Knoxville's Cumberland Avenue Corridor Project set to clean up brownfield sites

Source:  Tennessee Journalist, J. Strating
April 27, 2012

A local development team including Budd Cullom, Jim Harrison and Mike McGuffin plan to build a shopping center dubbed University Commons less than a mile away from campus. The proposed retail center will be located in the old Futon Bellows area, the empty plot between Volunteer Boulevard and Alcoa Highway. The published renderings of the project show multistory brick buildings with the design of a new-age factory. The center would have available space for several smaller businesses in addition to the anchoring forces of national chains, Walmart and Publix. The 12 acre construction site has a long history as a manufacturing center in Knoxville.

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