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April 24, 2024 by Tammy Cheek
As Biddle Farms Farragut Town Center progresses, developers continue their negotiations with future commercial tenants.
Meanwhile, the second business to open in Town Center is Chase bank, welcoming customers beginning Tuesday morning, April 23, at 11242 Kingston Pike. Offering banking services, as well as investing services from J.P. Morgan, the branch will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; and closed Sunday.
At present, Tupelo Honey, SuperChix and Parlor Doughnuts are among the restaurants already signed on to occupy space. Negotiations continue with other potential tenants, according to Budd Cullom, president of Biddle Farms Commercial and of CHM, LLC.
“SuperChix and Tupelo Honey will be the first ones opening,” Cullom said. “SuperChix probably in July, and between July and the end of the year” for the rest of the retail and restaurants.
Some Town officials toured the development Friday, April 19, with potential sign ordinances in mind. “Nice” and “impressive” were the adjectives used to describe the project during the tour.
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April 24, 2024 by Alan Sloan
Colonial Pipeline Company, touted by one of its senior operators as largest transporter of refined oil-related-products in the United States, with a line running through Farragut, Knox County and Knoxville, needed to increase its pipeline size from 10 inches to 16 inches through Farragut — with this smaller line beginning in Loudon County going north and east — a few years ago.
But the size increase, which would have been an economic payoff locally with a much easier flow of product to fuel storage units in Knoxville, didn’t happen, said Jason Fenech, senior operator/Right-of-Way for Colonial, who addressed Farragut Lions Club members during a recent FLC meeting in Mimi’s Café in Turkey Creek.
“In Atlanta, it starts out as a 16-inch line, and it’s 16-inch all the way to Sugar Limb Road (Loudon County), and then at Sugar Limb it becomes 10 inch,” he said. “… In 2003, we brought 16 inch all the way up to Sugar Limb, and we had a plan to bring all the way to Knoxville.”
However, “We had so much flak and and threats and abuse from all the neighborhoods in Farragut that did not want us ‘to dig up and put your pipe in there,’ that (pipeline officials) gave it up as a bad decision, and we never went through with it,” Fenech added.
Reflection on the Town that turned age 44 in late January, “there are a lot of well-off neighborhoods in Farragut, and there’s a lot of people that know people,” the Colonial official said. “There’s a lot of people with connections. It came down to ‘not my backyard.’
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April 24, 2024 by Tammy Cheek
Town of Farragut is looking at spending about $22.1 million in the next six years on capital projects, according to budget data released during recent Board of Mayor and Aldermen budget workshops.
That amount does not include possible projects that are not yet funded.
“The Capital Investment Program is an annually adopted six-year plan of proposed expenditures for capital projects and the means of financing them,” Town administrator David Smoak said during a recent workshop.
“Typically capital projects are improvements over $25,000 and involve multi-year programming,” he explained. “The Municipal Budget Law of 1982 requires each municipality to adopt an annual operating budget by ordinance (SEE Tennessee Code Annotated 6-56-201). If a city is undertaking capital improvements, a capital budget is required to be adopted with the annual operating budget.”
The CIP budget is broken down into greenways and general government projects, parks, engineering (roads) and other projects.
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Tree-trapped with willing wings in my maple; ‘sheer’ morning rescue results
April 24, 2024 by
A chance observation, during a quiet morning at home, turned into an animal rescue, as told by farragutpress correspondent Brandon Jones.
Pitching the cool last gulp of a 40-minute-old third cup of morning coffee down the drain peering out the kitchen window, I noticed my old backyard maple contending with a struggle in its limbs.
Like most Farragut retirees — or just anybody with a day off — can relate, I was enjoying a little a.m. R&R of the at-home variety with nothing but time and coffee to kill. But the rustling, budding, red leaves against the blue sky held my attention, creating enough curiosity for me to mosey out to see what in the world was the matter.
Its wings flapped, fluttered and frenetically flittered as the little robin tried in vain to loosen its leg from the stranglehold created by, I opined, nest-building material that found itself wrapped around its frail leg and a limb of the maple.
Utterly baffled, watching the little robin hanging upside-down, seemingly on the verge of a heart attack while endeavoring its escape, my brain searched its vastly empty interior for anything in the house to help in its effort.
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April 24, 2024 by
• At 7:39 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, a complainant called Knox County Sheriff’s Office Teleserve Unit to report a vehicle burglary from The Goddard School, 125 Loudon Road. Complainant said the victim, his wife, went into the school around 4:30 p.m. to pick up her children, and when returning to the vehicle around 4:50 p.m. she realized the various items in her 2019 Toyota Highlander were stolen, with a value listed at $535. Complainant advised the vehicle was left unlocked, and there were three attempted charges on the credit card from Kroger at 4:48 p.m. totaling $4,061.36.
The cards have been cancelled. Complainant said he preferred to make the report rather than his wife because he didn’t want to bother her due to her being home putting the children to bed.
• At 3:48 p.m., April 17, a complainant called KCSO North Precinct to report theft of his credit card numbers that occurred at 11905 Butternut Lane. Complainant advised an unknown suspect used his and his wife’s Citi Credit card numbers to make several purchases. He advised most of the purchases are made in Columbia, South Carolina. He was advised by Richmond County Sheriff’s Office he would need to file a report where he lives before they would be able to help him.
He stated 18 charges have been made on the cards. His card had $164.00 in unauthorized charges and his wife’s card had $800.00 in unauthorized charges.
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April 24, 2024 by
Southern Tequila & Taco Festival has 70 to 75 vendors, not just restaurants, participating in the event, which takes place beginning at 5 p.m. (early admission) and 6 p.m. (general admission), Friday, April 26, at Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza, 101 N. Campbell Station Road.
An article in the Community Section of the Wednesday, April 17, issue of farragutpress incorrectly listed the number of vendors. Among the vendors, it will have 15 restaurants and food trucks.
Additionally, tickets for designated drivers are $15, which also was listed incorrectly.
We regret the errors.
