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The Saturday parade and block party on Tiger Lane is one of four events in three days that includes Paul Young taking the oath of office as mayor of Memphis Monday at the Cannon Center.
The city’s Liberty Park bonds are underwater. Documents show just how busy the Midtown Kroger and nearby Chick-fil-A are and how much they mean to the Liberty Park Tourism Development Zone.
Memphis is betting big on Liberty Park, but public records show a big shortfall in covering that bet.
More than three-fourths of those who participated in an email survey said they want to move Memphis in May’s annual barbecue contest to Liberty Park.
The council is challenging the administration on the delayed development that is a key part of financing the remake of the Fairgrounds to Liberty Park and what it sees as hesitation in an expansion of the council’s office space at City Hall.
An estimated 30,000 motorcyclists are gathering at Tiger Lane for the 46th National Bikers Roundup at Liberty Park. The event was organized by several Black motorcycle clubs. Two fatal crashes occur at same intersection outside biker conventionRelated story:
Within a few hours, four men died in two separate collisions near Tiger Lane outside the National Bikers Roundup at Liberty Park.
“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.
The City of Memphis needs new development within the Liberty Park Tourism Development Zone to begin paying the debt on projects such as The Memphis Sports and Events Center. The problem: The city hasn’t collected a dime of the financing yet.
City Council members got their first look Tuesday, April 11, at the city’s ground lease with Capstone for the commercial and multi-family frontage along Central Avenue. The council votes on the 30-year lease in two weeks.
The call comes as Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has called for a $52-million, 10,000-seat soccer stadium to be built on the city-owned land where the Coliseum now stands.
This week, Black Lodge serves a “Nope”-themed dinner, New Edition gets the band back together and artist Harmonia Rosales’ exhibition opens at the Brooks.
We’re showing all the originality of a bad band covering somebody else’s song, and not even a Memphis song at that.
Police reports indicate at least 19 vehicles were broken into over the weekend, during one of the center’s first big events.
As Mayor Jim Strickland formally opened the Memphis Sports and Events Center on Saturday, he had a contract on his desk for the commercial mixed-use development along Central Avenue.
“Sports tourism and Memphis youth: that’s what this is about,” said Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland at the opening of the Memphis Sports & Events Center at Liberty Park.
The old fairgrounds is being repurposed as Liberty Park, a $126 million mixed-used project anchored by the 227,000-square-foot Memphis Sports & Events Center, including apartments, retail, a hotel and more. Mid-South Coliseum’s future uncertain despite Liberty Park transformation Fond memories of old Fairgrounds and analysis of the competition led to Liberty ParkRelated articles:
The Memphis Sports & Events Center formally opens Dec. 10 with amateur sports leagues and tournaments following in January.
“Just like we can’t give up on Memphis, we can’t give up on the Coliseum. A lot of people want to. But we have to stare our problems in the eyes, be creative, then make brilliant visions happen.”
In a city with plenty of needs, the plan to build a new soccer stadium on the site of the Mid-South Coliseum may seem like a tough ask. But 901 FC makes a convincing case as to why it must leave AutoZone Park and have its own home.
After the General Assembly gave the Tennessee Titans $500 million earlier this year to build a new stadium, local lawmakers are optimistic that the state will be as generous to Memphis in the interest of fairness.
Marvin Stockwell says the group still has a seat at the table as the city pursues a $684 million sports venue plan that would do away with the Mid-South Coliseum. His strategy is to find another site for the soccer stadium.
“Just like we can’t give up on Memphis, we can’t give up on the Coliseum. A lot of people want to. But we have to stare our problems in the eyes, be creative, then make brilliant visions happen.”
“How about giving Memphis solid reasons for wanting to stay in Memphis rather than moving? Clean up OUR city first.”
Memphis is awash in dramatic examples of adaptive reuse, from a Downtown shopping mall turned corporate headquarters to a Sears warehouse building turned “vertical urban village” to even a Pyramid-shaped arena turned world’s biggest bait shop. But Mud Island and the Mid-South Coliseum have proved trickier for rebirth.