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April 8-14, 2016, Vol. 9, Issue 15
MAN VERSUS
MACHINE
LYNCH SHINES
A new lawsuit, a
comprehensive
congestion-relief
plan and a busy
spring schedule of activities will test the mettle
of Overton Park institutions and visitors in the
coming weeks. P. 14-15
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SHELBY
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FAYETTE
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TIPTON
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Paxton Lynch
performed well for
NFL teams prior to the
draft. Meanwhile, the
lagging performance
of Tigers baseball may
have its roots in young
pitching. P. 22
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MADISON
Moving
Dirt
Commercial
real estate
projects dot
Memphis
landscape
P. 16
Multifamily housing construction progresses at Central Station Downtown, one of many commercial projects under way across the Memphis metro.
A TREE TALE
LOFLIN YARD
BARRELS AHEAD
Cafe Ole's new deck
is a worldly story
patrons will learn
about for years. P. 13
Provides residents
nearby with backyard
amenities. P. 7
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RECAP: PAGE 10
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EDITORIAL: PAGE 34
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Munford Signs Multi-Year
Contract With Grizzlies
The Memphis Grizzlies announced that
the team has signed guard Xavier Munford
to a multi-year contract. Per team policy,
terms of the deal are not disclosed.
Munford has appeared in 10 games (zero
starts) with the Grizzlies and has averaged
5.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists in
14.2 minutes after signing with the team to
the first of two 10-day contracts on March 16.
The 23-year-old played 41 games (37
starts) for the NBA Development League’s
Bakersfield Jam, averaging 20.4 points, 4.2
rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.00 steals in 33.7
minutes, and was recognized as a 2016 DLeague All-Star.
Undrafted in the 2014 Draft, Munford
averaged 17.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.2
assists in 35.5 minutes in 61 games (all starts)
in his final two collegiate seasons at the
University of Rhode Island. The New Jersey
native led the Rams in scoring in each of his
two years with the program.
– Don Wade
Wastewater Leak Stopped,
McKellar Cleanup Continues
The boat ramp on McKellar Lake at theA
bypass around a raw sewage leak into Nonconnah Creek and McKellar Lake was up and
running Thursday, April 7, according to the
city of Memphis.
The bypass ends a leak in the main
wastewater line to the T.E. Maxson Wastewater Treatment Plant that was discovered
March 31 and triggered a large fish kill of
more than 10,000 in McKellar Lake, which
Nonconnah Creek runs into.
“Now that the spill is stopped, our next
focus will be to repair the damaged pipe
and work with the state to evaluate and
collaborate on any long-term remediation
needs,” Mayor Jim Strickland said in a written statement.
The permanent repairs are expected to
take three to four months. The cost of the
repairs and related work is covered by the
city’s sewer fund with none of the funding
coming from the city’s general fund.
The city’s estimate is that the break
in the line sent 50 million gallons of raw
wastewater a day into the Creek and from
there into the lake.
State environmental officials and Shelby
County Health Department officials have
closed the creek and the lake to any kind of
use or contact.
The city is hiring an environmental consultant to advise the Public Works Division
on the clean-up.
Tests on the water show E. coli bacterial levels in Nonconnah that are 300 times
above the acceptable levels for recreational
use of streams and levels in McKellar that
are 580 times the same standard for lakes.
The tests will continue.
– Bill Dries
Memphis, ASU Agree
To 4-Year Football Series
The University of Memphis and Arkansas State will begin a four-year series in
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football starting in 2020.
Memphis will host ASU in 2020 and 2022
and will play in Jonesboro in 2021 and 2023.
Memphis and Arkansas State have squared
off 58 times, and Memphis leads the overall series 29-24-5, including a 31-7 win in
Memphis in the series’ last meeting in 2013.
Memphis also announced Monday that
the Tigers will play a home-and-home series
against South Alabama (2018 and 2019) and
will open the 2018 season against Mercer.
The addition of the Mercer contest
gives Memphis seven home games (three
non-conference and four American Athletic
Conference games) in each of the next three
seasons (2016, 2017 and 2018).
Non-conference opponents this season
include Southeast Missouri State on Sept. 3
at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium; Kansas
on Sept. 17 at the Liberty Bowl; Bowling
Green on Sept. 24 at the Liberty Bowl; and
at Ole Miss on Oct. 1.
The 2017 non-conference schedule is
highlighted by a visit from UCLA on Sept. 16.
– Don Wade
Grizz Guard Mike Conley
Reportedly Out for Season
Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike
Conley most likely will not return to the court
this season, sources told ESPN’s Marc Stein.
Conley, who has been sidelined with
Achilles tendinitis in his left foot, has continued to wear a walking boot. Former Grizzlies
backup point guard Mario Chalmers ruptured his Achilles this year, and with Conley
a free agent at season’s end and the Grizzlies
presumably wanting to sign him to a longterm contract, Conley’s return represented
an unnecessary risk for both parties.
Conley, 28, was averaging 15.3 points
and 6.1 assists this season.
The Grizzlies carried a six-game losing
streak into their Tuesday, April 5, game at
FedExForum against Chicago. They are trying to hang on to a playoff spot, and subpar
play at point guard has been a factor during
the skid. They still held a narrow lead over
Portland for the No. 5 seed in the Western
Conference going into Tuesday’s game, but
if they were to lose their last five games they
could still miss the playoffs.
– Don Wade
Lenoir Delays County
Collection of City Taxes
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Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir has
delayed his office’s plans to begin collecting current city of Memphis taxes effective
July 1.
Lenoir and city chief financial officer
Brian Collins told Memphis City Council
members Tuesday, April 5, that the planned
July 1 start is being postponed because of
problems converting the city’s system to the
trustee’s system. Lenoir said more testing
and planning is needed to ensure there isn’t
a “hiccup” in the city’s revenue flow.
He also said the trustee’s vendor on the
project wanted a delay in the roll-out.
The trustee’s office currently collects
delinquent city taxes under a 2013 contract.
“We will not convert on July 1 as we originally anticipated,” Lenoir said. “It’s way too
risky for us. It’s way too risky for the city.”
No new date for the conversion was set
Tuesday.
“The conversion of city and county data
is an enormous undertaking,” Lenoir added.
“We are continuing to move forward to
complete this project as soon as possible.”
– Bill Dries
More MEMShops
Coming to Film Row
Communities Unlimited, program manager for MEMShop, is seeking applications
for three businesses looking to locate on
Film Row in Downtown Memphis.
As a business incubator, MEMShop provides subsidized rent and financial planning
and marketing assistance for participating
small business owners. Innovate Memphis
will provide funding for the program.
This will be the second round of MEMShop-backed businesses in Film Row, which
is an underutilized strip of Second Street a
few blocks away from bustling South Main.
The deadline to apply is April 30. For
more details, visit memshops.weebly.com.
– Madeline Faber
Ira Sachs Will Keynote
MCA Commencement
Indie filmmaker Ira Sachs will be the
2016 commencement speaker during the
Memphis College of Art commencement
ceremony next month.
The event is set for May 14 at 10 a.m. on
the south lawn of Rust Hall, 1930 Poplar Ave.
Sachs has directed numerous films,
winning awards and accolades in film festivals around the world. Two of his movies
were filmed in Memphis:L“The Delta” and
“Forty Shades of Blue,” which was awarded
the Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize
in 2005.
His work is included in the permanent
collections of the Whitney Museum of
American Art and the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City.
Sachs was born in Memphis in 1965,
and graduated from Central High School
in 1983. As a child, he attended Saturday
school classes at the Memphis Academy of
Arts - now Memphis College of Art - when
President Ted Rust, a close family friend,
directed the college.
– Andy Meek
Carrie Underwood At
FedExForum Nov. 13
Seven-time Grammy winner and ACM
Female Vocalist of the Year nominee Carrie
Underwood has extended The Storyteller
Tour – Stories in the Round, which will bring
her back to FedExForum on Nov. 13.
Tickets go on sale to the general public
on Friday, April 8, at 10 a.m. and can be
purchased at all Ticketmaster locations,
ticketmaster.com and the FedExForum Box
Office by phone at 800-745-3000.
There also will be an exclusive FedExForum presale Thursday, April 7, from 10 a.m.
to 10 p.m. available to current Memphis
Grizzlies’ MVP season ticket holders, Grizzlies e-news subscribers and recipients of
FedExForum Event Alert e-mails, or by connecting with FedExForum and the Grizzlies
on Facebook and Twitter.
– Don Wade
Beale Street Merchants
Roll Out Seasonal Fast Pass
The Beale Street Merchants Association
has begun pre-sales of a seasonal all-access
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pass geared toward frequent patrons of the
entertainment district.
The Beale Street Fast Pass, which costs
$150, offers the cardholder and one guest
a range of benefits from April 15 to Oct.
1. Among the features: free cover and the
ability to skip club entry lines at participating venues; discounted parking in the 250
Peabody Place garage; immediate access to
Beale after a security check-in; red-carpeted
entrance at Third Street and Beale; and
special incentives at participating venues
throughout the season.
