The impact of smart urban design in the Medical District
Rory Thomas, the president of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
Topic: Memphis Medical District Collaborative
RSSThere are 32 article(s) tagged Memphis Medical District Collaborative:
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February 2024
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December 2023
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Hire Local develops health care jobs in Memphis Medical District
Launched in 2018 by Memphis Medical District Collaborative, Hire Local connects residents with training programs to help them qualify for living-wage jobs close to home while filling the health care worker shortage.
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September 2023
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Wellness Festival slated for Saturday in Morris Park
The festival will offer free blood pressure checks, vision screenings and Church Health will host an “Ask the Docs” station.
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May 2023
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MATA to continue $1.25 ride share service
The original service zone of Downtown and New Chicago was expanded to include Presidents Island and areas of South Memphis.
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‘Zebra crosswalk’ brings more visibility to local pedestrians
“We live in a very distracted world ... This is kind of a fun and silly way to get that serious messaging out,” said Sydney Sepulveda of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative.
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November 2022
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The To-Do List: Downtown has a field day, and Bigfoot stomps in one last time
This week, The PRLVG plays a free happy hour show, Visible Music College students drum for 24 hours and coffee lovers perk up at the Grind City Coffee Xpo.
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October 2022
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Calkins: Tommy Pacello would’ve been 45 today. A new fellowship helps continue his work.
Nearly two years after Tommy Pacello died of pancreatic cancer, his friends and colleagues are celebrating the visionary city planner’s birthday by unveiling a fellowship that will support his work.
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July 2022
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Historic Dixie Greyhound Station, Schlitz Brewery to see new life
The $44 million Uptown redevelopment project is expected to begin later this summer. But the original office of Dixie Greyhound chairman James Frederick Smith — his title still on the door — will be kept much as it is today.
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Opera Memphis to sing a new song in a new place
Opera Memphis is currently considering four properties for its new home, three of which are located in the Edge District, an area that Ned Canty said “was deeply appealing from the beginning.”
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June 2022
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Mixed-use projects in Medical District, former Porter Junior High School site approved
The Board of Adjustment approved plans for a 49-unit apartment building in the Medical District along with plans at the historic Greyhound Station in Uptown and the former Porter Junior High School in South Memphis.
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March 2022
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Inked: South Point Grocery to open, Northside High project gets 20-year PILOT
A new grocery store ready to open in South Main. More funding has been arranged for several development projects in Uptown, Medical District.
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December 2021
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About Town: Pedestrians hit twice with ‘Naming’ vandalism
But there may be a small silver lining after most of the art installation was destroyed.
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Memphis Medical District Collaborative receives $300,000 grant
The grant was in recognition of the MMDC’s work centered on building equity and prosperity through increased economic opportunities for BIPOC communities.
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November 2021
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Hit & ruin: Vandalism destroys art honoring dead pedestrians, cyclists
The 69 symbolic figures represented the record number of walkers and bikers who were killed on Memphis streets last year.
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October 2021
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Mural to be demolished along with old MATA building
UrbanArt Commission announced last month that the old MATA building on North Main Street will soon be demolished, taking along with it a data visualization mural painted by Khara Woods.
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August 2021
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Medical District demolition to give way to new housing, less ‘pass-through’
The demolition work now underway on a block of Jefferson Avenue west of Manassas Street is one of several changes to the Medical District landscape toward that end.
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July 2021
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$30M loan fund created for Medical District housing, mixed-use buildings
The $30 million Memphis Medical District Investment Fund is designed to spur inclusive real estate development in the impoverished neighborhoods ringing the robust Memphis Medical District.
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‘Missing middle’ housing to rise near Le Bonheur, St. Jude
Pockets of new duplexes, quadplexes, cottage courts, live/work spaces and small single-family homes may provide affordable homes for workers and serve as an example for reviving other core-city neighborhoods.
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May 2021
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Memphis Medical District Collaborative names new president
Rory Thomas is charged with making the blocks and blocks — north to south — between Midtown and Downtown, glimmer with personality and vitality of their own.
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Pristex’s heart for medical community starts with family ties to St. Jude
The manufacturing and sales operation, which aims hire up to 400 Memphians, has partnered with Memphis Medical District Collaborative’s Buy Local program and also TNEX, a minority-owned business formed to promote local manufacturing, sales and contracting.
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November 2020
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Tommy Pacello’s legacy lives in corners, city blocks he improved
Founder of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative saw huge potential in the bustling swath of land that is home to six hospitals, two colleges.
Related story: Calkins: Tommy Pacello was given a year to live — and he lived like all of us should
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October 2020
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Taste of the District goes virtual; you can join if you hurry
Taste of the District gives restaurants in the Medical District a chance to show their neighbors what they’re cooking up.
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On-demand ride service coming to Downtown, Medical District, New Chicago
A 7.5-square-mile area will be served by a fleet of passenger vans that fill the big gap between fixed-route buses and the personal, more expensive rides from taxis and Uber.
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July 2020
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Victorian Village ‘outcast’ makes a comeback
The restored columns of the circa 1840s Pillow-McIntyre House at Adams and Orleans were reinstalled last week, signalling at turn in fortunes for a sometimes forgotten house with some secrets.
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June 2020
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How the Memphis Medical District is coping during the shutdown
MMDC’s President Tommy Pacello talks about the group’s effort to support small businesses, residents in need, and future development on this week’s Extra Podcast.
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