Orange Mound residents are gearing up for the holidays by organizing community dinners to feed the needy and collect toys for Christmas. Here are ways you can join their efforts this holiday season or year round.
"The Orange Mound community is like a family, a close-knit family, handed down from one generation to the other." The Orange Mound Community Service Center is a homebase for many of Orange Mound's seniors. You are guaranteed to find some wonderful characters who believe in their history, the community and the future.
Discussions spread to the types of housing available in the community with some saying that the housing type isn’t the primary problem, but people not being able to afford to become homeowners is a problem.
The population in Orange Mound is decreasing and as the community ages, homes are left abandoned or in dire need of repair.
“Our goal was to assemble a project that both attracts tourists and enriches the surrounding neighborhoods,” Mayor Strickland said.
As discussions continue about the fate of the Fairgrounds, Orange Mound residents weigh in on the process and how redevelopment of the site could affect their neighborhood.
A new temporary neighborhood project in The Heights neighborhood of North Memphis is bringing the community together in ways not seen in more than 40 years. The low-cost enhancement project, dubbed The Heights Line, involves converting a stretch of National Street into a multiuse promenade. It has been successful during October and will be in place until early November.
The once-blighted Peachtree Apartments, a 72-unit complex at 3180 Steele Street in Frayser, are in the early stages of a major $5 million to $6 million transformation led by Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. (NPI), ComCap Partners and Urban Renaissance Partners, Inc., the non-profit owner of the complex.
Residents and elected officials speak out against development in their neighborhoods, to mixed results.
Germantown United Methodist Church and Habitat for Humanity are enjoying a fruitful, longstanding partnership that has resulted in the construction of 45 homes for families over the past 32 years.
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