Situated between Midtown and Downtown, the Medical District was developed as a central location to serve the healthcare needs of the Mid-South. It employs 30,000 people and educates another 7,800 students each day across its numerous colleges and universities. Recently, the Memphis Medical District Collaborative began work in the area to improve safety, amenities, and infrastructure, including crosswalk updates and a newly installed dog park at Madison Ave. and North Orleans. Through these efforts, the MMDC hopes to inspire more people to live the neighborhood, which rationally been seen only as an economic and employment hub.
After roughly three years under construction, the new $39.7 million Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will finally open its doors on May 11 for its grand opening.
Locations around the city for the first 60 bike stations of the Explore Bike Share program have been announced, and the nonprofit has plans more stations and bikes for 2019 and 2020. The 600-bike system, which spans from Downtown, South Memphis, and Cooper Young to Orange Mound, Overton Square, and Crosstown, is moving towards a launch later this spring.
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.
Regional One Health is exploring outside-the-box ideas in its partnership with Camden Coalition for not only reducing the health care costs to treat some of the most vulnerable but to improve the care and overall outcomes for patients.
Within hours of the City of Memphis selling two public parks to an independent nonprofit, Memphis' two Confederate statues were on a flatbed truck traveling to an undisclosed location.
His proposed three-story residences will include 14 apartments, which are made up of 40-foot and 20-foot containers. Square footages will range from 640 square feet to 800 square feet.
Once the hardwood capital of the world, Memphis long ago stripped the majority of the city’s timber. A new initiative plans to re-canopy Memphis by planting 4 million trees.
Researchers and entrepreneurs in the biosciences and technology industry will have more resources targeted for their needs thanks to a new public-private partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis Bioworks Foundation, and TriMetis Life Sciences.
Memphis-based development company Shab Chic is partnering with the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to bring a retail shipping container village to a lot on the 600 block of Monroe Avenue in the Edge District directly across from Edge Alley.
An old building in the Edge District will be getting a new use in the next month, as renovations are underway at 691 Marshall Avenue at a site that had formerly been used as a tire alignment and repair business for nearly 40 years.
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