Revitalizing Northside Square without pricing out current Klondike residents
Roshun Austin, president and CEO of The Works, Inc., speaks at a tour of the progress of Northside Square Oct. 17. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
What was once Northside High now has windows, something it didn’t have a lot of when it was designed and opened in the mid-1960s.
The windows are the first visible signs of the conversion within to Northside Square, a mixed-use development that is leased up commercially and preparing to begin construction of 42 affordable rental housing units.
Looking through the windows from rooms, with outlines of where chalkboards were once mounted and columns with colorful slices of murals still painted on one side, there are other signs of the larger work needed to bring back the surrounding Klondike residential subdivision in North Memphis.
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Northside Square Klondike redevelopment Roshun Austin Archie Willis III Subscriber OnlyAre you enjoying your subscription?
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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