There are 17 article(s) tagged Accelerate Memphis:
The windows surrounding three sides of the city’s first and oldest community center were boarded up nearly 50 years ago. The $4 million renovation formally opened Wednesday, June 21, bringing natural light back to the gym, while adding other uses to the center.
Craig Unger, president of the Memphis Redbirds and Memphis 901 FC, said the 12-year-old video board had “outlived its life.”
The groundbreaking Friday, Oct. 7, for the renovation of the 84-year-old school building ends a 40-year debate about whether the Orange Mound landmark should be renovated or demolished.
More than a dozen community stakeholders in District 5 gathered at Benjamin Hooks Library Wednesday night to give feedback on issues pinpointed in the Memphis 3.0 plan.
A couple dozen Frayser stakeholders gathered at Pursuit of God Church Wednesday evening to hear plans for their neighborhood that they say do not include them.
The center underwent an $8.4 million renovation that took almost two years since the old building was demolished in August 2020.
Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) dedicated $3 million to funding the redevelopment of the Historic Melrose High building in Orange Mound as part of his appropriation request for fiscal year 2023.
South Memphis resident Deandrew Thomas calls the center a sanctuary. “It’s our rock. It has played a major part of my life.”
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland kicked off the city’s $200 million slate of capital projects over the next three years Tuesday, June 29, in a southwest Memphis park.
The council approved on first reading an ordinance that forbids dumping belongings in an eviction on public rights of way and approved on the second of three readings the creation of a Crosstown Historic District Overlay governed by the Memphis Landmarks Commission.
The council will hear, in committees, about the idea of “potential acquisition and adaptive reuse” of a bottling company plant at Southern and Hollywood. On the council agenda is a vote urging Gov. Bill Lee to veto a bill that bans teaching critical race theory.
The council also approved a new seven-year lease between the city and the Withers Collection Inc., which has been behind on its rent.
After planning and construction, the project to reimagine the historic school is expected to be completed in 2023.
The $200 million slate of capital projects over a three-year period is on its way to state officials are approval after the pair of council votes Tuesday, Feb. 2. Council members approved both after one more review of the numbers and the reasoning behind the unique financing.
The agenda also includes changes to the city’s financial policies to allow the balloon debt structure to finance the project.
City Council members got their first look at the details of Accelerate Memphis on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
The plan was outlined in a Thursday State of the City speech by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. Strickland also outlined two violent crime intervention programs.
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