Old City

The Old City is an area in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, situated at the upper east corner of the city's downtown zone. Initially part of an unruly and bad habit ridden segment of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been renewed through broad redevelopment endeavors helped out amid the 1980s through the present. Currently, the Old City is a strange urban neighborhood, home to a few special eateries, bars, clubs, and shops. Regardless of its name, the Old City isn't the most established segment of Knoxville.

Most of the area was not some portion of the city until the 1850s, when the entry of the railroad urged the city to add the territories north of Vine Avenue. The railroad brought a flood of Irish settlers, who built up the Old City's first cantinas and shops. After the Civil War, Knoxville formed into one of the southeast's biggest wholesaling focuses. Wholesalers assembled extensive distribution centers, for example, the ones along Jackson Avenue, where rustic East Tennessee dealers came to purchase the products with which they supplied their general stores.

By the mid-1900s, Central Street was fixed with cantinas and houses of ill-repute. Brutal wrongdoing and prostitution kept on being an issue into the 1960s, making a considerable lot of the area's organizations escape the area. Beginning in the 1970s, fruitful redevelopment endeavors driven by Kristopher Kendrick who authored the name "Old City" and Peter Calandruccio rejuvenated the neighborhood. In 1985, a large portion of the area's noteworthy structures were recorded on the National Register of Historic Places as a component of the Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District.