South College, formerly Knoxville Business College, has been a part of the fabric of downtown Knoxville since 1882 when Jacob T. Johnson started a branch of Nashville Business College in Knoxville, Tennessee and later renamed it Knoxville Business College. In 1900, KBC occupied part of the public library building on the corner of Gay and Vine where it boasted of a commercial department equipped with offices for the actual transaction of business in mercantile and banking lines.

The Knoxville area’s population is growing, spreading out and getting older.

That led the region’s three largest hospital operators to fortify their investments and make additional ones in facilities, services and technology.

Here’s a roundup of what’s occurred this year.

- Covenant Health continues with construction of the $110 million Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, which replaces an existing facility across Middlesettlements Creek Road in Sevierville.

Regal Riviera 8Many Knoxvillians have memories of going to the Riviera Theatre on Gay Street to see George Lazenby’s single turn as James Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” or to watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn play games in “Charade” or even to see Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh trade barbs and kisses in “Gone With the Wind.” Now, the Regal Entertainment Group wants moviegoers to think new when they think “Riviera.”