There are 15 article(s) tagged Archie Willis III:

• October 2025

  • City completes public-housing redevelopment after 10 years

    City of Memphis leaders marked the opening of the sixth and final phase of South City, the 712-unit mixed income conversion of what was once the Foote Homes public-housing development.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2025

• October 2024

  • Revitalizing Northside Square without pricing out current Klondike residents

    The $81 million, 270,000-square-foot Northside Square development is partnered with the work of restored and new affordable housing under the banner of “Moving Klondike Forward.”

    By Bill Dries October 27, 2024

  • Old Porter Junior High moves toward makeover

    The old school building is undergoing a renovation to an early childhood center run by Porter-Leath, with a museum dealing with the rich history of the area to come in a later phase.

    By Bill Dries October 24, 2024

• January 2024

  • Northside Square developers take on barriers to affordable housing

    Roshun Austin and Archie Willis III of the Klondike Partners development group talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the financial hoops the adaptive reuse of Northside High School has had to jump through.

    By Bill Dries January 20, 2024

• December 2023

  • Northside Square represents new life for an old school — and so much more

    The $78 million redevelopment of the old Northside High School comes with an ambitious plan to bring back the surrounding Klondike subdivision from decades of blight.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2023

• September 2023

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries September 26, 2023

• April 2022

  • South City Museum to preserve neighborhood’s rich history

    By the summer of 2024, the South City Museum & Cultural Center will celebrate the people and landmarks of the Historic South Memphis area.

    By Julia Baker April 07, 2022

• February 2022

  • Watch: Remake of Northside High seeks broader impact for Klondike

    Planners hope the transformation of the old Northside High School building into a mixed-use development will rekindle a sense of community in the Klondike section of North Memphis. 

    By Bill Dries February 26, 2022

• July 2021

  • Nonprofit seeks input to redevelop Northside High School

    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.

    By Omer Yusuf July 15, 2021

• April 2021

  • Board approves zoning exceptions for Orleans Station

    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.

    By Tom Bailey April 28, 2021

• March 2021

  • ‘Orleans Station’ to bring residents, new retail to Medical District

    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.

    By Tom Bailey March 24, 2021

  • Apartment complex renovation could be catalyst for more affordable housing

    On a cloudy Thursday afternoon, the organizations behind the Renaissance at Steele renovations in Frayser celebrated the $17 million project’s completion. 

    By Omer Yusuf March 21, 2021

• October 2020

  • Efforts to bring grocery to Downtown/South City fail

    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.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2020

• June 2020

  • Making sense of the protests in Memphis

    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. 

    By Eric Barnes June 13, 2020

  • Civil rights experts explain why Floyd protests are ‘something different’

    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.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2020