Tonight is the first of the final two Mud Island public input meetings held by the Riverfront Development Corporation. I have a feeling that it's going to be packed with skaters and derby girls, so if skate parks don't interest you, or you think they a...
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With the Mud Island Land Use Study - Phase Three Public Meetings wrapping up this week, there may be questions about the final recommendations, but there can be no questions any longer about the potential of a skate park on the Mississippi River isthmu...
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If you live or work Downtown, check out this Daily News article about the Downtown Neighborhood Association. After two and a half years of ineffective leadership, new people are in charge and the DNA is making a comeback. The next meeting is at Harbo...
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My morning commute delivers me many days to downtown Memphis from the Riverside Drive exit of I-40. It’s the antithesis of the experience that greets me two miles away south when I enter downtown from the other end of Riverside Drive off I-55.There, th...
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Henry Turley has been called a visionary developer in his 40-year
career in real estate, but his vision of the old Mid-South Fairgrounds
is looking increasingly less likely. An alternative option — call it the public option, in today's
parlance — would...
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To mark the Flyer's 20th anniversary, we're looking back at stories from our first two decades. by Bianca Phillips [image-1] Earlier this month, a standing-room-only crowd of riverfront advocates and preservationists piled into
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Opponents object to walkways and boulders in riverfront plan. by Bianca Phillips Preservationists, members of Friends for Our Riverfront, and the Riverfront Development Corporation (RDC) all agree on one thing: The riverfront's
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We are repeating a post from June, 2007, that we never thought might apply to this Memphis City Council:It is an aphorism – though none the less true – that the most segregated hour in Memphis is at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning.Surely it’s equally true th...
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In connection with the University of Memphis' new law school on Front Street —Â scheduled to open this fall —Â the Riverfront Development Corporation is building a pedestrian bridge across Court Avenue. The bridge will connect the former Customs House ...
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Just got the following release from the UrbanArt Commission: As the University of Memphis moves its law school to Front Street in downtown Memphis, the Riverfront Development Corporation is building a pedestrian bridge that will span the length of Cour...
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