The Collaborative

THE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE

The Community Collaborative is a focused effort between multiple organizations on the challenges facing our communities. The goal of the Collaborative is to highlight an area’s history, bring awareness to its future potential, and then promote sustainable growth. Each year a focus area or issue is established, community input is gathered, and multiple studies and efforts are performed. The Collaborative concludes each year in a publication that summarizes the research, designs, concepts, and efforts performed that year, and some years a public event celebrates this effort. This discourse in turn begins to shape public policy and private development strategies. The Collaborative is the vehicle for our community to envision the possibilities of our region and shape our collective aspirations for the future.

In 2022, the focus of The Collaborative was Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, a key street in East Knoxville. The following pages include the efforts of the ETCDC based upon local input, as well as the work of Knoxville-area architecture firms to envision the potential future of one parcel along the corridor.

Collaborative Study Area

Note: These are the usual organizations and entities involved in The Collaborative, but they may change in any given year, such as in 2022, dependent on multiple factors, including the availability of representatives from the organizations.