EDGE awarded a $100,000 grant focusing on Whitehaven as part of a large effort to work with local economic development partners throughout the county.

The former Sears location in the Hickory Ridge Mall will reopen as an indoor storage business as early next month.

It all started years ago when Jason Farmer’s grade-school-age son said he wanted to be a filmmaker. On Thursday, the Land Use Control Board approved a planned development for an 85-acre film- and TV-production complex in Whitehaven.

Proposed is a 15,000-square-foot building that includes a 7,000-square-foot soundstage, all to help young Memphians prepare for careers in film and television.

Sarah Houston, who has devoted her career to water resource management and protection, will lead Protect Our Aquifer as the nonprofit group enters a new phase of its existence.

The former United Equipment Building towers over Lamar Avenue and the surrounding community.

‘I’m not opposed to funding social programs, but let’s do it without pretending there’s morality in extracting money from people this way.’

After a year-long programming hiatus, Tone is celebrating its relaunch with an event tomorrow at its gallery in the Lamar Airways Shopping Center. 

Last week’s declared “truce” notwithstanding, a group of citizens opposing construction of an oil pipeline through South Memphis neighborhoods want two lawsuits involving the project to move forward.

The new facility will offer a community resource center, early childhood learning center, wellness center, gymnasium — and, yes, a new indoor swimming pool. 

The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.

Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.

Many of the speakers reiterated concerns about the pipeline’s potential impact on the city’s aquifer and questioned why the Byhalia Connection had to run through predominantly lower-income Black neighborhoods in Memphis.

Plains All American Pipeline is launching a full-on offensive against the proposed legislation with the help of organizations that support the oil and gas industry. 

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Memphis Area Transit Authority will offer pick-up and drop-off service to addresses in Boxtown, Whitehaven and Westwood.

Plans to build a 49-mile pipeline to transport crude oil from southwest Memphis to another pipeline at a connecting point near Byhalia, Mississippi, have run into delays on a couple of different fronts.

Opponents of the Byhalia Connection pipeline project have done a good job of making their voices heard, but the project’s supporters in the community have been less vocal. Some of those supporters may have been intimidated into silence, according to officials at the company that wants to build the pipeline.

Can a private oil pipeline company force private property owners to provide access to their land? The eminent domain case involving the Byhalia Connection project will attempt to answer that question.

‘Not here, not now, not ever on our watch,' said Rev. Dr. William Barber II during a rally Sunday protesting the Byhalia Connection Pipeline that would go through majority Black, poor neighborhoods in southwest Memphis. 

Crime impacts neighborhoods across the city. From Frayser to Whitehaven, community leaders discuss how to address the problem and the causes that contribute to it.