In The News

The Hope Brothers Building on Gay Street will be getting a new look. It is currently undergoing renovation, to include a new boutique hotel and restaurant/bar concept. The building was constructed in 1898. It still has the exposed brick, features and feel of that time...

There has been a major expansion push recently with regards to cookie shops.  The national yearning for the comforting, feel-good sensation that fresh baked cookies represent is spurring demand for these retailers.  Customers are drawn to treat purchases that will...

There has been a major expansion push recently with regards to cookie shops.  The national yearning for the comforting, feel-good sensation that fresh baked cookies represent is spurring demand for these retailers.  Customers are drawn to treat purchases that will...

  Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs announced last week that BNA Associates LLC had failed to secure the necessary funding to move forward with the development of the Andrew Johnson Building downtown.  BNA had plans for a $43 million project which would create a...

 In early May, Thomas Boyd was approached by Oliver Smith Realty and Development regarding the Kress Building in downtown Knoxville.  At the time, Boyd’s focus had been on revitalizing the Old City.  However, “after looking into it for a little bit, I just kind of...

Whimsy Cookie Company is coming to Knoxville.  The custom cookie retailer’s first Knoxville bakery will be located at 4729 Kingston Pike, across from the Bearden Kroger.  The Memphis based company began in 2006 and launched franchising opportunities in 2018.  There...

At 24, David Wilson, director of the School of Art, had only just begun thinking like an artist.  His investigations began as social interactions both in the environment and buildings slated for demolition by “setting things up and leaving them,” potentially for...

When Cocoon Resources Inc. hears about exciting new technology, the scientific venture firm invests. And Cocoon is now banking on downtown Knoxville as the home of its new Scientific Innovation Center and headquarters, which will provide space for coronavirus research...

Here at Oliver Smith Realty and Auction Company, Inc., our team is extremely excited by the fact that this year we are fortunate to be celebrating our 80th Anniversary.  Concurrent with this monumental celebration, important changes are in the process of taking place...