There are 5 article(s) tagged Foote Homes:

• March 2022

  • About Town: College Park begins transition to affordable housing

    Six months after residents at College Park, a government-subsidized housing complex in South Memphis, received letters informing them they would need to temporarily move out due to renovations, the site’s new owners hosted a groundbreaking ceremony. 

    By Julia Baker March 18, 2022

• June 2019

  • A future tied to its past in South Downtown Memphis

    The interfaith organization MICAH wants to make sure former Foote Homes residents have access to a significant number of the new units under construction on the site.

    By Val Handwerker June 09, 2019

• April 2019

  • Former Foote Homes residents soon can move into reborn South City

    With the first phase of the South City redevelopment project wrapping up, 55 families who lived in the former Foote Homes public housing complex will be moving into the neighborhood soon. 

    By Michelle Corbet April 27, 2019

• February 2019

  • Land use board to consider latest South City redevelopment proposal

    Applications for the March meeting of the Land Use Control Board include the latest phase of the South City mixed-use development, a waste-management company expansion in Whitehaven and the move of a funeral service to Whitehaven.

    By Tom Bailey February 06, 2019

• September 2018

  • New South City homes begin rising on site of Foote Homes

    The last of the brick two-story apartment buildings that were the Foote Homes public housing development are down to a few slabs of concrete overgrown by grass and bushes. And new wooden frames are starting to rise near the corner of Lauderdale Street and Vance Avenue.

    By Bill Dries September 25, 2018