Two high-need areas in Memphis, Binghampton and Frayser, are ramping up investment in their communities with incoming Gateway retail centers and a proposed neighborhood tax-increment financing plan.
The benefits of the local MEMFix program, which helps to reinvigorate underutilized areas around the city by redesigning and temporarily activating specific city blocks, have been multifaceted over the past five years.
Ideas for possible future redevelopment of the Memphis riverfront were on display recently as the City of Memphis and Chicago-based architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang presented concepts that would transform six miles along the Mississippi River.
Entrepreneurs Tara Gorman and Tricia Atkins opened The Truffle Pig in Germantown because they wanted to do their own thing after operating online and trekking regularly to Oxford, Miss., to antique stores to sell their wares.
Downtown's historic former Memphis Fire Station No. 3, which dates back to the early 1900s when firefighters used horse-drawn carriages, will see new life as renovation work is underway for its new tenant, the Memphis Music Initiative.
With an intense dedication to respecting the flavor of its high quality coffee beans, French Truck Coffee has opened its second location in Memphis, moving into a 3,500-square-foot space at the newly redeveloped Crosstown Concourse
Midtown residents will have a new place to take their pets for affordable pet care services like spaying, neutering and heartworm tests, as locally owned PetVax is ramping up to open by September at Loeb Properties' Belvedere Collection at 1680 Union Avenue.
Due to overwhelming need from the community, Baptist Memorial Health Care is opening its second Grief Center in the Memphis market, as renovation work finishes up in Midtown at 28 S. Evergreen on the grounds of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. The Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief, dubbed Milla’s House, will welcome its first patients on July 26.
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