Commercial corridor
Cedar Bluff
A dense West Knoxville office and services node around Cedar Bluff Road between Kingston Pike and I-40, with concentrated professional, medical and back-office space.
Typical uses along Cedar Bluff
- Professional & medical office
- Flex
- Retail & services
Central West Knox office market with strong interstate access and existing office inventory.
Traffic counts along Cedar Bluff
Annual average daily traffic (AADT) at TDOT's 2 active count stations on the corridor, 2025 counts. The busiest station reads 24,155 vehicles a day (Cedar Bluff Road, mile 0.94).
| TDOT station | Road | Log mile | AADT | Trucks | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47000350 | Cedar Bluff Road | 0.13 | 19,582 | 1.8% | 2025 | map |
| 47000127 | Cedar Bluff Road | 0.94 | 24,155 | 3.8% | 2025 | map |
Source: TDOT Traffic Points (Tennessee Department of Transportation open data, E-TRIMS), pulled 2026-09-08. Log mile is TDOT's distance along the route from its county origin; each station links to TDOT's count history for that spot. Trucks are FHWA classes 4–13 as a share of AADT.
Zoning along Cedar Bluff
21 zoning districts touch the corridor within 200 ft of the road — about the first parcel's depth — under Knox County and City of Knoxville zoning; 13 of them are commercial or office districts. "Areas" is how many separately zoned areas of that district front the road, not acreage.
| District | Name | Jurisdiction · cite | Areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial & office | |||
| PC | Planned Commercial | Knox County · §5.33 | 8 |
| C-H-2 | Highway Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 6 |
| C-R-2 | Regional Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 5 |
| CA | General Business | Knox County · §5.31 | 5 |
| C-G-1 | General Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 3 |
| C-G-2 | General Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 2 |
| CN | Neighborhood Commercial | Knox County · §5.38 | 2 |
| OB | Office, Medical, and Related Services | Knox County · §5.41 | 2 |
| CH | Highway Commercial | Knox County · §5.35 | 1 |
| O | Office | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 1 |
| OA | Office Park | Knox County · §5.40 | 1 |
| OP | Office Park | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 1 |
| SC | Shopping Center | Knox County · §5.34 | 1 |
| Residential | |||
| RA | Low Density Residential | Knox County · §5.11 | 5 |
| PR | Planned Residential | Knox County · §5.13 | 4 |
| RAE | Exclusive Residential | Knox County · §5.10 | 1 |
| RB | General Residential | Knox County · §5.12 | 1 |
| RN-5 | General Residential Neighborhood | City of Knoxville · Article 4 | 1 |
| Special purpose | |||
| A | Agricultural | Knox County · §5.22 | 2 |
| AG | General Agricultural | City of Knoxville · Article 8 | 1 |
| INST | Institutional | City of Knoxville · Article 8 | 1 |
Source: Knoxville - Knox County Zoning (Knoxville-Knox County Planning open data), Planning's layer as edited 2026-09-03, pulled 2026-09-08 (Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0). District names are the ordinances' own — the City of Knoxville Zoning Code (by article) and the Knox County Zoning Ordinance, Appendix A (by section), each row linked. Zoning changes monthly by Council and Commission action — confirm a parcel on KGIS before you act on it.
What is being built along Cedar Bluff
In the 3 years through 2026-02-24, the three permit offices issued 4 permits for new non-residential buildings within 820 ft of the road, $23,332,140 of declared construction cost, 1 non-residential demolition, and 8 permits for new homes — the rooftops that feed a corridor.
| Issued | Project · use | Address | Declared cost | Permit · office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-20 | General Commercial Building | 9461 SHERRILL BLVD | $21,000,000 | IBC-NEW-23-0440 · City of Knoxville | map |
| 2024-05-01 | Andy's Frozen Custard | 513 N CEDAR BLUFF RD | $23,000 | 24-S0044 · Knox County | map |
| 2024-02-14 | Andy's Frozen Custard B - Business |
513 N CEDAR BLUFF RD | $2,284,140 | 23-4454 · Knox County | map |
| 2024-01-24 | Cell Tower | 261 N PETERS RD | $25,000 | IBC-ELE-24-0040 · City of Knoxville | map |
Source: Building permits (Knoxville-Knox County Planning open data), layer as edited 2026-03-18, pulled 2026-09-08 (Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0). Window: 2023-02-24 to 2026-02-24, the layer's latest permit. The layer tracks new construction and demolition from Knox County, the City of Knoxville and the Town of Farragut — not renovations or tenant fit-outs. Declared cost is the cost of work the applicant declared on the permit; it is not a price, and it is not a valuation.
Jobs along Cedar Bluff
The Census Bureau counts 15,424 jobs located within 820 ft of the road in 2023, +744 (+5.1%) since 2018; 52% of them pay more than $3,333 a month.
