The concept of environmental justice is joining the issue of sustainability in new discussions about planning and the way cities like Memphis should work.

Local and regional planners meet Friday, April 19, at the University of Memphis to talk about “just sustainability” with the Tufts University planner who has been writing about it for the last decade.

2. Social Suds Brings Services to Soulsville - Friday, April 05, 2013

With a bubble machine on the roof, the new South Memphis Alliance laundromat and resource center opened Wednesday, April 3, at 1044 S. Bellevue Blvd.

3. Crosstown Leaders Discuss Ambitious Project - Saturday, March 30, 2013

Leaders of the Crosstown Development Project talked this month with The Memphis News editorial board about their plans for the adaptive reuse of the 1.5 million-square-foot, circa-1927 Sears Crosstown building.

4. Aerotropolis Pitch to Council Receives Mixed Reaction - Thursday, March 21, 2013

After years of very general talk about the aerotropolis concept, Memphis City Council members are ready for leaders of the effort to bring it in for a landing in specific terms that work with plans in smaller areas of the district around Memphis International Airport.

5. South Main’s New Life - Saturday, March 02, 2013

The history of the South Main Historic Arts District is as colorful as its present-day users, an alternating rhythm of sorts in Memphis’ songbook.

The area has oscillated from its ritzy suburban roots of the 1800s to the industrial era ghost town of the 20th century and now to its current status as Downtown’s flourishing arts and boutique district and the subject of some $100 million in investment. And it’s all due to stakeholders who braved the status quo in distinguishing the southern end of the Central Business District as that funky place with an indescribable vibe.

6. Riley Takes Reins Of Women Attorneys Group - Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fran Riley was named president of the Association for Women Attorneys at the organization’s 33rd annual banquet and silent auction last month.

Riley is a law clerk to the five judges of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

7. Tax Zone Would Benefit Fairgrounds - Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Tourism Development Zone that Memphis officials will seek in Nashville over the next three months would generate tax revenue from Cooper-Young, the Midtown Union Avenue corridor and Overton Square for the redevelopment of the Mid-South Fairgrounds.

8. Reardon Cautions Downtowners About Heritage Trail - Thursday, February 14, 2013

The University of Memphis professor spearheading the opposition of demolishing the city’s last remaining public housing project in the Vance Avenue neighborhood says that while the Heritage Trail Community Redevelopment Plan appears to be on “indefinite hold,” it is not dead, and Downtowners should beware.

9. Renewed Focus - Friday, December 07, 2012

Reginald Milton calls it the “dirty little secret” of nonprofits whose mission is to provide social services.

10. Reardon Speaks Out Against City’s Approach to Housing - Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The University of Memphis professor leading the resistance to a still-forming plan to demolish the city’s last large public housing project says the city’s approach to transforming public housing since the late 1990s hasn’t worked.

11. Heritage Trail Plan Raises Concerns - Tuesday, November 20, 2012

While the focus of the Heritage Trail Community Redevelopment Plan is on public housing projects Cleaborn Pointe at Heritage Landing and Foote Homes, the 20-year plan has far reaching implications for Downtown stakeholders, especially real estate developers.

12. Expert: Investors Confound Housing - Monday, November 12, 2012

The role of investor-driven neighborhoods in Memphis is growing, and the impact on different kinds of neighborhoods is largely unstudied and unknown.

For instance, what does it mean that going into 2012, 54 percent of residential property sales were accounted for by investor purchases from the Real Estate Owned (REO) inventory of foreclosing lenders?

13. Rekindling Crosstown - Monday, November 05, 2012

Video artist Chris Miner says one way to explain the redevelopment of the Sears Crosstown building is likening it to the process of creating art.

“You get into it with a general idea of what you want to do, but then you kind of let it take you wherever you are going to go or wherever the piece wants to go,” he said.

14. Rise of House Flipping Focus Of Seminar - Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The impact of the foreclosure crisis on Shelby County home values is intricate and far-reaching.

Recent estimates by real estate information company Chandler Reports suggest that nearly a quarter of Memphis’ total housing stock are non-owner occupied.

15. Soul Map - Monday, October 22, 2012

The Soulsville arrows beneath the Bellevue Boulevard railroad overpasses near Walker Avenue point north and south. It is the first indication that you are in an area where several possibilities can coexist.

