Commercial corridor
Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
One of the Southeast’s largest suburban retail districts along Parkside Drive at Lovell Road (I-40/I-75), anchoring West Knoxville’s big-box, restaurant and healthcare growth.
Typical uses along Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
- Big-box & junior anchor retail
- Restaurant / pad sites
- Healthcare & urgent care
- Hospitality
Interstate-adjacent with strong daytime and regional draw; premium for pad sites and outparcels.
Traffic counts along Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
Annual average daily traffic (AADT) at TDOT's 4 active count stations on the corridor, 2025 counts. The busiest station reads 38,911 vehicles a day (Lovell Road (SR-131), mile 0.69).
| TDOT station | Road | Log mile | AADT | Trucks | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47000506 | Parkside Drive | 0.51 | 20,429 | 3.8% | 2025 | map |
| 47000507 | Parkside Drive | 2.69 | 15,309 | 3.8% | 2025 | map |
| 47000133 | Lovell Road (SR-131) | 0.69 | 38,911 | 3.8% | 2025 | map |
| 47000285 | Lovell Road (SR-131) | 1.72 | 17,997 | 3.4% | 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 Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
24 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; 14 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 | |||
| CA | General Business | Knox County · §5.31 | 12 |
| C-H-2 | Highway Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 10 |
| CB | Business and Manufacturing | Knox County · §5.32 | 8 |
| PC | Planned Commercial | Knox County · §5.33 | 7 |
| C-R-1 | Regional Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 6 |
| O | Office | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 5 |
| OB | Office, Medical, and Related Services | Knox County · §5.41 | 5 |
| C-G-1 | General Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 3 |
| OP | Office Park | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 3 |
| C-H-1 | Highway Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 2 |
| C-R-2 | Regional Commercial | City of Knoxville · Article 5 | 2 |
| CH | Highway Commercial | Knox County · §5.35 | 1 |
| CN | Neighborhood Commercial | Knox County · §5.38 | 1 |
| T | Transition | Knox County · §5.36 | 1 |
| Industrial | |||
| I-MU | Industrial Mixed-Use | City of Knoxville · Article 6 | 4 |
| I-G | General Industrial | City of Knoxville · Article 6 | 3 |
| BP | Business and Technology Park | Knox County · §5.50 | 2 |
| I | Industrial | Knox County · §5.61 | 1 |
| Residential | |||
| PR | Planned Residential | Knox County · §5.13 | 24 |
| RA | Low Density Residential | Knox County · §5.11 | 10 |
| RB | General Residential | Knox County · §5.12 | 2 |
| Special purpose | |||
| A | Agricultural | Knox County · §5.22 | 15 |
| F | Floodway | Knox County · §5.70 | 5 |
| NA | Natural Areas | City of Knoxville · Article 8 | 3 |
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. Part of this corridor's frontage is zoned by the Town of Farragut, whose districts are not in this layer and are not counted here.
What is being built along Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
In the 3 years through 2026-02-24, the three permit offices issued 51 permits for new non-residential buildings within 820 ft of the road, $49,981,581 of declared construction cost, 5 non-residential demolitions, and 171 permits for new homes — the rooftops that feed a corridor.
| Issued | Project · use | Address | Declared cost | Permit · office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-08 | S&E PROPERTIES | 864 CORRIDOR PARK BLVD | $75,000 | 25-F0313 · Knox County | map |
| 2026-01-30 | Residential Commercial - New |
11244 OUTLET DR | $10,500,000 | BP-2025-155 · Town of Farragut | map |
| 2026-01-14 | No description on the permit | COGDILL RD | $6,000 | 25-S0138 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-12-02 | POPEYES | 10431 KINGSTON PIKE | $2,500 | 25-F0305 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-11-14 | Business Commercial - New |
11495 PARKSIDE DR | $1,100,000 | BP-2025-678 · Town of Farragut | map |
| 2025-10-19 | A New Office Warehouse Building for S&E Properties F-1 Factory and industrial, moderate hazard |
864 CORRIDOR PARK BLVD | $5,767,471 | 25-B3225 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-09-10 | Deck Store Warehouse S-1 Storage, moderate hazard |
10308 COGDILL RD | $553,636 | 24-B4256 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-09-10 | POPEYES RESTAURANT A-2 Assembly, nightclubs |
10431 KINGSTON PIKE | $402,252 | 25-B1343 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-07-21 | Business Commercial - New |
11692 PARKSIDE DR | $950,000 | BP-2025-427 · Town of Farragut | map |
| 2025-04-04 | Danmar Development LLC - Building A S-1 Storage, moderate hazard |
10657 CHECKERBOARD LN | $1,508,027 | 25-B0909 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-04-04 | Danmar Development LLC. - Building -B S-1 Storage, moderate hazard |
10643 CHECKERBOARD LN | $1,495,138 | 25-B0910 · Knox County | map |
| 2025-03-10 | Accessory Building | 9733 PARKSIDE DR | $1,300,000 | IBC-NEW-24-0434 · City of Knoxville | map |
The 12 most recent of 51 new non-residential permits in the window; the rest are in the same public record.
