There are 24 article(s) tagged Paul Young:

• January 2021

  • Plans for old Melrose School excite neighbors

    Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

    By Linda A. Moore January 24, 2021

  • Construction of home a milestone for Binghampton group

    The Binghampton Community Land Trust, the first of its kind in Memphis, was created after concerns about rising housing prices spurred by new development in Binghampton. 

    By Omer Yusuf January 10, 2021

• November 2020

  • Fixing neighborhoods: Old lending practices fueled today’s problems

    Memphis is ahead of the curve in reversing the results of old rules and regulations that encouraged segregation and created pockets of poverty. So changes in the federal fair housing policy have had little impact. 

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2020

• October 2020

  • Pinch District tower developers meet council skepticism

    Developers of a $180 million commercial mixed-use tower of hotel rooms and condos on the western edge of the Pinch District encountered some skepticism as they pitched the project to the Memphis City Council.

    By Bill Dries October 20, 2020

  • Efforts to bring grocery to Downtown/South City fail

    A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2020

• September 2020

  • City’s housing mix could take hard hit in pandemic

    The city’s mix of housing has flipped in recent years, with renters now making up the majority as investors continue to buy single-family homes.

    By Bill Dries September 28, 2020

• August 2020

  • Fairgrounds becomes ‘Liberty Park’ in latest post-pandemic plan

    The city has also signed a letter of intent with Capstone Development for two hotels on the Central Avenue frontage. The founder of Capstone sees a different kind of recovery from the pandemic for the hospitality industry — one led by the families that travel regionally to the sports tournaments that are the financial engine for Liberty Park's public and private uses.

    By Bill Dries August 13, 2020

• April 2020

  • Young says pandemic exacerbating digital divide problem

    The director of the city's division of Housing and Community Development said on "Behind The Headlines" that Wi-Fi access for students living in public housing is a challenge that has become more acute with classes suspended in the COVID-19 pandemic.

    By Bill Dries April 10, 2020

• February 2020

  • City changes course on management of Fairgrounds commercial development

    M&M Enterprises will develop a smaller part of the 18 acres along Central Avenue that is to be developed commercially. And the city is now the project manager for that part of the Fairgrounds redevelopment.

    By Bill Dries February 18, 2020

  • Memphis Heritage Trail extending to Orange Mound, South City, Soulsville

    There are now Memphis Heritage Trail markers on display in Orange Mound showcasing the community's history. 

    By Elle Perry February 07, 2020

• December 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

  • City gets $5.6 million federal grant for lead paint abatement program

    The City of Memphis has $5.6 million, most of it in federal funding, to test for and remove lead paint from up to 350 single-family homes and multi-family housing units in the city and county built before 1978.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2019

• November 2019

  • Orange Mound Task Force holds first meeting

    Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess said that the task force would go on a tour of the area.

    By Elle Perry November 14, 2019

• October 2019

  • Details of Memphis Fairgrounds Planned Development revealed

    The city plans to break ground on the development in January 2020, with the sports complex and hotel opening in June 2021 and initial retail opening in November 2021. 

    By Elle Perry October 19, 2019

• September 2019

  • Tillman Cove apartments demolition begins

    The eight-acre site in Binghampton was one of the first blight emergencies faced by the administration of Mayor Jim Strickland, sitting vacant for three years. Once the brick single-story units are demolished, Elmington Capital of Nashville will build new, affordable housing.

    By Bill Dries September 11, 2019

• August 2019

  • Foote Homes’ first phase nears completion

    Three council members took a look around the new Foote Park at South City Tuesday with plenty of questions and discussion around the larger issue of how to keep the city's development boom from displacing Memphians.

    By Bill Dries August 07, 2019

  • On The Ground Podcast: An affordable housing trust fund for Memphis

    Paul Young, director of the city's Division of Housing and Community Development, and John Paul Shaffer, executive director of BLDG Memphis, discuss a new local trust fund that will help support the creation and preservation of affordable housing.

    By Natalie Van Gundy August 02, 2019

• July 2019

  • Developers selected by city for South City and Binghampton sites

    The owner of 115 Union and The Pocket bar will develop city land south of Clayborn Temple. Elmington Capital of Nashville will develop the Tillman Cove apartment complex land in Binghampton.

    By Bill Dries July 04, 2019

• June 2019

  • City names Fairgrounds private development team for Central Avenue frontage

    M&M Enterprises of Memphis will lead private redevelopment of the Fairgrounds, the city announced Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2019

• March 2019

  • Young says developers responding to signs of change in South City

    City Housing and Community Development director Paul Young says the $1 billion Union Row project is a direct result of the city's efforts to leverage federal and city funding in the South City area, stretching from the south area of Downtown into South Memphis.

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2019

• February 2019

  • HUD wants Memphis to return or ‘de-obligate’ $17M in affordable-housing funds

    The federal Housing and Urban Development wants Memphis to pay back millions spent in one of the biggest take-backs ever proposed by HUD.

    By Bill Dries February 15, 2019

• December 2018

  • Mason Homes development prepares for December move-in

    The first renters at a new set of townhomes on E.H. Crump Boulevard south of Mason Temple Church of God in Christ begin moving into their new units in about a week.

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2018

• November 2018

  • Memphis to take bids for Fairgrounds hotel-retail site and Mid-South Coliseum

    Buoyed by a state-approved tourism development zone, the city of Memphis will take bids for a hotel-retail developer on the Fairgrounds site as part of a $161 million public-private project and go after a private operator as well to repurpose the Mid-South Coliseum.

    By Sam Stockard November 20, 2018

  • State approves TDZ for Fairgrounds redevelopment

    A state panel approved Memphis’ request Monday for a Fairgrounds Tourism Development Zone to help fund an estimated $150 million project complete with a youth sports and events complex that will depend on construction of a privately developed hotel.

    By Sam Stockard November 20, 2018