Friday, July 10, 2009
Overton Square Charrette
Posted by Mary Cashiola on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
The Memphis Regional Design Center, Memphis Heritage and AIA Memphis are convening a public meeting/mini design charrette for Overton Square Friday, July 24th.
From a Regional Design Center e-mail:
"The MRDC, MHI and AIA Memphis are interested in your input about the future of Overton Square. The current owners (Fisher Capital) and potential developers (AWG and Sooner Investment Realty) are still not responding to requests for more information on their plans or our suggestion of working with us to determine a solution that is acceptable to the community. The assumed plans are to demolish the south side of Madison Avenue between Florence and Cooper and place a big box retail center on the southwest end of the existing parking lot with its back to Sidestreet, the Magnolia Room and Mr. Lincoln's. This is not a sustainable solution to the site. ...
The day will begin with a tour of the neighborhood and a brief presentation on the history of Overton Square. The rest of the day will consist of hearing suggestions from you from a consumer point of view as well as a design point of view. These ideas would culminate in a series of site plans and perhaps an image board or character renderings depicting the desired public realm. This may include options of saving the buildings (or portions of them) as well as options for new buildings on the site. Plans generated from the meeting will be shared with the community and the owners/developers."
To RSVP, email Chooch Pickard at cpickard@mrdcinfo.org.
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The problem is, Blake Fisher, who is not (maybe never has been) a Memphis resident, does not give a flying whoopdeedo what we want. Nor is he interested any sort of preservation of character/history/cache. One can't blame him for wanting to make a buck, what we can/should blame him for (and pretty much him individually and solely) is the disrespect he's shown our community by allowing blight. I wish we had a vacancy tax.
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