Something has changed about a Saturday in Farragut. The default loop used to be a grocery run, a lap through the Pinnacle, and maybe a stop at Kingston Pike on the way home. In 2026, the same loop passes through a different town.
The center of gravity moved
Farragut's commercial base is no longer a single strip. Town Administrator David Smoak told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen at their January retreat that the town's population is around 25,579 with roughly a thousand more residents expected, and Turkey Creek drew about 3.1 million visitors last year. That growth has pulled retail and programming into two anchors that didn't exist in their current form five years ago: Biddle Farms at Town Center, and a rebuilt Pinnacle at Turkey Creek. The Farragut West Knox Chamber's Julie Blaylock put it plainly to WATE last fall, describing how "the city center of Knox County has shifted west" into Farragut and the Hardin Valley area.
If you live here, you already feel it. The point of this post is to catalog what actually opened, what's coming, and what the Town has scheduled around it — so you can plan the next few weekends without a dozen browser tabs.
Biddle Farms at Town Center: the new anchor
Biddle Farms is the mixed-use project on Campbell Station Road that sat behind construction fencing for what felt like an entire school year. The commercial build-out is now largely done. A quick roll-up of what has opened since the start of 2025:
- Sweathouz — the first Farragut location, opened in February 2025 at Biddle Farms
- Parlor Doughnuts — opened Feb. 15 at 106 Biddle Farms Blvd
- Super Chix — the fried-chicken concept anchoring one of the pad sites
- Elle Boutique — Kristine Nicholson of Farragut opened Elle Boutique in Biddle Farms at Town Center last July
- Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar — opened its doors in Biddle Farms at Town Center with a ribbon cutting Oct. 23, its second Knox County location
- Aldi and Covenant Health Urgent Care — both anchoring the everyday-errand side of the project
Biddle Farms was designed as a walkable center rather than a parking-lot fronted strip. Leasing rep Alex Quinn had described the plan as roughly 40,000 square feet with 16 to 18 retailers and four or five restaurants, most with patios oriented toward the Town green. That town-green geometry is the reason it feels different from the Pinnacle. You park once and stay.
The residential side is filling in behind the retail: 286 apartment units delivering alongside the retail, with 44 townhomes following. If you have friends who kept saying they'd move closer once "there was somewhere to walk to," that's the address.
Just up the road, a second multifamily project is set to add more density. Laster Farms at Turkey Creek is an $80 million development bringing 320 residences — 240 apartments and 80 townhomes announced late last year by Trinitas Ventures and Millstone.
Pinnacle at Turkey Creek: the retail refresh
The Pinnacle has been quietly reloading. Pinnacle at Turkey Creek announced four new retailers coming to Turkey Creek: Sitka, H&H Bagels, Nothing Bundt Cakes and Barnes & Noble.
Timing matters here, because these didn't all land at once:
- Sitka Gear — grand opening on Saturday, June 21 at 11337 Parkside Drive, with hundreds of fans in line at 10 a.m.
- H&H Bagels — the New York transplant opened earlier in the year on the Knoxville side of Turkey Creek
- Barnes & Noble — opened its new store at 11334 Parkside Drive in Turkey Creek on Tuesday, Oct. 7, replacing the long-lost Turkey Creek location many residents assumed was gone for good
- Nordstrom Rack — Nordstrom Inc. announced plans to open a new Nordstrom Rack in the Pinnacle at Turkey Creek development in spring 2026
- Flying Biscuit Café — opened at 11582 Parkside Drive in Turkey Creek, the brand's 38th location nationwide
- Bruster's Real Ice Cream — broke ground on July 24 on 1.57 acres behind Home Federal Bank off Parkside Drive, on what Town officials called the last piece of vacant property in Turkey Creek
That last bullet is worth reading twice. The Turkey Creek footprint is officially full. Any future retail growth in Farragut is going to come from redevelopment, from Biddle Farms, or from the Kingston Pike corridor east and west of the Pinnacle.
