Developing a sense of place in the core city is important in shoring up Memphis' tax base

Developing a sense of place in the core city is important in shoring up Memphis’ tax base

Posted January 21, 2014

This article was originally posted by Memphis Commercial Appeal. To read the rest of the article, click here.

Thanks to Mayor A C Wharton’s fellowship in the Urban Land Institute’s Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, Memphis last week was able to host a group of urban planners from across the nation, along with local planners and economic development officials, for a kind of flying workshop focusing on the Memphis Medical Center and the adjacent Edge neighborhood. The group developed a list of recommendations to improve the Medical Center and the Edge district. Read the full article.

Rose Center

The Rose Center for Public Leadership encourages and supports excellence in land use decision making by providing public officials with access to information, best practices, peer networks and other resources to foster creative, efficient, practical and sustainable land use policies.