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 Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
The Census Bureau counts 29,556 jobs located within 820 ft of the road in 2023, +4,517 (+18.0%) since 2018; 55% of them pay more than $3,333 a month.
- 5,241 pay $1,250 a month or less (18%)
- 8,121 pay $1,251 to $3,333 a month (27%)
- 16,194 pay more than $3,333 a month (55%)
| Sector | 2023 | 2018 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail Trade · NAICS 44-45 | 7,025 | 6,940 | +85 |
| Health Care and Social Assistance · NAICS 62 | 3,936 | 1,865 | +2,071 |
| Accommodation and Food Services · NAICS 72 | 3,585 | 3,498 | +87 |
| Manufacturing · NAICS 31-33 | 1,781 | 1,240 | +541 |
| Construction · NAICS 23 | 1,746 | 1,238 | +508 |
| Finance and Insurance · NAICS 52 | 1,679 | 1,465 | +214 |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · NAICS 56 | 1,592 | 1,447 | +145 |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · NAICS 54 | 1,567 | 1,092 | +475 |
| Transportation and Warehousing · NAICS 48-49 | 1,436 | 1,344 | +92 |
| Wholesale Trade · NAICS 42 | 1,428 | 1,268 | +160 |
| 10 other sectors | 3,781 | 3,642 | +139 |
Source: LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Workplace Area Characteristics, Tennessee (LODES 2023 vintage 20251202, 2018 vintage 20230321), summed over the 134 2020 Census blocks within 820 ft of the road line (87 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 Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
None of the 12 census tracts within 820 ft of the road is a designated Qualified Opportunity Zone under the 2018 designations (Internal Revenue Code §1400Z-1). None of the corridor's 13 2020-vintage tracts is on Treasury's list of tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 Opportunity Zones.
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 Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
FEMA maps 92 flood-hazard areas within 820 ft of the road; 37 of them are in a Special Flood Hazard Area — the 1% annual chance floodplain, 4 of those in the regulatory floodway. "Areas" counts FEMA's mapped polygons that touch the band, not acreage — a floodplain runs for miles past any corridor. The 11 Flood Insurance Rate Map panels under the band are effective 2007-01-17 to 2013-08-05.
| FEMA class | Zones | Areas |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory Floodway · Special Flood Hazard Area | Zone AE | 4 |
| 1% Annual Chance Flood Hazard · Special Flood Hazard Area | Zone A, Zone AE | 33 |
| 0.2% Annual Chance Flood Hazard | Zone X | 52 |
| Area of Minimal Flood Hazard | Zone X | 3 |
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 Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
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
Turkey Creek is the region’s retail gravity well: a roughly 400-acre district along Parkside Drive between the Lovell Road and Campbell Station interchanges of I-40/I-75, developed from the late 1990s onward and still commanding the market’s premium rents and land prices.
The tenant mix explains why. National big-box anchors, junior anchors, The Pinnacle at Turkey Creek lifestyle center with its theater, dozens of restaurants on pads and outparcels, hotels, and a hospital campus with surrounding medical office give the district both regional-draw weekends and strong weekday daytime population. Its trade area reaches well beyond Knox County — the interstates deliver customers from surrounding counties that lack this retail depth.
For operators, availability is the constraint: pads and outparcels are scarce and priced accordingly, and much of the action is second-generation space, subleases, or positions in the districts feeding Turkey Creek. The district also spans two jurisdictions (Knoxville and Farragut), so entitlement rules differ by parcel.
Landmarks & anchors
- The Pinnacle at Turkey Creek (lifestyle center & theater)
- Turkey Creek Medical Center campus & medical office
- Big-box anchor row along Parkside Drive
- I-40/I-75 interchanges at Lovell Rd & Campbell Station
Official local sources — Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
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
- Town of Farragut — Community Development — town zoning, sign standards and development process
- KUB (Knoxville Utilities Board) — electric, water, gas, wastewater and fiber service
- Knoxville Chamber — regional economic development and market data
More commercial space around Turkey Creek / Parkside Drive
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.