There are 211 article(s) tagged Paul Young:

• October 2019

  • 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. 

    By Elle Perry October 19, 2019

• September 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries September 11, 2019

• August 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries August 07, 2019

  • 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.

    By Natalie Van Gundy August 02, 2019

• July 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries July 04, 2019

• June 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2019

• March 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2019

• February 2019

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries February 15, 2019

• December 2018

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2018

• November 2018

  • 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.

    By Sam Stockard November 20, 2018

  • 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.

    By Sam Stockard November 20, 2018