Category “News”

For seven years now, ‘Memphis’ + ‘summer’ has meant Mempops – Daily Memphian
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“When it comes to summer and Memphis food, few, if any, things inhabit that intersection more than Mempops, the now-ubiquitous…

June 8, 2023
Crosstown Arts spring 2023 exhibitions: An eclectic mix
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“Crosstown Arts has kicked off its spring 2023 arts programming with an eclectic mix of exhibitions that promise to captivate…

May 20, 2023
Crosstown Concourse’s newest deli is a bit mad but ‘in a good way’
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When Crosstown Concourse’s newest deli/local grocer opens in July, the plan is to give people what they want. “We’re going…

May 16, 2023
Crosstown Concourse has been making communities since 1927 – The Daily Memphian
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Since Crosstown Concourse had its grand reopening in 2017, decades of employees who worked in the old “Sears Crosstown” building…

April 27, 2023
Cookbook author moving ‘not cheese’ shop from Los Angeles to Memphis – The Daily Memphian
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By: Bianca Phillips At age 40, Rich Roll was a couch-potato dad struggling with alcoholism. But failing health served him…

March 27, 2023
From Backs and Cracks to Bones and Bruises (and More!)
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OrthoSouth offers comprehensive orthopedic care in the former Crosstown Back space. Since the early days of Crosstown Concourse, those needing…

February 13, 2023
Memphis’ New Go-To for Flowers + Gifts at Crosstown Concourse
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“Bloom where you are planted” is an old saying that rings especially true in the life of florist Miriam Cordero….

February 13, 2023
Adventure Capital: Ridgeline invests in technology startups with potential to transform business.
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New York-based Altana AI uses artificial intelligence to create a map of events in the supply chain, so companies and…

January 3, 2023
WYXR Radio Station Launches to “Edutain” the Memphis Masses
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“We want to ‘edutain’ in a sense. You know, it’s less about playing the music, and more about telling these stories and honoring these spaces, and these subcultures, and these creators, and the people who have taken their time in their years of their life to understand the music that they care about,” said Jared Boyd, WYXR Program Manager.

September 29, 2020
Changing the Narrative: The 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
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The five 2019 Rudy Bruner Award winners, including Gold Medalist Crosstown Concourse, have changed the rules of standard practice and elevated issues that matter, addressing ongoing and long-term challenges faced by cities across America. Read the case study.

August 24, 2020
Crosstown radio partnership announces new names
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A new, non-commercial radio partnership aimed at amplifying the voices of individuals in the Mid-South will launch early this fall on 91.7 FM and online.

The station’s call letters, WYXR, stand for “Your Crosstown Radio,” a nod to Crosstown Concourse, where the station will be producing and airing its daily broadcasts, and to the staff’s intent to put community radio back into the hands of the listener.

July 6, 2020
A Multicultural Food Hall
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We might be under quarantine for a little longer, but Crosstown Concourse’s food hall provides a little taste of the world beyond our borders. Global Café at Crosstown Concourse takes an international approach to cuisine, offering a variety of dishes from several countries.

June 29, 2020
Art, Health, Learning In Community: A Vertical Urban Village In Memphis
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Between the World Wars, Sears built 10 giant centers around the country. The one-to-three million square foot fortresses served as department store, regional office and fulfillment center for the catalog business. As Sears’ business dwindled in the early 1990s, the centers were closed. Most sat idle for years. Three were eventually demolished. The one in Seattle became the headquarters of Starbucks. Some turned into condos. The one in Memphis turned into the most interesting adapted use project in America.

February 26, 2020
This Excellent Memphis Restaurant Neighborhood Is Reinventing Food Activism
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Driving through Memphis’s Crosstown neighborhood, it’s hard to miss Crosstown Concourse. The former Sears distribution center turned mixed-use development anchors the area with an arts center, shops, school, and public health center. Walk inside and it’s clear that the food is the heart of this place. Most of the restaurants are local, and three of them have made giving back to the community a core part of their mission.

October 24, 2019
Lively Concourse wins Bruner Gold for its open doors, array of users
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Boston architect and philanthropist Simeon Bruner has spent much of his professional life studying how the designs of urban buildings “manifest” themselves to make their surrounding communities better.

He’s never seen anything like Crosstown Concourse.

“I would say this building is unique in terms of public access and permeability and the multitude of different uses that come together without restriction,” Bruner said while touring the Concourse with The Daily Memphian late Friday afternoon.

The building was the Gold Medal recipient for the 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.

October 13, 2019
New hair salon fills a need in Concourse’s ‘vertical village’
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A client-stylist relationship — even one limited to monthly, 30-minute increments — can be therapeutic for the customer and strengthen customer retention for the stylist.

But the conversation stylist Barbara Barnett had with one of her regulars in 2018 proved to be life-changing for both her and a colleague at the Midtown salon where they had been longtime employees.

As a result of that conversation, Barnett and Whitney Adams on Tuesday, Oct. 1, will open and be co-owners of Hero & Sage, the first hair salon in the massive Crosstown Concourse.

October 1, 2019

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