Restaurant round-up: Vegan cupcakes and Casablanca come to Midtown
Pink Diva Cupcakery is bringing cruelty-free confections to Crosstown, and local favorite Casablanca is finishing the build-out on its latest Midtown location.
Crosstown
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.
Sears Building reborn as Crosstown Concourse at groundbreaking ceremony
The abandoned 10-story Sears regional distribution center in the Crosstown neighborhood is officially on its way to a new life as Crosstown Concourse. The multi-use vertical urban village will be completed in 2016 with the aid of $115.3 million in state, local and federal funds.
Midtown entrepreneurs create “ultimate collaboration” with auto detailing business
Katie McWeeney and Abe Powell are a couple in life and business. They launched fine line detail in 2011, offering auto detailing services--with a keen eye for detail--to the Mid-South
New brewery on tap for Crosstown
Crosstown Brewing Co. will open in the next 12-18 months in the Crosstown District of Memphis, operated by business partners Clark Ortkiese and Will Goodwin.
