There are 11 article(s) tagged Tommy Pacello:

• January 2024

  • Remembering Edge Alley and the joy of great spaces

    Tim Barker talks about Edge Alley and the incredible stresses and successes that led him to close the restaurant — even as that decision has completely ruined Eric Barnes’ life.

    By Eric Barnes January 14, 2024

• December 2023

  • The Sidebar: Continuing the legacy of Tommy Pacello

    “Tommy’s advocacy for and articulation of what Memphis could be was at once impossibly grand and totally accessible, possible and doable.”

    By Eric Barnes December 07, 2023

• October 2022

  • Calkins: Tommy Pacello would’ve been 45 today. A new fellowship helps continue his work.

    Nearly two years after Tommy Pacello died of pancreatic cancer, his friends and colleagues are celebrating the visionary city planner’s birthday by unveiling a fellowship that will support his work. 

    By Geoff Calkins October 31, 2022

• July 2021

  • ‘Missing middle’ housing to rise near Le Bonheur, St. Jude

    Pockets of new duplexes, quadplexes, cottage courts, live/work spaces and small single-family homes may provide affordable homes for workers and serve as an example for reviving other core-city neighborhoods.

    By Tom Bailey July 06, 2021

• May 2021

  • Memphis Medical District Collaborative names new president

    Rory Thomas is charged with making the blocks and blocks — north to south — between Midtown and Downtown, glimmer with personality and vitality of their own.

    By Jane Roberts May 25, 2021

• November 2020

  • The Memphis 10: With COVID complicating Thanksgiving, ditch the dining room table but keep the turkey

    This Thanksgiving is a brief but particularly fraught moment of decision, another unwelcome marker in Our COVID Year, may it manage to remain singular. 

    By Chris Herrington November 19, 2020

  • Tommy Pacello’s legacy lives in corners, city blocks he improved

    Founder of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative saw huge potential in the bustling swath of land that is home to six hospitals, two colleges.

    Related story: Calkins: Tommy Pacello was given a year to live — and he lived like all of us should

    By Jane Roberts November 17, 2020

  • Calkins: Tommy Pacello was given a year to live — and he lived like all of us should

    Tommy Pacello died Monday, Nov. 16. Not long ago, he talked about his diagnosis, his city, his family and his gratitude. He wanted this column as a gift for his daughters. That’s the kind of wonderful dad he was. 

    By Geoff Calkins November 17, 2020

• June 2020

  • How the Memphis Medical District is coping during the shutdown

    MMDC’s President Tommy Pacello talks about the group’s effort to support small businesses, residents in need, and future development on this week’s Extra Podcast.

    By Eric Barnes June 04, 2020

• November 2019

  • MATA begins long push for public buy-in of ‘innovation corridor’

    A public comment session Monday at the Central Library drew several dozen people and plenty of reminders of the city's long-running debate about the bus system run by the Memphis Area Transit Authority. The corridor has almost all of the $74 million to build the Union and Poplar corridor that would start operations in 2024.

    By Bill Dries November 19, 2019

• December 2018

  • Confederate monument anniversary reveals a work in progress

    One year to the day that Confederate monuments were removed from two city parks, the anniversary revealed the controversy still has some unexpected life left in it among those pursuing the removal of the monuments by different methods.

    By Bill Dries December 20, 2018