LeMoyne-Owen grows footprint with new purchases in Soulsville
Self + Tucker Architects filed a $ 1.5 million commercial alteration permit to turn the former Bethel Presbyterian Church at 1060 Mississippi Blvd. into Lemoyne-Owen's School of Business and Entrepreneurship. (Andy Ashby/The Daily Memphian)
LeMoyne-Owen College is expanding its landlocked campus with a flurry of transactions this year.
The private, historically Black liberal arts college bought the 7,462-square-foot building and its 1.2 acres for $500,000 at 1044 Mississippi Blvd. from YWCA Greater Memphis earlier this month for its School of Education.
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Andy Ashby
Andy Ashby covers commercial real estate and economic development. He has worked locally at the Germantown News, the DeSoto County Tribune, the Daily News and the Memphis Business Journal. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, where he photographed the 1998 National Championship game. Email tips or story ideas to aashby@dailymemphian.com
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