A 7 Brew Coffee is also under discussion at the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission for a Turkey Creek site, and a Whataburger is under construction on the Knoxville side of the development.
The Kingston Pike edges
The stretch of Kingston Pike that used to feel like a pass-through has picked up its own additions:
- Sprouts Farmers Market opened at 9622 Kingston Pike on Friday, Aug. 29
- Snooty Patootie moved its retail store to 11134 Kingston Pike, beside Wendy's
- Pure Magic added a location at 11133 Kingston Pike near the Dixie-Lee intersection, with a grand opening in August
- Pearl Scott Health & Beauty opened at 11048 Kingston Pike, combining a concierge medical practice with beauty services
- Paleteria Azteca, a family-owned paleta shop, opened in Turkey Creek proper
- Cabinet IQ is targeting a March or April 2026 opening at 11623 Parkside Drive
A new grocery store is also expected at Dixie Lee Junction. Smoak told the board that a new store is expected to open in the coming months at the Dixie Lee Junction, which would give the western edge of town its own full-line option instead of pulling everyone into Turkey Creek.
The Town calendar caught up
The Town of Farragut has scheduled its 2026 programming around America's 250th and around the venues that anchor the new center: Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza at the Town Hall campus, Mayor Bob Leonard Park, and Founders Park at Campbell Station. The dated slate worth putting in your calendar right now:
August
- Yacht Rock Concert, 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza, with live music and food trucks as the closer of the summer concert series
- Farragut History Tour, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, with light lunch and pre-registration required
- Fun with Farragut's Fleet, Saturday, Aug. 22, at Mayor Bob Leonard Park. New in 2026, an 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. sensory hour will run with horns and lights off for a less stimulating environment before the regular event
September and October
- Art Fest, 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12 at the Farragut Community Center
- The 3rd annual Farragut Fall Trail, a passport-style October event with fall flavors, cozy shopping, and seasonal activities
- "Our American Stories: Voices from Tennessee," a traveling exhibit from the Tennessee State Museum, on view Tuesday through Saturday through Oct. 16 at the Farragut Museum
Later on the books
- Freaky Friday Fright Nite on Friday, Oct. 30 at Mayor Bob Leonard Park; Countdown to Light the Park on Monday, Nov. 23 at Founders Park at Campbell Station, with lights on through Jan. 1; Celebrate the Season on Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Farragut Community Center
The through-line is that most of the free, family-scale programming has moved to Town-owned venues on Campbell Station and behind Town Hall rather than to shopping-center parking lots. If you kept getting the Pinnacle and the Town green mixed up, that's why.
What this actually changes for a resident
Three practical shifts, all of which the openings and the calendar make more obvious than any one press release did:
- A walkable evening now exists inside Farragut. Between Tupelo Honey, Parlor Doughnuts, Super Chix, and the Town green, you can park once and spend three hours without moving your car. That was a Bearden and downtown Knoxville proposition until very recently.
- Turkey Creek is done growing outward. Bruster's took the last vacant pad. If a new tenant matters to you, it's coming through a lease turnover rather than a new build, which changes how quickly the mix will refresh.
- The Town runs its own programming now. The concert series, the History Hours at Town Hall, the Fall Trail, and Fun with Farragut's Fleet aren't shopping-center marketing. They're Parks & Rec and Visit Farragut events on public land, which means they'll keep running even if a tenant leaves.
For homeowners weighing whether to stay put through the next school-year cycle, that last point is the quiet one. Walkable retail centers can lose a keystone tenant and start feeling thin fast. A town-run event calendar at Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza and Founders Park doesn't have that failure mode.
If you'd like a calm read on how these shifts are affecting property values on your specific street, or if you're weighing whether to sell into the current wave of newcomers, Jim Klonaris is happy to have that conversation. You can also start with a free home valuation or read more about the Farragut market before you reach out.
