Updates for Your Weekend
Here are a few points of interest from the week and the weekend as you take that well-deserved break: The groundbreaking for the $10 million Urban Wilderness Gateway Park was held Wednesday at the southern end...
Development
Knox County Schools and TVA Near Deal: Andrew Johnson Building Hangs in the Balance
An agreement in principle has been reached between Knox County and TVA to have the school system offices moved to TVA’s east tower. The deal also involves Summer Place and was explained yesterday to a joint...
Hope Brothers Building at 428 South Gay Street to Add Residences
The building at 428 South Gay Street, which houses Sapphire in its storefront, was built after the 1897 Gay Street Fire. The current five-story building replaced a shorter, three-story building destroyed by the fire. A shoe...
Downtown Hotels: Too Many? Too Few? Just the Right Number?
I get these kinds of questions often. Most of the time they are asked from the perspective of doubts about whether downtown can support all the new hotels that have sprung up in recent years....
Tennessee RiverLine Project Sets to Redefine Our Relationship With the River
What does the Tennessee River mean to you? As an important geographical feature to our area, you may think of it in terms of transportation, recreation or economic development. I remember telling my young daughter, “This...
New Life for a Historic Building
The Dempster Building at 609 – 617 N. Central Street is getting a major makeover. Located in a developing part of the city, the historic building had hit hard times by the end of the last...
New Details and Project Info for the Jackson Avenue Ramp Replacement
The Jackson Avenue Ramp was built in 1919 and 1920 in order to allow Jackson Avenue to connect to the newly elevated Gay Street, which had a new viaduct of its own in order to allow...
New Development Comes to Emory Place
If you’ve never considered Emory Place, it’s worth walking through and giving it a bit of thought. If you don’t know where it’s located, consider walking north on Gay Street, past the 100 block, over the...
A Portion of the Vine Furniture Building to Become Condo and Retail Development
Yesterday we took a look at the 75-year-old family business at 120 West Summit Hill. After focusing on the stability of the business, we’ll shift our attention today to their decision to change part of their...
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...