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RE: One Beale shorter, but still not dead
If the Carlisle Group was aggressive they would approach Fed Ex about building an Office Tower and housing Fed Ex employees....

We have heard so much stuff over the years from Carlisle, I'm just really really skeptical of what may or may not happen...


(05-24-2018 04:17 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 04:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:28 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I think 100 North Main has a better chance of happening than One Beale simply because it is tied to the convention center and the money will come from TIF zones.

It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

Existing or new construction?
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RE: One Beale shorter, but still not dead
(05-25-2018 09:59 AM)TigersTigers Wrote:  If the Carlisle Group was aggressive they would approach Fed Ex about building an Office Tower and housing Fed Ex employees....

We have heard so much stuff over the years from Carlisle, I'm just really really skeptical of what may or may not happen...


(05-24-2018 04:17 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 04:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:28 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I think 100 North Main has a better chance of happening than One Beale simply because it is tied to the convention center and the money will come from TIF zones.

It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

Existing or new construction?
I seriously doubt you will see Fedex have a large presence in a downtown tower. Doesn't seem to be their desired location. If they haven't put anything of size there in 45 years, it must be by choice.

The Carlisle Group does seem to have big ideas with very little results. Seem to be losing credibility.
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RE: One Beale shorter, but still not dead
(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:28 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I think 100 North Main has a better chance of happening than One Beale simply because it is tied to the convention center and the money will come from TIF zones.

It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Really miss the old Central Station.

Sad to admit that my family shut down the restaurant in the station. My Grandfather, Mom and my Aunt owned it going back and forth between them for a while until it returned to my Grandfather who had no choice to shut the doors after all the train traffic ceased.

Up to a few years ago i still had some of the old shake glasses they used but they were lost between moves.

My mom will kill me for saying this and we still give her a hard time. Right before closing one night the cook had already left and a man came in right before they locked the doors and order onion rings. At that time she did not know how to cook them so she just fried some un-battered onions. LOL

Those were the days we kids played in the train station for hours until my Mom got off work. Kids could never do that today without fear.

Went back there many years later to work on AC system. The entire system was put together with solder and not sil-flos.
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RE: One Beale shorter, but still not dead
(05-25-2018 09:59 AM)TigersTigers Wrote:  If the Carlisle Group was aggressive they would approach Fed Ex about building an Office Tower and housing Fed Ex employees....

We have heard so much stuff over the years from Carlisle, I'm just really really skeptical of what may or may not happen...


(05-24-2018 04:17 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 04:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:28 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I think 100 North Main has a better chance of happening than One Beale simply because it is tied to the convention center and the money will come from TIF zones.

It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

Existing or new construction?

People think getting Fedex or IP to build towers downtown is so easy, as if they are the first ones to think of it. Richard Smith has indicated an openness (in the open-ended future) to building IFF there were enough employee demand. Didnt seem enthusiastic one way or the other about it, though.

The area needs a stronger Arkansas to pull the population center westward. Some Memphis booster should venture out there and develop a larger regional plan for them to tap into one of the largest steel centers in the nation (NE Ark), the greyhound park, the eyesore I40/I55 area, and the burgeoning outdoor scene. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, but seems things could improve there in a way that was deliberate and intentional
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I believe the 100 N. Main residential units will be apts., not condos.
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(05-28-2018 06:55 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I believe the 100 N. Main residential units will be apts., not condos.

I doubt they would put apartments and hotel rooms in the same tower. Maybe separate towers?
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I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.
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(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.
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So if I’m reading it right, this project has gone from a 30+story tower to a 6 story apartment complex? Wth. Only in Memphis
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(05-31-2018 12:51 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.

