The Center City Development Corp. board will meet Wednesday, March 20, at 9 a.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.

2. Events - Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Better Business Bureau, 3693 Tyndale Ave. Don and Holly Swogger of Homevestors will present “Build Wealth Buying Real Estate.” Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.biz.

3. Events - Saturday, February 2, 2013

Nike Inc. will host construction symposiums for locally owned small, women-owned and minority businesses Thursday, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 8, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the U of M Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, 1 N. Front St. Attendees will learn about construction opportunities at Nike’s Memphis expansion. R.S.V.P. to Brenda Montgomery at bmontgomery@memphischamber.com or 543-3500.

4. Creative Space - Thursday, January 31, 2013

By the time Crosstown Arts occupies space in the 1.5 million-square-foot Sears Crosstown building, it will have completed a solid test run of promoting arts-based community and economic development in Midtown.

5. Rekindling Crosstown - Monday, November 5, 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.

6. Biz, Arts Intersection at Center of Whitaker Talk - Thursday, March 10, 2011

The arts and business aren’t independent entities.

The two spheres overlap in many ways – or at least they should – and nonprofit arts groups Crosstown Arts and the UrbanArt Commission are working together to deliver that message to professionals in both arenas.

7. Crosstown Arts Looks to Take City to Next Creative Level - Monday, November 29, 2010

As an arts community, Memphis is world-renowned. The city’s rich, bluesy culture is inextricably tied to its deep traditions in the visual and performing arts.

A newly formed nonprofit is working to take the city one step further – to establish Memphis not only as a strong arts community, but as a strong artists’ community.

8. Event Spurs Crosstown Dreams - Friday, September 24, 2010

Some dreamers hope to save the world. Others just want to change one neighborhood for the better.

Todd Richardson and Christopher Miner, co-directors of the nonprofit Crosstown Arts, believe that rallying artists in an underdeveloped Midtown neighborhood will draw new businesses, residents and community pride under the looming shadow of the vacant Sears Tower.