16. Events Showcase Soulsville’s ‘Blank Canvas’ - Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A group of organizations working to bring to life the Soulsville community ended a busy weekend that is an indication of the area’s promise at about where the produce section was supposed to be in the Soulsville Towne Center supermarket.

17. Crosstown Stakeholder Pleased With Development’s Direction - Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Todd Richardson gave some schemes – albeit changing ones – of the redeveloped Sears Crosstown building in Midtown Friday, Oct. 5, at Universal Commercial Real Estate’s Regional Minority Business Entrepreneur Power Breakfast.

18. Council to Vote on Cleaborn Homes - Tuesday, October 02, 2012

With a vote Tuesday, Oct. 2, the Memphis City Council will change the name of the old Cleaborn Homes public housing development to Cleaborn Pointe at Heritage Landing and the name of the larger south Downtown-into-South Memphis Triangle Noir plan to Heritage Trails.

19. LRK Designs Honored With Industry Excellence Awards - Monday, October 01, 2012

Two of Memphis-based LRK Inc.’s designs have received national acclaim from the Multi-Housing News Excellence Awards, which honor the multifamily industry’s most noteworthy people, companies and properties.

20. Midtown Utopia - Monday, September 24, 2012

Of Memphis’ tales of humble beginnings, of which there are many, the fluctuating renaissance of the Cooper-Young neighborhood is certainly compelling throughout.

The area has cycled from its 19th century roots to 1970s crime and neglect to its present-day status as one of the largest historic districts in the Southeast, a magnet of all ages and walks of life. All thanks to individuals and organizations that wouldn’t settle for sub-par quality in their tiny town within the bustling Bluff City.

21. Return on Investment - Monday, September 24, 2012

Most people already know some of the basic elements of the banking business. From the large national lenders with a Memphis presence to the community banks in the suburbs, one common element is they make money by charging borrowers more than the bank pays in interest to depositors.

22. Difference of Opinion - Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.’s administration and a group of neighborhood leaders in the Vance Avenue area agree on highlighting the significant history of the area south of FedExForum.

Some kind of trail linking up more than a dozen sights is a feature both groups are planning for the area.

23. Vance Collaborative to Unveil Plan - Thursday, September 13, 2012

When the Vance Avenue Collaborative unveils its five-year, six-project plan Thursday, Sept. 13, for revitalizing the area south of FedExForum there will be some differences from what Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.’s administration has been thinking.

24. Nonprofit Center Could be New South Memphis Gateway - Thursday, August 30, 2012

The giant milk bottle will outlive the old dairy plant it stands atop in South Memphis. For more than 80 years, the giant milk bottle adorning a now old and crumbling dairy building on Bellevue Boulevard at Walker Avenue has been an icon.

25. Wharton Hosts Fundraiser Amidst Development Blitz - Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Less than a year after winning election to a full four year term as Memphis Mayor, A C Wharton Jr. held a campaign fundraiser Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

The $1,000-a-person event invitation included a letter that said the money could be used for a re-election campaign and/or for donation by Wharton to candidates in other races as well as to donate to organizations.

26. Planning Continues for Broad, Binghampton - Thursday, August 23, 2012

As after-school traffic made its way north and south on Tillman Street last week, a crossing guard whistled children across one of the narrow streets by Lester Community Center.

The traffic was mostly cars, but the occasional bicycle from the nearby western terminus of the Shelby Farms Greenline whizzed by as well.

27. New Day Coming for Sears Crosstown Urban Village - Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The historic Sears Crosstown building in Midtown Memphis is being redeveloped as a mixed-used vertical urban village, with nine “founding partners” in local health care, education and arts organizations that have signed on to occupy 600,000 square feet of the total 1.4 million square feet of space.

28. Lee House Development Could Propel District - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

In the 19th century, Victorian Village was home to Memphis’ elite.

Nowadays, the 10-square-block area in Downtown Memphis has one of the highest concentrations of historic structures in the city, with 24 properties on the National Register of Historic Places within four blocks.

29. Hunt-Phelan Listed With Colliers for $2.9M - Friday, July 13, 2012

Downtown’s Hunt-Phelan house – a historic mansion at 533 Beale St. that hosted guests including Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson – has been listed on the market for $2.865 million with the Memphis office of Colliers International.

30. Economic Dev. Conference Slated for Saturday - Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Home for the Holidays Summer Conference 2012 is slated for Saturday, July 14, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Union Avenue Campus of Southwest Tennessee Community College in the Verties Sails Gymnasium (Building E).