The Beale Street Merchants Association
tested out the concept with a New Year’s Eve
Fast Pass, and BSMA president Sandy Robertson said that after the success and positive
feedback of that program, the association
knew that Beale patrons were ready for a
special package to call their own.
For more information on the Fast Pass,
visit bealestreet.com.
– Kate Simone
Memphis Country Club
Purchases Vacant Lot
The Memphis Country Club has purchased a half-acre lot from New Olivet Baptist Church. The parcel at 3120 E. Southern
Ave. went for $1.5 million.
The land is on the eastern side of Terrell
Pace, and the New Olivet church is on the
western side at 3084 E. Southern. The Memphis Country Club, at 600 Goodwyn St., is a
stone’s throw away from the lot.
The lot was most recently appraised at
$92,000.
– Madeline Faber
Art Students Paint
Greenline Mural
Memphis College of Art’s 2016 ArtsZone
Scholars spent the past weekend painting
a mural on part of the Greater Memphis
Greenline, located at the corner of Marble
Avenue and Danny Thomas Boulevard.
Lead artist and MCA assistant professor
Cat Normoyle directed the project for the
third consecutive year. This year’s design
was inspired by local geography and nature,
expressed through abstract shapes and vibrant colors. The project was made possible
by a grant from ArtsZone, a collaboration
between AutoZone and ArtsMemphis to
support public art projects in underserved
areas of the city.
AutoZone’s funding for Memphis College of Art provided scholarships for five
students from Shelby County: Dominique
Carr, Elizabeth Hefner, Tomica Lake, Jacob
Lambert and Cortez Totton.
– Andy Meek
Grizzlies ‘Garage Sale’
To Benefit St. Jude
The Memphis Grizzlies are having
“Grizz’s Garage Sale” – a one-day-only sale
with 15 seasons of T-shirts, hats, photos,
furniture, autographed memorabilia, pro-
motional giveaways and more up for grabs,
with all proceeds to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
“Grizz’s Garage Sale” will be held on
April 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at FedExForum, 191 Beale St. MVP season ticket holders
can begin shopping an hour earlier. Parking
will be free on the day of the event in the
Toyota Parking Garage.
Select T-shirts will start as low as $1, and
more than 6,000 items will be available.
Grizz fans that can’t make it to FedExForum for the sale will still have a chance to
support St. Jude by purchasing select, rare
memorabilia – including the Player’s Lounge
pool table – via online auctions by visiting
garagesale.e.gesture.com or texting “garage
sale” to 52182.
Additional ways to support St. Jude this
season include the ongoing “Grizz Assists
for St. Jude” program spearheaded by Grizzlies players and St. Jude Ambassadors Mike
Conley and Marc Gasol. The campaign is operated on the PLEDGE IT platform to place
a dollar amount on each recorded Grizzlies
team assist during games through April 5,
resulting in an overall performance-based
donation.
Campaign supporters are asked to
pledge any customizable amount of their
preference. The total of all pledges made per
assist will then be applied directly to the total
amount of team assists to create one donation to St. Jude. Fans can visit pledgeit.org/
grizzlies to register their pledges.
– Don Wade
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Remission 5K at MUS
Raises More than $60,000
The second annual Race to Remission 5K
at Memphis University School April 2 drew
500 people and raised more than $60,000 for
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The event was spearheaded by MUS
seniors Grayson Lee and Daniel Tancredi.
It was started in honor of three teen cancer
patients, including an MUS student.
Richard Shadyac, president and CEO
of ALSAC, St. Jude’s fundraising arm, participated in the race, which took in the East
Memphis campus as well as the surrounding
neighborhood.
– Bill Dries
Exchange Club Annual
Auction Raises $168,000
The Exchange Club Family Center, an
area nonprofit organization dedicated to
ending the cycle of child abuse and domestic violence, has announced its Hands of
Hope Auction Party held on Feb. 27 at the
University Club of Memphis raised $168,000.
More than 500 guests were in attendance. Money raised will support the organization’s programs.
During the event, former Memphis
Mayor A C Wharton and Ruby Wharton
announced that the center’s building on
Union Avenue will be renamed in honor of
Barbara King.
King has been has been the executive
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director of the center for the last 22 years
and is retiring in June.
“This year’s event was one of the best yet,
and we’re forever grateful to the dedication
and generosity of our staff, volunteers and
guests,” King said. “The money raised will
allow the Center to continue its mission.”
– Don Wade
First Tennessee Launches
$50M Community Fund
First Tennessee has launched a $50 million Community Development Fund that the
bank says will award up to $3 million annually in grants to community and nonprofit
organizations serving low- to moderateincome people and neighborhoods.
The grants are in addition to the $5 million in grants that nonprofits traditionally
get from the First Tennessee Foundation
each year.
Community Development Fund grants
will be distributed each year to nonprofits
and community organizations in First Tennessee markets including Chattanooga,
Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville and the
Tri-Cities in Tennessee; as well as WinstonSalem, N.C.; Charleston, S.C.; and Richmond, Va.
The bank says projects eligible for funding include those that promote financial
literacy, support affordable housing for
low- to moderate-income residents or provide down-payment assistance to low- to
moderate-income homebuyers.
– Andy Meek
Palmer Home for Children
Expanding in Hernando
On Tuesday, April 12, Palmer Home for
Children will break ground on a $10 million
expansion of its Hernando, Miss., campus
to include three new cottages and a wellness center.
With campuses in Columbus and Hernando, Palmer Home provides residential
care for children while introducing the love
of God through service. Operating in Columbus since 1895, the organization expanded
its reach to DeSoto County in 2003.
The plan for a second location was born
out of discussions at Palmer Home’s centennial celebration, as a strategic move that
would provide an answer to the organization’s growing waiting list of children.
“We wanted to stay in Mississippi,” said
vice president of rescue Robert Farris, “because we loved the freedom we have here
as a faith-based organization. But the move
towards DeSoto County and Memphis was
intentional, as we already had an excellent
support network of donors and advocates
in place.”
Currently, the Hernando campus is
situated on a 150-acre lot that houses three
cottages, a chapel and staff office space.
The children of Palmer Home live in these
cottages with caregivers who function as
house-parents, and up to eight other children in a setting designed to mirror the feel
of a traditional family home.
The expansion will add three additional
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cottages, doubling the housing capacity of
the campus. It is a much-needed development, as the waiting list for children continues to grow. A second addition will include
the Hugh Francis Wellness Center that will
boast a gymnasium and pool for campus
use, as well as a counseling suite and an
educational center to better meet the needs
of children in Palmer Home’s care.
Palmer Home’s mission is rescue and
restoration for children in need.
– Daily News staff
Omni Prep Academy
Buys New Location
the Tennessee Arts Commission. ABC grants
offer financial support for projects in arts
disciplines such as dance, music, theater,
visual and design arts, and more.
“ABC grants help to enhance and support the quality and diversity of programming that the Memphis-area arts community offers. These grants are particularly vital
to smaller and younger arts organizations,”
said Parke Kennedy, ArtsMemphis Donor
Relations & Grants Manager.
Applications are available at tn.gov and
must be submitted by July 1.
Omni Prep Academy has purchased the
Raleigh Presbyterian Church across from the
Raleigh Springs Mall.
In a February 26 warranty deed, JTP
Ventures LLC and SLS Ventures LLC sold
the property to Omni Schools, Inc. The
39,312-square-foot building at 3385 Austin
Peay Highway went for $1.3 million.
The charter school’s current campus is
also in Raleigh at 3333 Old Brownsfield Road,
just north of the church.
Last September, Shelby County Schools
and the Tennessee Board of Education both
rejected Omni Prep’s application to open a
Frayser high school, citing that the existing
campus was too low-performing to warrant
an expansion.
In conjunction with the sale, Omni Prep
took out a $1.2 million mortgage with Regions Bank. The loan matures July 26, 2019.
Simon Upgrades Lighting
In Wolfchase Parking Lot
Wolfchase Galleria's owner is upgrading
the mall's current parking lot lighting.
The Simon property group said the enhancements began in March and will impact
all parking lots at the mall. The traditional
1000-watt halide lights in each parking lot
will be replaced with state-of-the-art LED
lights to help facilitate the management of
traffic and parking.
The mall says the improvements will not
only create a brighter atmosphere outside
the center, it will also "ensure that all parking
spots for visitors and employees are well-lit."
Simon is currently upgrading the lighting
systems to LED lights at more than 26 locations. The project at Wolfchase is expected
to be complete by early May.
– Andy Meek
– Madeline Faber
Indie Memphis Festival
Announces Addition, Honor
The Indie Memphis Film Festival is welcoming a new staff member, in addition to
plaudits from an industry publication.
The festival, set for Nov.1-7, has been
named one of MovieMaker Magazine's 2016
"50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" – the
fourth time it's received that honor.
Meanwhile, the festival is adding Brandon Harris, a New York City-based contributing editor for Filmmaker Magazine, to its
senior staff. He's joining the Indie Memphis
team as festival programmer.
