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MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE FOR GAY STREET

Gay Street.

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301 North Gay St. 350 South Gay Street, Knoxville, September 2021.

In a very signifint potential velopment for Gay Street, one of the empty spac dottg the rridor may soon be filled. A rezong requt was recently filed for 350 South Gay Street, which is currently a leral hole formg a parkg lot between the Century Buildg (Chivo Taqueria) and Gallery Lofts (Mast General Store).

It would be the first major ground-up nstctn on Gay more than a generatn.

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350 South Gay Street Aerial View – From Planng Commissn Applitn. Entrance will be via Gay Street, adjacent to Mast General and the ex will be out the rear of the stcture to State Street. The larger portn of the Gay Street facg floor would be dited to mercial space adjacent to the Century buildg.

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The 100 block of Gay Street was raised one story 1919 to the level is today. Storeonts are still visible the unrground tate velopers see an opportuny to re-purpose unrground the 100 block of the Gay Street we know today is the 100 block of yterday or, rather, ytercentury.

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Fixg 'the Death Dip' The 100 block of Gay Street was raised to rolve what lol historian Jack Neely referred to as "the Death Dip. "As Gay Street grew and the railroad got by, acmodatg dozens of tras every day, the cy built bridg over the rail yards.

"By 1900, the downward slope of Gay Street and the upward slope of a bridge created a road that seemed more like a roller aster — "a pretty absurd thg to fd a by part of town, " Neely said.

The pavement lights people walk over daily on the Gay Street siwalk are illumated om the tunnel directly below where the siwalk ed to unrground street area is now jt a ncrete wall led wh utily box. People who wanr to the bottom floor of the buildg on the east si of Gay Street n peer through glass doors at a mural pated on a wall where the street once was.

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