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Over the next three years, the charter school system plans to work with community partners to add amenities including a small grocery store, affordable child care or preschool and community green space.
LeAnthony Douglas, a teaching and performing artist at New Ballet Ensemble and School, started in the organization’s first cohort of Dunbar Elementary School students.
Former Memphis Grizzlies community relations employee Dan Peterson is making an impact by reviving forlorn basketball courts, public spaces that bring people together.
Two national retailers and three MEMShop locations will add to the retail momentum Whitehaven is seeing, but the community still has property challenges.
The historically black college in South Memphis also plans to increase alumni giving from 8% to 30%.
Superlo Foods, a Memphis-based grocery store chain, hopes to open a location in Orange Mound Dec. 1.
Mayor Jim Strickland said the chain has signed a letter of intent to open a Whitehaven location.
Check here throughout the day to see how balloting is going around the city, and into the evening as ballot tabulation begins.
Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess is hosting an event next week that is billed as an opportunity to collaborate, grow and shape the future of Orange Mound.
Patterson Warehouses received a six-year, payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) incentive in July from the Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County.
Festival organizers will retain the influence of those in the neighborhood who are committed to workforce development and how the land is used.
The Tennessee Department of Correction and Shelby County Office of Re-entry will host a health fair Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Cases set to go before the Memphis & Shelby County Land Use Control Board next month include a planned development near Christian Brothers University, a southeast Memphis car wash and a tractor sales dealership in Eads.
The dorms were created in a recently renovated, former vacant apartment building across from Knowledge Quest’s main campus.
A building permit application valued at $12 million was filed Oct. 9 for the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house near the University of Memphis.
The city seeks approval from the Land Use Control Board for a new 200,000-square-foot sports and events complex and a 700,000-square-foot mixed-use development of retail, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, commercial office space and multifamily residential.
The Shelby County Office of Re-Entry is converting vacant buildings in South Memphis into transitional housing for ex-offenders.
The city plans to break ground on the development in January 2020, with the sports complex and hotel opening in June 2021 and initial retail opening in November 2021.
A building permit application was filed recently for Freedom Preparatory Academy.
The Collective, the Memphis organization serving opportunity youth, is now The Collective Blueprint.
A building permit application valued at $1.9 million was filed for Orion Federal Credit Union.
Apple Partners is also behind the City Cottages project, which is building new homes around Memphis in the $300,000 range.
City Gear, a retailer of premium athletic footwear, apparel and accessories.
Justin Timberlake and other musicians collaborated for two days in August with students at Stax Music Academy and with help from the Levi’s Music Project – and a $100,000 donation from JT himself – have provided a huge boost to the academy’s work.