Focusing mainly on both the festival’s
feature narrative and documentary competition sections, Harris will consult on the
festival’s other programs, host discussions
with guests and bring his understanding of
the contemporary American indie scene to
bear on the festival.
Heart, REO Speedwagon
Back for Live at the Garden
REO Speedwagon and Heart return this
summer to the Live at the Garden concert
series at The Memphis Botanic Garden.
The five-show lineup announced
Wednesday, April 6, also includes Gregg
Allman, country star Billy Currington and
singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow
Heart and REO Speedwagon have played
the 16-year-old concert series before.
The dates for the shows are:
• June 10 – Heart
• June 26 – Gregg Allman
• July 29 – Billy Currington
• Aug. 25 – REO Speedwagon
• Sept. 23 – Sheryl Crow
The outdoor venue has a capacity of
6,750. Season lawn passes are on sale now
for $200 plus fees. Individual tickets go on
sale April 25.
– Bill Dries
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Arts Grant Workshop
To Be Held April 12
A free grant workshop for organizations
seeking funding for artistic and cultural projects that benefit the community will be held
Tuesday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at
Hattiloo Theatre, 37 S. Cooper St.
The annual Arts Build Communities
grants will range from $500 to $2,500 and are
available to state-recognized nonprofit organizations or government entities in Shelby,
Fayette, Lauderdale and Tipton counties.
Recipients must provide a dollar-for-dollar
match toward the proposed project seeking
funding.
Arts Build Communities is funded by the
Tennessee General Assembly and administered by ArtsMemphis in cooperation with
Subaru Raises Nearly $17K
For MIFA Meals on Wheels
A partnership between MIFA and Jim
Keras Subaru has resulted in a $5,000 grant
to MIFA from Meals on Wheels America
and an $11,880 donation from Jim Keras
Subaru for participation in Subaru’s “Share
the Love” event.
Meals on Wheels America, the national
organization supporting the more than
5,000 community-based senior nutrition
programs across the country, awarded MIFA
the $5,000 grant for its creative involvement
in Subaru’s national Share the Love Event.
This year’s grants, given to 139 local Meals
on Wheels organizations, were made possible by Subaru of America Inc.
During Share the Love, Jim Keras Subaru
held several pet food drives for MIFA’s Meals
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on Wheels clients because MIFA volunteers
noticed that seniors were saving a portion
of each meal to share with their companion
animals. The donated pet food helps these
seniors keep their pets and still receive the
nutrition they need to remain independent.
Also, for every new Subaru vehicle sold
or leased between Nov. 19 and Jan. 2, Subaru
donated $250 to the purchaser’s choice of
participating charity – two of which were
Meals on Wheels America and MIFA.
The total award funds, nearly $17,000,
will go directly to food costs for meals. One of
MIFA’s largest programs, Meals on Wheels’
annual budget is about $4 million. With
the help of as many as 100 volunteers each
weekday, MIFA provides more than 1,800
hot, nutritious lunches for seniors in their
homes and at congregate nutrition sites.
– Don Wade
Student Architecture Camp
Returns in June
The Architecture+Design Summer
Program for Memphis-area high school
students is returning in June for a 13th year.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture at the University of Memphis and
AIA Memphis, the day camp was developed
for students interested in learning more
about the art, science, and practice of design.
The program is structured around a variety of activities, including an introduction
to architectural and structural concepts,
computer applications, model building
and freehand drawing. Local architects,
engineers, landscape architects and other
design professionals serve as guest lecturers, and the program also includes trips to
construction projects, visits to architectural
offices and a walking tour of historic sites.
The camp will be held weekdays June
6-18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University
of Memphis Department of Architecture.
Space is limited and scholarships are available. Visit aiamemphis.org for details.
STEM Academy Application
Deadline Extended
Funded by a special grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents, the University of
Memphis will offer a residential summer
session June 5-17 to let underrepresented
high school students explore STEM fields –
the sciences, technology, engineering and
mathematics – helping them to envision
studying those subjects in college.
The deadline has been extended to April
18, and space is limited.
The STEM Academy is open to students
who will be high school sophomores and
juniors this fall. Chosen from the Shelby
County Schools, the students will live on
campus in U of M residence halls during the
two-week session. Housing, meals and all
activities will be paid for by the grant.
To be selected, students must have successfully completed Algebra I. They also
must have finished the ninth grade and
have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75. A
letter of recommendation is required from
a teacher or staff member at an applicant’s
high school.
For more information on how to apply,
contact Fredricka Cowley at fcowley@memphis.edu or Angiline Powell at apowell3@
memphis.edu.
– Don Wade
Attorney Greg Siskind Pens
Immigration Handbook
Immigration attorney Greg Siskind,
founding partner of Memphis law firm
Siskind Susser P.C., has released his fifth
book, titled “The Physician Immigration
Handbook, A Guide to the U.S. Immigration
System for International Medical Graduates,
Recruiters, and Employers.”
Physician immigration is perhaps the
most complicated area of U.S. immigration
law, according to Siskind, and the book aims
to explain the visa process in a way that is
easy to follow and understand.
The handbook walks international
medical graduates through the visa process,
from training to post-training work, then
on to permanent residency – the so-called
“green card” process – and ultimately to
U.S. citizenship. It also delves into employment issues, such as layoffs, mergers, and
acquisitions, while also discussing special
benefits available to foreign physicians in
the U.S. military.
Nearly 10,000 international medical
graduates (IMGs) receive certification yearly
from the U.S. Educational Commission on
Foreign Medical Graduates, Siskind said.
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– Kate Simone
Waste Pro Inks Deals With
Germantown, Gallaway
The city of Germantown as well as Gallaway in Fayette County have signed fiveyear contracts with Waste Pro to provide
solid waste collection, disposal and recycling
services to residential customers.
Waste Pro will service commercial customers in surrounding areas as well.
The Longwood, Fla.-based company
has partnered with Memphis Light, Gas
and Water Division to fuel six compressed
natural gas (CNG) trucks that will be used to
service Tennessee customers, according to a
release. Waste Pro says it has invested more
than $100 million in transitioning heavy
waste collection trucks from its diesel fleet
to cleaner-burning CNG.
Service began April 1 in Gallaway and
will begin July 1 for Germantown. Those
services will be based out of Waste Pro’s
Southaven, Miss., operations at 2187 Stateline Road. More than 15,000 homes are
covered in the contracts.
“Tennessee is an important center of industrial development,” said Waste Pro president and CEO John Jennings in a statement.
Waste Pro operates in nine Southeast
states serving more than 2 million residential
and 40,000 commercial customers.
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In a unanimous vote, Shelby County
commissioners waived their legal privilege
Wednesday, April 6, and approved the public
release of a disparity study that is expected to
show minority businesses get a low percentage
of county government contracts.
The decision comes two weeks after the
commission, on advice of the county attorney,
closed a meeting about the report to the public
and then got the report after the meeting.
The Mason Tillman Associates draft report, on a cursory reading including the summary presented to commissioners in the closed
March 28 meeting, confirms earlier county
estimates.
Those estimates and the report show 88.3
percent of all prime contract dollars from
Shelby County government went to white male
contractors with 5.8 percent going to AfricanAmerica contractors and 5.1 percent to white
women contractors.
The percentages are roughly the same
when broken down by the construction,
professional services and commodities and
services categories as well as the same subcontracting categories.
County Attorney Ross Dyer said the reason
for closing the meeting was that consultants
on the report were hired as “a special counsel/
consultant to provide legal analysis.”
press and elected bodies from time to time,
with the press taking the position that such
documents become public as soon as they are
distributed to elected officials.
Meanwhile, commissioner Van Turner
urged the body to get past the controversy over
the closed meeting in March and not lose sight
of the issue.
“This has been a disparity that’s been in
the making for 20 years,” he said. “It’s going
to take time and effort and intention on our
part to make sure we remedy the disparity. …
I want us to be sure we’re staying focused on
the task at hand and that’s remedying a 20-year,
two-decade-long disparity. I think we need to
begin the cure right now, today.”
With findings from the disparity study,
county government would have the legal ability, based on case law including U.S. Supreme
Court rulings, to enact minority contracting
“I'm really hopeful
that this doesn't lead
to any kind of legal
challenges.”
–Mark Billingsley
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Shelby County commissioners waived their legal privilege Wednesday and released a
disparity study by consultants on minority contracting in Shelby County government.
The commission initially closed a meeting on the report two weeks ago on advice of
counsel. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
“This is a rare occurrence,” Dyer said of the
arrangement. “You hire other consultants. You
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The report is posted on the commission’s
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That’s a source of conflict between the
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“I’m really hopeful that this doesn’t lead to
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out to construction and some of our primary
contractors and subcontractors to say, ‘We
need you to help us be part of the solution.’”
Billingsley said in some cases, county regulations and red tape are also barriers.
“We attempted to do business with minority-owned businesses that sell us pencils and
notebooks,” he said. “There were barriers to
something as simple as buying paper supplies.”
April 8-14, 2016 7
R E S TA U R A N T S
Loflin Yard Pays Special Attention To
Thousands of South Main Residents
Developer Taylor Berger calling Lolfin Yard a 'rural oasis' can be seen in photo above. Executive chef Andy Knight prepares brisket.
