South City is best known for the Foote Homes development, Memphis’ last public housing project. The $250 million South City revitalization aims to transform the 420-unit institution into mixed-income apartments and rental homes with an emphasis on safety, maintenance, and green space. The project is expected to be complete by 2021. Community leaders hope as South City efforts extend to the areas surrounding the Foote Homes site, they’ll link with efforts in South Memphis and the Downtown Core for a continuous corridor of deep investment.
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.
Facing a sore lack of later-stage capital in Memphis, startups that matriculate through local accelerator programs often have to look outside of the Mid-South to scale.
Housed in the lower level of the school, the center includes eight desktop computers and nine laptop computers with internet access.
For the fourth straight year, the Greater Memphis Chamber, the Workforce Investment Network, the Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce, students from local high schools and area manufacturing companies will celebrate National Manufacturing Day with tours designed to get the students excited about possible careers in the industry.
A major adaptive reuse project in downtown’s South City area is underway at 158 Vance Ave., where Oden & Associates Inc., a B2B marketing and communications firm, will relocate its headquarters early next year. South City is enjoying a rejuvenation of late with the rehab of the historic Clayborn Temple, the redevelopment of the Universal Life Building and the demolition of Foote Homes for the upcoming new construction of multifamily housing.
When it was founded in 2002, Circles of Success Learning Academy only had a pint-sized playground from when the property was used as a daycare. Over a decade later, the charter school is finally building a place for students to play.
HuffPost partnered with High Ground News to produce a frank discussion about racial and economic inequality in Memphis.
Thanks to a recent $500,000 challenge grant from the Assisi Foundation of Memphis. Dorothy Day House, a nonprofit shelter that helps intact families who are experiencing homelessness, is finally getting the chance to expand its services to more families in need.
A nonprofit bakery in Memphis will open this fall in Crosstown Concourse, and all employees will be paid $15 an hour. Supporters see the project as a model that could improve the quality of life for many Memphians.
"We can never be the kind of community that we want to be until we have the minority firms have a much larger piece of the pie."
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