There are 89 article(s) tagged Binghampton:

• October 2024

  • Binghampton stories take center stage

    “We All We Got: A Binghampton Play” is the culmination of an inaugural Orpheum community playmaking program called Neighborhood Play.

    By Jordan Rodgers October 25, 2024

• June 2024

  • Apartment complex gets new lease on life in Binghampton

    The Tillman Cove Apartments, years in the making, had an official ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday morning, although several tenants have already moved in.

    By Jody Callahan June 25, 2024

• April 2024

  • Youth mental-health emergency center coming to Binghampton

    The walk-in center for children will be built next to Alliance’ adult crisis-intervention center, which is being built on Broad Avenue, and create a centrally located wellness campus in the heart of Memphis. 

    By Aisling Mäki April 28, 2024

• March 2024

  • Memphis floats idea of new aquatics center in Binghampton

    An indoor swimming facility could be coming to Binghampton as the city’s upcoming debt cliff could free up $50 million annually for new projects.

    By Samuel Hardiman March 05, 2024

  • Volunteer coach among 56 homicide victims since Jan. 1

    Adrian Goodrich, also known as ‘Coach Skeet,’ is one of the people killed in January and February, according to data provided by Memphis Police Department. In the same period last year, there were 54 slayings. 

    By Julia Baker March 01, 2024

• February 2024

  • Binghampton kids express hope for gun safety with march, wooden hearts

    This year, the organization’s staff, four Memphis Police officers and about 20 kids in attendance used the coming holiday to send a message. 

    By Christopher Wright February 13, 2024

• January 2024

  • Tillman Sculpture Park under construction in Binghampton

    Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local collaborators are constructing the park on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tillman Street.

    By Kambui Bomani January 08, 2024

• December 2023

  • One last ride: Popular skate park Society Memphis will close Dec. 31

    Society Memphis was built inside a warehouse at 583 Scott St. as an ambitious project to create a space where diverse passions could converge.

    By Aisling Mäki December 24, 2023

  • New Lester Community Center breaks ground in Binghampton

    The new community center, scheduled to open in 2025, is just yards away from the existing community center, which is one of the most used in the Memphis Parks system.

    By Bill Dries December 13, 2023

• November 2023

  • Longtime Poplar Avenue flower shop is for sale

    Rachel’s has been a fixture on Poplar Avenue since 1993 but it will close to walk-ins at the end of the year. The clothes closet, food pantry and storehouse of furniture in the florist’s back building — for people who were hungry, cold or moving into apartments with nothing — will close when the shop does.

    By Jane Roberts November 30, 2023

• September 2023

  • Sweet Aroma opens dessert studio in Broad Avenue Arts District

    The 1,200-square-foot dessert studio, now open at 501 N. Hollywood St., is designed like an art studio, where customers can decorate cookies, cupcakes and cakes. 

    By Sophia Surrett September 23, 2023

• July 2023

  • Inked: Binghampton plans sculpture park; ‘Cowboy Church’ requests variance

    Carpenter Art Garden wants to lease land from the city, while Calvary Church wants to teach kids to ride horses.

    By Rob Moore July 26, 2023

• June 2023

  • Youth draw out neighborhood beauty on Binghampton sidewalks

    Children and teens cleaned up Memphis streets including Tillman Street, Carpenter Street and Mimosa Avenue. Then, they were handed chalk.

    By Jada Ojii June 30, 2023

• May 2023

  • Miles away, years apart: In Shelby County, where you live impacts how long you’ll live

    For residents of one pocket of Binghampton, the average life expectancy is about 66 years. A few miles away, in East Memphis’ River Oaks, residents can expect to live about 18 years longer. 

    By Aisling Mäki May 04, 2023

• January 2023

  • Herrington: Where does Midtown end? A defining question for modern Memphis

    Defining Midtown is perhaps the key question of Memphis geography, in part because it helps define the rest of the core city. If Midtown is encased by Downtown, South Memphis, East Memphis and North Memphis — and maybe that’s debatable, too — then defining Midtown partly defines the rest.

    By Chris Herrington January 03, 2023

• October 2022

  • More than 150 artists prepare to ‘Paint Memphis’

    Each year, Paint Memphis invites artists from around the country to join local and regional artists to create murals in blighted or disinvested areas in Memphis.

    By Jasmine McCraven October 05, 2022

• September 2022

  • A tally of terror: 6 shot, 3 dead in gunman’s daylong, cross-city rampage

    The person believed to be responsible for all of these shootings is Ezekiel Kelly, a man who was released early from a three-year sentence fewer than six months ago.

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    By Julia Baker September 29, 2022

• June 2022

  • Memphis 3.0 presentation tackles pedestrian safety

    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.

    By Daja E. Henry June 23, 2022

  • Junior Achievement president revitalizes Memphis entrepreneur program

    Leigh Mansberg has unleashed her own entrepreneurial bent to reshape the way JA works, digging down to formularize the can-do energy that was the air she breathed growing up.

    By Jane Roberts June 20, 2022

• May 2022

  • Walnut Grove Road project to include charter school, residences, offices

    Lighthouse Community Ecosystem plans to build a “holistic” community with more than a dozen buildings near the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

    By Neil Strebig May 13, 2022

• April 2022

  • Guest column: Solutions to homeownership challenges critical to city’s well-being

    “The current circumstances are pricing nearly all low-income Memphians, and an exponentially increasing number of middle-income Memphians, out of the housing market entirely,” says Amy Schaftlein of United Housing Inc.

    By Amy Schaftlein April 16, 2022

  • Group offers opportunity for artistic Binghampton entrepreneurs

    Memphis organization ArtUp is presenting a program dedicated to preparing young business-minded individuals for a sustainable career in the creative industry. 

    By Jasmine McCraven April 10, 2022

• February 2022

  • Inked: A planned mixed-use community in Binghampton; an Amazon facility in North Memphis

    Encompassing 15 acres near the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Walnut Grove Road, the Maslow Shared Community would include a school, mixed-income housing, health and wellness facilities and workforce development opportunities. 

    By Rob Moore February 11, 2022

• January 2022

  • About Town: Widening roads and recycling tires

    If new barriers are deemed effective on Broad Avenue, they could be used in other areas of the city. Plus, a project finally gets going in Southeast Memphis. 

    By Julia Baker January 28, 2022

  • Trash or treasure? Illegally dumped tires become bicycle lane barriers

    Binghampton Development Corporation and artist Tad Pierson have turned 420 illegally dumped tires into bicycle lane barriers and have begun installing them along Broad Avenue in Binghampton.

    By Julia Baker January 21, 2022