Opinion: ‘Community voices lead to our development decisions’
“We spent months holding community meetings, conducting door-to-door surveys, taking phone calls and opening the proposed site daily for the Memphis Urban Wood project.”
Topic: The Works Inc.
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April 2024
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March 2024
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Contentious North Memphis tree upcycling project scrapped
Memphis Urban Wood planned to turn a vacant 10-acre property on North Watkins Street into a facility that transforms wood waste into lumber and wood compost.
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February 2024
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North Star for North Memphis or industrial wasteland?
“North Memphis is not here to save your environment,” Memphis City Council member Michalyn Easter-Thomas said about a proposed facility to keep trees and wood waste out of landfills.
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December 2023
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Lettuce help: Community gardeners bring know-how to bridge food gap
A new generation of community gardeners is helping Memphis overcome food insecurity with urban farms and lessons in growth.
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May 2023
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Seed funding: Nonprofits give free garden beds to about 100 homeowners
The Works and Big Green recently gave away 100 raised garden beds for free, complete with seeds, starters, a watering can, fertilizer and more than 60 pounds of soil.
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January 2023
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Lincoln Park subdivision breaks ground in South Memphis
The affordable housing development has been a decade in the making. Construction begins amidst a new push to scale affordable housing in blighted areas beyond isolated units as well as new concerns about how nonprofits get the land for development.
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December 2022
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A plan for Washington Bottoms — with plenty of bees and butterflies
Theo Davies envisions the long-blighted green space as a food source, as well as a habitat for native plants and pollinators, but the ecosystem he’s cultivating violates city ordinances.
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October 2022
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The To-Do List: Watch movies, buy art, honor your dead
This week, metalsmiths repair your broken stuff, brewers descend on Cooper-Young and Chicago comes to Memphis.
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July 2022
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Inside the $72M plan to turn Northside High into Northside Square
Plans include affordable housing, office and retail tenants, and a Northside High Hall of Fame.
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June 2022
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County mayor says stable housing critical in keeping ex-offenders out of system
The housing will provide a home for four ex-offenders who are participating in the Shelby County Office of Re-Entry’s FOCUSED program, an 11-week training program that combines job readiness with the opportunity for selection into vocational training programs.
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Property assessor warns of rental housing crisis
“We will lose young professionals, new college grads and young families to surrounding areas of other cities where there is substantial affordable housing available.”
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May 2022
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Community groups to host May Day at Northside High building
Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corporation, The Works, Inc. and Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. will host a May Day Saturday at Northside High School.
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February 2022
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Variances for redevelopment of Northside High approved
The Board of Adjustment has given the nod to a proposal for the redevelopment of the building at 1212 Vollintine Ave. into a mixed-use development.
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EDGE board approves PILOT for Northside High School redevelopment
The former vocational high school at 1212 Vollintine Ave. will become a multi-use space for vocational skills training, workforce development, multifamily housing, health care services, performing arts and more.
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PILOT sought for Northside High School building conversion
The Works, Inc. plans to develop a community hub that would house organizations that provide technical skills training and workforce development, comprehensive healthcare services, literary advocacy, as well as performing and visual arts programming.
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October 2021
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Watch: Merger aims to bridge gap in affordable housing
The leaders of the two housing and community groups talked on “Behind The Headlines” about a larger scope and plan for affordable housing in a city that needs about 40,000 new units of the housing.
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March 2021
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Apartment complex renovation could be catalyst for more affordable housing
On a cloudy Thursday afternoon, the organizations behind the Renaissance at Steele renovations in Frayser celebrated the $17 million project’s completion.
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February 2020
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Tipping Point: Supporting an oasis in South Memphis
For this New Memphis Fellows Community Action Project, a group helped The Works, Inc. promote their South Memphis Farmers Market.
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November 2019
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Why a South Memphis CDC is turning vacant lots into a park
The Works Inc. owns several vacant lots around its South Memphis office in ZIP code 38106.
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May 2019
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A downtown for everyone
'I intentionally moved my family to Uptown to give my children an experience of the best of both worlds; a safe, decent and affordable neighborhood with access to a vibrant downtown and beautiful riverfront.'
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September 2018
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Bike and community projects proposed for South Memphis inspired by the Netherlands
One by one, each Big Jump Project advisory committee member explained the project they want to pursue in South Memphis, based on inspiration from a week spent in the Netherlands in June.
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