City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
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Mike Ragsdale, Mayor

Monthly Archives: July 2008

Minvilla: Where we’re at, what we’re doing

July 18, 2008 – 4:22 pm

Thanks to Katie Granju at KnoxvilleTalks for this post. It is possible that this dialog might turn out to be helpful, too, although…well. We’ll see.
The old 5th Avenue Motel on the corner of 5th & Broadway has been a rough spot for a long time. You can find all kinds of stuff about it in [...]

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Homeless Flenniken: Stayin’ alive…

July 10, 2008 – 1:10 pm

This story over at the Sentinel is still getting comments today, which seems a little unusual.  If you’d like to see the following ones in context, the whole stack is just a click away.
This project at Flenniken was to have been permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless, one small part of addressing [...]

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Flenniken: an update

July 7, 2008 – 3:09 pm

The Ten-Year Plan is working with a nonprofit developer, Southeastern Housing Foundation, to develop permanent supportive housing at the old Flenniken Elementary School.
Southeastern has just learned that their 2008 initial application for 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits did not score high enough to secure a reservation of tax credits to turn the old Flenniken Elementary [...]

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