31. Herenton Home Listed as Short Sale - Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Former Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton’s home in Banneker Estates is on the market as a short sale.

The single-family home on Horn Lake Road has been on the market for more than 160 days. The house in the McKellar-Whitehaven-Levi PD neighborhood is listed for $369,900 with B.J. Worthy with RE/MAX on Track.

32. SRVS Awarded Grant for Housing Projects - Thursday, June 28, 2012

Tennessee Housing Development Agency’s Housing Trust Fund Program has awarded a $690,000 grant to Memphis-based SRVS, West Tennessee’s most comprehensive service provider for people with disabilities, to construct and/or renovate six homes for low-income people with disabilities.

33. Saving the Haven - Monday, June 25, 2012

With lush vegetation and a smattering of homes on large lots, Northaven is reminiscent of neighboring Shelby Forest.

But the community that sits north of Memphis and south of Millington also contains plenty of homes on smaller lots with the traditional layout of a 1970s-era suburban neighborhood. Northaven isn’t Shelby Forest. It isn’t Memphis, either. The unincorporated Shelby County neighborhood is where rural and suburban meet – and the combination hasn’t aged well.

34. CCRFC to Consider Chisca PILOT - Monday, June 11, 2012

A group of local investors spearheading the restoration of the Chisca Hotel will go before the Memphis Center City Revenue Finance Corp. Tuesday, June 12, seeking a pair of incentives as part of the $19.6 million project.

35. Loeb Makes Progress on Square Plan - Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The blue banner that hung until recently at the curved building at Cooper Street and Madison Avenue and read “Returning in 2012” will soon ring true for Overton Square and its developer, Loeb Properties Inc.

36. Homes Part of North Memphis Revitalization - Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Usually Self + Tucker Architects do the design work and planning for someone else who is the developer.

But in an open lot on the north side of Chelsea Avenue at Leath Street, seven single- family homes to come in the next year will be the architecture firm’s first steps into developing.

37. Foreclosures Up 30 Pct. in Q1 - Thursday, April 19, 2012

The timing and backdrop seem fitting. During the first quarter of 2012, the same three-month period in which the state of Tennessee announced its participation in a $25 billion settlement with some of the biggest lenders over foreclosure abuses, the number of foreclosures in Shelby County swelled by almost 30 percent.

38. FedEx Grants $50K to Community LIFT - Monday, March 26, 2012

FedEx Corp. has awarded $50,000 in grant funds to support Community LIFT’s efforts to improve Memphis neighborhoods.

39. Cooper-Young Growth - Tuesday, March 06, 2012

When Bert Smythe decided to launch new restaurant concept Alchemy last summer in the Cooper-Young district, the 5,200-square-foot space formerly occupied by Grace and Au Fond Farmtable seemed about 25 percent larger than was needed.

40. 100 Years of Higher Learning - Monday, January 23, 2012

You can find the origins of the University of Memphis in the 19th century – the 19th Century Club, that is.

It’s because the idea for the institution took root more than 100 years ago among a group of women who were members of the service and philanthropy group that still exists today.

41. GrowMemphis to Award Garden Project Grants - Friday, December 30, 2011

Nonprofit GrowMemphis has teamed up with Memphis Housing and Community Development to grant $5,000 to new community garden projects in 2012. Applications for the grants will be accepted through Jan. 31. New garden projects can apply for as much as $1,500 in equipment and supplies and as much as $1,500 for site improvements.

42. Harbor Town Apts. Sell For $31.5M - Friday, December 23, 2011

Dallas-based Behringer Harvard has acquired the Arbors Harbor Town Apartments – a 345-unit multifamily community in Harbor Town on Mud Island – for $31.5 million, or $91,304 per unit.

43. ServiceMaster, Other Cos. Support Habitat Mission - Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has a busy couple of weeks ahead as it closes its books on the fall building season.

Tuesday, Oct. 25, marked the dedication of The ServiceMaster Co. home at 3477 E. Oak Side Drive in Trinity Park, the first all-green neighborhood being developed by Memphis Habitat. The will be the Memphis-based home and commercial services company’s fifth sponsorship home with the nonprofit.

44. Memphis Habitat Receives $20K From THA - Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis recently received $20,000 from Tennessee Housing Development Agency and Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee’s Coming Back Home Grant.

