This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Few roads in the United States could be described as “iconic.”…
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TDOT Awards Contract to Improve I-55 and Crump Interchange
Work to begin spring 2022 for completion in early 2025 APRIL 1, 2022, MEMPHIS, Tennessee – The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) awarded a construction…
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MidtownMemphis.org sets out to improve a neglected corner at Avalon and Madison
A popular strip mall on one side, a vast parking lot for the ever-popular Cash Saver on the other. Murphy’s Pub on one corner, the…
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Memphis Innovation Corridor: more public feedback encouraged
Updates & pop-ups, more concept plans revealed, and more public feedback encouraged This week, more design concept plans of the new Memphis Innovation Corridor were…
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Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…
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Arrow Creative Announces New Permanent Location
New location off Central Ave in Midtown promises to create a ‘Creative Central’ in the heart of the city Arrow Creative, a non-profit organization dedicated…
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BLDG Memphis Appoints Deveney Perry Executive Director
BLDG Memphis (Build. Live. Develop. Grow.), a coalition for organizations and individuals who support the development and redevelopment of healthy, vibrant, attractive and economically sustainable neighborhoods throughout…
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Tommy Pacello: A Remembrance
Editor’s Note: My thoughts echo what Tom Jones so eloquently says here, that some deaths make the world stop. Like many in Memphis, I knew…
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A Vision for the Nylon Net Building, #7 Vance
UPDATED 11/10: With a demolition permit now filed, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it UPDATED:…
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De-Listed = De-Struction: Investment in the Pinch Must Utilize What’s Left of Its Past
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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