There are 35 article(s) tagged Memphis Medical District Collaborative:
Regional One Health’s new billion-dollar hospital, which will be built on The Commercial Appeal’s former campus, could forge a new gateway to Downtown and help generate more business and residential activity.
The park has been the site of events like fitness classes, happy hour, festivals and A Taste of the District, which spotlights local restaurants.
The no-frills discount retail chain, based in Batavia, Illinois, is one of the fastest-growing grocery retailers in the U.S., with more than 2,000 stores in 36 states and more than 25,000 employees.
Rory Thomas, the president of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
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.
The festival will offer free blood pressure checks, vision screenings and Church Health will host an “Ask the Docs” station.
The original service zone of Downtown and New Chicago was expanded to include Presidents Island and areas of South Memphis.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
A new grocery store ready to open in South Main. More funding has been arranged for several development projects in Uptown, Medical District.
But there may be a small silver lining after most of the art installation was destroyed.
The grant was in recognition of the MMDC’s work centered on building equity and prosperity through increased economic opportunities for BIPOC communities.
The 69 symbolic figures represented the record number of walkers and bikers who were killed on Memphis streets last year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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