Land Use Control Board approves Union Ave. development
Union Station would combine residential and retail with a hotel along 100 yards of desirable Union Avenue frontage at the former police station site.
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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.”
Ford Motor Company has selected the Memphis Regional Megasite for an electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus, investing $5.6 billion and creating 5,800 jobs. Gov. Bill Lee said it was “the largest single investment in this state’s history.”
Despite exceeding the density capacity for the South Main District, the Memphis and Shelby County Board of Adjustment granted approval of a new mixed-use development.
While the Downtown Memphis Commission prepares for renovations to its own North Main headquarters, it is also evaluating bids for its giant neighbor, 100 N. Main.
While their outlook on the economy is improved from a year ago, Memphis consumers appear hesitant about spending, a likely result of price increases linked to inflation.
The tower at 114 N. Main sits at the corner of Adams Avenue and North Main Street. It shares the block with the Fire Museum of Memphis.
Dominique Worthen owns the shop in The Gilmore building in Midtown. Customers, who include Grizzlies legend Tony Allen, are a mix of hard-core sneakers enthusiasts and folks who just want their shoes restored.