Central Gardens – An Iconic Corner Tests Neighborhood Guidelines
Next month’s 41st Annual Home & Garden Tour starts out from the historic Beethoven Club, at the northwest corner of Peabody and McLean, and for…
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Central Gardens’ History – Innovation Secures the Neighborhood’s Renaissance
This month’s Central Gardens newsletter explores the important role private security services played in the late 1970s that allowed the neighborhood to continue to flourish…
Central Gardens’ History – Part II of A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism
This month’s Central Gardens newsletter explores the 1975 turning-point decision that took the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association into the waning decades of the twentieth century.…
Central Gardens’s History – A Neighborhood Association Born Out Of Activism
This month the Central Gardens newsletter explores the creation of the neighborhood association, from the original motivations to its ultimate formation in 1967, and its…
Central Gardens’ History – Celebrating Fifty Years as a Neighborhood Association
(A version of this appears in the Central Gardens January Newsletter ) 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Central Gardens Neighborhood Association. And for their…
A Sense of Place: From Binghampton to Central
By Mark Allen Scott The first week of May has always been important in our household. It’s a birthday of sorts. Actually, two birthdays. Both…
1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I
2018 marks Central Garden’s twenty-fifth year as a Historic Overlay District under the jurisdictional protections of the Memphis Landmarks Commission. For this two-part installment, we…
Union Avenue Anthology. Introduction: Where have you gone, Union Avenue?
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…
Planning & Development: Landmarks Commission Applications for September 28
First “Union Station” Developments Proposed at Former Union Avenue Police Precinct Site New townhouses in the new gated community in the Union Station development are…
Planning & Development: Board of Adjustment Applications for September 27, 2023
The ownership of Ashlar Hall, the castle-like structure along Central Avenue in Midtown that is the longtime home to myth, legend, a legendary resident, years…
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