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On 3/31/2024 at 9:26 AM, TheKernel91 said:
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.
I agree with these realistic approaches. Maybe it would take another developer to tackle the properties. Don’t have to have 3 huge developments at once - maybe just one high rise at a time. There must be a way to think outside the box rather than settling for low rises. Seems like there should be demand for St. Jude employees, visitors, plus convention center visitors. Intrator waited too long on this. The Pinch is the perfect destination and could hopefully be a second entertainment area for those groups since Beale is far away.
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On 3/22/2024 at 1:00 PM, MDC26 said:
The first trolley stop on Madison is almost 3 blocks from Main, just past the Visible Music College. There is a stop at Main & Madison, but on the Main St Line for the side for North bound trolleys. There's another stop on the South bound side close to the Court St intersection. With the way the lines cross over and locations o f the stops, I figure the Madison Line car will have to turn left onto Main St, onto the South bound track, cross over to the North bound track side, reverse direction to get to the Main/Madison stop, pickup/drop off passengers, then reverse direction back again to get back to the switchover point, change direction again to switch back to the South bound track, and turn right onto Madison. While the switching tracks, reversing direction is going on, any Main Street Trollies going by will have to stop and wait for this to complete.
Seems like a lot of waiting could be had. There isn’t a stop further north on Madison, near Front? Maybe it could reverse easily there.
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On 3/18/2024 at 6:52 PM, James Owen said:
MATA purchased some more vintage trolleys recently from Charlotte, NC with the intent on having them run not only on Main Street, but along a reopened Riverfront Loop line in the near future. As for the Madison Avenue line, MATA plans on utilizing light-rail/modern streetcars there as opposed to the vintage trolleys as they don't want to run the risk of having anymore of them catch fire - resulting in the initial shutdown of all three lines back in 2014.
It will be interesting to see how the light rail cars and trolleys intersect at Madison and Main. Hopefully more density will happen near the Cleveland/Madison intersection.
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I'm hoping this doesn't put a damper on the dock expansion projects the city proposed.
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On 2/3/2024 at 11:04 AM, BnaBreaker said:
Thanks for the clarification! In that case, I am all for each of those improvements.
It's much needed. Going north from FedEx Forum is where all the activity is. South of Beale needs more vibrancy. This excludes South Main.
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10 hours ago, Memphisborn said:
This property has so much potential for mixed use potential. A storage unit is not the highest and best use for this Gem of a property. They really need to have better vision for this property
I hope this was a joke. The Medical District Collaborative Board should block this super fast. Can they do that?
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Whatever happened to Morgan Keegan being renovated into apartments?
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Medical District development Vic on Union scales down, receives PILOT extension
Glad to know this project will go forward and hasn’t been scrapped as we thought. I thought this was an encouraging quote from the article:
“When we picked Memphis, we did it because we saw a long-term opportunity to grow as Memphis is growing.”
Yeah baby!!
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22 hours ago, VSRJ said:
Great news - sometimes you just gotta fund it yourself (can he do the Grand Hyatt next??).
Breaking: FedEx founder will help fund Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium renovations; U of M could control stadium
Shoutout to Fred Smith! Flex ya muscles dude! LOL.
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It IS unique - this is the type of style that needs to be on Beale anyway.
Speaking of the Edge District, what is going on with the Rise at the Ravine, especially where Coleman Taylor used to be?
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5 hours ago, Tony Randolph said:
It is a 3 to 5 block walk from the Sterick to the convention center. This is a pretty dangerous walk at night in Memphis. I am still hoping the building goes condo.
I would hope they would have a shuttle to take them where they need to go.
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MIM BBQ fest is moving to Liberty Park. Thoughts anyone?
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Great news indeed! It would've been nice to see MLGW build something new or relocate downtown, but all in all, very excited to see what will happen! I guess Paul Young had to flex his muscles before the election. LOL. The Downtown Master plan is coming to fruition. Glad that old MLGW will be torn down - it never fit anyway. That's a good piece of real estate too.
So is the leadership still bad?