The grant will be used for home construction this fall in Trinity Park, Memphis Habitat’s neighborhood of 38 eco-friendly homes. The affiliate also received a $20,000 Coming Back Home Grant in March.

45. Good Old Brand-New - Friday, September 16, 2011

NEW URBANISM MAKES GOOD, OLD COMMON SENSE. As Chooch Pickard, executive director of the Memphis Regional Design Center, rolled through his PowerPoint, I was struck by a powerful, hopeful, sense of déjà vu.

46. Erica Gorman Named Habitat’s Volunteer Manager - Friday, September 16, 2011

Erica Gorman, former volunteer and events coordinator at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis, was recently promoted to volunteer manager.

47. Living on the Edge - Thursday, August 18, 2011

In 2008, something was brewing in the area near Cleveland and Watkins streets south of Poplar Avenue in Midtown.

A developer, Tom Marsh, working with Florida-based WSG Development, had unveiled plans for a mixed-use development to include small and large retail, including a Target store, condominiums, apartments and medical offices, along with all-around improvements to the neighborhood known as Crosstown.

48. Clayborn-Ball Temple Plays Role In Area’s Future - Monday, August 01, 2011

A historic Downtown church is for sale after decades of attempts by the AME church leadership to bring it back.

What happens to Clayborn Ball Temple could be a bellwether for redevelopment efforts for the area just south of FedExForum. It’s an area developers and planners refer to as SoFo.

49. Coming Back - Wednesday, July 27, 2011

If you were a beautician in Frayser in the 1960s, you probably trained for your job at the Jett School of Beauty either at the Northgate Shopping Center or a strip shopping center on North Watkins Street in the Georgian Hills section of Frayser.

50. Renewed Vision - Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Victorian Village Inc. executive director Scott Blake has spent the past five years diligently working to revitalize the neighborhood he calls home, and a slew of recent projects indicate Victorian Village could be on the cusp of a renaissance.

51. Planners Discuss Future of Uptown West - Monday, July 04, 2011

Butterflies to jobs to fountains. Those were among the one-word suggestions for the Uptown West area Thursday, June 30, at the first of three public hearings held by a steering committee to guide future development of the area.

52. Murry-Drobot Joins Family Safety Center - Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Olliette Murry-Drobot has joined the Family Safety Center of Memphis and Shelby County as executive director.

Hometown: West Memphis

Work Experience: Fourteen years in not-for-profit management, neighborhood revitalization, organizational development and social services delivery. Recently, I served as the executive director for the Southeast Memphis Community Development Corp. and as a lead consultant on community outreach efforts for The Center for Criminology and Research at the University of Memphis.

53. United Housing, SRVS Open Oakwood Home - Monday, June 13, 2011

United Housing and Shelby Residential and Vocational Services will celebrate the completion and occupancy of a new home for people with disabilities with a ribbon-cutting June 29 at 2 p.m.

The home, at 1586 Oakwood Drive, was built by a partnership between the two organizations, with funding provided by the Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program and the TARP stimulus package. SRVS received $1 million to renovate a total of seven single-family homes.

54. A New Home - Thursday, May 26, 2011

On a humid late May afternoon that signaled the imminent arrival of a sweltering Memphis summer, Burundi native Sedekia Imanairakiza seemed to be in his element, skillfully nurturing the soil and sowing the seeds that will yield fruitful summer crops at Urban Farms, a community garden in the heart of the city.

55. University Place Becomes TN’s 1st LEED Neighborhood - Wednesday, May 25, 2011

University Place – a multifamily community designed by Memphis-based Architecture Inc. and developed by St. Louis, Mo.-based McCormack Baron Salazar – has achieved its certification in the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development pilot program.

56. Blank Palette - Friday, May 20, 2011

When best-selling author Richard Florida visited Memphis recently, he spelled out to a room full of artists the formula for building a city’s creative class – attract, retain and engage talent.

57. Bill Would Alter Foreclosure Notices - Tuesday, May 03, 2011

The judiciary committees in the House and Senate of the Tennessee General Assembly are scheduled to vote on companion bills Tuesday that would give homeowners less advance warning before their homes are foreclosed.

58. Tenn. Bill Would Reduce Foreclosure Notices - Monday, May 02, 2011

The judiciary committees in the House and Senate of the Tennessee General Assembly are scheduled to vote on companion bills Tuesday that would give homeowners less advance warning before their homes are foreclosed.

