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.
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July 2024
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May 2024
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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.
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January 2024
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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.
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October 2023
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For The Kingdom board shuts down center, offers little insight
The staff furloughed on Sept. 21 and Torrey Bates, the executive director, was fired.
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July 2023
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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.
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October 2022
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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.
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August 2022
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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.
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January 2022
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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.
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December 2021
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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.
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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.
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November 2021
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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.
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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.
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August 2021
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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.
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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.
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July 2021
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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.
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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.
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June 2021
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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.
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April 2021
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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.
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March 2021
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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.
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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.
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February 2021
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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.
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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.
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New vaccination site to open in Raleigh next week
The Raleigh vaccination site will open next week at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.
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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.
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January 2021
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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.
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