Inside Cleveland Street’s 30-year $338M blight fight
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, Crosstown Memphis Community Development Corp. and Crosstown Redevelopment Cooperative Association are part of the Cleveland Street Corridor Partnership, a coalition of residents and stakeholders in the community working to make the area more livable. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Residents of the Crosstown neighborhood and Cleveland Street are playing the long game.
Community members already have at least eight years in their fight against neighborhood blight and are looking at 30 more. But they hope a new tax-increment-financing district, or TIF, will get them halfway there.
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, Crosstown Memphis Community Development Corp. and Crosstown Redevelopment Cooperative Association are part of the Cleveland Street Corridor Partnership, a coalition of residents and stakeholders in the community working to make the area more livable.
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Dima Amro
Dima Amro is a native Memphian who covers commercial real estate and economic development for The Daily Memphian. She received her B.A. in journalism at the University of Memphis and M.A. in investigative journalism at American University.
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