59. ‘Melrose Place’ Apartments Moving in to Orange Mound - Thursday, April 28, 2011

What to call a refurbished apartment complex in Orange Mound near Melrose High School that aims to draw college students as tenants. Melrose Place, of course.

The 80-unit Melrose Place will replace what is now the vacant 164-unit Barronbrook Apartments at 3000 Barron Ave. at Semmes Street. City leaders including Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. marked the opening of the project Tuesday at the Orange Mound Community Center.

60. MIFA’s Day of Reflection to Honor MLK Legacy - Friday, April 01, 2011

Memphis Inter-Faith Association will commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saturday during its 12th Annual Day of Reflection and Service.

61. City Eyes End to Public Housing Projects - Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Chain link fences went up around the four Memphis Housing Authority high-rises earlier this month.

The renovation work that is about to begin on the public housing units in the next year comes as the city prepares to begin demolition of Cleaborn Homes on April 12.

62. Market Factors Give Caution to Younger Homebuyers - Monday, March 21, 2011

When Jonathan Lyons, 25, went looking to buy a home, he planned each step carefully – he found a good job, enlisted the help of a Realtor, educated himself on the various costs, and got pre-approval from a bank.

63. United Housing Inc. Receives $80,500 Grant - Friday, March 11, 2011

United Housing Inc. recently received an $80,500 grant from NeighborWorks America – a network of community development organizations that trains community development and affordable housing professionals.

64. NHOM Brings Housing Opportunities to Working Poor - Friday, February 25, 2011

For more than two decades, Neighborhood Housing Opportunities Management Executive Director Howard Eddings and his team have worked to rebuild Memphis neighborhoods most plagued by urban decay, whose broken windows and overgrown lots have become familiar eyesores in the wake of the Great Recession.

65. Seminar Helps Attendees Master Real Estate Market - Monday, January 17, 2011

As real estate professionals gather this week to take a look at the latest numbers, they’ll not only learn about current economic trends but also preview the road ahead.

Realtors, appraisers, builders, investors, bankers and mortgage brokers will get a glimpse of Shelby County market trends Thursday when real estate information company Chandler Reports hosts “Master Your Market: Year-in-Review.”

66. Nonprofits Getting First Shot at Bank Foreclosures - Wednesday, December 29, 2010

PHOENIX (AP) – Francisco and Pam Cruz maneuvered around boxes of new flooring and open cans of paint as they surveyed the foreclosed Phoenix house they would soon call their own.

67. United Housing Helps Prospective Homeowners Realize Goals - Monday, December 27, 2010

Three years and 50 houses.

That was the mandate handed to Tim Bolding in 1994 when United Way of the Mid-South hired him to operate United Housing, a new community development corporation devoted to helping homebuyers.

68. ‘Hundreds More’ Blight Suits on the Way - Thursday, December 23, 2010

A few hundred lawsuits targeting the owners of run-down properties are likely to be filed by the city of Memphis not long after 2011 rolls around, according to one estimate of the city’s timetable.

69. Robertson Eager to Help Revitalize Memphis Neighborhoods - Friday, December 03, 2010

Eric Robertson gets excited when he thinks about the future of Memphis. That’s because he knows he’ll be a part of its development.

70. Shadows of Doubt - Monday, November 29, 2010

As the housing market continues to improve, a significant backlog of foreclosed and distressed properties that have not been put on the market could bring the recovery to a screeching halt.

Many lenders across the nation – mostly banks – are struggling to keep up with the overwhelming number of borrowers who have stopped making their mortgage payments. And with the fledgling recovery in housing still weak, banks, institutional investors and even some homeowners who want to sell their homes are waiting until the market shows marked improvement.

71. B.I.G. Idea - Monday, November 15, 2010

With crime on a downward spiral in Memphis, a new initiative seeks to amplify this trend by forging partnerships between business leaders and police precincts.

Business Interest Group (B.I.G.) Uniting for a Better Memphis is asking people to step outside their office walls to learn what’s really happening in nearby neighborhoods. Likewise, precinct commanders are coming into conference rooms to present crime statistics and answer questions.

72. Survey Will Help Map Artists’ Needs - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

A project that could put the “finishing touch” on development in the South Main Historic Arts District takes a step forward this week.

ArtSpace, a national nonprofit that works to create affordable live/work space for artists in cities across the country, partnered earlier this year with the city of Memphis and the Hyde Family Foundations to develop an artists’ residence along South Main.

