The heart of the Crosstown neighborhood sits at the intersection of Watkins Street and North Parkway. In fact, it can’t be missed. The 1.5 million-square-foot Crosstown Concourse was constructed in 1927 as a Sears flagship location. Shuttered in the early 1990s, it has been recently reimagined as a mixed-use, vertical village with apartments, businesses, nonprofits, restaurants, health services, and more cohabitating in the same building. The neighborhood is also boasts some of the city’s most beloved bars and restaurants and is a popular social and creative destination with ventures like Amurica, Crosstown Arts, and the OAM podcast studio.
Crosstown Concourse has been hailed as one of the city's most complicated projects. With a renovation cost of $200 million, the project's visionaries, contractors, architects and aids speak about how the renovation grew from a Recession-era impossibility to a national gem.
Based out of the Crosstown neighborhood, the OAM Network produces and broadcasts local podcast shows.
?The city’s first restaurant with an all-organic vegetarian menu, Mama Gaia will be opening in the new Crosstown Concourse development by early next year.
The Memphis Bus Riders Union and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 713 are launching a new campaign with a petition to restore the 31 Crosstown, a historic bus route eliminated by Memphis Area Transit Authority in 2013.
In 2013 Carla Worth launched her own natural cleaning business, Aunt Key's Apothecary, housed in the Crosstown neighborhood.
How affordable live/work housing for artists can reinvigorate neighborhoods and bring members of diverse communities together.
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