There are 21 article(s) tagged Fairgrounds:

• August 2024

  • Liberty Park development clears Memphis City Council

    Liberty Park, formerly known as the Mid-South Fairgrounds, could see a broad transformation in the coming years with $112.5 million in private development now cleared for takeoff.

    By Samuel Hardiman August 09, 2024

• June 2023

  • Developers of $75M fairgrounds redevelopment project ask for PILOT

    “This project will be one of the largest African American-led real-estate projects in the city’s history since the days of Robert R. Church,” the local developer wrote in the team’s PILOT application. 

    By Rob Moore June 07, 2023

• September 2022

  • Mid-South Coliseum’s future uncertain despite Liberty Park transformation

    The Fairgrounds transition to Liberty Park began with a 2003 fire that brought down a 1920s landmark. What followed was a complex, political and at times contradictory path to change.

    By Bill Dries September 07, 2022

• June 2021

  • Liberty Park breaks ground after 14 years and three mayors

    The Monday, June 14, groundbreaking starts with a youth sports complex that is the centerpiece of the $126 million project about where the Libertyland amusement park once stood.

    By Bill Dries June 14, 2021

• May 2021

  • State board approves TDZ bonds for Fairgrounds to Liberty Park conversion

    The state decision Monday clears the way for site preparation to begin immediately at the Fairgrounds, starting with the 227,000-square-foot Memphis Sports and Events Center that is the centerpiece of the $126 million undertaking.

    By Bill Dries May 25, 2021

  • Former Coke bottler could become Liberty Park parking and city maintenance yard

    The city would buy the 16.9 acre Coke bottling plant at Southern and Hollywood under a tentative letter of intent council members were briefed on Tuesday, May 18. 

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2021

  • Coca-Cola bottling plant could become part of Liberty Park plans

    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.

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2021

• April 2021

  • Fairgrounds redevelopment price goes up as city preps bonds to finance

    A timetable for the Fairgrounds conversion has the new youth sports complex opening in the fall of 2022.

    By Bill Dries April 06, 2021

• February 2021

  • Fairgrounds, Cobblestones funding approved

    The Fairgrounds conversion to Liberty Park got a $4 million boost Tuesday, Feb. 2, to begin some ground work in May as well as to start designing buildings.

    By Bill Dries February 02, 2021

• January 2021

  • Projects in Raleigh, Midtown and The Pinch are remaking Memphis

    Mary Claire Borys from Housing Community & Development joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

    By Eric Barnes January 20, 2021

• August 2020

  • Fairgrounds becomes ‘Liberty Park’ in latest post-pandemic plan

    The city has also signed a letter of intent with Capstone Development for two hotels on the Central Avenue frontage. The founder of Capstone sees a different kind of recovery from the pandemic for the hospitality industry — one led by the families that travel regionally to the sports tournaments that are the financial engine for Liberty Park's public and private uses.

    By Bill Dries August 13, 2020

• February 2020

  • City changes course on management of Fairgrounds commercial development

    M&M Enterprises will develop a smaller part of the 18 acres along Central Avenue that is to be developed commercially. And the city is now the project manager for that part of the Fairgrounds redevelopment.

    By Bill Dries February 18, 2020

• December 2019

  • Fairgrounds redevelopment plan wins council OK

    City Council members, without debate, approved Tuesday, Dec. 3, the plan for redevelopment of the Fairgrounds.

    By Bill Dries December 05, 2019

  • Council takes final vote on solid waste fee hike, Fairgrounds development

    The decisions at Tuesday’s council session would remove two items from the agenda of the council that leaves office at the end of the month. Other items are straddling the New Year’s line between the council leaving office and the new council that takes office in January.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2019

• November 2019

  • Questions remain about commercial areas of Fairgrounds after approval

    The plan for redeveloping the Fairgrounds for a big youth sports complex, retail, offices, residences and other uses was approved Nov. 14 by the Land Use Control Board. 

    By Tom Bailey November 15, 2019

• October 2019

  • Project Homeless Connect offers hope, help — and dignity

    Hundreds of homeless Memphians attended Project Homeless Connect 2019 Thursday at the Fairgrounds' Pipkin Building, seeking assistance from 40 city agencies, community partners and service providers.

    By Erinn Figg October 22, 2019

  • City seeks approval for Memphis Fairgrounds Planned Development

    The city seeks approval from the Land Use Control Board for a new 200,000-square-foot sports and events complex and a 700,000-square-foot mixed-use development of retail, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, commercial office space and multifamily residential. 

    By Elle Perry October 10, 2019

• June 2019

  • City names Fairgrounds private development team for Central Avenue frontage

    M&M Enterprises of Memphis will lead private redevelopment of the Fairgrounds, the city announced Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2019

• March 2019

  • Tour acquaints visitors with Coliseum’s past and potential

    The Coliseum Coalition, a grassroots group dedicated to preserving the Mid-South Coliseum, gave a tour Friday as part of the group's ongoing effort to show off the building's potential. 

    By Jared Boyd March 23, 2019

  • Spelling out the mysteries of TDZs, TIFs and PILOTs

    The City of Memphis uses some creative methods to fund projects such as Union Row and The Fairgrounds youth sports complex, and those methods are often misunderstood, says a city deputy chief operating officer. 

    By Kyle Veazey March 06, 2019

• October 2018

  • Fairgrounds TDZ plan goes to Nashville next month

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland's administration will take its Tourism Development Zone plan for the Fairgrounds to the Tennessee Building Commission for approval next month.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018