MADELINE FABER
mfaber@memphisdailynews.com
On April 7, a “rural oasis” opened
for business in the middle of Downtown
Memphis.
That’s developer Taylor Berger’s vision
for Loflin Yard, an acre-wide outdoor destination with pit barbecue, live music and
barrel-aged cocktails.
Surrounding the site at 7 Carolina Ave.
are hundreds of newly built apartment
units in properties like South Junction
Apartments, Lofts at South Bluffs and
the upcoming Central Station mixed-use
development. Nearly 3,000 residents live
in this dense residential corner of Downtown, and the nearest restaurants, The
Arcade and The Blue Monkey, are many
blocks away.
Loflin Yard provides a bar, restaurant,
gathering space and general park area in
the heart of a dense urban center.
“I’ve always thought of this as being
the backyard of all these apartments,”
Berger said.
The concept includes three buildings
connected by a sprawling yard. The name
Loflin Yard comes from the main building’s
original use as a Loflin Safe & Lock Co.
A heavy-duty safe makes up the back-
“
“I’ve always thought
of this as being the
backyard of all these
apartments.”
–Taylor Berger, Loflin Yard developer
bone of a repurposed wooden bar in the
2,000-square-foot Safe House. People can
order sharing plates, craft cocktails and
seasonal wine to eat in the 60-seat restaurant or out on the greater lawn.
The upper floor of the Safe House is a
private residence which could be used for
short-term rentals.
Connected to the Safe House is an
open-pit barbecue den, dubbed the Smoke
House. Smoked meats and fish are on the
menu with barbecue-style sides like slaw
and beans. The executive chef is Andy
Knight, who has also worked at Bounty and
Restaurant Iris.
People wanting to soak in the 10,000
square feet of green space can also order
from the Safe House’s outside-facing counter. The centerpiece of the lawn is a massive
deck that stretches over a waterfall fed by
the Gayoso Bayou.
On the opposite side of the lawn is the
Coach House. The 5,000-square-foot barn
used to house Peabody Hotel carriage
horses. The final use of the barn is still being decided. Berger said that event rentals
or a music venue are possible.
A wide wooden deck, complete with
rocking chairs, connects the Coach House
to the greater lawn.
Still further in development is a
14,000-square-foot grassy lot bordered by
a railway that carries over to the Harahan
Bridge. The lot could be used for parking
if needed, but Berger said he prefers a
“festival space.”
“We’re wiring it up to have bands on a
platform,” he added.
On April 13, Loflin Yard hopes to kick
off a music series dubbed Live at Loflin with
the help of Kevin Cubbins, executive director of radio series Beale Street Caravan.
Berger is one of a handful of partners
behind the project. The other investors
include Andy Cates, CEO of Colliers International Memphis; Brad Barnett, owner
and operator of Landscape Services Group;
Thomas Whitehead, marketing professional with FedEx Services; lawyer Michael
Tauer; and Doug Carpenter, principal with
marketing agency DCA.
“It’s conceivable that
you could have three, separate large-scale gatherings
going on at the same time,”
Carpenter said, adding that
Loflin Yard could fit hundreds of people.
While the area is open
to the public, the developers are focused on the surrounding residential neighborhood that’s starved for
retail options. Prior to the
public opening on Thursday, Loflin Yard is hosting a neighborhood-only
evening for the area’s residents.
Carpenter said that Loflin Yard feeds off of and
contributes to the residential momentum in the
(Memphis News/Andrew Breig) South End.
“The more people there
are, the more likely something like this is going to be successful
and make the whole area more desirable,”
he added.
Resource Development Manager
United Way of the Mid-South (Memphis, TN) seeks a Resource
Development/Fundraising/Relationship Manager (RDM) to help
us meet & achieve our mission and strategic focus. RDM should
be an energetic team player who can coordinate & implement
comprehensive relationship management/fundraising strategies
with individuals & priority companies. RDM has financial
targets centered around the annual campaign, special initiative
fundraising, Campaign Representative recruitment, sponsorship
fundraising, & response to custom giving interests that align
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Required: A Bachelor’s degree in related field & minimum
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To apply, please send a cover letter
and resume as a .pdf document to
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8 April 8-14, 2016
SMALL BUSINESS
RedRover Celebrates 10 Years
With Bash At FedExForum
ANDY MEEK
ameek@memphisdailynews.com
You know you’ve made it when
you can throw a birthday party
that draws guests like an NBA star
in addition to a variety of highpowered business leaders.
On April 6, RedRover Sales &
Marketing Strategy hosted an invitation-only bash at FedExForum
that included a meet-and-greet
session with Memphis Grizzlies
guard Tony Allen. In addition
keting shop. They brainstormed
ideas for what would become
RedRover on a whiteboard over
a game of pool, and with its first
decade under its belt – or, rather,
its dog collar – the firm with the
playful canine motif has plenty to
celebrate.
It has a growing team of 20
professionals; a Nashville branch;
and client relationships with enterprises like the Greater Memphis
Chamber, Regional One Health
Foundation and the MemphisShelby County Airport Authority.
It was the latter name that
brought about RedRover’s relationship with Allen. Last year, the
firm helped orchestrate an endorsement partnership between
the Grizzlies and Memphis International Airport, which entered
into a three-year sponsorship deal
with the Grizz that included making Allen the airport’s spokesman.
RedRover says that campaign
– which included a website redesign and humorous informational
video starring Allen – resulted in
a 1,300 percent increase of visitor
traffic to FlyMemphis.com within
48 hours, one of many successes
the firm will be celebrating this
week.
Turner-Wilson says the firm
10 years ago took a strategic ap-
networking opportunities with
the business crowd on hand, the
firm also gave an early peek at its
revamped website launching this
month and toasted the release of
CEO Lori Turner-Wilson’s new
book, “WOOF! Why Ordinary Organizations Fail.”
The gathering celebrated a
milestone anniversary for the firm
that Turner-Wilson and Julie Lunn
launched in 2006, after they both
decided to leave corporate life and
build their own sales and mar-
RedRover threw a 10-year anniversary party this week at
FedExForum. It included a meet-and-greet session with Memphis
Grizzlies guard Tony Allen, networking opportunities, an early look
at the firm’s revamped website and celebrated the release of CEO
Lori Turner-Wilson’s new book. (Submitted)
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RedRover grew revenue 495
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than tripled its revenue since 2011.
The firm’s model is built
around aligning both sales and
marketing strategies. Its menu of
services includes management
coaching and high-level sales
training along with traditional
offerings like advertising and marketing communications, branding
and corporate communications.
Regional One Health Foundation executive director Tammie
Ritchey said she’s always felt a
consistency of attention and quality of service from RedRover in a
way that can get lost at a bigger
firm, where turnover can be high.
“They’re really good at taking non-marketers and getting
them comfortable with being
marketers,” adds Ham Smythe IV,
president of Premier Transportation Services, about RedRover.
“Maybe a CEO knows everything about how to run a widget
factory but has very little idea
how to promote widgets. They
get him comfortable with that, in
an accessible way.”
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and what it hoped to achieve.
“We followed the best entrepreneurial practice of identifying
the gaps in the current market and
building a company and services
to fill those gaps,” she said. “Customized sales training, a holistic
approach to integrating sales and
marketing practices, and metricbased strategic planning were elements we weren't seeing in other
area agencies at the time, and we
still hold that distinction today.”
The firm’s name works on
multiple levels. It’s partly a reference to the similarly named
childhood game that involves
players breaking through the
arms of the other team, which the
firm incorporates into its ideal of
“breakthrough” sales and marketing strategies.
It’s also a nod to the dog lovers
and supporters of various animal
rescue groups at RedRover.
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Downtown’s South Main District
were a two-person consultancy
with a couple of clients.
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DEVELOPMENT
City Ready to Develop Master
Plan for The Pinch District
Over the next three months, key leaders will solicit community input about the future
of the Pinch District. (Memphis News File/Andrew J. Breig)
MADELINE FABER
The Pinch District, one of Memphis’
oldest neighborhoods, is getting its time
in the spotlight.
The Downtown Memphis Commission,
the city of Memphis Division of Housing
& Community Development and the citycounty Division of Planning & Development are coming together to develop the
Pinch’s first master plan in to bring the area
up to date with mixed-use buildings and
streetscape improvements.
The master plan is informally coordinated with St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, which announced last year a
$9 billion investment in its Downtown
campus and at ALSAC, its fundraising organization. Included in that investment is
$1 billion in new construction.
“We want to make sure we step up.
They’re (St. Jude) a community partner
with significant capital,” said Terence
Patterson, president of the DMC. “But we
want to be sensitive to the needs of the
community as well.”
St. Jude is a key anchor in the Pinch,
along with Bass Pro Shops and the Cook
“
Now we have some
strong anchors to
help drive and sustain
activity.”
–Paul Young, Director, City of Memphis Division of
Housing & Community Development
Convention Center. Victor Buchholz,
principal with architecture firm Looney
Ricks Kiss, said that emphasizing those
connections will help bring the Pinch back
on the development grid. LRK has been
studying the Pinch since late 2015 and will
be coordinating a comprehensive design
for the project.
