TheKernel91
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Well....there's still life for Pinch Project !
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Another Big project dead... man the pandemic messed it up for the big projects planned downtown.
I have a feeling St. Jude might buy the land to build out. I really don't want that. We need something similar to what he proposed for the downtown area. Large Hotels, Residential, and retail.
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If I can find it, I'll email the owner and suggest something more inspiring, because that'll be a dead zone
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No no no. We need a pause on storage faculties in Memphis. I really want the owners to think outside of the box for this property.
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22 hours ago, James Owen said:
The owners of the Sheraton next to the Renasant Convention Center have placed the property up for sale.
Sheraton Memphis Downtown, largest hotel in Memphis, is now listed for sale
By Stephen MacLeod, Memphis Business Journal
Whomever assumes ownership of the hotel will hopefully carry out the plans to renovate it completely.
All that gripe they gave about the Lowe's Hotel coming a couple years ago, just for them to leave? Opens the door for a new convention center hotel.
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On 1/4/2024 at 6:27 PM, James Owen said:
I suspect we'll know more about the redevelopment plans for Oak Court Mall and the former Racquet Club property in short order in the coming months as the area has the potential to be like Green Hills in Nashville if done properly.
I hope so. There's so much potiental. Especially how Laurelwood across street from the Mall has redeveloped and stabilized. That area does remind me alot of Green Hills. I believe the retail and commercial market will get stronger as properties are being invested.
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Downtown Projects to look out for 2024, According to the Commercial Appeal
I hope at some point this year we'll see construction start all of these and have cranes in the sky.
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8 hours ago, MDC26 said:
The Clippers will open their new arena next season at a price tag of $2 Billion. From what I've read, they plan to gut the interior of FEF and complete reconfigure the seating. Not sure what else is planned.
I wonder will that cut into the season and cause the Grizzlies to play elsewhere? Same as the Tigers at The Liberty Bowl.
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On 1/2/2024 at 3:16 PM, JTM1 said:
Five years after getting $91.2 million in financing, the project to upgrade the Poplar Avenue corridor is being launched.
The first phase of the project is a facelift along Ridgeway Road and Shady Grove Road between Park Place Centre and Briarcrest...
I thought this was interesting in the article.
The TIF district encompasses the Poplar corridor from I-240 to Kirby Parkway. The association has several projects planned for the area:
- A mixed-use development consisting of office, retail and hotel on Briarcrest Avenue;
- An office development on International Place;
- An office development at 860 Ridge Lake Blvd;
- A senior living apartment development at 6300 Briarcrest Ave.;
- And a mixed-use development consisting of office, retail and hotel space at 5900 Poplar Ave.
Are there any renderings of this work? I actually posted something last year I believe, about this area of Poplar having infill to grow more with those surface lots and limited land avaliable. Amazing.
Poplar Corridor Developments in progress
• Oak Court Mall being bought, more likely to get redevelopment.
• MidCity Development at the old Racquet Club site with a couple of midrises possible.
• The TIF planned in this article.
• The Carrefour at Germantown development.
There's also Perkin Flats that's about to start construction behind Soul Fish on Poplar. 5 story apartment building
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19 hours ago, Memphis4ever said:
Broad avenue looking nice.
Just imagine, they're adding another phase next to these, so much of this portion of Broad on one side will be full of apartments.
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1 hour ago, James Owen said:
Officials at TDOT and ArDOT are currently in the process of securing federal grant money to put towards building a new I-55 bridge over the Mississippi River, replacing the existing span that has been in use for over 70 years and would be cost prohibitive to retrofit in order to withstand strong earthquakes.
WREG did a story about it last night:
https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/tn-ar-work-together-on-proposed-new-i-55-bridge/
Even though I'm down for another bridge somewhere north of downtown to connect 385, this could solve that issue for a 3rd bridge. As long as they don't shut that one down.
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2 hours ago, MDC26 said:
My worry is not that it won't get approved, but rather if the developer not being able to get financing/funding.
This should be a big test for Intrator. He's gotten three smaller projects done, but this one is much larger, and if he can get this one done and make it successful, that gives more hope for anything becoming of his Pinch project.
Yeah, I was just wondering about the Pinch project. I think some article from the beginning of this year when he filed for an extension, or permit for the Pinch, he mentioned something about the end of 2023 to start the construction work on it. I need to find the article.
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On 11/10/2023 at 6:24 PM, Memphisborn said:
Yes that’s why distribution of the money stalled. They want something similar to deer district in Milwaukee. That vacant lot next to FedEx logistics could be apart of that plan.
The lot that had plans with the Clipper and hotel development? It would make sense to bring that area up. I forgot what developer had that land, but that would be nice to have a entertainment destination there.
