Category: Downtown

Downtown Opinion Pinch District, North Main Planning & Urbanism Planning Board Preservation Urban Design Review Board

De-Listed = De-Struction: Investment in the Pinch Must Utilize What’s Left of Its Past

Preservation Board October 23, 2020 No Comments

Just one more demolition threatens the entire district – and the investments of developers eligible for tax credits waiting to improve or stabilize their properties.…

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Union Avenue Anthology. Introduction: Whatever Happened to Union Avenue?

Mark Fleischer July 17, 2020 No Comments

A History of Memphis’ Most Maligned Street INTRODUCTION Union Avenue. The very name strikes shudders and grumblings among drivers, pedestrians and business owners alike. Today’s…

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The new Memphis Innovation Corridor: Virtual public meetings & public input thru June 30

Urban Design Review Board June 19, 2020 No Comments

The City of Memphis and the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) have unveiled the proposed plans for the new Memphis Innovation Corridor, a bus rapid…

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Downtown Dulaney's Districts Memphis Heritage Keystone Neighborhoods

Dulaney’s Districts: South Main Street Historic District

John Dulaney April 18, 2020 No Comments

Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties Catalogue gives us…

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Beale Street: Home of … a Neighborhood

Tiara Campbell April 8, 2020 4 Comments

NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Today’s neon Home of the Blues district was once a thriving Memphis neighborhood By Tiara Campbell Beale Street is the Home of the…

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Downtown Dulaney's Districts Historic Preservation Memphis Heritage Keystone Neighborhoods

Dulaney’s Districts: Pinch-North Main

John Dulaney February 2, 2020 No Comments

Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…

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Off the Endangered List: The Clayborn Temple

Charlie Lambert January 11, 2020 2 Comments

Profile #4 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert In 2015, the historic and deteriorating…

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