The community got a glimpse of those
plans March 30 at the Balinese Ballroom in
the Pinch, where stakeholders gave feedback on the Pinch’s future. Public meetings
over the next three months will help narrow
the vision and goals for the master plan.
Lining the walls of the ballroom were illustrations of an active, walkable neighborhood with street-facing retail, green spaces
and accessible public transportation.
The illustrations starkly differ from
the Pinch’s current reality, which some at
the event described as isolated and outof-date.
A handful of businesses are holding on
in the 10-block neighborhood. Interstate
240 dissects the Pinch from the multimillion-dollar momentum in the greater
Downtown area. If you stand anywhere in
the Pinch, you can see Bass Pro at the Pyramid. But you can’t easily get to the Pinch
from Bass Pro without the long-awaited
pedestrian bridge, a project that is either
stalled or dead.
“It’s amazing you have these few blocks
of undeveloped real estate that has, well,
seen better days,” said Kevin Kane, president and CEO of Memphis Convention &
Visitors Bureau.
St. Jude’s anticipated expansion is helping fuel discussions on the Pinch’s future.
While the organization is mum about its
plans, some outlines are starting to take
shape.
On Feb. 2, the Memphis City Council
approved adding 120 days to the city’s
moratorium on new building permits in
the Pinch. The moratorium began last year,
and St. Jude is exempt from the ruling.
At the meeting, council member Berlin
Boyd said that a first-draft plan developed
for St. Jude and Bass Pro by LRK will go
public in the near future to get input
from citizens.
The moratorium came into play at the
northeast corner of Jackson and Front
streets. On March 1, the City Council rejected a developer’s proposal to build a
hotel on the corner. The Greater Memphis
Chamber and St. Jude wanted the hotel
proposal to wait three more months while
the master plan for the Pinch took shape,
but the developer didn’t want to wait.
Boyd, whose district includes the Pinch
and St. Jude, said that with leaders in St.
Louis and California lobbying to snag St.
Jude’s expansion, there isn’t room for
compromise.
Much less is known about Boyd’s reference to an offer from California, but ties
between St. Jude and St. Louis go back
to the 1980s.
Washington University made a serious run at getting St. Jude to move to St.
Louis, and the St. Jude board gave such
serious consideration to the offer that thenMemphis Mayor Dick Hackett and thenShelby County Mayor Bill Morris mobilized
community and private support behind
a counter offer. Within years of deciding
to stay in Memphis, the hospital campus
began to change profoundly with the first
of new research facilities.
“It’s just one of those things,” Boyd said
at the March 1 meeting. “I don’t want to
lose the investment from St. Jude.”
Whatever does come out of the master
plan will be a boon for the area. The parties
behind the plan said it will likely be funded
through a mix of Downtown Tourism Development Zone revenue, state and federal
grants and private capital.
The Pinch has just been waiting for
investment, said Paul Young, director of
Housing & Community Development.
“Now we have some strong anchors to
help drive and sustain activity,” Young said.
FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
The Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Tennessee is
accepting applications for the position of Administrative Assistant in the Memphis office.
The Administrative Assistant provides assistance and advice to the Defender and/or
Administrative Officer in a variety of administrative and management matters regarding
policy, personnel, operations, finance, and property and procurement. The AA performs
the following tasks: Assists the Defender and Administrative Officer with all aspects of
office administration and management. Ensures adherence to federal and local, financial,
personnel and procurement practices and procedures. Acquires knowledge of current
requirements and restrictions provided by ODS and AOUSC; the Guide to Judiciary
Policy; applicable state and federal statutes; and GSA’s rules and regulations. Reviews
publications and directives of AOUSC, ODS, GSA and other related materials and
advises the Defender and/or Administrative Officer concerning policies, regulations and
procedure. Serves as procurement officer, monitors supply inventory, secures services
locally, obtains prior approval for purchase of goods and services when required.
To qualify for the position of Administrative Assistant, a person must be a high school
graduate or the equivalent, and have a minimum of three years of general experience
and two years of specialized experience. Specialized experience includes experience
as an administrative manager, knowledge of budget preparation and management,
office automation, personnel management, or operations. An individual must be able to
perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The job requirements are representative of
knowledge, skills, and/or abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the job.
The salary range is $48,968 - $71,012 (JS 9/1 - 12/1). The position does include regular
Government employment benefits. This position is subject to mandatory electronic funds
transfer (direct deposit) of net pay. Employment will be provisional and contingent upon
satisfactory completion of the required background check.
Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and three references to:
Paula Wallace, Secretary to the Federal Public Defender
200 Jefferson Ave., Suite 200
Memphis, TN 38103
or via email to paula_wallace@fd.org
Application deadline: April 30, 2016. NO PHONES CALLS PLEASE.
The Office of the Federal Public Defender is an Equal Opportunity Employer
10 April 8-14, 2016
R E A L E S TAT E R E C A P
Southland Mall Sells
In Foreclosure
Daily News staff
Map data ©2016 Google
45 E. G.E. PATTERSON AVE.
MEMPHIS, TN 38103
Southland Mall
1215 E. SHELBY DRIVE
MEMPHIS, TN 38116
SALE AMOUNT: $4.3 million
SALE DATE: March 31, 2016
BUYER: 1215 East Shelby Drive Holdings
LLC
SELLER: Southland Mall Shopping
Center LLC
DETAILS: Southland Mall, Memphis’
first enclosed mall when it opened 50
years ago, has sold for $4.3 million in
foreclosure.
last assigned to U.S. Bank National Association.
The sale comes about a year after Macy’s
closed its 150,000-square-foot Southland
store – one of 14 locations the retailer
shuttered nationwide as part of a restructuring process. Southland was at 85
percent occupancy when Macy’s closed.
Located on 19.1 acres at the southwest
corner of East Shelby Drive and Elvis
Presley Boulevard, the Class C mall was
appraised at $9.9 million in 2015, according to the Shelby County Assessor of
Property’s website.
The appraisal has varied considerably
over the past several years, starting with
a jump from $8.3 million in 2008 to more
than $15 million in 2009. Southland’s
owners appealed, and the assessor’s
staff dropped the 2009 appraisal to $13
million. By 2011, it had edged down to
$12.6 million; over the next four years,
the appraised amount dropped nearly $3
million more.
The Whitehaven mainstay was bought
in a March 31 substitute trustee’s sale by
an entity called 1215 East Shelby Drive
Holdings LLC. The sale did not include
the mall’s two anchor spaces – the Sears
store on the west end and the shuttered
Macy’s on the east end.
The property went into foreclosure
when previous owner Southland Mall
Shopping Center LLC defaulted on a $17
million loan taken out in 2007 when the
company bought the mall. The loan,
originally through Wachovia Bank, was
PERMIT AMOUNT: $6.5 million
TENANT: Malco Theatres Inc.
OWNER: Memphis Area Transit Authority
ARCHITECT: TK Architects International
DETAILS: Downtown’s new movie theater is moving forward. Malco Theatres
recently filed a $6.5 million building
permit application for a seven-screen
movie theater as part of the greater Central Station development spearheaded
by Henry Turley Co. and Community
Capital. The permit also lists a rooftop
seating area and a new box office and
bar in the existing Power House building
as part of the project.
The Malco theater will be at 45 E. G.E.
Patterson Ave., at the southeast corner of
Front Street. The theater would incorporate the historic Power House structure
with new construction. Vertical marquee signs are planned to light up the
sides of the new building and the Power
House column.
The theater is part of the greater $55
million redevelopment of Central Station, which includes a boutique hotel,
apartments, restaurants, retail and significant infrastructure and landscaping
improvements to the surrounding South
Main area.
The project is expected to be completed
in time for Elvis Week 2017.
535 S. HIGHLAND ST.
MEMPHIS, TN 38111
SQUARE FEET: 5,952
TENANT: The Bluff
LANDLORD: Loeb Properties
LANDLORD’S AGENT: Aaron Petree
DETAILS: The Bluff, a new music venue
and restaurant, is headed to the Highland Strip.
The 5,952-square-foot space will include
two downstairs bars, a large stage and
green room, a 1,300-square-foot mezzanine with an additional bar, outdoor patio seating area adjacent to the stage and
a second patio on the Highland Strip.
Construction on 535 S. Highland St.
will begin within the month. The space
most recently was occupied by Newby’s,
which opened its new, renovated location at 539 S. Highland in January.
Hudson Chadwick, who is behind Rafters Music and Food and The Corner Bar
in Oxford, Miss., is one of the new owners. The menu will be “Cajun-inspired”
and will source from local ingredients
and suppliers “whenever possible,”
according to a release from landlord
Loeb Properties.
WORKFORCE TRAINING
Moore Tech Opens New Welding School
BILL DRIES
For the first time in its 80-year
history, the William R. Moore
School of Technology has expanded beyond its Poplar Avenue
campus.
