From a $5.65 per hour desk clerk job at a Disney resort after college to the chair of Knox County Commission is at first blush a gargantuan leap. Yet, some …
The safety complex: Pros and cons
On Monday, our story described the design, cost and schedule for the city’s proposed safety complex at the old St. Mary’s hospital site. It was a nuts-and-bolts glimpse of the …
Halls warehouses headline realty transfers
Recordings for last week were much like most middle-of-the-month weeks, somewhat slower than the beginning and ending weeks. Still, we recorded 250 property transfers and 368 loans. The highest dollar property …
City to spend $46 million on St. Mary’s site
Public safety is job one for any city, including Knoxville. So, it is not surprising that the city has proposed a state-of-the-art police and fire headquarters, equipped with the right …
Knox County’s most progressive officeholder moves on
Mark Stephens is a soft-spoken guy who smiles often and easily. But don’t let that fool you – there’s steel in that backbone sufficient to mold the position to which …
Working Man Nick McBride
If Elizabeth Barrett Browning had dedicated a sonnet to Nick McBride, the first line would have been, “How do I employ thee? Let me count the ways.”
Knox County’s register of …
ALDI and East Towne are a study in contrasts
New development continues to flourish along Millertown Pike, while East Towne Mall, once a retail juggernaut, gradually fades away.
The German grocery chain ALDI is adding a new store at 5416 …
New construction and loans keep register’s office busy
The trend is still moving up and so, apparently, are the residents of Knox County! We had another heavy week as far as property transfers were concerned. There were one …