Downtown Knoxville
It is also home to several retail establishments, residential buildings, the city's convention center, and World's Fair Park.In recent decades, however, the definition of "downtown" has expanded to include the University of Tennessee campus and Fort Sanders neighborhood west of Second Creek,[2] the Emory Place district and parts of Broadway and Central north of the Southern tracks ("Downtown North"), and parts of the Morningside area east of First Creek.Important sections of Downtown Knoxville include Gay Street, Market Square, the Old City, the World's Fair Park, and Volunteer Landing on the riverfront.Throughout much of the 20th century, city leaders struggled to revive the downtown area, which was once the primary retail center of Knoxville.Most revitalization initiatives failed, however, due in large part to a highly-factionalized city government.