Blog: Safety Complex Updates

Week 42: North Wing Demolition Continuing

Here is a small photo gallery that shows the progress this week at the Public Safety Complex reconstruction site in North Knoxville:

West Wing demolition continues.

Lower floor of the former Women's Pavilion

The top photos show the continuing demolition of the obsolete North Wing. The bottom photo shows the first floor of the former Women's Pavilion, where Environmental Abatement Inc. crews were cleaning this week. (EAI teams also were removing equipment from the top floor of the pavilion this week, as well as continuing general site and building cleanup.)

Meanwhile, Renascent crews this week were busy sorting, recycling and processing debris on the vacated St. Mary's Hospital campus.

Here is an aerial photo of what the site now looks like:

Aerial view of the Public Safety Complex site, taken in early December 2020

Aerial view of the Public Safety Complex site, taken in early December 2020

This recent photo shows, at right, the former Women's Pavilion and the white Central Wing Annex Buildings. At the far right are the parking garages, and the triangular red brick building is the former Professional Office Building.

These three buildings and garages are being converted into the City's new Public Safety Complex, with the space being repurposed to house Police, Fire administrative, City Court, Pension System and backup E-911 operations.

The tall building near the top of the photo is a new Lincoln Memorial University nursing education facility, and next to that is the original St. Mary's 1929 Building, a historic and stately structure that is also being preserved by the City. The cleared north end of the site will be available for private redevelopment sometime after the City offices open in 2022.

Posted by evreeland On 11 December, 2020 at 12:32 PM