VoicesUnited created the installation in partnership with the Mariposas Collective.

The City of Memphis is taking extra time to write a request for proposals for bidders on its 4.5 acres at 1925 Union. City Hall wants not just a high bid, but a “highest and best” use that can be felt from Downtown to the University of Memphis.

The developers say Central Yards meets the intent of the Midtown Overlay District except for some of the building heights, which they say are necessary to provide enough public parking that already is in demand in Cooper-Young.

The development would comprise 5.6 acres near the southwest corner of Cooper and Central, provide extra parking for an area that is often short on spaces, and be intentional about fitting in with the old neighborhood, the developers say.

The Board of Adjustment also denied giving a zoning variance to Prairie Farms dairy plant, which wants to use three of its acres for plant operations.

Kroger did build a fuel center on the north end of the site, but just sold the other, still-undeveloped 17.3 acres for $2.6 million.

Like at other city parks, Overton Park Conservancy is reopening its playgrounds on Friday, Oct. 9. The conservancy is also launching a weeklong campaign to raise donations that will be double-matched by International Paper.

Even though the Cooper Young Festival was canceled this year due to coronavirus restrictions, the annual four-miler race went on.

Neighborhood-based nonprofit Carpenter Art Garden is proposing a 4.33-by-6.25-foot “Welcome to Binghampton” sign located at the Binghampton Gateway Center, on the corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street.

Residents propose the Crosstown Historic District as a way to protect the character of the 12-block area. 

Part of Turner Dairy’s plant site next to Overton Square is not zoned for trailer parking or materials storage. So the dairy is seeking zoning variances from the Board of Adjustment.

The Board of Adjustment denied a variance to allow a convenience store and gas station at site flanked by Sam Cooper Boulevard, Hollywood and Broad Avenue.

The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. transferred a tax-break incentive for the building at 999 S. Cooper to Jeffrey Little, who plans to rename the mixed-use property The Flats at Cooper-Young.

Other clinics will be in Whitehaven, Germantown and Cordova; three will open in early November.

Visitors parking in the Concourse's closest 45 spaces – the "canyon" – are charged $3 an hour after the first 15 minutes, which remain free.

An anonymous artist has fabricated and erected — without permission — 12 road signs in 12 states. They look like official traffic signs, but display a short poem. Tennessee's sign was placed along North Parkway, but city crews this week removed it. 

BONUS: A Q&A with the creator of the roadside senryu

After eight years on Broad Avenue, Collage Dance Collective is relocating to a 22,000-square-foot location on Tillman. This is part of the nonprofit’s vision to grow into the largest Black-owned ballet company in the South.

New residents of Midtown's Madison@McLean Apartments are expected to begin moving in by December. 

A national developer plans to modify the Morning Woods Planned Development at U.S. 64 and Davies Plantation so a new senior-living facility can be built on 8 acres there. 

The Kennedy is separated by just one house from The Marilyn on Monroe. It's a developing story.

The addition of new conditions prohibiting the property from being used for certain businesses may have put the project over the top. 

Developers planning 37 apartments and ground-floor office and retail space in the building once occupied by ABC-TV affiliate, WPTY-TV Channel 24.

An issue involving delivery-truck access for an adjacent business will likely again delay the review by the Board of Adjustment of a proposal to build a convenience store with fuel at the corner of Broad and Hollywood.

Over the past four months, the Carpenter Art Garden, located on Carpenter Street, has distributed over 1,000 masks in Binghampton – free of charge – for both adults and children.

Chick-fil-A on Thursday, Aug. 20, will open a restaurant inside the UTHSC Food Court at 920 Madison.