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The city should throw its name in the hat. Be proactive and aggressive. At least we'd know where we stand. Probably need more population here for added support. AZP doesn't look like it'll be able to expand from the looks of the Brewers stadium, but what do I know. I'd like to see what the new mayor, whoever that is, has planned for this type of stuff.
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3 hours ago, MDC26 said:
If the Sterick was all hotel, I wonder how many rooms it would be. There was a recent article saying the lack of large full service hotels in downtown is holding the downtown/convention center back. That's why the Loew's and Grand Hyatt plans that fell through were such a big loss. The previous owners of 100 N Main had plans for it to be just a hotel w/ retail on ground floor. It had 400-500 rooms. I wish the new owners would do that, as 100 N Main is fairly close to the convention center. Any office or residential they were planning could be built in the vacant parking lot next to it. Honestly, I would like to see 100 N Main hotel, new residential at the vacant lot, and office at a renovated Jefferson Plaza, all with ground floor retail. Sterick would be good with residential and ground floor retail too.
All good points. Maybe this will be done in reverse, although we need the rooms now. By reverse, I mean that, we'll do the residential/hotel mix first (which is more profitable I think?) for these historic structures, then do the 400-500 room stuff later with a new build. Stuart Harris wants to encourage neighborhood-like development in this area, so hopefully there are plans for the parking lots in front of Sterick plus for 5 & 7 North Third. These need to be high rises, not 1-2 story stuff. Hopefully the market will bear that type of development in the future. Want to see the type of development that happened with the Carlisle hotels on Beale and Front to happen on Third/Madison/Court. I'd like to see a high rise built between Jefferson Plaza and 44 N. Second. My hope is that it'll be a little taller than the Commerce Sq. tower.
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1 hour ago, MDC26 said:
So just put a gag order on local media about reporting crime?
I don't disagree that the local media is more open about reporting all the crime as opposed to other cities, but the crime is happening. The statistics of crime rates per capita are top 10 in the nation for larger cities.
I'd rather take measures to reduce the crime rate and have safer downtown/tourism areas.
Not at all. The media serves a function as to inform. I’m not against that. Per the video I posted from City Nerd, an urban planner, statistics usually don’t tell the full story. As in a previous post, sometimes the statistics are skewed. However, I strongly agree with you, something should be done about crime. It’s the #1 issue. Saw state troopers downtown last week. At least something is being done. More needs to happen though. Again, there should be a balance. There are good things happening as well as bad. This is true in every city (I don’t like to use that argument, LOL). I think the point is, that’s all people hear and see seemingly is the bad. It shouldn’t be that way.
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45 minutes ago, TheKernel91 said:
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.
Agreed. A couple of mayoral candidates want to rebrand the city and its message, but my hope is that whoever is in office will bring about this change. I’m not going to trash our leadership, because that’s another thing the world negatively perceives of here. It’s ok to look at the glass half full sometimes. It look leadership to bring 100 N. Main back, plus Sterick. There are people that actually care about the city. Desmond Bane said he loves Memphis. Why can’t others?
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13 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:
No news here. It's just one random former NBA player on a podcast answering the question 'where would you put a new NBA team.'
That’s right. Click and ear bait. LOL. The Grizz belong in Memphis. Stop fueling the divide between the cities, not pointing the finger at anyone here. Be grateful for what’s going on in Nashville, but not at the expense of Memphis (as it has always been). Besides, Ja doesn’t fit Nashville. Just a joke. LOL. Grit and grind doesn’t either.
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I understand the frustration somewhat, but virtually all downtowns have a Holiday Inn Express. Let’s just get rid of the blight and when we’ve done that, look to build something new that would house an upscale venue.
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On 9/14/2023 at 12:04 AM, TheKernel91 said:
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.
Agreed. As long as it doesn’t take away from the 1st downtown. So many amenities within a walking distance. Whole Foods, Kroger, Houston’s, Paradiso. Makes a lot of sense. Knowing Carlisle, everything will probably be glass. LOL. Good thing is, it will kind of fit, if it was closer to the Hilton on Ridgeway.
