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In Memphis, leaders seem to agree that youth are able to get guns too easily and that they are seeing a trend of younger juvenile offenders and more violent offenses. But there are varying opinions on how to deal with those trends.
Just City, a criminal justice reform organization that has often drawn Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s ire, has offered to help the City of Memphis publish more criminal justice data.
Mayor Jim Strickland made a $684 million improvement proposal. Gov. Bill Lee earmarked $350 million for FedExForum and Liberty Stadium renovations in Tennessee’s budget plan. Where do things go from here? Some questions and answers.
“There is nothing basic about racialized poverty and violence in Memphis. And there is nothing basic about the approach required to fix it.”
While there are real savings if MLGW buys power outside of TVA, according to EnerVision, it’s not a figure that will transform MLGW or the City of Memphis’ budget, but ratepayers would feel its impact.
Memphis is hoping to expand ways state money can be used.
“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:
Memphis Tourism’s Kevin Kane sees the Showboats as a vessel for positive exposure showcasing the city, which is seeking funding for its $684 million sports venue enhancement plan.
But the city’s financial commitment for the expansion USFL franchise appears to be minimal in the first year of what Mayor Jim Strickland hopes extends to a three-year contract.
“Many years ago, this area today where we are was a combination of 30 blighted and vacant lots and it is now a place of growth, hope and celebration,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.
The City of Memphis and the USFL, a professional football minor league, reveal that the Memphis Showboats will begin play in April of 2023.
Craig Unger left his dream of working for the St. Louis Cardinals in his hometown to become general manager of the Memphis Redbirds. Now, he’s added Memphis 901 FC under his reign and is considered “part of the Memphis fabric.” Just a touch of ‘Ted Lasso' for Craig Unger as part-owner of London soccer clubRelated story:
Mayor Jim Strickland is proposing the city create a $500,000 “park restoration fund” from Mud Island renovation money to cover potential damages to Tom Lee Park during Memphis in May events.
Mayor Jim Strickland and the city of Memphis do not intend to risk losing the Grizzlies, which is why it is important to keep the NBA franchise center in a $684 million sports venues renovation plan.
If a soccer stadium is built where the Coliseum currently stands, it will be the last piece of the puzzle at Liberty Park, a $126 million mixed-use project on the old Fairgrounds site.
The Hub is the Mid-South region’s first barrier-free emergency shelter designed for women to facilitate healing from trauma. Barrier-free shelters and homeless services operate on the premise that homelessness is not an individual choice or attributed to personal disposition.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is a big believer in what major professional and college sports teams and program can do for a city.
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.Related stories:
Recent crime in Memphis has made national, and even international, headlines. Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Ted Townsend can’t change that. But, as he continues to promote Memphis, he sees confirmation that those crimes don’t define the city.
MLGW has failed its fiduciary duties to its ratepayers. The ratepayers deserves a fair RFP. City Council should vote against the TVA contract until all questions are answered, even if it takes a few years.
Simmons Bank CEO said the bank has offered to pay the full amount of the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium naming rights deal up front to expedite venue renovations.
The redeveloped Fairgrounds is not just a bet on the lucrative youth sports industry, it’s based on the expected benefits to surrounding neighborhoods such as Cooper-Young and Overton Square.
Neighborhood leaders got together during a press conference Tuesday, Aug. 16, to respond to the recent slaying of Yvonne Nelson, a community leader who led the Whitehaven Development Corporation and wrote community news for years.
Interim Director of Construction for Memphis Habitat Alan Massing noted with more than 20 houses projected to be completed by the end of 2022, things will get bigger for Habitat Memphis in 2023.