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Madeline Faber

Madeline Faber is an editor and award-winning reporter. Her experience as a development reporter complements High Ground's mission to write about what's next for Memphis.

Madeline Faber's Latest Articles

Architect's rendering of proposed Innovation Center.
Regional One Health looks to the future of healthcare with startup-facing center

The formation of an idea for healthcare innovation, its fulfillment, prototyping, funding and first customer can all be found within Regional One Health.

19-story “startup village” is home to entrepreneurs in Downtown

Over 30 startup founders called the Exchange Building home while growing their companies. 

Women-led real estate startup injects tech into dated sector

CEO Jessica Buffington knows the residential real estate industry is capable of more than flyers and door-to-door marketing.

Speed of LITE: Formerly homeless student reinvents the homeless care package

A care package for the homeless might include a sandwich, a toothbrush and a couple bucks if you’re lucky. Within hours, all that well-meaning effort disappears.  

Meridian Econometrics maps how we move

Memphis' up-and-coming tech firm provides site selection software to small businesses.

Grit Grind Give campaign encourages city-wide philanthropy
New homebuyer Timeka Seldon shows off the keys to her new home
Habitat for Humanity dedicates homes President Carter helped build

Uptown's 21 new homeowners have the keys to something special: a neighborhood built with their own hands--and a little help from President Carter. 

The DMC has turned a vacant storefront into a rotating gallery and event space called The 101.
No longer vacant, South Main storefront is a host to pop-up shops

The ground floor of 101 S. Main has been a candy shop, a cat café and an art gallery—over the course of a few weeks.

Marlon Foster, founder of Knowledge Quest
Community centers in South Memphis, New Chicago garner $60,000 in grants

Three Sisters Deli, Knowledge Quest and Social Spuds Resource Center received forgivable loans to support their neighborhood businesses. 

Area high school students screen print posters to call for an end to gang violence in Klondike/Smokey City.
Klondike/Smokey City students fight gang violence through art

Young girls are typically overlooked in gang prevention programs, so Brittney Bullock pulled together a group of young North Memphis women to learn a trade and imagine a brighter Klondike/Smokey City.

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