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Gas stations and used-tire shops no longer fit within the long-range plans for 21 commercial districts across Memphis, according to a new recommendation from the Division of Planning & Development.
The Annesdale Mansion, built in the style of Italian Villa architecture, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for 41 years.
Plans for a $104 million development comprising a hotel, apartments, office and parking garage near the University of Memphis got off to a smooth start, receiving unanimous support of the Land Use Control Board.
In age of online shopping, car dealership wants to ‘click it’ with a new photography studio.
“Goshen Place” would be a nearly 16-acre, gated subdivision for luxury homes near the planned BLP Film Studios site in Whitehaven.
The Land Use Control Board rejected plans for an industrial park because of the potential negative impact on the Hillshire neighborhood and because the Memphis 3.0 plan calls for the land to remain undeveloped.
A developer plans to build 15 townhouses and dual-purpose public art on another acre of Midtown’s abandoned I-40 property.
It all started years ago when Jason Farmer’s grade-school-age son said he wanted to be a filmmaker. On Thursday, the Land Use Control Board approved a planned development for an 85-acre film- and TV-production complex in Whitehaven.
The Land Use Control Board credited a developer for improving a Binghampton site plan for a C-store with gas. But the board approved the project without addressing how more gas pumps might affect the neighborhood.
A Midtown infill developer plans to incorporate the front of a small, stone church building into the construction of one of three houses planned for a remote pocket of Cooper-Young.
Memphis already has six gas stations per 10,000 residents, 50% above the U.S. average. But the Department of Planning & Development cited even more reasons why a C-store with gas should not be built at Sam Cooper at Tillman.
Allowing three houses to be built in the backyards of an existing house or two would enable more than just “a handful of residents” to enjoy the “delights of living in Midtown Memphis,” the applicant states.
Shelby Equity Partners GP seek approval for a 105-lot residential subdivision at the northeast corner of Forest Hill Irene Road and Shelby Drive.
Called 35 Central, the development near the University of Memphis would include a seven-story hotel and a six-story building with apartments, office space and a parking garage.
A proposed 85-acre film lot and new YMCA are two ongoing projects in Whitehaven – though each are on significantly different timelines.
Among the 18 cases it considered, the Land Use Control Board rejected a plan to gate one end of Saint Nick Drive, dropped long-range plans for a street at the request of a new car dealership, and approved a 156-lot subdivision along Walnut Grove.
The Land Use Control Board will have a few less controversial cases to consider when it convenes Thursday, May 13. Three applicants have withdrawn requests that had faced opposition.
The new planning board applications for the June meeting include a 500-plus door truck terminal, a $75 million warehouse park and a proposal for 15-lot subdivision in East Memphis that would use a public street but be gated.
The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.
The new stayAPT Suites company plans to enter the Memphis market with a 76- or 88-room hotel behind the Commons at Dexter Lake shopping center in Cordova. And it won’t be the last stayAPT in the Memphis area, one executive says.
All the litter showing up in each case file photo was not the focus of the development issues. But Land Use Control Board members took notice and rejected a landlord’s plan to enlarge his rental property in South Memphis.
The Land Use Control Board is recommending a setback requirement for oil pipelines built in Shelby County. It remains legally questionable whether the requirement could be applied to the controversial Byhalia Connection pipeline project.
It might be too late to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline, but Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is still proposing a setback requirement for any other oil pipelines that might be built in the future.
Residents of two East Memphis neighborhoods request that their streets be permanently gated or blocked from two busy streets, Poplar and Highland. But doing so would degrade the connectivity of the city’s street network, the Division of Planning and Development says.
New applications to the Land Use Control Board also include plans for a 156-lot subdivision on Walnut Grove, a 129-lot subdivision near Tenn. 385, and a gated, nine-lot subdivision in East Memphis on White Station Road.