There will be a Fort Sanders Stakeholders Meeting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 4 in Ballroom B, University of Tennessee Visitor Center, 2704 Kingston Pike. PLEASE NOTE that this is a different location than that of previous Fort Sanders meetings hosted by the city.

There will be presentations by City of Knoxville and Metropolitan Planning Commission staff members and a presentation on the conversion of Laurel Avenue by Wilbur Smith Associates and Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

The meeting will also offer participants an opportunity to review a draft of the long range planning document for Fort Sanders, developed through a series of public meetings last year. The draft plan updates the 2000 Fort Sanders Neighborhood Forum Plan.

Thursday's meeting is the first of what will be quarterly meetings aimed at continuing communication between the stakeholders in the Fort Sanders Neighborhood including small businesses, residents, the City of Knoxville and organizations like Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and the University of Tennessee.