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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Lamar Avenue Rezoning, Neighborhood Revitalization
Planning leaders discuss the rezoning of this auto-centric corridor and new approaches to improving livability along major commercial thoroughfares like Lamar, including Summer and Union…
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Union Avenue Anthology. Part I, The Plan of Memphis: 1783-1827
A History of Memphis’ Most Maligned Street “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s famous line, from his 1951 novel Requiem…
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Love List 2020, Day 32: Modernism & the “decorated shed”
By Brantley Ellzey In October 1968, the architects and married couple Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, along with Steven Izenour and twelve Yale architecture…
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