Old Medical District Holiday Inn to be demolished as UTHSC modernizes
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has begun demolition on the old Holiday Inn at 969 Madison Ave., seen here April 4. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The demolition of the old Holiday Inn hotel tower at 969 Madison Ave. in the Memphis Medical District is underway with expected completion by February.
The demolition is part of the $100 million in capital projects planned or underway that will modernize the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s aging campus.
In 2015, UTHSC bought the former hotel with two smaller adjacent buildings at 955 and 959 Madison Ave. that were taken down first.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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