East Memphis is known as the city’s second central business district outside of Downtown. As a commercial district, its powerhouse is the Poplar corridor. Poplar Avenue is a staple of Memphis business and retail with 7.7 million square-feet of premium office space, and retail hubs such as the Oak Court Mall, Laurelwood Shopping Center, Poplar Plaza. East Memphis offers a host of entertainment options, including restaurants, nightlife, and green spaces like the popular Audubon Park and Memphis Botanic Garden.
Community leaders, residents and volunteers from local businesses braved the cold on Monday and took to the streets to clean up blighted properties in neighborhoods across Memphis for the second annual MLK Days of Service.
Knoxville-based Cherokee Health Systems, which operates 25 clinics throughout Tennessee, will be expanding its Memphis market presence next year with the opening of a new clinic in Frayser on Jan. 1.
In five years, Coaching for Literacy has grown from a community service project that was an opt out for an exam for two Memphis high school students, Jonathan Wilfong and Andrew Renshaw, into a nationally-recognized literacy program.
Like most adults, seniors have places to go and people to see. However, as they age, navigating streets to reach their destination can become a challenge.
For former White Station High School parent Richard Myers, lawyer with Glankler Brown, something needed to be done about the deteriorating condition of some of the area’s public schools. So he came up with an innovative plan.
ZenStudio Fitness owner Camden Hyneman never liked to work out that much, but she loved cycling and became hooked on it while attending Fordham University and living in New York City in the late 2000s.
Since City & State set the stage for an outpouring of new coffee shops, Memphis has seen growth in locally-sourced craft coffee shops in the past year alone, from Edge Alley to French Truck and The Hub.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners, formerly The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence, is changing with the times. The organization held a celebration event on Nov. 7 at Minglewood Hall to unveil its rebranding, along with news of ramping up staff, an impending move to a new location in Midtown, revamping its programing model, changing its membership structure and expanding its board.
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.
A stretch of the Wolf River Greenway formally opened on Saturday, Oct. 21 on the north end of Mud Island, transforming a former illegal dumping ground into a park-like setting.
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