For the first time in a couple of decades, downtown residents can now buy all of their groceries without driving somewhere else--the Market on Gay Street (at the old General Store location) opened today. Produce, seafood, meat, baked goods, frozen foods, spices, beer, milk--it's all there, arrayed in an impressively mod environment with bare brick walls and minimalist signs (DRINKS, MEAT, etc.)
An offshoot of the Market in Maryville, Knoxville's Market also sells prepared sandwiches and salads and offers exotic beers on tap to fill your own growler or to have a drink on the soon-to-come patio tables. It's pretty darn cool.
Could all this mean that Knoxville has taken one more step in its return to being a proper downtown? Yes! Once you add in Just Ripe a few blocks away in the Daylight Building, Aisle 9 and Jackson Avenue Market in the Old City, you've got amenities that downtown residents haven't experienced in recent (or even long-term) memory. While being able to buy locally sourced meat and produce in a store on Gay Street may sound mundane, for longtime downtown workers and residents, it's nearly a shock to the system.
Here's what the Market looks like inside:
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