Construction is finally underway on the $210 million mixed-use redevelopment project at the former site of Foote Homes, the city’s last public housing community, in South City. Site work is happening now, and vertical construction will get started in the next couple of months.
New restaurateurs Edward Bogard and Preston Butts Jr., along with co-owner and former Memphis Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins, are prepping to open their first restaurant venture, BOGARD, by August in Overton Square.
With restoration of the first three trolley cars and necessary testing completed, the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is ready to re-launch the trolley service, which has sat dormant for the past four years. A ribbon cutting event will take place on April 30 at 547 N. Main Street.
A severely blighted South Memphis apartment building at 1571 Kansas Street will be renovated over the next six months into permanent housing for adults who have experienced homelessness, mental illness, and/or substance abuse, as well as youth who are transitioning out of the State’s foster care system.
Locations around the city for the first 60 bike stations of the Explore Bike Share program have been announced, and the nonprofit has plans more stations and bikes for 2019 and 2020. The 600-bike system, which spans from Downtown, South Memphis, and Cooper Young to Orange Mound, Overton Square, and Crosstown, is moving towards a launch later this spring.
After sitting dormant for nearly a year, a mixed-use project going in at the former home of the Memphis College of Art is being jumpstarted by a new development entity.
A partially blighted 1940s industrial warehouse on Broad Ave. in Binghampton will be transformed into a $50 million mixed-use project over the next several years thanks to a new partnership between local multifamily specialist James Maclin and retail guru Bob Loeb of Loeb Properties, who recently formed 3D Realty to focus on multi-purpose developments.
The renovation is removing blight from a severely distressed area and creating a retail center supported by the surrounding neighborhood.
More and more people in the Binghamton area are taking to streets, on bikes restored through the Carpenter Art Garden’s Build-A-Bike program, thanks to donations from Pedaltown Bicycle Company and Victory Bicycle Studio.
Big Green Memphis celebrated the installation of the 100th learning garden at Memphis-area schools, an initiative of entrepreneur Kimbal Musk that began in 2015. The nonprofit plans to donate 45 more school gardens over the next three years.
Our Partners
