Midtown infill project moves forward
Apple Partners is also behind the City Cottages project, which is building new homes around Memphis in the $300,000 range.
Elle Perry
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Metro $2M building permit filed for Southeast Memphis bank
A building permit application valued at $1.9 million was filed for Orion Federal Credit Union.
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Metro Opportunity youth-focused nonprofit rebrands, expands mission
The Collective, the Memphis organization serving opportunity youth, is now The Collective Blueprint.
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North Memphis $4.5M building permit filed for Whitehaven campus
A building permit application was filed recently for Freedom Preparatory Academy.
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Midtown Details of Memphis Fairgrounds Planned Development revealed
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.
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South Memphis Office of Re-Entry turning vacant buildings into transitional housing
The Shelby County Office of Re-Entry is converting vacant buildings in South Memphis into transitional housing for ex-offenders.
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Midtown City seeks approval for Memphis Fairgrounds Planned Development
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.
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Real Estate Building permit filed for former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house
A building permit application valued at $12 million was filed Oct. 9 for the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house near the University of Memphis.
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South Memphis Knowledge Quest preps for college students to move into dorms
The dorms were created in a recently renovated, former vacant apartment building across from Knowledge Quest’s main campus.
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Real Estate The Grove @ Avery, Eads tractor dealership among LUCB cases
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.
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South Memphis Department of Correction to host free health fair in Orange Mound
The Tennessee Department of Correction and Shelby County Office of Re-entry will host a health fair Wednesday, Oct. 9.
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South Memphis South Memphis festival combines Afrofuturism and fair housing
Festival organizers will retain the influence of those in the neighborhood who are committed to workforce development and how the land is used.
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Transportation & Logistics $25M building permit filed for Memphis warehouse
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.
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South Memphis Hardaway: Orange Mound Initiative will be designed, developed, driven by grassroots organizations
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.
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Elections Herenton concession biggest news of early trends in voting
Check here throughout the day to see how balloting is going around the city, and into the evening as ballot tabulation begins.
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South Memphis Starbucks en route to Whitehaven
Mayor Jim Strickland said the chain has signed a letter of intent to open a Whitehaven location.
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September 2019
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South Memphis Superlo Foods to open in closed Orange Mound Kroger store
Superlo Foods, a Memphis-based grocery store chain, hopes to open a location in Orange Mound Dec. 1.
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South Memphis LeMoyne-Owen launches national campaign to raise $1.2 million
The historically black college in South Memphis also plans to increase alumni giving from 8% to 30%.
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South Memphis Two national retailers, MEMShop coming to Whitehaven
Two national retailers and three MEMShop locations will add to the retail momentum Whitehaven is seeing, but the community still has property challenges.
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GWERC director working to help Whitehaven businesses unlock economic incentives
With a population of 40,000 in 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Whitehaven’s median income was $39,000 – higher than the city of Memphis at $37,000. -
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South MemphisProject Backboard restoring art at French Fort basketball court
Former Memphis Grizzlies community relations employee Dan Peterson is making an impact by reviving forlorn basketball courts, public spaces that bring people together.
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South Memphis Orange Mound adding to New Ballet’s dance pipeline
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.
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South Memphis Gestalt charter school system begins Hickory Hill revitalization project
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.
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South Memphis Foote Park at South City opens
The first residents have moved into the reincarnation of the former Foote Homes public-housing project, Foote Park at South City.
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South Memphis Radical.tacos teams up with Soulsville Charter School ‘Green Team’
Soulsville's radical.tacos will source some of its produce from a student-managed garden.
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