There are 212 article(s) tagged Downtown Memphis Commission:

• July 2021

  • Downtown’s old MGM warehouse may become jazz venue

    The owner of 502 S. Second seeks a $50,000 grant to help fund her $1.1 million plan to convert a vacant part of Downtown’s old MGM film warehouse into the Luxe Jazz Suite.

    By Tom Bailey July 20, 2021

• June 2021

  • Trolley Night is back on track following pandemic

    Trolley Night returned for the first time since the pandemic struck last year and South Main Arts District galleries, stores and restaurants were delighted to welcome customers back.

    By Christin Yates June 26, 2021

  • Clock’s now ticking: Who’s in with 100 North Main?

    The Downtown Memphis Commission released its request for proposals from any developers considering buying and redeveloping the 100 North Main Building as well as the entire city blocks it stands on. 

    By Tom Bailey June 15, 2021

  • ‘Get Loud!’ concerts to help kick-start return of live music

    The opening show features Grammy-winning singer PJ Morton on June 5. Ten more free concerts will follow on Thursdays through Aug. 12 at the newly renovated W.C. Handy Park on Beale Street. 

    By Ezra Wheeler June 08, 2021

  • ODDS ‘experiential’ retail store opens on South Main

    Memphians Cornelius Martin, Marquis White and Matt Roumain founded the Downtown business that combines sales and experiences for customers.

    By Tom Bailey June 06, 2021

  • Design board OK’s S. Main building despite concerns

    Design Review Board members took a practical approach in unanimously approving the design of a new South Main Street building, parts of which they were not in love with. But the building will add people and life to Downtown.

    By Tom Bailey June 03, 2021

• May 2021

  • Will AutoZone feel jolt of electric cars in future?

    The rise in popularity of electric cars almost certainly means changes ahead for the automotive industry, but that’s not necessarily a doomsday scenario for companies like Memphis-based AutoZone Inc.

    By Blake Fontenay May 24, 2021

  • New public garages Downtown look to add charge

    A new Downtown Memphis report tackles this awkward time when gas-powered vehicles still dominate but when the age of electric vehicles is just beyond the horizon. 

    By Tom Bailey May 20, 2021

  • Ghost River Brewing opening on Beale Street

    Chef Sobie Johnson of Flying Sobie’s Gourmet Kitchen will provide the food at the second Ghost River location.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 19, 2021

  • New program offers array of help to Downtown retailers

    The Downtown Retailer Rx program will offer expert guidance and $1,000 to $5,000 grants to help Downtown’s businesses rebound from the pandemic.

    By Tom Bailey May 14, 2021

  • Loews Hotels drops plans to use historic police building

    Any plans Loews still has for a Civic Center convention center hotel have changed. The hotel company won’t be buying the historic police headquarters building on Adams Avenue.

    By Tom Bailey May 11, 2021

• March 2021

  • Paul Young chosen to lead Downtown Memphis Commission

    The city’s director of the Housing and Community Development Division is leaving one important, Memphis job for another. Paul Young tells why and more in an Q&A with The Daily Memphian. 

    By Tom Bailey March 16, 2021

  • Downtown Memphis Commission to vote on choice for new president

    The search committee for a new Downtown Memphis Commission president has apparently completed its work. The commission is to meet Tuesday to vote on the candidate.

    By Tom Bailey March 15, 2021

• February 2021

  • Search for next DMC president taking extra time

    The Downtown Memphis Commission board may meet in a special called meeting over the next few weeks to consider the search committee’s selection.

    By Tom Bailey February 26, 2021

  • Downtown’s Peanut Shoppe in a crunch to find new home

    The pandemic and dropping sales have challenged downtown’s Peanut Shoppe. But now the colorful shop that has operated in the same place for 72 years faces more adversity. It must move or close at the end of the year.

    By Tom Bailey February 22, 2021

  • Interviews to begin in search for Downtown’s next leader

    The goal for the search committee is to identify by Feb. 25 a final candidate to become the next president/CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission.

    By Tom Bailey February 18, 2021

  • Downtown leader ‘very confident’ in benefits of mobility authority buying 100 N. Main

    The interim president of the Downtown Memphis Commission addressed “the big thing out there,” the proposed purchase by the Downtown Mobility Authority of the empty 100 North Main office tower, parking and adjacent properties. Ray Brown called 100 North Main “an enormous source of blight.”

    By Tom Bailey February 18, 2021

  • New developer plans to revive blighted South City building

    A new real estate development company plans to transform a blighted, long-vacant commercial structure into retail space and apartments.

    By Tom Bailey February 17, 2021

  • Goal: Give smallest tax incentives that still spur projects Downtown

    Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.

    By Tom Bailey February 15, 2021

  • Uptown’s Malone Park Commons features an uncommonly social setting

    There’s nothing common about the new residential development that is to open March 1 in Uptown. The first phase features two rows of rental cottages that face each other across a 30-foot-wide courtyard.

    By Tom Bailey February 03, 2021

• January 2021

  • DMC takes step to keep Mobility Center on budget, on time

    The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.

    By Tom Bailey January 22, 2021

  • Another historic Pinch building threatened, this time by fire

    A fire early Saturday morning heavily damaged a 120-year-old building in the historic Pinch District.

    By Tom Bailey January 13, 2021

• December 2020

  • Grants to help Alcenia’s owner buy, improve her Downtown building

    The owner of Alcenia’s restaurant is receiving help from multiple organizations to buy and improve her Pinch District building. And the owner of a historic Film Row building receives help to renovate the exterior of the Art Moderne structure.

    By Tom Bailey December 16, 2020

  • Downtown board approves public support for One Beale’s Grand Hyatt

    The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. voted unanimously in support of $129.5 million worth of public incentives for One Beale’s fourth phase, plus a 5 percent tax surcharge on One Beale customers that is projected to generate another $139 million over 30 years.

    By Tom Bailey December 09, 2020

  • New plans for One Beale aim for ‘skyline-altering’

    First, Chance Carlisle dropped his plan for an office tower at One Beale. More recently, he scrapped his plan for a tower that would have housed 150 hotel rooms and 240 apartments and condos. Now, he plans to build a 350-room Grand Hyatt hotel that would double as an extraordinary landmark for Beale Street.

    By Tom Bailey December 01, 2020