The square footage alone made it an ambitious project. What could possibly make use of 1.5 million square feet?
Crosstown Concourse is now getting a pizza restaurant to go with its hamburger, casual American food, and vegetarian restaurants as well as the ice cream parlor, coffee shop, ice pop, craft brewery, bakery and small grocery businesses.
Crosstown Concourse has just become the world’s largest building to be awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification for historic adaptive reuse, according to the Memphis architecture firm that worked on the project.
Crosstown Brewing Company to open taproom in Winter 2018.
Crosstown Concourse hit the world stage on Monday by making the short list for a design honor given by an international architecture publication.
When Karin and Steve Cubbage opened Area 51, an artisan ice cream shop in Hernando, Mississippi, in the summer of 2014 they had no idea where it would take them.
Make plans to come early for dinner or drinks at one of Crosstown Conscourse’s many restaurants.
> >> DIRECTORYLucy J’s Bakery aims to give back through the sale of fresh-baked cakes, breads, muffins, and more.
In Memphis, an abandoned art deco Sears building has been revitalized – and now, the Crosstown Concourse is at the centre of the community.
Make plans to come early for dinner or drinks at one of Crosstown Conscourse’s many restaurants.
> >> DIRECTORYWith Crosstown Concourse open, it’s only a matter of time before the Cleveland corridor is rejuvenated.
Six years ago, in a 400-square-foot space rented for $700 a month, a small group of Memphians hatched a plan to turn the abandoned 1.5 million-square-foot warehouse next door into a “vertical urban village.”
The story of the Sears tower and Crosstown Concourse.