There are 32 article(s) tagged Memphis 3.0:

• December 2019

  • City projects in Whitehaven include welcome mural, intersection improvements

    The city's investment of at least $100,000 is just the beginning of support Whitehaven area residents will see, the Office of Comprehensive Planning indicated.

    By Elle Perry December 30, 2019

  • Eight agencies are first to benefit from city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund

    The grants to eight nonprofits announced at City Hall Monday cover areas outside Downtown and Midtown where the housing stock is old and could use some help to encourage private development. The fund works with the city's recently approved Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines.

    By Bill Dries December 23, 2019

  • Bringing equity, effort (and, yes, incentives) to neighborhood development

    Eric Robertson talks about the many ways – some complicated, some simple – that economic development can be brought to neighborhoods all across Memphis.

    By Eric Barnes December 06, 2019

  • Council votes down solid waste fee hikes, delays MLGW rate hike vote

    A solid waste fee rate hike was voted down by the City Council Tuesday in its next to last session of the year and of the current council's term.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2019

• October 2019

  • Don’t trade Memphis’ soul for momentum

    At a recent Orange Mound Economic Development Summit, a packed house debated questions about the neighborhood's growth. 

    By Charles Layne October 19, 2019

• September 2019

  • Council explores making state’s cellphone ban in cars effective in Memphis

    With a short agenda Tuesday, the city council appears to have booted a final vote on the long-delayed Memphis 3.0 plan until after the Oct. 3 city elections. The council is scheduled to take a final vote on new rules for public art on city property.

    By Bill Dries September 16, 2019

• August 2019

  • Council could take final vote on Memphis 3.0

    Memphis City Council members take final votes Tuesday on the Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines, a new set of rules for public art projects funded by the city and a ban on plastic bags.

    By Bill Dries August 06, 2019

• July 2019

  • Memphis 3.0 may face more delays with council seeking financial study

    The city council approved the long-range land use and development guidelines Tuesday on the second of three readings. But the council also approved a $15,000 study on the financial impact of the guidelines that would be due in mid-September.

    By Bill Dries July 16, 2019

  • City council considers financial impact study of Memphis 3.0 plan

    The Memphis City Council, among other items, will discuss Tuesday spending $15,000 to hire a consultant to review the financial impact of the Memphis 3.0 land use and development study.

    By Bill Dries July 15, 2019

• June 2019

  • Memphis 3.0 federal lawsuit dismissed

    The legal challenge to the Memphis 3.0 plan has been dismissed in Memphis Federal Court.

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019

• May 2019

  • What should be done with Memphis’ 56 square miles of vacant land?

    Several organizations shared this week the ways they have repurposed vacant land and removed blight in various parts of Memphis, which planners say is one of the city's biggest problems.

    By Elle Perry May 26, 2019

  • Strickland says council faces tough choices over pay raises

    City council members Tuesday will vote on the recommendations of seven council impasses committees concerning pay raises for city employees. 

    By Bill Dries May 21, 2019

  • Strickland moves ahead with Memphis 3.0 as council vote is awaited

    Mayor Jim Strickland signed an executive order implementing the Memphis 3.0 plan Tuesday at a South Memphis CDC, a week before the Memphis City Council takes the first of three votes on the plan.

    By Bill Dries May 14, 2019

  • Memphis needs to get on the bus

    Every college student in Memphis should have bus access provided by their college or university – just like they get parking. Our hospital systems should encourage employees to take mass transit. Our corporations located on decent bus routes should adopt equitable policies toward bus ridership versus car ridership.

    By Robert Hatfield May 14, 2019

  • Strickland to sign executive order on Memphis 3.0

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland plans to sign an executive order Tuesday that will put into effect the Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines currently pending before the Memphis City Council.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 13, 2019

  • Strickland says city watching coming tax sale of Firestone plant site closely

    On "Behind The Headlines," Mayor Jim Strickland said North Memphis critics of the Memphis 3.0 proposed land use and development plan want the city to turn over the former Firestone plant site to them for uses other than manufacturing.

    By Bill Dries May 09, 2019

  • Council again delays Memphis 3.0 and Graceland decisions

    The Memphis City Council Tuesday delayed a vote on the Memphis 3.0 plan after a vocal critic filed a lawsuit against the council in federal court. The council also delayed for fourth time a vote on a Graceland expansion agreement.

    By Bill Dries May 08, 2019

  • Memphis 3.0 plan and Graceland agreement await council’s return after three-week break

    The Memphis City Council returns to action Tuesday with Memphis 3.0, a Graceland expansion and $150 million in bonds for Memphis International Airport on the agenda, among other items.

    By Bill Dries May 07, 2019

  • In the Memphis 3.0 plan, building ‘up’ means more investment

    What happens with a reliance on the market to revive neighborhoods? We will see more of the haves in neighborhoods. But we will also see more of the have-nots.  

    By Mark Fleischer May 06, 2019

• April 2019

  • Strickland defends Memphis 3.0 plan

    Mayor Jim Strickland said Memphis 3.0 is "where it needs to be" a day after a showdown in North Memphis between planning and development leaders and critics of the 20-year land use plan.

    By Bill Dries April 19, 2019

  • North Memphis 3.0 showdown moves from courtesy to accusations

    The latest meeting on the Memphis 3.0 plan demonstrated the lingering confusion – and some suspicion – about what the long-range development plan recommends and how it works.

    By Bill Dries April 18, 2019

  • Memphis 3.0 focuses on the city’s core

    Memphis 3.0 is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and for very good reason. Communities across Memphis are unique places with their own assets that are vital to support future prosperity.

    By J.W. Gibson April 17, 2019

  • Why we need Memphis 3.0

    A plan does not gentrify neighborhoods and displace existing residents. In fact, it seeks to provide the framework to avoid exactly that happening and to guide and coordinate investment so that it has broad-based benefit.

    By George Abbott April 10, 2019

  • The Memphis 10: Memphis 3.0, Mud Island, ‘You Look Like’ and more

    In this week's Memphis 10: Johnny Football says farewell, Memphis comedy gets a showcase, and the city's future is as contested as ever.

    By Chris Herrington April 04, 2019

  • City Council returns to Memphis 3.0 plan, Graceland development deal

    The City Council is scheduled Tuesday to take the first of three votes on the Memphis 3.0 plan and to vote on the agreement between the city administration and Graceland for further expansion of Graceland’s Whitehaven campus.

    By Bill Dries April 02, 2019