City’s housing mix could take hard hit in pandemic
The city’s mix of housing has flipped in recent years, with renters now making up the majority as investors continue to buy single-family homes.
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September 2020
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August 2020
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Fairgrounds becomes ‘Liberty Park’ in latest post-pandemic plan
The city has also signed a letter of intent with Capstone Development for two hotels on the Central Avenue frontage. The founder of Capstone sees a different kind of recovery from the pandemic for the hospitality industry — one led by the families that travel regionally to the sports tournaments that are the financial engine for Liberty Park's public and private uses.
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April 2020
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Young says pandemic exacerbating digital divide problem
The director of the city's division of Housing and Community Development said on "Behind The Headlines" that Wi-Fi access for students living in public housing is a challenge that has become more acute with classes suspended in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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February 2020
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City changes course on management of Fairgrounds commercial development
M&M Enterprises will develop a smaller part of the 18 acres along Central Avenue that is to be developed commercially. And the city is now the project manager for that part of the Fairgrounds redevelopment.
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Memphis Heritage Trail extending to Orange Mound, South City, Soulsville
There are now Memphis Heritage Trail markers on display in Orange Mound showcasing the community's history.
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December 2019
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Eight agencies are first to benefit from city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund
The grants to eight nonprofits announced at City Hall Monday cover areas outside Downtown and Midtown where the housing stock is old and could use some help to encourage private development. The fund works with the city's recently approved Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines.
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City gets $5.6 million federal grant for lead paint abatement program
The City of Memphis has $5.6 million, most of it in federal funding, to test for and remove lead paint from up to 350 single-family homes and multi-family housing units in the city and county built before 1978.
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November 2019
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Orange Mound Task Force holds first meeting
Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess said that the task force would go on a tour of the area.
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October 2019
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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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September 2019
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Tillman Cove apartments demolition begins
The eight-acre site in Binghampton was one of the first blight emergencies faced by the administration of Mayor Jim Strickland, sitting vacant for three years. Once the brick single-story units are demolished, Elmington Capital of Nashville will build new, affordable housing.
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August 2019
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Foote Homes’ first phase nears completion
Three council members took a look around the new Foote Park at South City Tuesday with plenty of questions and discussion around the larger issue of how to keep the city's development boom from displacing Memphians.
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On The Ground Podcast: An affordable housing trust fund for Memphis
Paul Young, director of the city's Division of Housing and Community Development, and John Paul Shaffer, executive director of BLDG Memphis, discuss a new local trust fund that will help support the creation and preservation of affordable housing.
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July 2019
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Developers selected by city for South City and Binghampton sites
The owner of 115 Union and The Pocket bar will develop city land south of Clayborn Temple. Elmington Capital of Nashville will develop the Tillman Cove apartment complex land in Binghampton.
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June 2019
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City names Fairgrounds private development team for Central Avenue frontage
M&M Enterprises of Memphis will lead private redevelopment of the Fairgrounds, the city announced Tuesday.
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March 2019
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Young says developers responding to signs of change in South City
City Housing and Community Development director Paul Young says the $1 billion Union Row project is a direct result of the city's efforts to leverage federal and city funding in the South City area, stretching from the south area of Downtown into South Memphis.
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February 2019
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HUD wants Memphis to return or ‘de-obligate’ $17M in affordable-housing funds
The federal Housing and Urban Development wants Memphis to pay back millions spent in one of the biggest take-backs ever proposed by HUD.
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December 2018
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Mason Homes development prepares for December move-in
The first renters at a new set of townhomes on E.H. Crump Boulevard south of Mason Temple Church of God in Christ begin moving into their new units in about a week.
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November 2018
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Memphis to take bids for Fairgrounds hotel-retail site and Mid-South Coliseum
Buoyed by a state-approved tourism development zone, the city of Memphis will take bids for a hotel-retail developer on the Fairgrounds site as part of a $161 million public-private project and go after a private operator as well to repurpose the Mid-South Coliseum. -
State approves TDZ for Fairgrounds redevelopment
A state panel approved Memphis’ request Monday for a Fairgrounds Tourism Development Zone to help fund an estimated $150 million project complete with a youth sports and events complex that will depend on construction of a privately developed hotel.
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