brian R. Jobe who certainly...