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4 hours ago, James Owen said:
Some concrete plans for the old Racquet Club property have been revealed today:
Carlisle proposes $500M-$700M Mid-City mixed-use at former Racquet Club
By Stephen MacLeod – Reporter, Memphis Business Journal
It's behind a paywall, but here are some of the details that were mentioned:
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……
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Stunning. Beautiful. Very proud!!!
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On 9/2/2023 at 4:39 PM, jjbradleyBrooklyn said:
Wow! Such a shame, dang.
I feel like things like this have sort of happened in cities like Memphis with development opportunities. Poor leadership and folks out for themselves, rather than doing the right thing and the good business thing for the city.
Maybe a pattern in Memphis? Dunno, but the city certainly has a record of things falling through time and again, unfortunately.
There's no concrete proof of this (I hope, LOL), so before we go jumping to conclusions maybe we should leave it alone, as it continues more of the same narrative that people inevitably fall into time and time again while ignoring what the city has done so far. Memphis is no different than any other city in America. Our stuff gets aired out a lot more than other cities. Maybe we've had more than our fair share. There's no telling what has gone down in other cities that we didn't know about. I definitely don't have a skewed view of any other city in America because I know how much people have verbally trashed Memphis over and over. I have a relative that's from New Orleans - he told me about the corruption they endured, but I not dare make comments that are negative, even though it may true. I like New Orleans, warts and all. Aside to downtown Memphis. It was basically a ghost town after 1968 and hit a low in the 80s. Did poor leadership stall its development to bring it back to its renaissance? It was the downtown Memphis commission's goal to refurbish all of the vacant structures, and for the most part, they've been successful.
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On 8/30/2023 at 6:04 PM, MLBrumby said:
I have a bit of insight into the NFL expansion bid by Memphis back in the early 90s. Back in 1993 I was interning at a law firm in Atlanta back that had been engaged (through their Miami office) by the NFL to evaluate the various bids... Baltimore, Charlotte, Jacksonville, & Memphis. Baltimore was universally viewed as a shoe-in as the Irsay's had moved their Colts to Indianapolis. It was also likely that the league would expand by only 2 cities (turned out to be 3, but to the point), I recall grapevine speculation that the NFL didn't want all of them to go to the Eastern Time Zone, and Charlotte looks like a solid second place for its proximity to growing markets and financial institutions. Jacksonville was viewed as weakest b/c it was close to two other in-state teams as well as Atlanta.
As far as the time zone, NFL thought Memphis looked good on that count. They also knew there were issues in St. Louis (the Cardinals had moved out 5 years before) and thought the city might be a good stand-in for that region (Rams moved from LA to StL two years later). Tennessee was a stronger fit for TV and growth than Missouri. Anyway, one of the consultants recommended that Dunavent propose the team's name as "the Kings" and I don't know why he didn't go with it (anything from the tie-in to Elvis Presley Enterprises or copyright conflicts with the NBA team). That would almost have cinched the deal, except the thing that killed the whole deal was that the city's mayor and two powerful Councilmen (I believe individually) approached the league for bribes to get money for the stadium. The NFL left furious and the franchise was awarded to Jacksonville. There were even rumors at the time that the NFL gave the expansion to Jax just to make a point to Memphis. All this is to the point that Memphis could have been what Nashville became, as it's clear now what happened after the Titans moved there.
Heresay. Conjecture. Speculation. Where’s the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt? Some of us grew up watching Perry Mason. LOL.
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The state pays us attention, somewhat. LOL. If they didn't, we wouldn't have gotten some of the funding to renovate FedEx Forum. I think there are so many mouths to feed in this state, and everyone wants to jockey in position to get what they want. Memphis gets blamed for its leadership (or lack thereof), which is agreeable to a point. It's not all 100% bad. Our new mayor wants to increase property taxes to pay for needed services. Current Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics show some areas of crime are down, but still a lot more work to be done.
I'm happy that we have at least one major sports team, and also proud that they've been here for going on 20 years.