There are 19 article(s) tagged South City:

• June 2025

  • The neighborhood that birthed Stax celebrates rich history

    Hundreds gather to soak up the history (and heat) where former Mayor Willie Herenton, Booker T. Jones, and Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White got their start.

    By Jody Callahan June 28, 2025

• November 2021

  • DMC awards grant for South Memphis coffee shop

    The ground floor will also sell and display local Memphis artwork.

    By Rob Moore November 30, 2021

• October 2021

  • Robberies of MLGW tree-trimming crews get City Council’s attention, more

    In other action Tuesday, Oct. 19, the council delayed a final vote on a comprehensive downzoning plan and approved funding for the start of the next phase of construction on the South City development.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2021

• June 2021

  • City applies pandemic lessons in developing citywide broadband strategy

    Mairi Albertson, the city’s director of Housing and Community Development talks on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the citywide plan, and says the lessons of the pandemic indicate broadband has to be able to handle several people online at the same time.

    By Bill Dries June 13, 2021

• May 2021

  • Proposed South Memphis TIF district could generate $93M for improvements

    Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.

    By Tom Bailey May 06, 2021

• February 2021

  • New developer plans to revive blighted South City building

    A new real estate development company plans to transform a blighted, long-vacant commercial structure into retail space and apartments.

    By Tom Bailey February 17, 2021

• October 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

• June 2020

  • Agency makes grants more affordable to South City businesses

    South City businesses and nonprofits now need only to make a 10% match – instead of 25% – to receive up to a $50,000 grant to improve the exterior of their buildings.

    By Tom Bailey June 17, 2020

  • Agency may increase grants for South City businesses because of pandemic

    The Downtown Memphis Commission staff recommends that grants for exterior improvements to South City businesses start covering 90% of the costs instead of 75%.

    By Tom Bailey June 11, 2020

• May 2020

  • Longtime South City businesses plan renovations

    Both founded in South City in the 1960s, Paradise Entertainment Center and Tom Martin's Body Shop plan to improve the exterior of their buildings.

    By Tom Bailey May 13, 2020

• November 2019

  • Work to begin on third, fourth phases of Foote Park at South City

    Construction on the third phase of Foote Park at South City on the west side of Danny Thomas Boulevard is to be completed by June 2021. 

    By Elle Perry November 04, 2019

• August 2019

  • Latest installment of South City funding approved

    The city's fourth installment of $6 million for the South City development was approved Tuesday by the Memphis City Council.

    By Bill Dries August 20, 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

• July 2019

  • Life Together makes pitch for part of South City facility

    The City of Memphis has an option to purchase the buildings that served as the former MLK Transition Academy, Porter Junior High School, and Boys and Girls Club location at 620 S. Lauderdale St.

    By Elle Perry July 28, 2019

  • South City art space up for DMC Good Neighbor Grant

    Yvonne Bobo's project to create space for 15 artists and a nonprofit called Off the Walls that will serve at-risk youth and adults in South City may receive additional incentives. 

    By Elle Perry July 12, 2019

• April 2019

  • Former Foote Homes residents soon can move into reborn South City

    With the first phase of the South City redevelopment project wrapping up, 55 families who lived in the former Foote Homes public housing complex will be moving into the neighborhood soon. 

    By Michelle Corbet April 27, 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

  • Investment makes its way to South City

    Surrounding property owners are taking advantage of a $29 million joint city and federal effort underway to turn the poverty-stricken former Foote Homes public housing site into a viable mixed-income community. 

    By Michelle Corbet March 20, 2019

• September 2018

  • New South City homes begin rising on site of Foote Homes

    The last of the brick two-story apartment buildings that were the Foote Homes public housing development are down to a few slabs of concrete overgrown by grass and bushes. And new wooden frames are starting to rise near the corner of Lauderdale Street and Vance Avenue.

    By Bill Dries September 25, 2018