There are 22 article(s) tagged Snuff District:

• February 2023

  • First phase of $50M Conwood Flats, Varsity Spirit renovation now open in historic Snuff District

    The opening of Conwood Flats and Varsity Spirit’s headquarters marks the halfway point for the historic Snuff District redevelopment. 

    By Neil Strebig February 05, 2023

• April 2022

  • Second phase of Snuff District approved

    The project will feature 294 multi-family units as well as a two-story, 400-vehicle parking garage. 

    By Neil Strebig April 07, 2022

• February 2022

  • Inked: Historic Snuff District project moves ahead; A new Starbucks for Whitehaven

    Located on the empty surface lot at 645 N. Front St., just south of the historic Snuff Factory building, the six-story Conwood II will include 294 housing units and 10,000 square feet of retail space. 

    By Rob Moore February 02, 2022

• October 2021

  • Permit filed for part of Orgel’s Snuff District redevelopment

    The permit represents the beginning of the second phase of the Conwood project. 

    By Rob Moore October 06, 2021

• April 2021

  • Opinion: What’s in a name? Put it to the Snuff test and find out

    Few companies understand what cub copywriters know: the public will shorten anything that’s too long for their use.

    By Dan Conaway April 23, 2021

• February 2021

  • City Council debates buying city’s tallest building

    The council votes next week on the further use of a PILOT extension fund already being tapped for $62 million for four Downtown parking garages. Meanwhile, one of the banks involved in financing the garages wants some more loan guarantees, which includes a proposed TIF.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2021

• January 2021

  • Old warehouse may provide parking for Snuff District

    Many of the Snuff District’s office workers and residents may park their vehicles inside what is now a vacant, historic warehouse at 700 N. Front. An added benefit for the mixed-use development: Fewer surface parking lots.

    By Tom Bailey January 27, 2021

• June 2020

  • Varsity Spirit resumes talks on move to Snuff District

    Varsity Spirit president Bill Seely confirms his company has restarted discussions about moving its headquarters from the suburbs to Uptown's planned Snuff District.

    By Tom Bailey June 26, 2020

  • Orgel presses ahead with $32M Snuff District permit, but no office space yet

    Despite the pandemic, the development team files for a building permit to put the first 107 apartment units, community center and fitness center in the historic buildings of the Snuff District. But, the documents do not yet mention plans for office space.

    By Tom Bailey June 25, 2020

• March 2020

  • ‘Full steam ahead’ for Snuff District, Union Row despite virus turbulence

    The coronavirus has roiled the financial markets just as primary construction for Union Row and the Snuff District is about to start. Yet the developers are plowing ahead. 

    By Tom Bailey March 14, 2020

• February 2020

  • Developers prep for selected demolition at Snuff District

    Selective demolition of a relatively small part of the historic American Snuff Factory complex may soon start in preparation for a nearly $200 million mixed-use redevelopment.

    By Tom Bailey February 13, 2020

  • Design board tables Poplar Art Lofts, seeks more detail

    The Design Review Board delayed approval of a Midtown mixed-use project near Overton Park, but approved designs for the Snuff District, a taller One Beale hotel and new signs for Health Sciences Park.

    By Tom Bailey February 05, 2020

• January 2020

  • The Early Word: On the waterfront with new homes, Lamar Alexander and a big bet on sports

    Happy Friday! Today we know which way Sen. Lamar Alexander will vote in the president's impeachment trial, AutoZone is committed to Downtown and two of our Memphis Grizz are out for the night. 

    By Mary Cashiola January 31, 2020

  • New details revealed for Snuff District, Poplar Art Lofts

    The Snuff District proposal would create more than 40 new waterfront townhomes in Memphis, along the river harbor. 

    By Tom Bailey January 30, 2020

  • Developers: Snuff District plan won’t block public access to river

    Keel Avenue runs west through Uptown, crosses what will be the future Snuff District mixed-use development and dead ends at a floodgate immediately west of where Keel goes under a small CN Railroad bridge.

    By Tom Bailey January 23, 2020

• December 2019

  • Snuff District may embrace ‘cool’ silos

    The Snuff District developers have just purchased an adjacent, old cement plant and its tall silos. Instead of tearing them down, the developers of apartment, office and retail space may may preserve the silos as a landmark.

    By Tom Bailey December 31, 2019

  • Conaway: Promise

    This is and always has been a city of promise, and a city that fails to live up to it time and time again.

    By Dan Conaway December 13, 2019

  • Renovation, addition project at 1750 Madison seeking incentives

    Projects at 1750 Madison and the old American Snuff Factory at 46 Keel will be up for consideration of tax incentives Tuesday, Dec. 10.

    By Wayne Risher December 05, 2019

• November 2019

  • Snuff District lands agreement for Varsity Spirit headquarters

    The Snuff District is the first of four big mixed-use developments around Downtown to recruit a substantial office tenant.

    By Tom Bailey November 20, 2019

• September 2019

  • Historic Uptown site to become event center

    A developer plans to renovate and convert a historic industrial building in Uptown into an event space for 300 to 400 people.

    By Tom Bailey September 06, 2019

• June 2019

  • Snuff District revealed in new renderings

    Newly released architectural renderings have revealed what the 55-acre, nearly $200 million Snuff District mixed-use development will look like in Uptown next to the Wolf River Harbor.

    By Tom Bailey June 17, 2019

  • Wheels start turning for massive Snuff District

    Developers will seek a single-site tax increment financing district for the 55-acre, mixed-use development along the Wolf River Harbor in Uptown.

    By Tom Bailey June 07, 2019