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...
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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...
Yoga Central Adds to Booming District
(Article by Guest Writer Heather Ryerson) Calling all yogis near 5th Ave! Yoga Central, the newest yoga studio has opened its doors! Its location next to Xul Brewery and Knoxville High (now open to all ages)...
Kopita Now Offering Full Dinner Menu at 507 South Gay Street
Kopita opened at 524 South Gay Street in July 2019, becoming downtown’s first vegan restaurant. A pandemic followed in short order and, for a while during the early months of the pandemic, Kopita expanded to offer...
Spice and Tea Exchange of Knoxville Coming to 522 South Gay Street
Downtown Knoxville will soon get its own location of The Spice and Tea Exchange, as Annette Morejon brings the concept to 522 South Gay Street, most recently home to Fai Thai Kitchen. She’s lived in Knoxville...
Hong’s Kitchen Opens at Pretentious Glass
It’s hard to know the best way to spin this story, which is really two great stories in one. The first narrative thread is that Vic Scott and Josh Coates, owners of Seoul Brothers in Marble...
Downtown to Get Small Neighborhood Grocery Store
There are themes that run through the dozen plus years I’ve written about downtown. The interest in parking and homelessness sometimes seems bottomless. Both topics pale, however, to the topic of a grocery store. Non-downtown residents...
Harvest Opens at 141 South Gay Street
I announced last April that Harvest planned a second location to be on Gay Street. Those plans came to fruition recently when Harvest opened at 141 South Gay Street. As I did last April, I spoke...
River Breeze Event Center Offers Its Fall Line Up – With Shuttles From Downtown
River Breeze Event Center opened with its first concert just a couple of weeks ago and has announced a fall line-up, which Communications Director Carri Lombardi said is more-or-less a soft opening to work out details...