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Washington Bottoms demolition to proceed

by Joe Spake on October 2, 2010

View Washington Bottoms in a larger map After many news stories, blog posts and neighborhood protests, Mayor Wharton, on Thursday, announced that demolition of the abandoned apartment buildings and houses in the Washington Bottoms area would proceed with haste. Briefly, this large piece of Midtown property, roughly bounded by Poplar on the north, Cleveland on [...]

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A Midtown Target? yeah, right.

by Joe Spake on March 30, 2010

We Midtowners can keep on dreaming about being able to buy decent underwear, cute bed and bath items, and toys for the kiddies, west of of East Parkway at our very own big-box department store. The vast urban area roughly bounded by McNeil, Poplar, Court and Cleveland was to be the site of not only [...]

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Check out Union and Cleveland

by Joe Spake on September 30, 2009

When I read this article in the Memphis Business Journal, a few days ago, I didn’t realize the facelift had already begun at 1311 Union, in Midtown Memphis. I snapped a couple of pictures when I was in the vicinity today. Very recognizable images from the artists who have provided posters for the Center for [...]

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