Recent content by Ted

Indya Kincannon, Madeline Rogero, and the city councils under them have been quite detrimental to the way Knoxville was before them. Our property taxes have gone up and there is no way they they won't continue to go up. Knoxville is exploding in growth. It is NOT a positive direction, and our...

Hey Mad, not all of us do Instagram.

Earlier this month, the buildings at 6356 and 6352 Clinton Highway were demolished. The original owners bought the property in 1965. It included 28 acres behind these buildings. The couple passed away in 2020 and 2023, and the children sold the land to developers in September. The new...

For some reason, Orange Julius popped into mind a few minutes ago, and I dug around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Julius From the wiki: "In 1987, the Orange Julius chain was bought by International Dairy Queen, which was subsequently purchased by billionaire Warren Buffett in 1998...

I remember us driving by there in the 70's and how good the bread smelled baking there. I also remember the Christmas displays. They went all out on those! Peter Kern (American businessman) - Wikipedia is a good read. Who knew the Oliver Hotel in downtown was the Kern's headquarters? Or that...

I didn't realize that the Northgate Center was built in the early 60's. I do remember seeing it when I was a child coming to Knoxville with my parents. Northgate Center has seen it's ups and downs. I fondly remember it when K-Mart was still there in the 2000's, as well as Food City. It was...

We need to write to the Volnation.com guys and ask if they will update the forum software. I despise not being able to do any kind of a reaction to a post other than a generic "like." On this one, I'd definitely do a sad or mad or something other than "like."

"Chief Operating Officer Alex Widmer said the rent nearly tripled when they looked at signing a new lease" Good lord, I hate what has been happening to Knoxville.

Same here. I tried to get a finance / banking job here but they just weren't hiring in the early 80's. I think it was because I didn't go to UT and didn't have those connections here. Worked in Lexington for years but finally made it to Knoxville. I'm very thankful. I would have gone nuts living...

I saw that earlier this week. They didn't waste any time starting the demolition. Business must be great in the salon business if the Saahs paid $2.7M just for the lot. Then the expense of demolition and a new building. Also, Saah has the two other locations in Farragut and Cedar Bluff. Looks...

The street signs on Merchant Dr. go both ways, Merchant and Merchants, so even the City doesn't know for sure, apparently. All they'd have to do is make a determination, change the street signs, and the property tax records. Too much to ask, I suppose. One thing I wish Knoxville would do is get...

Google says that about a lot of businesses that actually open. Apparently that was something that came about during the pandemic. The Middlebrook location is closed.

Everyone loved Bill. He was the nicest man, right up there with the other Bill we lost recently, Bill Williams.

That was an interesting old shopping center/village in its time. I think it went back to the early 70's. It had a faux Bavarian sort of motif. Haven't found the name of that mall yet. I will post it if I can find it. As Dutchman said, there was a fire in that shopping center some time in 2013...

Nixon's Deli has been around for a while. They had seven locations at one time, but are now down to three: 508 Merchant Drive, 5716 Kingston Pike in Bearden, and 230 N. Peters Rd. There were locations on North Broadway, Middlebrook Pk. and Turkey Creek, as well as one in Oak Ridge. These all...