For developer Brown Gill, VP with Gill Properties, Inc., working with property owners and their neighbors is the most important part of any new real estate project. His company is currently in the process of planning a new retail/office project in East Memphis on South White Station Road north of Poplar Avenue.
Memphis-based development company Shab Chic is partnering with the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to bring a retail shipping container village to a lot on the 600 block of Monroe Avenue in the Edge District directly across from Edge Alley.
For years, Orange Mound enjoyed a reputation as a safe, attractive, and hospitable place for African American homeowners. Today, community stakeholders are working to address concerns such as declining homeownership, blight, the need for quality rental housing, and potential gentrification.
The urban renewal of Memphis, including breathing new life into old buildings instead of simply tearing them down, was the theme of a luncheon event on Oct. 30 at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn ballroom, hosted by New Memphis and the First Tennessee Foundation.
Carol Cook-Scobey, owner of Essentially Divine Natural Skincare and third-generation botanist, is taking her business to the next level with a new storefront in Cordova at 7865 Trinity Road.
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.
Following a rich 81-year history in Memphis including nearly 70 years at its Midtown campus at Overton Park, the Memphis College of Art announced this week that it will stop recruiting new students, effective immediately, and begin making plans to close the college.
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.
A bold concept that includes developing a unique 21st century aquarium museum on Mud Island that would connect to a new Riverfront Cultural Center to potentially house the Brooks Museum took its first steps forward this week.
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