Invitation to North Hills Neighbors
From a City of Knoxville Office of Neighborhoods press release:
NORTH HILLS HOSTS ANNIVERSARY DINNER
The North Hills Area Association is sponsoring a free, all-you-can-eat neighborhood ten-year anniversary dinner on Thursday August 26, 2010 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Washington Pike United Methodist Church, 2241 Washington Pike.
The dinner is catered by All Occasion Catering and will feature spaghetti, fettuccine and a variety of deserts. All area residents and their family and friends are invited to attend. Check the website at www.discoveret.org/nhaa for more information.
100 Block meeting tonight
The 100 Block of Gay Street, which features the Emporium for the Arts, Sterchi Lofts, Nama, etc., is holding an organizational meeting tonight at the Emporium (on the northeast corner of the block). There are a large number of businesses and residences who call the 100 Block home, and now that it has reopened after the massive construction, there will no doubt be some exciting items on the agenda.
Waging the war against kudzu
And winning! Goats have been hired to eat their way through the massive amount of kudzu growing at Fort Dickerson Park, and they started just yesterday. Check out the video from the News-Sentinel’s website, and for a little background on goats eradicating kudzu elsewhere in Tennessee, check out this 2003 article in the Christian Science Monitor about the practice.
100 Block reopening
Gay Street’s 100 Block (between Summit Hill Drive and Jackson Avenue) is a neighborhood unto itself. For many years earlier this decade, it was by far the most heavily populated block, and still might be. You may recall that the 100 Block has been under massive construction while their street and sidewalks were all replaced.
Finally, the block is about to be open. There are new street lights, planters and benches, and some of your old favorites like the glass block on the sidewalks.
Next up, the Jackson Avenue viaduct.
Update on Oakwood Elementary building
The East Tennessee Community Design Center has done a study and made recommendations on what Knox County should do with the old Oakwood Elementary School in the Oakwood-Lincoln Park neighborhood. It was built in 1914, and since it was taken out of service in 1996 it has fallen, like many old schools owned by the County, into great disrepair. We hope the County will follow up on the ETCDC’s recommendation of stabilizing the building and trying to find a buyer for the property; it could be a real asset to the OLP community. Download pdf’s of the study on the ETCDC’s website.
If you’d like to support the Design Center and the priceless work they do, go to their annual 500 Block Party THIS THURSDAY, June 17. Buy tickets here.
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