73. Center City OKs Pyramid Financing - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

At the city of Memphis’ request, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. Tuesday morning decided to issue up to $125 million in bonds to redevelop The Pyramid arena and surrounding Pinch District.

74. Center City Board Approves Pyramid Financing - Tuesday, November 09, 2010

At the city of Memphis’ request, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. Tuesday morning decided to issue up to $125 million in bonds to redevelop The Pyramid arena and surrounding Pinch District.

75. Opening Move - Tuesday, November 02, 2010

The owners of 138 run-down properties sued by the city on the recommendation of code enforcement officials will soon be due in court for a series of hearings that start later this month.

The targets of those lawsuits own everything from a collection of townhouses east of Memphis International Airport to Southern Funeral Home at 440 Vance Ave. The trait they share is the public nuisance the city believes they present.

76. United Housing Continues Work in Scenic Hills - Friday, October 15, 2010

With the help of local church volunteers, United Housing Inc. is continuing its affordable housing efforts in the Scenic Hills neighborhood of Raleigh this Saturday.

77. Foreclosures Hit Higher-Income Suburbs - Thursday, October 14, 2010

The rate of foreclosures in the suburbs surged during the third quarter, while the problem showed signs of ebbing in some of Memphis’ hardest hit neighborhoods, according to ZIP code data compiled by real estate information company Chandler Reports, www.chandlerreports.com.

78. Habitat Seeks Donors as Funds Run Out - Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis dedicated 21 homes Monday as the charity celebrated a banner year made possible by $2.7 million in federal stimulus money.

Habitat is on track to build 30-plus homes because of the funding through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

79. Memphis Habitat Hosts World Habitat Day Events - Friday, October 01, 2010

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis will host two events Monday in honor of World Habitat Day.

At noon, Memphis Habitat will dedicate the first three homes in the new planned development in Trinity Park in the Oakhaven community. During the program, representatives from Memphis Habitat, full-house sponsors Delta Airlines Inc., FedEx Corp. and The ServiceMaster Co. will address the crowd, as well as John Gemmill, field office director for the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.

80. Robertson Leaves CAO Post at CCC - Friday, September 24, 2010

The Chief Administrative Officer of the Center City Commission, Eric Robertson, is leaving to become project leader of the Greater Memphis Neighborhoods (GMN) organization. The group is a coalition of local financial institutions, nonprofits, government agencies and community development corporations.

81. Cleaborn Conversion Keeps Eye On Residents, Developer Says - Monday, September 20, 2010

Every brick is still in place at Cleaborn Homes. But the preparation for the coming demolition of one of the city’s last two large public housing projects is already under way.

The project manager for the federally funded conversion of Cleaborn to mixed-use, mixed-income development said he and the other developers are working on preparing the residents for the day they leave the development but hopefully not the neighborhood.

82. Conference Helps Create Sustainable Communities - Tuesday, September 07, 2010

An upcoming conference will highlight the partnerships among the local, state and federal stakeholders working to make communities more sustainable.

The Sustainable Community Initiative and Choice Neighborhoods Initiatives have joined forces to host the West Tennessee Sustainable Neighborhoods Conference in hopes of making government run more efficiently, using new and alternative methods to unite the various federal agencies.

83. Banks to Allow Local Groups to Buy Foreclosures - Thursday, September 02, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) – Major banks are agreeing to give local governments and nonprofit groups the ability to buy foreclosed homes before they are sold to private investors.

The Obama administration said Wednesday local officials could benefit from acquiring these properties and renovating them or using the land for redevelopment projects. Congress has provided $7 billion to buy the homes, but these groups are struggling to spend the federal money because they are often outbid by speculators who are snapping up foreclosures.

84. Lamar Crossing Slated for Auction Block - Tuesday, August 03, 2010

More than three years after developers broke ground on Lamar Crossing, the end is finally in sight for the beleaguered apartment complex.

Arvest Bank of Oklahoma, the bank that reclaimed the property when it ran into financial problems, has commissioned Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services to hold an online auction for the 120-unit property.

85. In Search of an Oasis - Monday, August 02, 2010

Part of the path to inner-city recovery appears to run through a garden, or at least through the produce section of a supermarket. Nine farmers markets operate in various parts of Shelby County this summer, from Downtown to Collierville and places such as Germantown, Agricenter International and Cooper-Young in between.