- 2,788 pay $1,250 a month or less (18%)
- 4,568 pay $1,251 to $3,333 a month (30%)
- 8,068 pay more than $3,333 a month (52%)
| Sector | 2023 | 2018 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Care and Social Assistance · NAICS 62 | 3,212 | 2,913 | +299 |
| Accommodation and Food Services · NAICS 72 | 2,444 | 2,263 | +181 |
| Retail Trade · NAICS 44-45 | 2,049 | 2,172 | −123 |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · NAICS 56 | 1,548 | 2,141 | −593 |
| Information · NAICS 51 | 1,314 | 1,521 | −207 |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises · NAICS 55 | 1,023 | 532 | +491 |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · NAICS 54 | 954 | 597 | +357 |
| Wholesale Trade · NAICS 42 | 691 | 544 | +147 |
| Other Services (except Public Administration) · NAICS 81 | 478 | 508 | −30 |
| Educational Services · NAICS 61 | 414 | 407 | +7 |
| 7 other sectors | 1,297 | 1,082 | +215 |
Source: LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Workplace Area Characteristics, Tennessee (LODES 2023 vintage 20251202, 2018 vintage 20230321), summed over the 49 2020 Census blocks within 820 ft of the road line (32 of them with jobs in 2023), pulled 2026-09-08. LODES counts jobs by the block the workplace is in, from unemployment-insurance records with noise added to protect employers — an estimate, not a payroll census; federal and some self-employment is not covered. Sector names per the LODES technical document; explore the same data on OnTheMap.
Opportunity Zones along Cedar Bluff
None of the 7 census tracts within 820 ft of the road is a designated Qualified Opportunity Zone under the 2018 designations (Internal Revenue Code §1400Z-1). For the next round, 1 of the corridor's 7 2020-vintage tracts is on Treasury's list of tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 Opportunity Zones; the Governor nominates from that list, and Treasury designates.
Eligible for nomination (2027 round)
- Census tract 46.09, Knox County · 47093004609 · eligible, not yet designated
Source: Opportunity Zones (HUD official content — the tracts designated under IRC §1400Z-1), edited 2026-06-02, checked against the CDFI Fund's designated-QOZ list; Opportunity Zones 2 (HUD official content — 2020 tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 QOZs), edited 2026-08-21, per Treasury's Opportunity Zone data page. Tracts within 820 ft of the road line from the Census Bureau's TIGERweb, pulled 2026-09-08. A designation attaches to the tract, not to a parcel's fitness for any deal; what an investor may do with it is the IRS's to say, and a tax adviser's — not this page's.
Flood zones along Cedar Bluff
FEMA maps 2 flood-hazard areas within 820 ft of the road, none of them in a Special Flood Hazard Area. "Areas" counts FEMA's mapped polygons that touch the band, not acreage — a floodplain runs for miles past any corridor. The 6 Flood Insurance Rate Map panels under the band are effective 2007-01-17 to 2013-08-05.
| FEMA class | Zones | Areas |
|---|---|---|
| Area of Minimal Flood Hazard | Zone X | 2 |
Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), the effective flood maps as FEMA publishes them, classed by FEMA's own legend, pulled 2026-09-08. Look a parcel up by address on FEMA's Map Service Center. Whether a parcel needs flood insurance is a lender's flood determination on that parcel, not a corridor page's.
Water service along Cedar Bluff
2 community water systems' mapped service areas touch the corridor within 820 ft of the road:
- FIRST UTIL DIST OF KNOX COUNTY · TN0000369 · serves about 95,628 people · surface water · TDEC record
- WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT · TN0000371 · serves about 70,666 people · surface water · TDEC record
Source: Tennessee public water system service areas (TDEC, with Vanderbilt's Drinking Water Justice Lab), edited 2026-02-09, pulled 2026-09-08. TDEC's own caveat: "These data should not be used as an endpoint for decision making at local scales for water system infrastructure. These datasets are generated at a coarse scale not intended to be interpreted at local scales." — confirm a parcel's water and sewer with the utility. Electric, natural gas, wastewater and fibre are not shown: no public service-area map of them holds at corridor scale, and the providers publish no boundary feed — confirm with the provider.
Corridor profile
Cedar Bluff is West Knoxville’s working office district — the short, dense stretch of Cedar Bluff Road and Executive Park Drive between Kingston Pike and the I-40 interchange, built out with office parks, medical suites, banks and business services from the 1980s onward.
Its appeal is practical: existing inventory across a range of sizes and price points, an established address that clients and employees already know, hotels and lunch spots in the district, and one of the market’s most-used interstate exits at its front door. Medical users cluster here for the same access reasons, serving West Knoxville’s residential mass.
For businesses relocating to Knoxville, Cedar Bluff is often the first office search area: it balances cost against location better than the Class-A pockets closer to Turkey Creek and downtown, and re-lettable space turns over regularly.
Landmarks & anchors
- Cedar Bluff Rd / I-40 interchange
- Executive Park office concentration
- Hotel & services cluster
- Kingston Pike retail frontage at the south end
Official local sources — Cedar Bluff
Public, official links so you can research the facts yourself — we point at the sources rather than editorializing the data.
- Tennessee DOT — official traffic counts (AADT) and road projects
- KGIS Maps (Knoxville–Knox County GIS) — parcels, zoning, flood layers, aerials for any site
- Knoxville–Knox County Planning — zoning codes, land-use plans, development review
- KUB (Knoxville Utilities Board) — electric, water, gas, wastewater and fiber service
- Knoxville Chamber — regional economic development and market data
More commercial space around Cedar Bluff
The listings above come from the East Tennessee REALTORS® MLS, which carries only part of the commercial market — searched across Knox County, because the feed cannot search by road. Lakeway-area (LAAR) listings will join when that feed is connected. For more, browse Crexi and LoopNet — or ask Shawn what is actually available here, including space that never reaches a portal: tell him what you need.