There are 48 article(s) tagged Center City Development Corp.:

• August 2021

  • Orleans Station developers seek renovation grant

    Construction for the adaptive reuse of the old Trolley Stop restaurant building at 694-704 Madison may start in September and be completed next April.

    By Tom Bailey August 12, 2021

• July 2021

  • Walking in Memphis: Grants now available for sidewalk repair Downtown

    The board of a Downtown agency approved a matching-grant program that offers commercial property owners up to $5,000 to repair their sidewalks.

    By Tom Bailey July 22, 2021

  • Downtown’s old MGM warehouse may become jazz venue

    The owner of 502 S. Second seeks a $50,000 grant to help fund her $1.1 million plan to convert a vacant part of Downtown’s old MGM film warehouse into the Luxe Jazz Suite.

    By Tom Bailey July 20, 2021

• April 2021

  • WLOK, Big River Market seek Downtown grants

    WLOK seeks a $50,000 grant to beautify its buildings at 363 S. Second. And the owner of the planned Big River Market, a small food/coffee store, seeks a $60,000 grant to help prepare space at the corner of Tennessee and G.E. Patterson.

    By Tom Bailey April 14, 2021

• February 2021

  • Future South Main restaurant getting renovation grant

    The Center City Development Corp. also approved financial support for restoring and replacing stained glass windows at Historic Clayborn Temple, and for the restoration and redevelopment of a blighted, vacant commercial building at Vance and S. Fourth. 

    By Tom Bailey February 17, 2021

  • New developer plans to revive blighted South City building

    A new real estate development company plans to transform a blighted, long-vacant commercial structure into retail space and apartments.

    By Tom Bailey February 17, 2021

  • Clayborn Temple stained glass could capture historic events

    The Center City Development Corp. will consider a $50,000 grant to help create new stained-glass windows for Historic Clayborn Temple.

    By Tom Bailey February 11, 2021

• January 2021

  • Agency supports, praises 3 adaptive-reuse Edge projects

    The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

    By Tom Bailey January 20, 2021

• December 2020

  • Grants to help Alcenia’s owner buy, improve her Downtown building

    The owner of Alcenia’s restaurant is receiving help from multiple organizations to buy and improve her Pinch District building. And the owner of a historic Film Row building receives help to renovate the exterior of the Art Moderne structure.

    By Tom Bailey December 16, 2020

• August 2020

  • Paper & Clay plans move to South Main, seeks renovation grant

    The maker and retailer of modern-design ceramic products is growing and needs more space. Paper & Clay will move into a building vacated by the closing of Bumpus Harley-Davidson on South Main.

    By Tom Bailey August 12, 2020

• July 2020

  • New Downtown grant would help with pre-construction costs

    The proposed "Pre-Development Assistance Grant" would provide up to $5,000 for such costs as marketing studies, architecture, engineering and environmental assessments. 

    By Tom Bailey July 23, 2020

• June 2020

  • Agency makes grants more affordable to South City businesses

    South City businesses and nonprofits now need only to make a 10% match – instead of 25% – to receive up to a $50,000 grant to improve the exterior of their buildings.

    By Tom Bailey June 17, 2020

  • Agency may increase grants for South City businesses because of pandemic

    The Downtown Memphis Commission staff recommends that grants for exterior improvements to South City businesses start covering 90% of the costs instead of 75%.

    By Tom Bailey June 11, 2020

  • Building permit sought to renovate historic buildings for restaurant, apartments

    Project plan is to convert upper floors of four, attached buildings into six apartments, and enlarge McEwen's restaurant.

    By Tom Bailey June 09, 2020

• May 2020

  • Longtime South City businesses plan renovations

    Both founded in South City in the 1960s, Paradise Entertainment Center and Tom Martin's Body Shop plan to improve the exterior of their buildings.

    By Tom Bailey May 13, 2020

• April 2020

  • 46 Downtown businesses given $260,000 to help survive pandemic

    Sixty-three percent of the 46 Downtown businesses receiving the forgivable loans were minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE).

    By Tom Bailey April 25, 2020

  • $65,000 in forgivable loans approved for 13 Downtown businesses

    The Center City Development Corp. has now approved about $200,000 in forgivable loans for 33 Downtown businesses. 

    By Tom Bailey April 22, 2020

  • Downtown’s forgivable loan program grows by $60,000

    The Center City Development Corp. has added $60,000 to the money available to help small Downtown businesses survive the effects of COVID-19.

    By Tom Bailey April 21, 2020

  • Downtown agency rushes love and money to distressed businesses

    Twenty Downtown businesses severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic have now received forgivable loans totaling $135,000.

    By Tom Bailey April 17, 2020

  • A. Schwab, Peanut Shoppe among businesses seeking emergency loans

    Twelve more Downtown businesses have applied for forgivable loans totaling $79,900 and which are designed to help them survive the effects of COVID-19.

    By Tom Bailey April 17, 2020

  • Forgivable loans approved for 8 Downtown businesses

    Acting with a sense of urgency, the Center City Development Corp. board approved the first forgivable loans for eight Downtown businesses that have been disrupted by COVID-19. 

    By Tom Bailey April 13, 2020

• December 2018

  • Without philanthropy, Ravine will be ‘grittier’ than the renderings

    A vacant rail spur beside the former Kudzu’s Bar & Grill received initial funding to be transformed into a shared public plaza.

    By Michelle Corbet December 20, 2018

  • Arcade Restaurant to undergo expansion, renovation next year

    The owners of the historic Arcade Restaurant at South Main and G.E. Patterson are planning an expansion and renovation next year, with a coffee/liquor bar among their plans.

    By Kate Crawford December 14, 2018