The trade school, now known
as Moore Tech, opened its new
School of Welding at 475 N. Bellevue Blvd. Thursday, March 31,
in a renovated building that was
once a furniture store.
The $4.4 million project was
funded mostly by private foundations and donations as well as inkind and corporate donations. The
largest single piece of funding was
a federal U.S. Labor Department
grant of $1.67 million.
The facility will eventually
include a capacity for 180 welding
students to train.
There are currently 90 students
working in the school, which
includes individual booths as
well as robotic welding computer
training.
“That thing’s going to put us
out of work,” a welder touring the
school Thursday said to the operator of a Lincoln Electric robot
welder being demonstrated.
“Somebody’s got to run it,”
the operator said as a welding
screen was moved into place and
he guided the robotic arm via a
computer tablet.
“No mask,” another welder
commented as the sparks from the
weld were filtered through a blue
shield across the front of the rig.
“Can you do a weave?” another
welder asked of a welding maneuver other students at Moore Tech
have been practicing.
Their practice included making the workstations, including
tables and chairs and braces.
Moore Tech president Skip
Moore Tech’s new School of Welding opened last week three blocks
from the 80-year-old school’s campus, the first expansion in its
history off the Poplar Avenue campus. (Memphis News/Bill Dries)
Redmond called the facility the
“premier welding school in the
South.”
It is also a part of Moore Tech’s
recent expansion and partnership with the city’s medical de-
vice industry.
Students began using the welding school a day before the formal
opening ceremony.
Another robotic welder, a
Torchmate 4X4, cut shapes out
of steel, including the outline of
an elk in less than two minutes as
several onlookers donned welders’
masks to get a closer look at the
machine in operation.
Redmond, who has been president of Moore Tech for three years,
is leading an overhaul of not only
the school’s technology but the job
training focus of the institution. He
said his next goal is a more robust
industrial electricity program.
“We are focused on trying to
improve our industrial electricity
program – bring it up to industry
standards,” Redmond said. “We’ve
gotten several grants. We’ve got
another $200,000 to fund.”
Redmond also sees a need for
more plant maintenance workers given high retirement rates
forecasted in the near future in
the sector.
“A lot of your plant maintenance folks are older,” he said.
April 8-14, 2016 11
CITY HALL
City Council Debates Talk Of
De-Annexation Compromises
BILL DRIES
A proposal to form a joint citycounty group to explore voluntary
de-annexation and the city’s footprint goes to the Memphis City
Council for a vote in two weeks.
But there is vocal sentiment on
the council against the city giving
up any of its turf, including the
most recently annexed areas of
south Cordova and SouthwindWindyke.
That sentiment surfaced Tuesday, April 5, as the council reviewed the proposal by council
chairman Kemp Conrad and
recent debate over de-annexation
by referendum legislation in the
Tennessee Legislature. The deannexation bill was moved to a
summer study committee, killing
a possible vote on it this year, but
the issue will likely begin anew in
Nashville next year.
“I’m not trying to cut a deal
with Nashville,” said council
member Edmund Ford Jr. “We
give you Cordova and you leave us
alone – I’m not interested in that.
I’m not into deal-making unless
they are going to cut a check for
$601 million in capital spending.”
Ford is referring to his own
calculations of the city’s capital
spending in commercial and
industrial areas in 18 parts of the
city annexed since May 1998 that
would fall under the de-annexation bill.
“Unless these folks are willing
to give us some sort of promissory
note, I recommend we fight this to
the end,” Ford added.
At one point, before the deannexation referendum bill was
killed for the session, Memphis
Mayor Jim Strickland said his
administration was willing to talk
about voluntary de-annexation of
Southwind-Windyke and south
Cordova, which were annexed
in 2007.
An amendment to that effect
in the state House was rejected by
the House sponsor.
Meanwhile, Conrad said he
will amend his proposal to increase the joint city-county panel
from 10 members to 11 to include
a business representative. The
panel right now would include city
council members, Shelby County
commissioners and state legislators representing Shelby County.
The panel is to submit recommendations to the council and
commission by the end of this
year, before the Legislature starts
its 2017 session.
In other action Tuesday, the
council set an April 19 public hearing date and vote on the Parkside
at Shelby Farms Park planned
development at Mullins Station
Road and Whitten Road.
The proposed development
on the northern border of Shelby
Farms Park near the Shelby Farms
Greenline features three six-story
apartment towers.
The April 19 council session is
also the date for a public hearing
and vote on a special-use permit
for lighting a recreation field at
The Hutchison School at 1740
Ridgeway Road in East Memphis.
The council approved Tuesday the closing of Eastmoreland
Avenue between South Bellevue
Boulevard and South Claybrook
Street as part of the expansion of
the Methodist University Hospital
campus.
The council also voted Tuesday to delay votes on a resolution
for the issuance of $150 million
in general obligation bonds to
finance city public works projects
and a resolution for the sale and
issuance of another $77 million
in general improvement bonds.
Conrad called for the twoweek delay in what the administration has described as “routine”
financial actions to give the public
and council a chance to ask questions about the large financial
transactions.
COMMUNITY
Spence Wilson To Keynote May 11
Dunavant Awards Ceremony
BILL DRIES
Spence Wilson, chairman
of the board of Kemmons Wilson Companies, is the keynote
speaker for the annual Bobby
Dunavant Public Servant Awards
to be held May 11 at the Holiday
Inn University of Memphis.
The luncheon, sponsored by
The Daily News and the Rotary
Club of Memphis East, highlights
public service by honoring one
local elected official and one nonelected local government official.
The award is named for the
late Shelby County Probate Court
Clerk Bobby Dunavant.
The keynote speakers at
the annual Bobby Dunavant
Public Servant Awards over the
years have usually been political
leaders.
There was the year Church
Health Center founder Dr. Scott
Morris filled in for business leader
Brad Martin, who has a political
background as a state legislator.
Other past keynote speakers
have included former U.S. Rep.
Harold Ford Jr., Tennessee Gov.
Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Lamar
Alexander.
The son of Holiday Inns
founder Kemmons Wilson, Spence Wilson has been involved in
numerous civic efforts in Memphis over the years as he has built
a career as a real estate developer.
He is a trustee of Baptist Memorial Health Care System Inc.
and is a director of community
service organization the Thomas
W. Briggs Foundation.
Named for the founder of the
Memphis-based Welcome Wagon
Company, the foundation is involved in the local arts, youth organizations and social services. It
also funds civic education efforts.
Wilson also led Rhodes College’s recent capital campaign as
a former trustee and board chairman of the liberal arts college.
He is also a member of the
Society of Entrepreneurs.
His selection to keynote the
Dunavant Awards comes at a
time when business leaders have
become more visible in the city’s
politics in recent years.
The Kemmons Wilson Companies are involved primarily in
hotel development and management, resort timeshares, home
building and the development
of subdivisions as well as private
investments, aviation and insurance.
The companies are a developer with Crosstown Arts of the
Crosstown Concourse project,
the adaptive reuse and redevelopment of the old Sears Crosstown
building.
Meanwhile, the awards selection committee, which includes
members of the Dunavant family
and the Rotary Club, continue
their search for award recipients.
They consider nominations
from the public made through a
form on the Rotary Club website,
www.rotaryclubofmemphiseast.
org, that includes information
about how a nominee reflects the
attributes of Bobby Dunavant,
including honesty, going beyond
the required in public service and
being unpretentious.
Nominations are being taken
through April 27.
SPENCE WILSON
12 April 8-14, 2016
SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Cooper Street 20/20 Brings Dinner Into Focus
LANCE WIEDOWER
Special to The Daily News
It’s one thing to want to prepare a healthy home-cooked meal
in the evenings.
It’s a different thing entirely
to actually accomplish that meal
after a long day at work or dealing
with getting kids from activity to
activity. Hello frozen dinners and
restaurant take out. Fast, yes, but
not exactly healthy.
But what if those frozen dinners actually are of the homecooked variety, prepared with
fresh ingredients that are often
sourced at the Memphis Farmers Market and other regional
producers?
Kathy Katz operates Cooper
Street 20/20 from a storefront in
the Cooper-Young District. Since
opening at 800 S. Cooper St. in
2012, she quickly has become a
staple in the neighborhood, in
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part because of the reputation and
following she has built through
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her years of selling prepared meals
at the farmers market.
“I do this for love,” Katz said.
“I always tease and say I’m not
here to make profit, I’m here
to make friends.”
Katz makes a variety of entrees, sides, soups and more each
week. She immediately puts them
in large freezers that customers
then come in and peruse for a
selection that could be dinner that
evening or for later in the week.
She typically makes 16 to 18
soups every week to go with a core
menu of entrees such as chicken
Newport, roasted eggplant lasagna, meat lasagna, tomato mozzarella pie, hot tamale pie and
Greek chicken pot pie; starters
that include hummus, pimento
cheese and chicken salad; and a
variety of sides.
The business had its start in
the 1980s at Southern College of
Optometry, where Katz operated
a restaurant for 25 years. Operating a restaurant in a college, Katz
often found herself heating up
lunches for students.
So she advocated for the purATL136443B
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chase of microwaves. The college
listened.
