CCDC to consider exterior improvement grants for two historic Downtown buildings
The CCDC will address two applicants for its Exterior Improvement Grant (EIG) program at its Oct. 27 meeting, the historic buildings at 24 S. Main and 307 Madison Ave.
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The CCDC will address two applicants for its Exterior Improvement Grant (EIG) program at its Oct. 27 meeting, the historic buildings at 24 S. Main and 307 Madison Ave.
The projects discussed at The Daily Memphian’s Developing Memphis Seminar were Central Yards in Midtown, Link Apartments on Broad, the Blues Note Hotel in the Pinch and Orleans Station in the Medical District.
The business’ owner is requesting a $30,000 Retail Tenant Improvement (TI) Grant to move to 121 S. Main.
“... With help from the city, we could create something like a Cooper-Young or an Overton Square area,” said John M. Howard Jr., leader of the ownership team that developed the lofts.
The Midtown concert venue has sold a Nashville-based investor with an extensive portfolio in the U.S. and abroad.
Each of the applicants EDGE’s finance committee will consider Wednesday seeks to restore blighted and abandoned buildings.
Union Station would combine residential and retail with a hotel along 100 yards of desirable Union Avenue frontage at the former police station site.
MAAR president Cassandra Bell-Warren said the market remains active.
St. Louis, Missouri-based PGAV Planners will determine if the PILOT program is delivering the desired results of growing the tax base and helping projects happen that couldn’t otherwise.
At its Oct. 12 meeting, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. is set to approve a plan for reviewing its PILOT program, and it will hear a new PILOT request for a Medical District development.
The global supply-chain shortage, which first took its toll on automobile manufactures in need of semiconductor chips, eventually affected the cost of lumber. Developers like the Henry Turley Co. were left trying to keep construction projects on time and on budget.
It’s likely the DMC will have a final candidate for redeveloping the tower by the end of the year.
The project on South Front would, according to the Design Review Board, fill in a missing piece of a vibrant and developing Downtown neighborhood.
The DMC hopes the transformative parking hub will solve most of Downtown’s parking needs.
The permit represents the beginning of the second phase of the Conwood project.
The union representing the Memphis employees say workers are striking in all four of Kellogg’s ready-to-eat cereal factories, which include sites in Michigan, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
The shopping center’s anchor stores, Trader Joe’s and the Container Store, are the only locations for both retailers in the local market.
Townsend, who has split his time between the Greater Memphis Chamber and the University of Memphis over the past year, is now working exclusively for the Chamber.
The Crescent Center’s new owner said he was impressed by both the building and its East Memphis neighborhood.
The massive mixed-use building will be part of a $62 million parking overhaul across Downtown Memphis.
In its application to the Board of Adjustment, St. Jude says the new garage will improve blighted, unusable property and exposed sections of the Gayoso Bayou.
The center’s new report found that Memphis is No.1 when compared to its peers in the area for diverse tech talent.
“What a great time it is to be doing business in West Tennessee,” said Phillip Rogers with Stifel.
EDGE estimates its work has generated $1.7 billion in local tax revenue and $810 million in spending with minority- and women-owned businesses in Memphis and Shelby County.
“Blue Oval City will be the biggest auto manufacturing (site) in our 118-year history,” said Ford president and CEO Jim Farley. “It will also be the cleanest and most efficient. It will produce electric vehicles on a scale we couldn’t have even imagined 10 years ago.”