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.
Construction is finally underway on the $210 million mixed-use redevelopment project at the former site of Foote Homes, the city’s last public housing community, in South City. Site work is happening now, and vertical construction will get started in the next couple of months.
In South Memphis, rugby and soccer – two internationally popular sports not traditionally played in the neighborhood – are creating community by bringing neighbors together, creating athletic opportunities for students, and making healthy use of vacant land.
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.
“I think there’s room to grow for all sorts of income levels in housing for the entire Downtown area. The outlook is promising.”
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.
In advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 sanitation workers strike that drew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis, city officials broke ground on the I AM A MAN Plaza to be located Downtown near Clayborn Temple.
After more than a decade running a successful recording studio in Nashville, entrepreneurs Claire and Scott McEwen are making the move to Memphis with hopes of turning a dilapidated building at 618 Vance Avenue Downtown into the city’s newest recording studio.
When her daughter was struggling to learn how to walk, Yolandra Rodgers turned to hard-bottom baby shoes, which she couldn't find locally. Years later, she is now an online distributor of hard-bottom baby shoes.
A new strategy undertaken by Memphis Public Libraries intends to underscore libraries as community centers with unique identities.
During the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968, the historic church served as headquarters for the strike and concomitant protests. Inside its Romanesque structure, civil rights, religious and strike leaders strategized, coordinated and inspired as the labor action dragged out and intensified.
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