Since I am not an architect or engineer, I hesitate to define that, but those are the words an architect used to me years ago. He also said that the building is top heavy, being supported by a multi-story parking garage, and built on sandy bluffs, some of which failed in the last New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. The tall, thin, unstable structure could easily pitch off of its spindly base in the event of a major earthquake like the New Madrid which caused a fairly-long rolling movement of the ground.
My renowned Vanderbilt geology professor, who was THE expert on the New Madrid earthquakes, also concurred in the idea that the tall Memphis downtown buildings would not fare well when the bluffs liquify with their large sand component, like they did before, in a major earthquake.
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(06-05-2018 05:37 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 12:51 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.

Since I am not an architect or engineer, I hesitate to define that, but those are the words an architect used to me years ago. He also said that the building is top heavy, being supported by a multi-story parking garage, and built on sandy bluffs, some of which failed in the last New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. The tall, thin, unstable structure could easily pitch off of its spindly base in the event of a major earthquake like the New Madrid which caused a fairly-long rolling movement of the ground.
My renowned Vanderbilt geology professor, who was THE expert on the New Madrid earthquakes, also concurred in the idea that the tall Memphis downtown buildings would not fare well when the bluffs liquify with their large sand component, like they did before, in a major earthquake.

Is this architect the same person who told you it would cost more than 30 Million bucks to demo the Coliseum?
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(05-31-2018 03:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  So if I’m reading it right, this project has gone from a 30+story tower to a 6 story apartment complex? Wth. Only in Memphis

Well, even Nashville had grand plans that didn't come to fruition.

Signature Tower was planned to be the tallest building in the US outside of NY and Chicago at over 1,000 feet tall.

It instead became a 455 foot building. Still tall, but not as planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_Tower
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(06-05-2018 10:36 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 05:37 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 12:51 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.

Since I am not an architect or engineer, I hesitate to define that, but those are the words an architect used to me years ago. He also said that the building is top heavy, being supported by a multi-story parking garage, and built on sandy bluffs, some of which failed in the last New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. The tall, thin, unstable structure could easily pitch off of its spindly base in the event of a major earthquake like the New Madrid which caused a fairly-long rolling movement of the ground.
My renowned Vanderbilt geology professor, who was THE expert on the New Madrid earthquakes, also concurred in the idea that the tall Memphis downtown buildings would not fare well when the bluffs liquify with their large sand component, like they did before, in a major earthquake.

Is this architect the same person who told you it would cost more than 30 Million bucks to demo the Coliseum?

I stand by both statements. I have seen a reference to the 100 N. Main's steel structure in print before, but cannot find it now. Like I said, being poised on about 7 floors of parking does not help its stability. Of course, when it was built earthquake building standards were different, too. This vulnerability has been pretty much talked-about by downtowners for decades, and I do believe there is truth to it. But keep on "funnin'" me.
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(06-06-2018 10:11 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 03:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  So if I’m reading it right, this project has gone from a 30+story tower to a 6 story apartment complex? Wth. Only in Memphis

Well, even Nashville had grand plans that didn't come to fruition.

Signature Tower was planned to be the tallest building in the US outside of NY and Chicago at over 1,000 feet tall.

It instead became a 455 foot building. Still tall, but not as planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_Tower

He ain't reading it right anyways. it's not just a 6 story apartment complex. It's still an approximately $111 million project:

The pricetag has been right-sized, too, from an estimated $160 million three years ago to approximately $111 million.

Carlisle Development Co. is asking the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. to extend its deadline to take advantage of a 20-year tax abatement on the project, granted in July 2015.

The revised plan calls for a seven-story, 201-room four-star hotel, a six-story building with 220 luxury apartments and commercial redevelopment of the historic Ellis Machine Shops.

Both mid-rise buildings would be mixed-use, with the hotel containing 20,000 square feet of meeting space and ground-floor retail or restaurant and the apartment building incorporating 10,000 square feet of Class A office, 7,000 square feet restaurant/retail and a parking garage of up to 490 spaces.
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(05-27-2018 04:58 PM)kabluey Wrote:  
(05-25-2018 09:59 AM)TigersTigers Wrote:  If the Carlisle Group was aggressive they would approach Fed Ex about building an Office Tower and housing Fed Ex employees....

