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MDN: 2 Midtown Restaurants Seek to Incorporate Shipping Containers

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MDN: 2 Midtown Restaurants Seek to Incorporate Shipping Containers The Broad Avenue Arts District has long been innovative when it comes to the creative reuse of formerly blighted properties, and its newest addition seeks to continue this trend. The owners of City & State on Broad Avenue filed paperwork with the city of Memphis requesting approval to convert an abandoned liquor store into a diner – fittingly named The Liquor Store – that will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner … The new restaurant, located at 2655 Broad, will partner with the UrbanArt Commission to include a public art installation on … Continue reading MDN: 2 Midtown Restaurants Seek to Incorporate Shipping Containers

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MDN: Binghampton Gateway Builds on Decade of Momentum

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MDN: Binghampton Gateway Builds on Decade of Momentum While construction recently began on the large-scale Binghampton Gateway Center and more development is on the way, the revitalization process to bring businesses and jobs back to the distressed Binghampton area began more than a decade ago. The growth of a wide variety of companies and services along Broad Avenue stimulated arteries to Tillman Street, leading to increased confidence from larger retailers to come on board for the Binghampton Gateway Center. “Memphis is truly made along Broad Avenue,” said Pat Brown, co-owner of T. Clifton Art Gallery, the first retail tenant to … Continue reading MDN: Binghampton Gateway Builds on Decade of Momentum

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MDN: Broad Avenue Getting New Bike Shop

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MDN: Broad Avenue Getting New Bike Shop Clark Butcher, the owner of Victory Bicycle Studio, plans to open a new bike shop on Broad Avenue that will be a first of its kind in the Memphis bicycle scene. Opening next door to his original location, Pedaltown Bicycle Co. will specifically cater to casual riders who might find a more traditional boutique bike shop too expensive or intimidating. “Our goal is to provide a simple and unintimidating solution for customers who are just looking for an easy way to get into riding bicycles or looking to get their kid a new … Continue reading MDN: Broad Avenue Getting New Bike Shop

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HGN: Boutique guitars built and sold on Broad Avenue

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HGN: Boutique guitars built and sold on Broad Avenue When Memphian Elliott Ives and his bandmates with The Tennessee Kids joined Justin Timberlake on stage at the 2015 CMA Awards, the show’s up-and-coming star was a Memphis-made guitar. For Memphis Guitar Spa, the performance was an important moment in the launch of what has become its latest focus, production of the Ferner & Hilbolt line of guitars and bass guitars. At the CMA Awards, Ives used a custom guitar built at Memphis Guitar Spa at 2561 Broad Avenue. It was the first of what is now six models of guitars … Continue reading HGN: Boutique guitars built and sold on Broad Avenue

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HGN: Refugee’s catering venture brings Sudan to Memphis tables

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HGN: Refugee’s catering venture brings Sudan to Memphis tables Ibtisam Salih’s dream is to own her own business. She certainly has the credentials. She spent seven years at Caritas Village where she prepared food from a variety of cultures ranging from Italian and Mexican to authentic fare from her home of Sudan. In fact, it’s those traditional Sudanese soups that makes Salih famous in the Binghampton neighborhood. Specialties like her creamy chicken soup get special recognition at Ibti’s Soup and Catering. Now a figure in the immigrant-rich neighborhood of Binghampton, Salih was a stranger not too long ago. Originally from … Continue reading HGN: Refugee’s catering venture brings Sudan to Memphis tables

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MBJ: Memphis nonprofit announces expansion

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MBJ: Memphis nonprofit announces expansion A Memphis-based nonprofit plans to expand its reach in the community thanks to a relocation. HopeWorks Inc., currently located at 1930 Union Ave., will move to the former Southern Security Federal Credit Union building at 3337 Summer Ave. … HopeWorks, which was founded in 1988, is focused on workforce development for the underserved. The organization helps people earn their high school equivalency diplomas through personal and career development programs and an adult education program. HopeWorks also has a prison ministry. The Summer Avenue facility will be the main location, but HopeWorks offers classes at 21 … Continue reading MBJ: Memphis nonprofit announces expansion

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CA: Binghamton sees end to food desert

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CA: Binghamton sees end to food desert A Dollar Tree discount store will join Save-A-Lot grocery in anchoring the Binghampton Gateway Center, for which construction documents have finally been filed after years of discussions and planning. … The Binghampton Gateway Center will rise at the busy junction where 33,000 to 40,000 commuters drive daily through an impoverished inner-city neighborhood, at the southeast corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street. The retail center is in part a response to Binghamton’s designation as a food desert. … Save-A-Lot was signed as an anchor tenant last winter, but construction had to wait until … Continue reading CA: Binghamton sees end to food desert

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HGN: Road to Memphis long for Bhutanese refugees

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HGN: Road to Memphis long for Bhutanese refugees … The simple definition of a refugee is anyone forced to leave home because of war, persecution, natural disaster or other reasons. But defining humans by a simple word with a broad meaning is too easy. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that one out of every 113 people on Earth is a refugee. Those 65.3 million people have 65.3 million stories. As the 1990s unfolded some 100,000 ethnic Nepali Bhutanese were forced from their homes in Bhutan. They endured walks of five days and more across the countryside to … Continue reading HGN: Road to Memphis long for Bhutanese refugees

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HGN: Broad Avenue’s future tied to Binghampton

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HGN: Broad Avenue’s future tied to Binghampton One of the great Memphis success stories over the past 10 years has been the resurgent Broad Avenue Arts District. Growth in businesses along Broad from just east of East Parkway to Tillman Street has been substantial. And that growth has moved north toward Summer Avenue. The district now finds itself at a crossroads of sorts. Many of the vacant buildings along Broad Avenue are filled with various small businesses, from coffee shops to boutiques. But where does the district go from here? With that in mind the Broad Avenue Arts District recently … Continue reading HGN: Broad Avenue’s future tied to Binghampton

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HGN: Binghampton kids find family at Rachel’s Flowers

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HGN: Binghampton kids find family at Rachel’s Flowers Rachel and Harry Greer moved to the Binghampton neighborhood 20 years ago to open Rachel’s Flowers on Poplar Avenue. Little did they know their lives would become tightly intertwined with many families in the community when a young man asked for small jobs around the shop to buy books and school supplies. “Some young boys kept coming and asking for work,” Rachel said. “I kept putting them off and putting them off, saying I didn’t have any work for them to do, and then one day I let them sweep the lot. … Continue reading HGN: Binghampton kids find family at Rachel’s Flowers