Chapter Two: Busing begins
This second part of The Daily Memphian’s oral history series marking the 50th anniversary of Plan Z begins with prophetic words from McRae’s December 1971 ruling that set the stage for Plan A’s implementation.
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This second part of The Daily Memphian’s oral history series marking the 50th anniversary of Plan Z begins with prophetic words from McRae’s December 1971 ruling that set the stage for Plan A’s implementation.
By the summer of 2024, the South City Museum & Cultural Center will celebrate the people and landmarks of the Historic South Memphis area.
A nearly 200-page Studio Gang report was completed in conjunction with community input in 2017-18, presenting various possibilities such as vocational training, a job resource center, performing arts auditorium or living and studio space.
The Board of Adjustment approved zoning exceptions for the nearly 10-acre, mixed-use Orleans Station on the campus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Other cases included the rejection of illegal business signs on Summer and a compromise for a nonconforming hotel sign on Lamar.
A new, mixed-use development is designed to bring hundreds of new residents and new retail to a 10-acre area that touches the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus, Victorian Village, the Edge District and the Medical District.
On a cloudy Thursday afternoon, the organizations behind the Renaissance at Steele renovations in Frayser celebrated the $17 million project’s completion.
A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.
This week on WKNO’s Behind the Headlines, Faith Morris, Chief Marketing and External Affairs Officer for the National Civil Rights Museum, and Archie Willis, President of ComCap Partners, discuss protests in Memphis with Bill Dries and host Eric Barnes.
Faith Morris of the National Civil Rights Museum and Archie Willis of ComCap Partners talk on "Behind The Headlines" about two and a half weeks of protest in Memphis and the difference it represents in the city's history of protest.
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