We have heard so much stuff over the years from Carlisle, I'm just really really skeptical of what may or may not happen...


(05-24-2018 04:17 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 04:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

Existing or new construction?

People think getting Fedex or IP to build towers downtown is so easy, as if they are the first ones to think of it. Richard Smith has indicated an openness (in the open-ended future) to building IFF there were enough employee demand. Didnt seem enthusiastic one way or the other about it, though.

The area needs a stronger Arkansas to pull the population center westward. Some Memphis booster should venture out there and develop a larger regional plan for them to tap into one of the largest steel centers in the nation (NE Ark), the greyhound park, the eyesore I40/I55 area, and the burgeoning outdoor scene. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, but seems things could improve there in a way that was deliberate and intentional


The problem with the Arkansas side is access. It's not part of a loop. The possibility is there but would require two new bridges. One that connects I--555/I-55 to the future I-69/I-269 interchange at Millington and a rerouting of I-55 a little further west than it currently runs that goes by the intermodal and industrial park in Marion, crosses I-40 where the old Nascar track was and continued on the river and cross and tied into I-69 in Tunica. That would allow for a comeplete overhaul of the Old Bridge and would eventually be an extended I-22(or the Tunica to Arkansas segment could be) The grand vision would be to continue I-22 to Jonesboro via I-555 and eventual west to Tulsa or I-35 west of there using US 412 as a guide.

I would also like to see in habitable islands build up with the levees between the two existing bridges to a hight above flood level(5 ft higher than Harbor town as a guide) for either housing mid rise offices/mixed use, and tourism purposes. Build a recreational slackwater harbor.
When the old bride bridge interchange is adressed add the foundation for a light rail system, possibly using the other side of the new trail using the old, old bridge.

The land between the interstates in WM before splitting and going over the levees could have been so much more. Think 6 Flags or Outlet shopping center than 18 wheel heaven.
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(06-06-2018 01:56 PM)Wayward Memphian Wrote:  
(05-27-2018 04:58 PM)kabluey Wrote:  
(05-25-2018 09:59 AM)TigersTigers Wrote:  If the Carlisle Group was aggressive they would approach Fed Ex about building an Office Tower and housing Fed Ex employees....

We have heard so much stuff over the years from Carlisle, I'm just really really skeptical of what may or may not happen...


(05-24-2018 04:17 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 04:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

Existing or new construction?

People think getting Fedex or IP to build towers downtown is so easy, as if they are the first ones to think of it. Richard Smith has indicated an openness (in the open-ended future) to building IFF there were enough employee demand. Didnt seem enthusiastic one way or the other about it, though.

The area needs a stronger Arkansas to pull the population center westward. Some Memphis booster should venture out there and develop a larger regional plan for them to tap into one of the largest steel centers in the nation (NE Ark), the greyhound park, the eyesore I40/I55 area, and the burgeoning outdoor scene. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, but seems things could improve there in a way that was deliberate and intentional


The problem with the Arkansas side is access. It's not part of a loop. The possibility is there but would require two new bridges. One that connects I--555/I-55 to the future I-69/I-269 interchange at Millington and a rerouting of I-55 a little further west than it currently runs that goes by the intermodal and industrial park in Marion, crosses I-40 where the old Nascar track was and continued on the river and cross and tied into I-69 in Tunica. That would allow for a comeplete overhaul of the Old Bridge and would eventually be an extended I-22(or the Tunica to Arkansas segment could be) The grand vision would be to continue I-22 to Jonesboro via I-555 and eventual west to Tulsa or I-35 west of there using US 412 as a guide.

I would also like to see in habitable islands build up with the levees between the two existing bridges to a hight above flood level(5 ft higher than Harbor town as a guide) for either housing mid rise offices/mixed use, and tourism purposes. Build a recreational slackwater harbor.
When the old bride bridge interchange is adressed add the foundation for a light rail system, possibly using the other side of the new trail using the old, old bridge.