86. Development Partners Reunite on Midtown Project - Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Community Capital and Architecture Inc. have teamed up again, this time to build Community Capital’s new headquarters at 1708 Monroe Ave. between South Belvedere Boulevard and South Evergreen Street.

87. Habitat Chapter Chosen for Revitalization Initiative - Friday, July 09, 2010

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has been selected as one of 163 affiliates nationwide to participate in Habitat for Humanity International’s initial phase of its Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.

88. Realizing Dreams - Tuesday, July 06, 2010

William Adair’s quad-cab, four-wheel-drive pickup truck is splattered with mud. The office where he parks it out back, a converted country home at the corner of Tenn. 196 and U.S. 72, is littered with maps.

89. HUD Official Talks About Transition From Housing - Monday, June 07, 2010

With $22 million in federal funding, the city of Memphis has its sixth HOPE VI grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Wharton administration also has the first installment of money for the ambitious Triangle Noir plan – a 10-year $1 billion plan to use public money to leverage private investment in the area south of FedExForum and into South Memphis.

90. Crosstown Neighborhood in Dire Need of TLC - Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Longtime Memphians will remember when the area at Poplar Avenue and Cleveland Street was home to the Curb Market, an utterly unique collection of shops from delis to florists.

They were textbook small businesses in a time before the virtues of small business were given political lip service and small business was just as dangerous as it is now.

91. Center City to Consider Heap of Incentives - Wednesday, May 19, 2010

At Wednesday’s Center City Development Corp. meeting, the Downtown agency will consider awarding almost $160,000 in incentives to bring four real estate projects to fruition.

92. Fountainhead Transforms Binghamton Home by Home - Monday, May 17, 2010

When Carrie and Braxton Brady decided to build their dream home, they realized the dream was more about the neighborhood than the house.

In 2004, the Bradys built a modest, three-bedroom, shotgun-style home in Binghamton, a neighborhood at the western end of Sam Cooper Boulevard between Poplar and Summer avenues, which has seen its share of hard times, including well-publicized crime and derelict properties.

93. Lyons Ridge Apartments Latest in Affordable Housing Push - Monday, May 10, 2010

A 102-unit apartment complex in South Memphis is about to go up beside Carver High School.

Lyons Ridge Apartments, which will be affordable rental housing for senior citizens, is the latest city-led effort to replace traditional public housing with affordable housing.

94. Q1 Property Foreclosures Up Slightly - Thursday, April 15, 2010

Lenders repossessed almost as many homes, apartment buildings and other properties in Shelby County during the first quarter of this year as they did during the same period in 2009.

And in what’s akin to the real estate version of the game hot potato, lenders worked fast to unload what they collected.

95. Changes to Federal Foreclosure Program Announced - Monday, April 05, 2010

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The federal government announced Friday that it is relaxing some rules to make it easier for communities to spend funds on redeveloping abandoned and foreclosed properties.

96. Downtown Anticipates Residential Uptick - Friday, April 02, 2010

For Downtowner Josh Thomas, it’s about the simple things.

Like how, at the end of a long day at the office, he can unwind with a cigar and watch the sun set over the Mississippi River from the roof of his condo building.

97. Project Greenway - Monday, March 22, 2010

There’s no doubt 2010 will go down as a watershed year for the Wolf River Greenway, the $28 million, 22-mile nature corridor that traces the Wolf River from Memphis’ eastern border to Downtown.

The team responsible for giving life to the Greenway – the city parks department, the Wolf River Conservancy and the Hyde Family Foundations – has achieved a pair of key milestones, both of which are being celebrated as the jumpstart this project sorely needed.

98. Rhodes Fights for Neighborhoods With Plough’s Help - Monday, March 22, 2010

Michael Kirby sat at the center of a table with a long list of complaints about specific addresses in the Hollywood-Springdale area and patiently went through them one by one.

99. UofM-Area Residents Work to Salvage 38111 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010

For Tk Buchanan, community development specialist for the University of Memphis Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (CBANA), the 587 foreclosures last year in the 38111 ZIP code are more than a statistic.

100. Events - Thursday, February 04, 2010

The Memphis Advertising Federation will hold a roundtable discussion today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at EmergeMemphis, 516 Tennessee St. The title of the discussion is “Guerilla Marketing – Unconventional Strategies for Outsmarting Your Competition.” For reservations, e-mail info@aafmemphis.org.