There are 60 article(s) tagged Raleigh:

• July 2024

  • Southwest sold its Frayser campus. Here’s what a new location could offer.

    The college is considering a future location in Frayser or Raleigh with programming tailored to the neighborhoods’ needs and interests.

    By Laura Testino July 14, 2024

• May 2024

  • Memphis mayor talks crime ‘suppression’ at One Memphis town hall

    Paul Young said the city’s strategy for crime suppression includes “criminal activity disruption” along with focusing police and city blight efforts in high-crime areas.

    By Bill Dries May 28, 2024

• January 2024

  • Inked: Victory Packaging at Intermodal, Tropical Smoothie in Raleigh, development in Oakland

    Victory Packaging leases spaces in the Intermodal Distribution Center, Tropical Smoothie coming to Raleigh, and a new three-tenant retail development planned for Oakland.

    By Sophia Surrett January 17, 2024

• October 2023

  • For The Kingdom board shuts down center, offers little insight

    The staff furloughed on Sept. 21 and Torrey Bates, the executive director, was fired.

    By Jane Roberts October 08, 2023

• July 2023

  • Micro-grocery opening in Raleigh

    Exodus Marketplace will be open Monday-Saturday, offering wholesale prices on produce, bread, eggs, honey and jams, meats and other food items from Mid-South vendors.

    By Rashod Cobb July 05, 2023

• October 2022

  • Memphis Tilth moves forward in honor of late leader

    In the wake of the loss of Mia Madison, Memphis Tilth has merged with For The Kingdom, and the organizations continue to expand the legacy Madison left behind.

    By Joshua Carlucci October 24, 2022

• August 2022

  • Raleigh leaders hope to activate Neighborhood Protection Act

    During an emergency meeting Monday evening in response to the area’s recent violent crime, leaders announced a new Raleigh Community Action Plan.

    By Daja E. Henry August 23, 2022

• January 2022

  • City Council approves residential subdivision in Raleigh

    The council also approved medical office space on Covington Pike, and delayed a vote on a controversial retail development with gas pumps at Broad and Tillman.

    By Bill Dries January 04, 2022

• December 2021

  • City Council to take first vote on police residency

    The first-reading vote to put the item on the August 2022 ballot comes at the last council meeting of 2021.

    By Bill Dries December 21, 2021

  • Church hosts gas giveaway for Raleigh-Frayser

    Brown Missionary Baptist Church, which is based in DeSoto County, is hosting a Gas Up for Blessings event in Frayser, Saturday, Dec. 18.

    By Julia Baker December 17, 2021

• November 2021

  • Groundbreaking paves way for Kennedy Park improvements

    The 330-acre park will add soccer fields, security lights and additional parking, and it will connect nearby neighborhoods to the Wolf River Greenway as part of a revamped plan. 

    By Julia Baker November 05, 2021

  • About Town: Raleigh-Frayser projects bring improvements and TLC to area

    Kennedy and Rodney Baber Parks, which were both victim to the “Great Flood of 2011,” will receive improvements funded by the Shelby County Resilience Grant.

    By Julia Baker November 05, 2021

• August 2021

  • Retail construction may finally come to last undeveloped corner at Memphis gateway

    A Dallas developer received approval from the planning board to rezone a wooded corner of Austin Peay at Singleton Parkway. But six more hearings are required.

    By Tom Bailey August 13, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Crushing the Raleigh car lot

    A proposed used-car lot in Raleigh has become symbolic of a much larger change in the council’s consideration of what development goes where and under what conditions.

    By Bill Dries August 11, 2021

• July 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: The impact of Memphis 3.0 where commercial and residential meet

    The Council Scorecard follows the saga of a used car lot in Raleigh that has come to symbolize the complexity of trying to move toward less-intense commercial development on major roads that have neighborhoods just behind them.

    By Bill Dries July 29, 2021

  • Raleigh used car lot controversy takes turn toward kayaks and bike rentals

    Car lots and gas stations are getting more scrutiny from the Memphis City Council. But the idea of a proposed used car lot on Old Austin Peay Highway becoming a bike and kayak rental business instead is a new twist. 

    By Bill Dries July 23, 2021

• June 2021

  • Senior farmers market to address nutrition gap for elderly

    Seniors in the Commodities Supplemental Food Program program receive $40, or eight $5 vouchers, which can be exchanged for fresh produce from approved vendors at farmers markets and community-supported agriculture programs this summer through September.

    By Omer Yusuf June 24, 2021

• April 2021

  • SCS’ ‘Reimagine 901’ plan includes new builds, school closures

    Superintendent Joris Ray’s proposed plan will include two school closures, five new buildings, improvements or expansions to 13 existing schools and a substantial investment in deferred building maintenance.

    By Daja E. Henry April 19, 2021

• March 2021

  • Memphis nonprofit shifts vision to feed children in pandemic

    Raleigh nonprofit For The Kingdom serves about 600 dinner meals five days a week through its Feed the Block program. The hope is this program will address food insecurity among children in the neighborhood.

    By Omer Yusuf March 18, 2021

  • Couple’s dream to build veteran housing edges closer to reality

    Paul and Debra Brantley started Memphis nonprofit BHW Estate with the goal of building permanent housing for homeless and at-risk veterans.

    By Omer Yusuf March 15, 2021

• February 2021

  • Community outreach still the goal at MPD’s new North Memphis station

    Austin Peay Station is part of the new $45 million Raleigh Springs Civic Center development at the former Raleigh Springs Mall site on Austin Peay Highway. The station serves as both a traffic and police precinct.

    By Omer Yusuf February 25, 2021

  • First phase of new $45M Civic Center set to open this spring

    The new Raleigh Springs Civic Center includes a library, walking trail, lake and police station. The city is building it on the former Raleigh Springs Mall site. 

    By Omer Yusuf February 25, 2021

  • New vaccination site to open in Raleigh next week

    The Raleigh vaccination site will open next week at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.

    By Jane Roberts, Omer Yusuf February 16, 2021

  • Southwind firms, property owners win battle against proposed strip center

    The Land Use Control Board also approved a transitional group home in Binghampton for veterans, an attached-townhouse development on Brookhaven Circle, and plans for a used-car lot in Raleigh. The board rejected plans a 35-lot subdivision of container homes in New Chicago.

    By Tom Bailey February 15, 2021

• January 2021

  • Suburban developments pivot to housing; CBU expansion approved

    The Land Use Control Board approved two unsurprising changes for a couple of big, suburban planned developments. Out, or diminished, is brick-and-mortar retail from the projects.

    By Tom Bailey January 14, 2021