The church needs the site at Church Avenue and Walnut Street for accessible parking. A nine-story hotel had been planned ...

The percentage of its 290 parking spaces that will be public could depend on what opens in the commercial spaces, Vector spokesperson Georgia Robertson told Knox News via email.

A Church Street parking lot was set to become a downtown Knoxville hotel. St. John's, "worried for our church," has bought it for $10.65 million.