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Covenant Health Park is a 7,000-seat sports stadium under construction in Knoxville, Tennessee.Scheduled for completion in March 2025, the stadium will serve as the home baseball park of the Double-A Knoxville Smokies of the Southern League and One Knoxville SC, a Division III soccer team.
Before the fair, the site was used as a railroad yard. The land was converted into park space for the 1982 World's Fair. [1] After the fair closed in October 1982, the site was cleaned up; the city had to demolish pavilions, remove graffiti, and remove homeless individuals from the remaining abandoned buildings.
The Level 4 observation deck was reopened on July 5, 2007, to give visitors a view of Knoxville. The observation deck can hold 86 people. [12] At the time of its reopening, Level 5 became a cafe with concession and an early evening drinks service. Level 6 served as an open space leased out for functions. As of October 2013, both the 7th and 8th ...
City of Knoxville: Operator: SMG: Capacity: 6,500 (coliseum) 2,500 (auditorium) Construction; Opened: 1961 () Architect: Painter, Weeks, and McCarty: Tenants; Knoxville Knights (1961–1968) Knoxville Cherokees (1988–1997) Tennessee Volunteers ice hockey (1992–present; half of home games) Knoxville Speed (1999–2002)
The Half-Century of Knoxville: Being the Address and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town, February 10, 1842. To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents. (Printed at the Register Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1852). Isenhour, Judith Clayton. Knoxville, A Pictorial History.
The tallest building in Knoxville is the First Tennessee Plaza (Plaza Tower), at 27 stories, followed by the adjacent Riverview Tower, at 24 stories. The Traditions Knoxville Apartment Building (formerly the Kingston Apartments) is the third highest at 21 stories. The Sunsphere, which stands at 265 feet (81 m), is the city's fourth tallest.
The Knoxville Convention Center is a 500,000-square-foot convention center in Knoxville, Tennessee, occupying the former location of the US Pavilion of the 1982 World's Fair. [2] It offers 120,000 square feet (11,000 m 2 ) of exhibit space.
The sweeping lawn in front of Ayres Hall that drops to Cumberland Avenue is one of the largest open spaces on the campus. Programmatically, the Hill is populated primarily by engineering and science programs. Other university programs, as well as the dormitories and administrative headquarters, are located west of the Hill.