105 - How Mast General Store Helped Transform Downtown Knoxville | Big Orange Business Podcast
Downtown Knoxville hasn’t always looked the way it does today.
In this episode of the Big Orange Business Podcast, Haley Jones sits down with Natalea Cummings of Mast General Store in downtown Knoxville to talk about how the store helped shape Gay Street’s growth, why Knoxville has changed so dramatically over the past 10–20 years, and what it really takes to run a retail business that serves everyone “from cradle to casket.”
We talk about:
• The transformation of downtown Knoxville
• How Mast General Store chose Knoxville before it was booming
• The Nimville scavenger hunt (12 hidden bronze…
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