Memphis4ever

5 cranes now

Photos of The Oliver and Home 2 Suites

Foundations going on great and I saw the mock up of the wall around the corner those bricks are beautiful.

Photos of the crane going up at 100 N main.

Pedestrian crosswalk at the new garage and autozone.

Framing floors 5 and 6 on the east tower and 2 on the west tower.

No they will be building a huge garage.

These developments still lack a true public walkable domain. But its a start.

I mean at $550 million im already assuming they are going to build a new arena. That is just a ridiculous cost for a renovation.

There is no money and not enough game attendance for a soccer stadium here. So that wont happen. I thought the hotel groups had signed on this project could move forward if they built it in smaller blocks vs the entire site.

Broad avenue looking nice.

The Oliver continues...

Tower crane going up today.

If you know this site and Memphis you will understand why retail is off of central vs southern ave. Southern is not that kind of street. Also the Kroc center owns their soccer fields and the new fields next to the Sports complex are under construction they serve as part of the revenue generation for the sports and events center. There is not much added retail as that was an agreement between cooper young. They did not want this development to pull from the local neighborhood retail areas. The goal is to provide some entertainment which cooper young does not provide and leave the tourist to explore the cooper young area and patronize the existing establishments.

The basement walls are being poured.

The Rise II is not under construction however the University Lofts are under construction.

Right across from where I work and the spot is similar to the wonder bread bakery lofts. Love the fresh design.

Finally going vertical we have steel. This should get interesting now. Hands down this biggest buildings being erected in Memphis

Home 2 Suites on Vance Avenue moving along.

Church park is named for Robert church prominent African American millionaire that park will not be destroyed just to clear that up. Also have worked on some designs at our office just need funding. Also the city is not pursuing an aquarium as the zoo would like to handle that.

To say Memphis and Jackson MS are in the same category is an insult. Cleary just because Memphis doesn't have tall glass buildings does not mean it is not growing. You have complete areas like Binghampton, South city, Uptown, Broad Avenue, even the Highland row area near the U of M that have been completely rebuilt with new walkable areas. The city and even the suburbs have seen impressive projects that are game changers for future development patterns. Silo Square in southaven, the Lake district in Lakeland, the Thornwood development in Germantown, upcoming convention center and hotel in southaven, Astoria square in Millington and the 700 million dollar mixed use development in east memphis. and the saddle creek redevelopment. These projects would be significant even in Nashville. Folks that do not live here really have no clue of all that is going on this is one reason why i try to post construction photos on a regular basis.

Memphis in May is upset right now because of a lawsuit. It has nothing to do with downtown but more with them finally having to be accountable for their damages. Also the festival has not really done well since covid. the festivities need to be revamped to appeal first to more locals and second tourists. Memphis in May will be fine, but it must adjust to changing times demographics and entertainment expectations. Memphis is afraid of change and things have got to adapt.

This is the issue with not having any new class A office space available downtown. People cant wait 3 years for a new building. No one wants to relocate into the older stuff.

It was there is an ice rink under the floor, i was there for construction.