Board votes against ALSAC parking garage in Uptown
The proposed seven-story parking garage on the north side of A.W. Willis between North Third and Fourth streets would have been designated for ALSAC-St. Jude employees.
Julia Baker
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January 2022
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South Memphis The Soulsville Foundation to receive a $150,000 grant from ARPA funding
The grant will allow the organization to recover from the pandemic and can be used to save jobs and to fund various operations and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation.
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About Town About Town: Widening roads and recycling tires
If new barriers are deemed effective on Broad Avenue, they could be used in other areas of the city. Plus, a project finally gets going in Southeast Memphis.
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East MemphisEast Memphis neighbors win appeal regarding synagogue
Although the site plan did not violate any rules or codes, Board of Adjustment members were sympathetic to neighbors’ concerns, noting the development was “wrong” and they themselves would not want to live next to the synagogue.
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February 2022
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South Memphis School-to-subdivision project gives Graceland neighbors pause
The proposed 13.35-acre subdivision, called The Palms at Graceland, would feature one- and two-story single family homes on as many as 42 lots where Graceland Elementary School once stood.
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North MemphisVollintine Evergreen may see new resource center, grocery store
The announcement was made by Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas during a recent annual Vollintine Evergreen Community Association meeting Saturday, Jan. 29.
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City of Memphis City shuts down Orange Mound homeless shelter
City officials cited unsafe conditions and the shelter not being up to code, including no working smoke detector and no sprinkler system in case of a fire.
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About Town About Town: New fire headquarters part of a changing Memphis landscape
The Memphis Fire Department reached a new milestone Monday, Jan. 31, when it hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new fire headquarters at its “fire campus” at 2670 Avery Ave.
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City of Memphis Orange Mound shelter residents left without a place to stay amid ice storm
Residents of Juice Orange Mound’s HubOM warming center have resorted to sleeping outside in the cold, wintry weather following a notice of closure posted by the city.
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Metro Six days out: Why 28,000 MLGW customers are still without power
MLGW pushes back its estimate to have all customers restored and begins looking to fix smaller outages.
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South Memphis Orange Mound Task Force pushes to reopen homeless shelter
The Orange Mound Task Force called on local government, business owners and community members for help bringing Juice Orange Mound’s homeless shelter up to code so it can reopen.
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City of Memphis Ice storm damage leaves lower-income residents ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’
Memphians who live below the poverty line were left without the ability to pay for damages, hotel stays and the replacement of groceries following the winter storm Thursday, Feb. 3.
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About Town About Town: What does funding for developments in South Memphis and Soulsville really mean?
The county approved $1 million in ARPA grant funding for four community development groups in South Memphis, showing signs of growth in the area.
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South Memphis Alcy Ball neighborhood group helps pave the way to homeownership
The community development corporation bought and fixed up a home, incorporating it into its tenant savings program to help a resident save for a future home purchase.
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North Memphis Memphis Parks to make a splash in North Memphis, Orange Mound
Children will be able to play with 26 interactive spray toys, some shaped like leaves and sprouts and others shaped like garden bugs and snails, while learning about motor skills, water safety, socialization and cause and effect.
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North Memphis EDGE board approves PILOT for Northside High School redevelopment
The former vocational high school at 1212 Vollintine Ave. will become a multi-use space for vocational skills training, workforce development, multifamily housing, health care services, performing arts and more.
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About Town About Town: Northside High project taps into newer PILOT
Klondike-Smokey City project will use an incentive first applied for the Binghampton Gateway Center.
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South Memphis Whitehaven leaders discuss history, look to future
Whitehaven is much more than Graceland, FedEx and the airport, with its rich history, independently owned businesses and a deep sense of pride – or “neighborhoodism” as one leader calls it.
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Neighborhoods Blight Authority of Memphis director steps down
Steve Lockwood, who led the Frayser Community Development Corp. until his retirement in 2020, will serve as interim director.
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North MemphisVariances for redevelopment of Northside High approved
The Board of Adjustment has given the nod to a proposal for the redevelopment of the building at 1212 Vollintine Ave. into a mixed-use development.
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About Town About Town: Former Frayser CDC director joins Blight Authority
In something of a “surprise,” even to himself, Steve Lockwood is the new interim executive director of BAM.
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Spirit of MemphisTeach for America alum gives Orange Mound some juice
Over the past several years, Britney Thornton has emerged as a leader through her work with the homeless and the underserved.
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Metro MATA announces ‘3 new innovative steps’ toward expansion
Changes and improvements include a one-year expansion of on-demand Go901 service, implementation of the MATA tracker, and the obtaining of $46 million in funding toward its mConnect bus rapid transit system.
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March 2022
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About Town Frayser center to make an ‘impact’
The center in Frayser will bring multiple benefits to the community for everyone from youths to veterans to seniors.
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About Town About Town: Former church becomes resource for the community
Last month, Frayser saw the addition of the new Legacy Impact Community Resource Center.
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