Updated Cherokee Farms Information

As an addition to my earlier post, aggregating information on Cherokee Farms, The Knoxville News Sentinel had a very good article on the challenges to the site, here.

Reporting also indicated no timeline on the project.

My original post here.

Cherokee Farms Information

I have peripherally kept up on the Cherokee Farms development, from News Sentinel reports and through knowing one of the key contributors. there did not seem to be one place for a lot of disparate information, so I collected it here.

Overall the development is a good idea, both for the region and the university. Key caveats in my mind are:

1. Maintain the beauty of the land
2. Integrate buildings into the natural settings
3. Keep the architecture interesting (more below)
4. Focus on actual results with the research
5. Truly incubate new businesses for the area.

The main UT website (promo) for the development has good marketing information for an overview. Some details from UT are here.

The latest KNS articles are here (Cherokee Farm Plan in Motion), here (Early Planning Report on the Project) and here (UT Dairy Operation Moving).

The initial press release from October 07.

Map of the area:

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Note that the area under development is to the west of Alcoa Hwy and across from Sequoya Hills.