Faris Eid: Lifting Up a City
When it gathers for its annual gala on October 20, the East Tennessee Community Design Center will honor a person who has designed a large percentage of the best renovations and restorations in our city. He’s...
Development
Two Businesses Close, New One Announced and Development Questions Answered
Continuing the theme of catching up on little developments across the city in recent weeks, let’s look at a number of other recent changes. I’ll also have a few tidbits that haven’t been reported elsewhere and...
Baseball, Fires and Development: More Updates
I’m going to take another shot out rounding out some of the dangling stories, but as I’ve begun listing them, I realize there are so many that I may not get through them in this article....
Lots of Little Downtown Updates
Sometimes it just seems time to catch up and to catch our collective breath. The truth is so many thing are happening so fast in downtown Knoxville that they can’t all have a devoted article. As...
The Historic Tennessee Theatre Relights Its Marquee and Signature Blade Sign
The long story of the Tennessee Theatre continues and, happily, most of the recent chapters have been happy ones. Originally built as a movie palace, it opened its doors on October 1, 1928 with a showing...
Little Urban Connections
I hope you traveled to exotic and wondrous destinations this summer. Me? Not so much. I visited cities I often visit during the course of the summer: Chattanooga, Birmingham, Selma, Mobile and New Orleans. Even when...
Daylight Building Offers Downtown Homes For Sale
Five years after accepting its first residents, Dewhirst Properties is offering what have been leased apartments inside the Daylight Building, located on the 500 block of Union Avenue, for sale as condos. The historic tax credits...
Justin Paulk and Paulk and Co. Help Build a City
The first several times I met Justin, it was in the context of cool, funky parties at Paulk and Company on William’s Street. Artists, music and generally fun people enjoyed the eclectic oddities assembled inside and...
Flour Head Bakery (and Brewery) Coming to Central Street
Tomato Head, co-owned by Mahasti Vafaie and Scott Partin, has long been a staple of downtown. Eventually, the couple opened another Tomato Head restaurant in Maryville, then moved it to west Knoxville. Subsequently, the kitchen at...
ETCDC Home Tour 2016 Highlights Outdoor Spaces
As I noted last week, the East Tennessee Community Design Center hosted a home tour which included a wide range of home styles, sizes and floor plans. The unifying theme of this year’s tour was outdoor...