The land between the interstates in WM before splitting and going over the levees could have been so much more. Think 6 Flags or Outlet shopping center than 18 wheel heaven.


Anything would be better than the murder and pot hole capital of America. Last time I drove out of that patch, our tire blew. The series of consecutive potholes are deep and dangerous. It was a Sunday.....I remember seeing a few cars on the side of the road with flats. I know that's on Arkansas, and they suck. I am serious.
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(06-06-2018 11:34 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 10:36 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 05:37 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 12:51 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.

Since I am not an architect or engineer, I hesitate to define that, but those are the words an architect used to me years ago. He also said that the building is top heavy, being supported by a multi-story parking garage, and built on sandy bluffs, some of which failed in the last New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. The tall, thin, unstable structure could easily pitch off of its spindly base in the event of a major earthquake like the New Madrid which caused a fairly-long rolling movement of the ground.
My renowned Vanderbilt geology professor, who was THE expert on the New Madrid earthquakes, also concurred in the idea that the tall Memphis downtown buildings would not fare well when the bluffs liquify with their large sand component, like they did before, in a major earthquake.

Is this architect the same person who told you it would cost more than 30 Million bucks to demo the Coliseum?

I stand by both statements. I have seen a reference to the 100 N. Main's steel structure in print before, but cannot find it now. Like I said, being poised on about 7 floors of parking does not help its stability. Of course, when it was built earthquake building standards were different, too. This vulnerability has been pretty much talked-about by downtowners for decades, and I do believe there is truth to it. But keep on "funnin'" me.

You assume that the parking structure is less "sturdy" than the building structure. That may not necessarily be the case.

The earthquake issue is a whole different story.
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(06-05-2018 05:37 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 12:51 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-31-2018 09:31 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I think that was the original plan before they decided to add a tower. I wouldn't mind living in a well-done condo there, but not waste my money on an apt. and not really want to be near the chaos of a hotel. But then, there is always the shake, rattle and roll factor of the 100 N. Main not having reinforced steel in the case of the
Big One.

I have a fondness for the place, even though it has very bad vibes from having been built on a slave market, because my father was the second tenant in there in 1963 or whenever it opened, and I spent about ten years there in his office space. Funny thing, Harry Bloomfield originally planned a second tower on the parking lot to the south. I don't know why that never materialized because for many years the 100 N. Main bldg was full.

Define reinforced steel.

Since I am not an architect or engineer, I hesitate to define that, but those are the words an architect used to me years ago. He also said that the building is top heavy, being supported by a multi-story parking garage, and built on sandy bluffs, some of which failed in the last New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. The tall, thin, unstable structure could easily pitch off of its spindly base in the event of a major earthquake like the New Madrid which caused a fairly-long rolling movement of the ground.
My renowned Vanderbilt geology professor, who was THE expert on the New Madrid earthquakes, also concurred in the idea that the tall Memphis downtown buildings would not fare well when the bluffs liquify with their large sand component, like they did before, in a major earthquake.

To illuminate what is otherwise hearsay (unless the Vandy prof has evidence to support what otherwise appears to be a broad generalization), here is published research: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/urba...action.php

There is a better, downtown-only image/study somewhere that, if I remember correctly, breaks down the potential block by block. I will continue to search for it.
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(05-24-2018 03:40 PM)3601 Wrote:  
(05-24-2018 03:28 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I think 100 North Main has a better chance of happening than One Beale simply because it is tied to the convention center and the money will come from TIF zones.

It would be great if both actually happen. There seems to be some momentum coming back downtown.

I read today where another developer is looking to build a 6-story building near Loflin Yard.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new hotel in Central Station.

It's just a matter of time before Belz does something with the old bank building at Beale & Main.

Not to mention the St. Jude planned redevelopment around the Pinch.

Word on the street...FedEx will be opening an office complex downtown in a landmark building.

https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news...-move.html
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Seeing that Carlisle just bought more Wendys, they seem to be putting their efforts everywhere but in the high rise.
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