It’s weird how the mind works. For example, every day we’re assailed by sights, smells, sounds and more. Yet we’re able to filter out so much of it.

Monday through Friday, anyway, the southern end of downtown around the city’s tallest buildings smelled like fried chicken. More specifically, it smelled like Chick-fil-A fried chicken. After years in the First Tennessee Plaza, the recently embattled chain has moved out ...

I doubt anybody’s noticed yet. But that’s to be expected, considering. After all, at the beginning of the month, all eyes were on the northeast in anticipation of a freakish storm.

I was on my way back home the other day from one of those excursions, having just crossed the Gay Street Bridge to my side of the river late one Saturday morning, when I noticed something.

Next week, the City of Knoxville will take yet another blind step in its uninformed quest to enhance downtown parking when it boots up two multi-space parking meters on the 100 Block of Gay Street next month.

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to be happy to see this summer go.

As you’ve probably heard by now, downtown is slated to get additional parking via two pending projects.

Like a lot of people, I keep a calendar. There are the standard birthdays, holidays, appointments, and reminders that you might expect to find on anyone’s calendar—places I need to be and things I need to do. But the majority ...

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has been evaluating a move, claiming that downtown is no longer suitable for its operations, and last month announced the pending sale of its 12-story office building at Locust and Summit Hill Drive. Parking, downtown’s perpetual purported problem, ...

I haven’t seen the figures lately. But I’m pretty confident that the number of people who are choosing to make downtown their home is continuing to grow. That’s interesting to me, especially since I know so many old friends and ...

There is a well accepted, almost universal, perspective of urban living as more fast-paced than that of the suburbs and countryside. And in some respects that rings true, particularly in bigger cities. But there’s another side, especially in downtown Knoxville, ...

It’s hard to think of a project in recent years that hasn’t benefited from the CBID’s largesse. And that’s causing friction. In recent weeks, the CBID has suspended its grant program, and is currently reassessing the criteria it employs in ...

I’m not exactly sure what to make of the flap over the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporation, except that change is inevitable. What I do know a bit about is the visitor center they operate at the corner of Gay ...

A couple of weeks ago, when word came that developers were eyeing the former Fulton Bellows site along Third Creek as a possible location for a new shopping complex to include a Walmart and Publix, hands started wringing. After all, ...

It’s that time of year again! I was heading home the other day for lunch when I first noticed the bits of bright color adorning dozens of cars. It’s not the annual tradition of Christmas in the City. But you ...