Those students who brought
their lunches often did so with
eclectic lunchboxes that they
would give to Katz. Today, those
lunchboxes line the top of the
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opened
in 2012, its name giving a nod to the restaurant she operated
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inside the Southern College of Optometry for 25 years. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
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freezers at Cooper Street 20/20.
Katz had an extensive menu
at the college. Yes, she had a deep
fryer and griddle – “You’re in a
college; you’re stupid to not have
chicken tenders and fries,” she
said. But she also served soups
and other healthy fare.
During her time at the college
she operated another restaurant
in an antique store for a brief time,
catered on weekends and eventually settled on preparing meals
to sell at the Memphis Farmers
Market.
Today, she stuffs coolers full of
her prepared meals to take from
the store to sell at the market. As
she sells those items and empties
the coolers, she stocks up on fresh
meats and produce from vendors
at the market to bring back to the
store to prepare.
The market business remains
an important part of Cooper
Street 20/20 while also serving
customers in the Cooper-Young
storefront.
Katz has fond memories of
cooking as a child. She had a
pink cardboard kitchen in her
bedroom.
“I’d come home from kindergarten and my mother would say,
‘Did you know your father and you
are having happy hour?’ I’d look
in the fridge and see these little
things. I’d go to my room and cut
up the stuff so we could have a
cocktail party,” Katz said.
“We never fried food at home
but my mother would let me
fry chicken in the house and for
Sabbath dinner my brother and I
would make the table pretty. She’d
let me make mashed potatoes. I
remember she’d make a meatloaf
and she’d sit me on the floor with
a little pan of meat. She’d say, ‘Go
get your dad,’ then she’d throw
it away because it had been all
over the floor. She’d then make
another little one and say, ‘Here’s
Kathy’s meatloaf.’”
Katz’s mother played an
important role in her business
growth.
The transition from the Southern College of Optometry restaurant to the space in Cooper-Young
came in 2012. Katz’s mother had
been sick. And before she passed
in July 2012, Katz was able to share
her business dream.
“I went to my mother and said,
‘This is my dream, to open a shop
and leave the college,’” Katz said.
“I’m glad she knew what would
happen. … I miss her but I didn’t
want her to suffer.”
Katz gave a 90-day notice at
the college, setting in motion
the business transition. The long
notice eased the transition for
the college as Katz began looking
toward taking over a space that
previously had been occupied by
Muddy’s Bake Shop.
She took the keys on Halloween night at midnight and moved
in on Nov. 1, 2012.
“When I walked in this place
there was AstroTurf on the floor
and a water fountain. Nothing
else,” Katz said. “Twenty days
later we had put everything in and
passed inspection. When the last
man came I said, ‘What do I do
now?’ He said, ‘Cook.’”
April 8-14, 2016 13
R E S TA U R A N T S
Cafe Ole’s New Deck Has ‘Seen the World’
dwade@memphisdailynews.com
This is a Memphis story. And
by now it should be clear that Bill
Courtney loves a Memphis story.
Maybe you know Courtney
as founder of North Memphis’
American Classic Hardwoods.
More likely, you know him as the
guy who decided to leap from
his comfort zone and coach the
Manassas High School football
team.
That little project turned into
the 2011 Academy Award-winning documentary “Undefeated.”
Later, Courtney wrote a book,
“Against the Grain: A Coach’s
Wisdom on Character, Faith,
Family and Love.”
And notice the nice play on
words for a guy who owns a
lumber company. This particular story also fits with that book
title. It’s a tale of a tree growing
up in a nearby forest and, well,
here’s Courtney picking up the
narrative:
“This was a tree in West Tennessee probably six or seven
months ago. Comes to our plant,
gets processed as lumber. So the
story is, this Memphis-manufactured temperate hardwood goes
to Estonia, goes through (thermotreating), comes back to Memphis, is installed by Memphis
people, for a Memphis restaurant
owner, and there’s no one in the
Southeast that has this. No one.”
No one except Cafe Ole owner
Kendall Robertson, who recently
sat outside on his redone patio in
Cooper Young – surrounded by
the finished product, along with
Courtney, Memphis contractor
Michael Burkett, carpenter Jeff
Kleminsky, and John Heise, who
handles European sales for Classic American Hardwoods.
Temperate American hardwoods typically are a source for
furniture, cabinets and other
indoor applications. But not
decking. So this, too, is out of the
usual comfort zone.
“You have to keep hardwoods
inside,” Courtney said of the old
norms. “They can’t weather water and the elements. This is all
hardwoods. That’s ash you would
make a fine piece of furniture
out of.”
Heise had been selling ash
to manufacturer Brenstol OU in
Estonia for several years; it uses
the trade name Thermory in the
United States. He learned that the
company had begun working on
changing hardwoods’ composition to make them suitable for
exterior use. It took a while to get
the process right.
“Put the ash in a treating
chamber, heats to over 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Wood, at 350
degrees Fahrenheit, combusts
and burns,” Courtney explained.
“Science. These chambers suck
the oxygen out. With no oxygen,
the wood doesn’t combust.
“What it does is change the
cellular makeup of the wood,
sucks all the moisture out of it
and makes it usable for exterior
purposes.”
All this came along at just the
right time for Robertson. He and
Heise are friends from way back.
When Heise told him about this
new decking, he decided now was
the time to give Cafe Ole’s patio
a facelift.
“The patio hadn’t been done
in 20 years,” Robertson said. “The
old deck was treated pine and falling apart. This completely gives it
a whole different atmosphere.”
Dark, smooth decking, rails
and steps now blend with Robertson’s beloved palm trees – he
added four new ones for a total of
10 – and once on the patio, which
also includes a new stone fountain, it’s easy to forget yourself,
to forget how close you are to that
West Tennessee forest where the
decking originated.
“The whole idea of this patio is
to feel like you’re on vacation, feel
like you’re at a resort in Mexico,”
said Robertson. “Relax. Have a
margarita.”
But to make this whole transformation come off, it wasn’t just
about getting the wood, getting
it processed, and adding more
palm trees. Burkett oversaw the
installation and knew he wanted
Kleminsky handling the finished
product.
“He’s the wood guy,” Burkett
said. “I’ve seen his work in many
homes, custom housing, and I
knew this wood was gonna take
somebody with a mindset. Jeff is
an artist.”
For his part, Kleminsky knew
he had to be careful. An amateur,
he concedes, might have had
trouble working with the treated
ash.
“As dry as this wood is, they
would have a problem with splitting it,” Kleminsky said. “That’s
why the hidden fasteners are real
good for this. And the dryness is
good for outside.”
There are no nails, the wood
has a Class B fire rating, and at
thermoryusa.com, the wood is
heralded for being lighter weight,
splinter-free and dispersing heat
(no hot feet when walking across
it in the summer).
Heise says the wood is guaranteed for 25 years and that a
few years ago, “This took off
internationally. All the high-end
decks and patios in Europe are
out of this stuff. People want this.
There’s no knots, no defects.”
Robertson knows firsthand
that people want it. Since his
patio was finished in March and
there has been unseasonably
nice weather, the patio has been
open and booming with admirers
wanting to know where he got
his decking and how much did it
cost (about three times as much
as conventional outdoor decking,
“but well worth it,” Robertson
said).
“I’ve had a bunch of people
from other restaurants say how
much they like it,” he said.
As for Courtney, he loves it.
From all angles. As a lumber guy,
as someone who travels a lot and
has sat on finely appointed rooftop bars from Manhattan to London, and as a Memphis guy who
just digs a Memphis story and that
Memphis is ahead of Dallas and
Atlanta on a trend.
Imagine: A tree that came out
of the ground in West Tennessee,
went to his plant in North Memphis, then shipped to Eastern Europe, and now is so much upscale
decor on the patio at Cafe Ole.
Or as Courtney said with a
smile, “Seen the world and come
back home.”
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From left: contractor Michael Burkett, Cafe Olé owner Kendall Robertson, Classic American Hardwoods
CEO Bill Courtney, woodworker Jeff Kleminsky, and Classic’s European Sales Manager John Heise.
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Overton Parking and Traffic Study
Sees Garage in Park’s Future
A highly anticipated parking and traffic study commissioned by the Overton Park
Conservancy was made public Tuesday, April 5. It looks at the entire park, including
the current uses of the greensward, which the Memphis Zoo currently controls for
overflow parking. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
BILL DRIES
An Overton Park traffic and parking
study released Tuesday, April 5, recommends a phased-approach to creating more
parking in and around the park, better coordination of traffic patterns and then a likely
move to a 300-space, $7.8 million parking
deck on Prentiss Place Drive off McLean
Boulevard at the end of 2017.
The Overton Park Conservancy com-
missioned the study by Looney Ricks Kiss,
Alta Planning + Design and Kimley-Horn in
November, which included public meetings
and surveys.
“Ultimately the planners felt the parking
deck was the ultimate conclusion of this report,” OPC executive director Tina Sullivan
said Tuesday in a meeting with The Daily
News editorial board. “They felt there is most
likely enough demand to warrant a deck – a
one-story deck at the Prentiss Place lot.”
