With major projects like Bass Pro, The Chisca, Crosstown, Overton Square, Main-to-Main, etc. either being constructed or finished. What are some other projects around town that you think are important for the city to either develop or get involved with, in order to continue this momentum we've experienced lately?

Personally, I’d like to see more action taken to further develop the Wolf River Greenway from Downtown to its current endpoint.

These are all great things that I applaud, but what's more important than the multimillion dollar projects like bass pro are grass roots efforts like leadership memphis and others.

Specifically:
* Attacking poverty and improving education through private/gov't means
* Civic PRIDE. Major problem since I moved here that has improved in recent years but still permeates with the "oh that will never work." The proverbial self-hating memphian is still alive and well.

We need more people to roll their sleeves up and less complaining. I find that those who complain the most, are usually among the least civically involved and give very little back.

(06-08-2015 03:21 PM)memp600 Wrote:  With major projects like Bass Pro, The Chisca, Crosstown, Overton Square, Main-to-Main, etc. either being constructed or finished. What are some other projects around town that you think are important for the city to either develop or get involved with, in order to continue this momentum we've experienced lately?

Personally, I’d like to see more action taken to further develop the Wolf River Greenway from Downtown to its current endpoint.

One Beale needs to happen. The 450 foot version.

But most important. Memphis needs to focus on projects with substance. Like education & electing out corrupt leadership. Do those two things & the rest will take care of itself.

Projects with no substance that just put paint over shi* give you a warm feeling but five years later the paint goes away and the shi* is still there.

More education. More cops. Better elections. And oh, lower property taxes and stop driving away citizens.

More direct flights

(06-08-2015 04:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  One Beale needs to happen. The 450 foot version.

(06-09-2015 08:48 AM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  More direct flights

They crossed the line when they dropped the direct flight to New Orleans.

(06-09-2015 09:45 AM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(06-08-2015 04:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  One Beale needs to happen. The 450 foot version.

I think the Land Use Control Board votes this week.

(06-08-2015 04:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  But most important. Memphis needs to focus on projects with substance. Like education & electing out corrupt leadership. Do those two things & the rest will take care of itself.

Projects with no substance that just put paint over shi* give you a warm feeling but five years later the paint goes away and the shi* is still there.

More education. More cops. Better elections. And oh, lower property taxes and stop driving away citizens.

Pretty spot on. Improvements on education and law enforcement are key. We need some strong leadership in place to lead this charge.

(06-08-2015 04:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  One Beale needs to happen. The 450 foot version.

But most important. Memphis needs to focus on projects with substance. Like education & electing out corrupt leadership. Do those two things & the rest will take care of itself.

Projects with no substance that just put paint over shi* give you a warm feeling but five years later the paint goes away and the shi* is still there.

More education. More cops. Better elections. And oh, lower property taxes and stop driving away citizens.

The property tax is no win. Lower it, you don't get revenue you need for schools. Keep it high or average and folks will still move to the burbs and pay even higher taxes and those schools get the revenue.

(06-10-2015 01:10 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(06-08-2015 04:58 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  One Beale needs to happen. The 450 foot version.

But most important. Memphis needs to focus on projects with substance. Like education & electing out corrupt leadership. Do those two things & the rest will take care of itself.

Projects with no substance that just put paint over shi* give you a warm feeling but five years later the paint goes away and the shi* is still there.

More education. More cops. Better elections. And oh, lower property taxes and stop driving away citizens.

The property tax is no win. Lower it, you don't get revenue you need for schools. Keep it high or average and folks will still move to the burbs and pay even higher taxes and those schools get the revenue.

Yup. Sales taxes are the same way.

And it is killer that significant portions of Memphis' metro are in states with state income taxes. They have more sources for revenue that directly coorelates what people make versus what people perceive property to be worth.

The renewal of the whole Pinch area.

The plans for the French Fort development, including the Marine Hospital apartments, et cet.

Development of the area between Overton Square and Cooper-Young, which is in the works.

Development of The Edge on the edge of Downtown, which is in the works.

The Central Station development, also in the works.

I would like to see a community-wide program for kids to develop public food gardens in all communities.

The building of the $30 million Overton Hotel in Overton Square.

The development of the U. of Memphis "front door" on Highland.

Of course, the development of the Fairgrounds and the fate of the Coliseum, whatever that all turns out to be.

The closing of the old bridge is going to be traumatic, and also the closing of the Poplar Viaduct will be rough for a while.

It's really impossible to keep up with all that is going on now. I don't think there has ever been a more exciting time in the history of this town.

Renewal of Mud Island, reno of the AMP, update of the Museum (how about a Disney Soaring like attraction of a flight down the River) preservation of the Riverwalk, new attractions like Kemah Boardwalk from the north of the monorail to the bridge or waterpark. Restaurants, hotels, shop , again, see Kemah Boardwalk.

Focus on becoming a great weekend getaway for families. See KC and it's Legoland and SeaLife Aquarium. Go talk to to SeaWorld and work on similar concept that includes an Aquarium and Sesame Place indoor theme park. Would be a great repurposing of Cook if new convention center is built.

Resort hotel with indoor waterpark. EGYPTIAN themed with a glass pyramid containing the waterpark. Only guest have access.

(06-13-2015 07:07 AM)WaywardMemphian Wrote:  Renewal of Mud Island, reno of the AMP, update of the Museum (how about a Disney Soaring like attraction of a flight down the River) preservation of the Riverwalk, new attractions like Kemah Boardwalk from the north of the monorail to the bridge or waterpark. Restaurants, hotels, shop , again, see Kemah Boardwalk.

Focus on becoming a great weekend getaway for families. See KC and it's Legoland and SeaLife Aquarium. Go talk to to SeaWorld and work on similar concept that includes an Aquarium and Sesame Place indoor theme park. Would be a great repurposing of Cook if new convention center is built.

Resort hotel with indoor waterpark. EGYPTIAN themed with a glass pyramid containing the waterpark. Only guest have access.

Mud Island is wasting its potential. Waterparks aren't my thing (see South Park), but I guess it's other folks'. But I think planning nodes of thematically-related development is a good thing. Focus the area around BPS on three things: outdoor/active lifestyle, families, and health. In fact, given our history with transplant leadership and St. Jude, we should explore medical tourism, perhaps not as micromanaged as the Mayo Clinic is attempting with Rochester (?), MN, but we have one global institution here already, and we know that one of the adult cancer clinics is seeking to mimic it on the adult level.

The 52-card-pickup random real estate development approach some seem to support fails to create the level of critical density that enhances a group beyond merely the sum of its parts. We are seeing that critical density emerge with OS, and we've seen it in the past with the now defunct Cotton Row and Beale Street. We see it on a sprawly level with corporations along the Poplar Ridgeway/Massey area.

Focusing, for example, RVC Outdoors, BPS, St. Jude (especially two of its three housing complexes), a couple hotels is a nice start, bridging Tom Lee Park with beautiful Harbortown. Maybe put a skatepark or rock climbing gym around Mud Island, and attract an REI store or something as well as something like Lego Land or a Lego Store.

I'm conflicted about the One Beale as currently proposed... I like it, in principal, but don't know about the design. I'm not impressed with the architecture. But it's early, and the designs have been preliminary...