The 200 Block of Gay Street, Wt Si - The Gaps of Gay Street Part 4

Contents:

• 200 BLOCK OF GAY STREET
• THE 200 BLOCK OF GAY ST. N NOW BE VELOPED. BUT WHAT WILL GO THERE TO 'BRIDGE THAT GAP'?
• DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
• CONSTCTN PREPARED TO START ON THE 200 BLOCK OF GAY STREET
• THIS $26M PROJECT WOULD FILL GAY STREET'S 'GREAT DIVI' WH SHOPPG, HOG AND DG
• COULD REVELOPG GAY STREET'S 200 BLOCK CREATE A NEW DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE DISTRICT?
• GAY BLOCK

200 BLOCK OF GAY STREET

In a very signifint velopment for downtown, Hatcher-Hill Properti has troduced a project that will rtore the wtern si of the 200 block of Gay Street. It’s somethg we’ve talked about on this blog for years as a missg piece the downtown velopment equatn: the missg 200 block of South Gay Street. The 200 Block of Gay Street, Wt Si - The Gaps of Gay Street Part 4.

For our forth stallment of the "Gaps of Gay Street", and a follow-up to the 200 Block East si, we'll cross Gay Street to the wt si. He purchased his first saloon, The Poplar Log, at the rner of Central and Ve the 1890's and then shortly opened this place, The Lone Tree Saloon, namg after the last tree standg on Gay St. Cal Johnson's Lone Tree Saloon and the "Last Tree on Gay Street".

THE 200 BLOCK OF GAY ST. N NOW BE VELOPED. BUT WHAT WILL GO THERE TO 'BRIDGE THAT GAP'?

An 1890's view of the wt si of the 200 block of Gay Street. While the tre are pretty, thk of how much more hive downtown would feel if the 100 block hadn't been severed om the rt of Gay Street. Below are some aerial shots showg the gap where Gay street was terpted.

DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR

Until next time, when we move south back down Gay Street seekg to fill "The Gaps of Gay Street. When schools block pro-LGBT s but still allow accs to hate s that nmn LGBT people or urge them to try to “pray away the gay, ” ’s viewpot discrimatn and vlat stunts’ rights unr the First Amendment. As we ntue our tour south down Gay Street, we walk past the 400 block whout stoppg.

Gay Tower, Embassy Su, what have you... Gay sce at least the 1880's. This block, like many on the wt si of Gay, was home to many smaller shops.

CONSTCTN PREPARED TO START ON THE 200 BLOCK OF GAY STREET

The tersectn of Clch and Gay, 1877. East Tennsee Natnal Bank, Corner of Unn and Gay 1925.

Gay and 511. Woolworth's on Gay Street had closed s doors by 1970. It's gray, but there is the old Park Bank buildg at Gay and Unn wh the southern half of the new buildg beg nstcted.

THIS $26M PROJECT WOULD FILL GAY STREET'S 'GREAT DIVI' WH SHOPPG, HOG AND DG

Gay St. Gay was the McCormick Clothg Co. Gay Street, clock base at right.

The inic Hope Brothers Clock stood on Gay Street for over 100 years until Kimball's reloted wh their bs to Bearn hill 2004. Gay Street. Gay Street was also a three story, brick buildg of Victorian vernacular.

COULD REVELOPG GAY STREET'S 200 BLOCK CREATE A NEW DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE DISTRICT?

Gay Street the 1920's.

GAY BLOCK

Gay would be bed wh 529 to form the Lane Dg Company. Gay Street, Holston at left, 523 S. Gay Enomy Dgs at right.

Gay Street, the southernmost bay the buildg. Gay (Baker's Sho) has received an art makeover. The much touted "Gay Way" project has happened brgg vered shoppg to downtown.

Next time we're gog to jump across the street to h one ltle gap and then we will move on down to the 700 block as we ntue to fill the Gaps of Gay Street. The men met at David Henley's headquarters, loted on the southwt rner of the tersectn of Gay Street and Church Avenue, what was then the northern ge of Knoxville.