Construction starts on Summer Avenue Chick-fil-A
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 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.
The amount of the Mannings’ donation to the Overton Park golf course renovation was not revealed, but the contribution brings the amount raised so far to $1.7 million of the $2.5 million fundraising goal.
LeMoyne-Owen College has named Vernell Bennett-Fairs its new president.
The nonprofit’s programs prepare graduates for permanent employment.
Homeless veterans, those in second chance and sober living programs or people simply wanting to get their lives in order are the target groups for The Purpose Place, the applicant behind the proposal.
States the marketing brochure: “Owner reserves the right to accept all cash full price offers on a first come first serve basis.”
After Teresa Landrum Caswell couldn’t find an affordable, nearby driving school for her daughter, she started one herself.
The meeting, held at T.O. Fuller State Park, was led by community organizers, neighborhood associations and 38109 ZIP code residents not satisfied with responses to their concerns by those leading the Byhalia Connection project.
Granville T. Woods Academy was awarded a $320,000 grant from University of Tennessee’s Extension program. The STEM-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) school was one of two grant recipients in the entire state.
Executives with a dental products company say they would open a dental lab near the airport if their company receives a tax incentive.
The Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp. has money available to help Whitehaven small business that have been hurt by the coronavirus.