Hotel Indigo Permit Filed

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Memphis Business Journal:

Google Updated the Map of I-269

Most you probably already noticed this

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I would've posted this a awhile back but I couldn't figure out how to get pictures on this site that aren't already on others.

Some time ago I sent them an email with a reference to the construction progress and they immediately responded.

So are we still to expect that a new hotel will come with the
convention center or is that gone away?

We're on the D&B List Now

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We'll probably learn something in that regard later this year, though any new hotel that gets built likely won't be complete by the time the convention center renovations are done in 2019.

I would imagine so. I would assume the City would provide some pretty heavy incentives for a developer to develop a new hotel. I have no idea what the room target would be...350 - 400 rooms, maybe? I would imagine that it would be pretty difficult to secure larger conventions without additional hotel rooms. Along with the pitiful state of the Cook itself, I believe the lack of hotel rooms was/is one of the reasons Memphis lost the handful of conventions that it had.

Lots of opportunities for a developer to step in.

I believe the number they were aiming for was 600 rooms in one place to compliment the Sheraton, allowing for 1200+ rooms within walking distance of the convention center (a minimum of 1000 rooms would be necessary to be competitive).

How cool would this have been for One Beale to go along with the New Bridge and the Pyramid
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That's under construction at the Hard Rock in South Florida

I-269 has to be one of the most slowly constructed roadway in history. They were working on it when I lived in Memphis 20+ years ago. Lordie...

I-22 took even longer, specifically in the Alabama portion.

100 North Main Reclaimed

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Memphis Business Journal:
https://www.memphisdailynews.com/new...in-at-auction/

Wonder what this leads to?

Midtown's first significant housing development in 10 years breaks ground
Michael Waddell | High Ground News

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rendering LRK Architects
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I see the USL is coming to Memphis, with the yet to be named team beginning play at Autozone Park in 2019. Should bring around another 100k per annum to downtown.

:slob:I hope it is successful and leads to the need of a stand alone facility or even a 'right sized' soccer/football replacement for the Liberty Bowl.

Add in the fact that Vince McMahon is eyeing a second go at professional fooball as the NFL brand is shooting itself in the foot......

No.

You really hate the Liberty Bowl, don't you? If the prospects of an NFL team didn't produce the necessary items for a new stadium, minor league soccer and some dream of a football league sure won't.

I'm all for a soccer specific stadium...I don't follow professional soccer, but soccer specific venues will change many perceptions. There's nothing worse than watching a soccer match with 10,000 other people in a stadium that holds 65,000 (that was built for football).

I'm very happy that the USL is going to Autozone Park and it's perfect seating capacity. Nashville's USL team are also leasing the new First Tennessee baseball stadium. Although, I'm not sure how things will be going forward now that they have a MLS franchise and one of the largest soccer-specific stadiums in the U.S. on the way. Will MLS kill off a USL franchise in a mid-size city? As for McMahon's plans, if done right, the Liberty Bowl would be perfect. More butts in the seats more days of the year only bolster the success of those venues. We won the lottery with the Pyramid and still at an impasse with the Mid-South Coliseum. No more. Although, I'd still love to see EPE build & operate their own 6,000-seat arena.

I think Nashville's USL team will essentially become the MLS team...I may be completely wrong, but I think that's what I read. Someone please fact check me on that.

I completely agree that more people using the venue contributes to it's success, I just think that soccer specific stadiums will promote each teams "establishment"; particularly in markets that aren't as accustomed to professional soccer. Autozone may prove to be a great venue for the USL.

Something will eventually come of the Coliseum. There's too much potential on the table. The real issue is it needs to be sold. I agree on the EPE aspect as well. They should forget the public financing and build their venue.

The Liberty Bowl is a dinosaur and every dime spent on it is a waste. It's way to big for everything but the occasional Liberty Bowl match up. It has horrible weather 7 out of 10 Liberty Bowls. It was the Jacksonville's Stadium renovations that won them the franchise over the cheapness of the Liberty Bowl renvations which was those mile high suites. It totally lack the value added seats to be a better revenue generator. The list goes on and on. Even the new video board is Walmartish.

45,000 is what's needed in Memphis, if they can add temp seat in the eND above a complete lower bowl and get it to 55,000 for the Liberty Bowl then swell. If 55,000 plus all the new club, loge, aND corporate suites can't make up the difference of 60,000 bleacher seats and a handful of sky high suites, Earhardt needs new work. 20,000 chair backs in lower level with the rest artfully hidden away for Soccer
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Baseball stadium sightlines suck for Football and soccer unless you add temp seating which in turn give you maintainance issues for natural grass.
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The LBMS works for what it's needed for...upgrades aren't a waste of money; they're well worth the cost. It's a waste to devote public funds to a new stadium that would be used by whom? Final Fours and whatever aren't realistic.

The Liberty Bowl (game) itself doesn't justify the construction of a new stadium. The SHC doesn't justify the construction of a new stadium. A USL soccer team doesn't justify the construction of a new stadium and if that ownership group wants it, they can pay for it.

The UofM should get their stuff together and push for their own 40,000 stadium - until that point (which probably won't ever happen), the LBMS works for what it's needed for.

I agree. Lifelong Tiger fan and the upgrades especially Tiger Lane put the stadium as a much better experience than it was 10 years ago. Of course there's work they could do, especially concessions and restrooms. But it's a great stadium for sightlines etc. Too big for the Tigers? Yes. But again they're tied in with the Liberty Bowl and SHC so that makes everything more complicated for any replacement for the time being. Would love an on campus stadium but don't see that happening anytime soon. In 20 years or so I'm sure replacement talk will come. We'll see where things can go whenever that happens.