I see they have Punch Bowl Social there at the Deer District, I was literally looking into this place last week because they have locations around the country, and I felt that it could do well Downtown, Midtown, East Memphis- Poplar area, or Collierville/Cordova. I said on here that Downtown is in need of a Fun arcade, bowling, mini golf type of entertainment.
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These aren't quite official. These are some of the plans for the Racquet Club site vision.
With this, Oak Court Mall redevelopment, the development on Mendenhall south of the tracks, and The Standard in Germantown. The Poplar corridor will get stronger financially.
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On 10/15/2023 at 9:03 AM, Nothingspectacular said:
Nashville is one of America’s fastest growing and most popular cities along with its peer cities of Austin, Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte. Memphis is at a different tier, more similar to Birmingham, Little Rock and Jackson, MS.
You say this and come on a Memphis forum to down a "different tier" city, but I gaurntee you're not on those listed cities pages to do the same, and you should, since they're a peer city and more in competition.
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8 hours ago, James Owen said:
The Hickory Ridge Mall part of the story has to do with the repurposing of a former Sears into an indoor self-storage facility.
As for the redevelopment of the Racquet Club property into mixed use, the LUCB is supposed to review the proposal at tomorrow's meeting.
Here's a link to the application that was sent, along with conceptual layouts: https://shelbycountytn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/13556
Thank you
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Does anybody have a subscription so we can see what updates they have for the Racquet Club and Hickory Ridge Mall?
https://dailymemphian.com/subscriber/article/38908/inked-mid-city-racquet-club-hickory-ridge-mall
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MLGW Plans to move from Downtown
I wanted to report this news last week before it got out.
I have a friend that works for MLGW and they told me last week that they just found out about the main office moving out of downtown. I didn't know it would be reported that soon though. Overall, I'm glad because that space downtown will be valuable being near a Entertainment district.
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16 hours ago, Tony Randolph said:
I admittedly know next to nothing about the hotel business. But the Hotel Indigo is next door to the Sterick, and I would recommend that the Sterick principals' study how that property has performed over the past few years, plus the other hotels in downtown Memphis. I have a suspicion that most hotel dwellers in downtown Memphis are tourists, since the real business district in Memphis is on Poplar between east Memphis and Germantown. If we could get a better handle on the crime problem in Memphis, which is one of the worst in the nation, I believe Memphis could become another Atlanta, and it hurts me to say this, another Nashville. This is just my opinion, but I would like to see residences, medical and other professional offices (not everyone can work from home), a high quality grocery store and a bank or two.
Handling crime is one thing, and healing the perception of real danger is another. From what it seems, Memphis reputation has been damaged some because of the push of people wanting to let the world know how our crime here is going. Almost making it apart of Memphis identity.
It's a must that we get a rebrand along side of lowering crime. Forbid if someone who dont know nothing about Memphis, only knows about its crime.
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On 8/30/2023 at 2:29 PM, Nothingspectacular said:
Nashville is a far superior market to Memphis for pretty much everything. It has a rapidly growing population base and the economic development is about the fastest in the entire country. Downtown Nashville continues to build dozens of skyscrapers so much so that the city is hardly recognizable today compared to just a few years ago. In comparison, Memphis has a sleepy small city vibe that’s not a good fit to attract professional sports like NFL, NHL, MLB.
Memphis having a sleepy small city vibe? Huh? A sleepy vibe here??
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On 9/11/2023 at 8:49 PM, The Guardian of Memphis said:
Let’s see if Mr. Carlisle can come through with ALL phases of this development. Wonder how tall these structures will be? Hope there won’t be any NIMBYs to halt it either. Buckhead, here we come!
Waiting on nothingspectacular……
I remember calling it back in 2019 that they will probably erect 4-5 high/mid rises, but 7 is amazing. I see what they planning and that'll be Memphis's "Buckhead". Downtown for the wealthy.
I like it, and hope they can develop to the fullest without the oppositions. I want to see a 2nd downtown in the city. Its unique, even though it's sprawling. For the South its not abnormal, but we'll stand out from a cities with that added.
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I remember around 2005/2006 Memphis crime "rose" in numbers because MPD started using FBI raw data comprehensive crime reporting system. Alot of cities at the time weren't counting up data the same. I remember someone explaining it online like... because of the FBI reporting some crimes would be counted double, triple, or more. Like if a fight broke out and multiple people got involved, in the old reporting it would count as one Assault, vs now it would account as multiple assaults with all involved.
I'm not sure if other cities adapted this reporting system by the FBI, but that increased our numbers noticeably compared to the year before and exaggerated our numbers compared to cities that didnt.
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Drove by the Top Golf Site a week and a half ago. They are moving fast.
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Saw this on Social Media
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Downtown Memphis News & Developments (CBD, South Main, Riverfront, Medical District, The Edge, Uptown)
in Memphis
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True. The density will look good from the ground still. Hell, maybe just 1 tall structure and tv rest midrises. It'll look good. Im just ready for us to finally get something tall off the ground downtown.