34 Market Square Sold to Wests, Rooftop Expansion Planned
In a move that further adds to the Wests’ holdings on the east side of Market Square, Hatcher Hill has sold 34 Market Square to the West family for $3 million. With the purchase, the Wests...
Development
Construction Prepared to Start on the 200 Block of Gay Street
I’m not usually happy to see a sidewalk closed and I’m not delighted to see that on the 200 block. That said, I’ve never been more excited to see a fence being erected than I was...
Baseball Update: An Interview with Doug Kirchhofer, CEO Boyd Sports
It’s been about nine months since I last mentioned baseball in this space. It’s not that the express stopped rolling, but when I wrote last April that the Smokies would not likely play their first game...
A Family, A Home, and New Hope
A small home at 119 South Cruze Street, in east Knoxville, just a stone’s throw from downtown, is shining this Christmas as a beacon of hope for Knoxville couple Alvin and Jeanine Johnson. Married four years...
Emporium Building and Nearby Parking Structure Sold
The Emporium Building, built at the end of the nineteenth century at 100 South Gay Street, owned for many years by Dewhirst Properties, has sold to Boghani Properties, LLC. for $24.75 million. Additionally, a parking structure...
Former Marriott to Become Vision Apartments; Funding Requested
It’s been a long and arduous journey for the former Marriott at 501 East Hill Avenue (briefly known as Hotel Knoxville). In October 2020, Melrose Knoxville, LLC (DBA Omni Vision Knoxville) a group based in Beverly...
Visit Knoxville Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting the City
This past Friday, inside the Sunsphere, Visit Knoxville celebrated its tenth anniversary in its current incarnation as the city’s official convention and visitors bureau for the City of Knoxville and Knox County. Over that time it...
Keys to Urban Economic Development: Trees and . . . Blowing Up Highways?!?
It’s intuitive that a city is better served with more trees, right? But exploding highways as a pathway to urban development? Well, yes, in many cases. It was a topic on the table for conversation recently...
Solar Power: Where Does Tennessee (and Knoxville) Stand and Where Is It Going?
The Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association recently held its annual two-day conference at the downtown Hilton in Knoxville. Nearly four hundred people, mostly industry professionals and other directly interested parties, attended from Tennessee and surrounding states....
Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia
(Today’s article is written by guest writer Heather Ryerson, whose photographs are also credited in captions) Triangular J Ventures, LLC. brings familiar names to development happening on W. Magnolia Ave. John Macready and John Roethlisberger added...