These days, hotels and department stores are struggling. Which may explain the proposed conversions of a sprawling East Memphis hotel and a former Hickory Ridge Mall Sears building.
With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.
Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.
The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.
The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.
A development team has purchased three Edge District buildings, plans to renovate them, and already has signed a lease with Sweet Magnolia Gelato Co. to open a shop in one of them.
The Hyde Family Foundation has purchased 15 vacant acres on the south edge of Binghampton for the Lighthouse Project. The strategy is to provide and integrate a strong school with accessible housing, job development and health care.
The new initiative will help students move toward reading at grade level.
Not a Coffee Shop is open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 6:45 to 11:15 a.m. and serves all of its coffee, including pour overs and espresso shots, black.
Principal’s comments on the power social media and big tech companies have are under scrutiny from Shelby County Schools officials.
The popular restaurant has a ground lease for the 1.25-acre site where the old Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church buildings were razed.
Silo Square is to comprise 13 mixed-use buildings, 305 single-family housing lots, six retail outparcels, a bank outparcel, two hotel sites, three office buildings, a 2.6-acre farmer’s market, 10 acres of apartments, and 64 acres of green space.
The Binghampton Community Land Trust, the first of its kind in Memphis, was created after concerns about rising housing prices spurred by new development in Binghampton.
A trend of rising housing prices combined with less homes available in Shelby County is reflected in two North Memphis neighborhoods: Frayser and Raleigh, albeit at different rates, according to Memphis Area Association of Relators (MAAR) data.
Even with the tax-break incentive, Central Yards would still generate $7.7 million more in local tax revenues over 20 years than the same property would generate without the mixed-use development, according to the Downtown Memphis Commission.
The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.
The 9.3-acre site, now cleared by demolition, sold for $7.7 million to RCM Devco LLC, which lists developer Chance Carlisle of One Beale as its agent.
So far, $2 million of the $2.5 million goal has been raised to rebuild Overton Park golf course and renovate its Abe Goodman Clubhouse.
A funeral home on the recently down-zoned section of Lamar wants to add a second cremation furnace, but now must seek a zoning variance to do it.
The firm’s plans for 2197 Central is just a block east of a much larger mixed-use development that is planned by another developer.
Police said the driver was treated for minor injuries and no one else was hurt Christmas night when a car crashed into the main lobby of the hospital at 1265 Union Ave. in Midtown Memphis.
Now, the refinery and steelworkers of Presidents Island as well as Metal Museum visitors will be asked: “When you were still young, Did you ever dream about, Being who you are.”
Homes in the neighborhood have fallen into disrepair, but renovations and new construction are giving the Glenview community new life.
On Thursday, the Frayser Exchange Club awarded Steve Lockwood its 2020 Community Service Award. He’s credited in helping turnaround one of the city’s worst housing markets during the past decade.