What can Knoxville learn from Durham's downtown stadium?

Downtown reporter Ryan Wilusz and visual journalist Calvin Mattheis return to Knoxville to share what they learned from their trip to Durham, North Carolina, where a downtown baseball stadium opened in 1995 resembles the plans for downtown Knoxville, just east of the Old City.  As the Tennessee Sm…

A downtown stadium transformed Durham. Can it be a Knoxville 'catalyst'?

With Knoxville’s downtown stadium scheduled to open for the 2025 baseball season, Knox News and "The Scruffy Stuff" visited Durham, North Carolina, to meet with representatives of the Triple-A Bulls team and other local leaders to learn if a downtown ballpark can become a community asset and cataly…

Will the Smokies stadium live up to Randy Boyd's vision of a new downtown Knoxville?

As construction crews lay the groundwork for a new Tennessee Smokies stadium, team owner Randy Boyd's bold and ambitious vision for creating a new centerpiece of downtown Knoxville is off and running.  With public hurdles behind him, Boyd joins this week's episode amidst a deluge of million-dollar…

Does a Smokies stadium still make sense for downtown Knoxville?

It's hard to get excited about an empty stadium site that has done nothing but close roads in recent months and that's still almost three years from completion. The good news is construction should be starting soon, and it doesn't appear like any additional taxpayer money will be going toward the p…