There are 58 article(s) tagged Summer Avenue:
Yet another convenience store with gas may be built on Summer Avenue in Highland Heights. The Board of Adjustment determined Wednesday, June 23, that a C-store developer submitted required paperwork in time before the City Council rezoned the area to prohibit gas sales.
A real estate investor and two construction contractors bought a prominent, nearly century-old shopping center in Highland Heights. Their plan includes returning The Heights center to its roots by embracing the sidewalk again.
A developer plans to turn 5 acres lining Summer Avenue into 75 covered and secured spaces for storing recreational vehicles.
A developer of convenience stores selling fuel tore down the old, masonry building on a prominent Summer Avenue corner. Now he’s appealing a decision that he cannot build a C-store there.
A gritty block of Summer Avenue is now the scene for a public art installation that is highly unusual for several reasons.
Panda Garden offers a lunch special with a selection of more than 20 meals, each under $10. The food is good, and the portions are generous.
MyCityRides has raised about 85% of the $3 million it will spend to establish a new, larger headquarters at 3155 Summer Ave. The nonprofit still must raise about $400,000.
Demolition has started to clear space for Alliance Healthcare Service’s $9 million-plus development in an economically distressed area of Summer Avenue.
The popular restaurant has a ground lease for the 1.25-acre site where the old Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church buildings were razed.
The first online council meeting of the year comes with some changes in committee chairmanships and votes on down-zoning two parts of Summer Avenue as well as new penalties for illegal street racing.
California-based CloudKitchens has purchased a vacant, former auto parts building in a distressed part of Summer Avenue. The 11,000 square feet could house dozens of small, commercial kitchens for the pandemic-fueled industry of meal delivery.
The new owner is filling the place with antiques to open a shop. And instead of running from the building’s X-rated past, he may “lean into it.” But don’t worry, the idea involves whimsical branding, not adult entertainment.
New Mexican place on Summer is really a few miles past the official end of the avenue, but it’s close enough and the food is good.
The Division of Planning & Development recommends rezoning along two sections of Summer to prohibit such car-oriented businesses as gas stations and auto repair shops.
Add another Mexican restaurant to the stretch of Summer Avenue we all love for our tacos and tortas. La Unica has finally opened in an old Wendy’s.
The transaction shows a typical real estate exchange: $225,000 for a property near Summer Avenue. But the plan for the building may be like nothing Memphis has seen before.
The nonprofit organization that promotes the 169cc SYM Fiddle III motor scooter as an affordable solution for getting Memphians to and from work now plans a new campus on Summer Avenue.
The resolution approved Tuesday by the Memphis City Council for two areas along Summer is designed to make it more difficult to demolish a set of four churches for other kinds of development. It’s similar to a recent rezoning of part of Lamar Avenue but with a slightly different motivation.
The council discussion of the record number of homicides so far this year could venture into past discussions of police reform. The City Council also discusses a rezoning of Summer Avenue to preserve four churches along the busy thoroughfare after one was about to be demolished.
While some churches nearby shrink or close, St. Michael Church on Summer Avenue will soon start construction on a new, $2 million parish office, has begun building two more soccer fields, and has plans for a new parish hall.
A Summer Avenue taco truck scene has bloomed through the summer, with at least eight regular trucks around the wider neighborhood and several others that seem to pop up more infrequently. If you live near Summer or Macon avenues between Highland and White Station, there’s a good chance you can walk to a taco truck.
The addition of new conditions prohibiting the property from being used for certain businesses may have put the project over the top.
Memphis Police were called to Golf & Games Family Park at 5484 Summer Ave. on Saturday after youths stampeded and vandalized the business. Large crowds led to the business closing early.
The applicant proposing The Stratford event center plans several measures to prevent the commercial activity from affecting residences nearby.