Your regular About Town weekly newsletter takes a hiatus this week as neighbors in Westwood meet to discuss proposals for the old Southwest Twin Drive-in property. Plus, Butler Row developers plan to make the area around Wiseacre’s Downtown taproom more walkable, and Uptown’s Soul & Spirits Brewery is finally getting a patio.

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Local leaders and members of the Westwood community met Thursday evening to discuss the future of the Southwest Twin drive-in.

The $65 million, 2.34-acre Butler Row development was previously awarded a 12-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes in January.

The craft brewery will install a temporary patio this spring with plans for a permanent installation for future use. 

MNW coordinators at the Crump Road and Tillman Street Memphis Police stations are asking for the community’s help with prom attire donations, calling the event “Prom Closet.”

Several Memphis City Council members said Tuesday, March 22, they don’t think it is large enough or generates enough property tax increment to get much going in terms of economic development in the Soulsville area.

The head of the Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corporation and the founder of the I Love Whitehaven effort talk on Behind The Headlines about economic and business development.

“We want it to be inviting,” Jack Dawson of LPI Memphis said of the former home of Bari Ristorante e Enoteca. “This is the entrance to the space. It needs to be worthy of that sort of greeting.”

The Uptown development got underway last year with the first phase completing 11 cottages in June.

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