The Blvd’s pastor talks ‘community-informed’ master plan
Tristan Strickland drove from Michigan to pay his respects at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church for the funeral of Tyré Nichols on Feb. 1, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church acknowledges some risk in the $310 million mixed-use development plan for the 23 acres it owns in the Midtown and Medical District areas.
“Whenever you enter into a deal like this and you leverage your property for equity, you know, that’s definitely part of the deal,” Pastor J. Lawrence Turner told The Daily Memphian on Wednesday, June 4, the day after the announcement.
“We’re going to do our level best to ensure that the church and its assets are protected and insulated from any liability as we move forward in the development,” he said. “Of course within development there’s risk. But the way in which we want to move forward is to make sure that the church maintains its ownership of property and that it’s not one of the liabilities.”
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