The Memphis Zoo initially signed on
with other institutions in the park for the underway between the zoo, the city administration, the city council and the conservancy.
study.
Pohlman emphasized that the mediation
Zoo president and CEO Chuck Brady
pointed out that the zoo was not par- process, which has included three sessions
ticipating in the study, but is interest- in a six-week period, is governed by confied in the recommendations and would dentiality agreements.
“We’re under a confidentiality agreereview them.
OPC board chairman Ray Pohlman said ment, but this could be a part of the mediaall of the recommendations in the study tion,” Pohlman said. “Between the zoo and
assume that the zoo continues to use the our donors and other interested people in
Overton Park Greensward for overflow park- the park, I think we can get that done.”
Brady has been skeptical of rearranging
ing at least for the immediate future.
“Admittedly the zoo is the most impor- the parking lot citing the work necessary
and expense of essentially wiping all featant of the stakeholders we have,” he said.
Some of the immediate elements of cre- tures from the current parking lot and then
ating more parking and better coordinating rebuilding it.
Pohlman said the recommendations for
the traffic flow to existing parking will be
tested May 7 during a busy day in the park. that and the other measures depend on all
Events include the centennial celebration of the park’s institutions agreeing on what
of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and they can agree on, and agreeing on it sooner
rather than later.
the annual Latino Memphis
“What will affect that timeFestival. That weekend will also
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line is if we don’t get ready acbe close to the formal opening
for additional
ceptance from our stakeholders
of the Memphis Zoo’s Zambezi
Greensward story. in the park to move forward on
River Hippo Camp exhibit.
some of this stuff – pure and
The options include messages on social media about parking availability simple,” he said. “These are recommendaand reviving shuttle service in a loop within tions. But the zoo and the Brooks and the
the park that was first used two springs ago. shell and the College of Art are all going to
The shuttle system then didn’t work as have to say, ‘Let’s go for it.’ We are going to
have to share some resources to get some
well as the conservancy thought it might.
But Sullivan pointed out it was organized stuff done. The city doesn’t have any money.
We’re not waiting for the city to put much
over a week’s time.
The biggest interim expense is an ex- money into this.”
amination of reconfiguring the zoo parking
Daily News publisher Eric Barnes is a
lot with a price tag of around $500,000 with
member of the Overton Park Conservancy
privately-raised money.
Pohlman said the money might be raised Board. He did not participate in the reporting
through the mediation process currently or editing of this story.
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between over-editing and under-editing;
they will learn your voice, and you will
begin incorporating their suggestions into
your first drafts.
Write proposals that clearly respond
to a funder’s guidelines. As with letters
and reports, be sure these are reviewed
in advance of submission. Your reviewer
should have a copy of the funding guidelines, and ideally should be from outside
your organization. When we are close to a
project we don’t realize that a reader may
not understand acronyms, processes or
the need for specific services. We’ve also
noticed a tendency to “throw in the kitchen
sink” when writing a proposal. Filling a
proposal with too much information that is
not relevant, and not presented in a logical
fashion, can be overwhelming for a reader
causing one’s eyes to glaze over!
We close with two suggestions you can
implement immediately. Use the spell
check function in all programs, including email. Plan your important writing so
you can set it aside for a few days, coming
back to it with “fresh eyes.” You will be
amazed by what you see when re-reading
a document.
We want your writing to be right on.
Mel and Pearl Shaw, owners of fundraising consultancy firm Saad&Shaw,
can be reached at 901-522-8727 or saadandshaw.com.
April 8-14, 2016 15
B E YO N D T H E G R E E N S WA R D
Congestion Plan Hits All Corners of Overton Park
BILL DRIES
If a crowd shows up some place other
than the Greensward, is it a busy spring in
Overton Park?
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
is undergoing renovations in preparation
for its 100th anniversary celebration next
month.
The Levitt Shell renovations are almost
complete as another spring and summer of
free concerts is at hand.
The restored park pavilion on East Parkway is the base camp of sorts Saturday for
the Memphis Urban BioBlitz, a social media
inventory of plants, insects, birds and even
fungi in the park.
And the shade and new greenness of
the Old Forest area means busy pathway
through its trees.
That view beyond the Greensward controversy was also the basis for the traffic and
parking study by Looney Ricks Kiss, Alta
Planning + Design and Kimley-Horn and
Associates that the Overton Park Conservancy released this week.
It is figuratively removed from the
charged environment of the Greensward.
The city has secured state Department
of Transportation funding and the conservancy has raised matching local funds
for a pedestrian and bicycle crossing and
entrance on Poplar Avenue at the N. Cooper
Street intersection.
“We would put in a very low-profile bike
pedestrian trail,” conservancy executive
director Tina Sullivan said.
The conservancy is seeking funding –
private and grants – for sidewalk improvements on the North Parkway border of the
park, a move toward 200 more on-street
parking spaces on North Parkway away
from the politically-charged turf of the
Greensward.
“Those are going to happen,” Sullivan
said of the city funding to create the onstreet parking spaces.
“Our funding is for the sidewalk improvements that are necessary,” she added.
“We have to have ADA (Americans with
Disabilities Act) compliant sidewalks before
we can add on-street parking …. We are
just adding the sidewalks that will basically
unlock that project.”
Those efforts can seem incremental. But
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While much of the attention this spring has been on the Greensward, others parts of
Overton Park, including the Old Forest area, are coming alive and drawing Memphians
on different, sometimes more solitary terms. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
parking deck suggested by the study consultants is 300 spaces, just 100 more than
spaces than the on-street parking on North
Parkway.
It’s the largest single part of the 438
additional parking spaces the consultants
suggested could be created without the $7.8
million parking deck.
Memphis Zoo officials were still reviewing the study Thursday, April 7, and had no
comment yet on it.
They said earlier they were aware of the
study and cooperating in it, but were not
participating in it.
“Most of the actual options we’ve
already talked about, and we’ve already
looked at them,” zoo president and CEO
Chuck Brady said in February. “The parking
deck is a financial issue. It’s a very expensive
deal. … It’s going to be $15,000 a space.”
But he didn’t rule out any consideration
of it or the other options.
He did think the consultants’ count of
parking spaces should have included the
600 cars parked on the Greensward. And
he didn’t think much of the idea of park
institutions offering discounts for patrons
who don’t drive cars into the park – another
part of the study.
Brady cited the high number of zoo patrons who come on Tuesday when admission is free and those who come for group
discounts as well.
“If the zoo is free, I don’t think you can
consider that,” he said. “The pricing suggestions don’t add up. But we are going to
look at those.”
Meanwhile, Sullivan is pursuing another familiar element from parking discussions over the last three springs.
The consultants suggested a better
park-wide shuttle system from the remnants of the hastily assembled shuttle
system the conservancy attempted in the
spring and summer of 2014.
The zoo was originally among the
partners funding the effort, then withdrew
its funding and then rejoined the effort,
ultimately declaring it a failure that had
cost the zoo attendance.
“Just after that, park usage and zoo
usage dropped off,” Sullivan said of the lessons learned. “It got warm, people were on
vacation. The first lesson is run the shuttles
when you have visitors. It’s fairly easy to
predict when you are going to have peak
usage days.”
She also said the shuttle should be promoted by all of the park partners with the
same messaging.
The consultants recommend a “best
case scenario,” by Sullivan’s description,
for the private shuttle service paid for by
rider fees and/or subsidies from the park’s
institutions and others.
“Three continuously operating ADA
compliant shuttles that are top of the line …
picking you up from surface parking around
the neighborhood and picking you up from
one part of the park to another.”
That version, operating 12 hours a day,
has a price estimate of $25,000 a week operating five days a week.
Meanwhile, there was evidence at the
end of a week that included a second Chancery Court lawsuit – this one challenging the
March 1 Memphis City Council vote giving
the zoo control of two-thirds of the Greensward for parking – that the controversy is
settling into a new, admittedly amped-up
version of normal.
Zoo officials said Wednesday that they
will again limit overflow parking on the
grass to the northern third of the Greensward because of other activities in the
area Saturday and Sunday, in agreement
with the other park institutions including
the conservancy.
Last weekend was the first weekend of
what the zoo described as the “compromise.” Critics of the long-standing parking
arrangement directed their attention to the
beefed-up Memphis Police Department
presence and new temporary metal barriers
put up to mark the area instead of the usual
orange parking cones.
16 April 8-14, 2016
Moving Dirt
Commercial real estate projects dot Memphis landscape
Madeline Faber
The Memphis News
The Memphis development community
is looking inward and upward to increase
density in the urban core. New construction
is happening across all four commercial real
estate sectors, with long-anticipated projects
like Trader Joe’s and the redevelopment of
Central Station finally coming to fruition.
Construction and operating costs continue
to be a challenge as new projects hit the top
of their class to command higher rents.
RETAIL RIDING 2015 MOMENTUM
The Memphis retail market is reaping
the rewards of one of its biggest years for
construction deliveries. Bass Pro Shops
and Tanger Factory Outlets contributed
to a total net absorption of 460,024 square
feet in 2015, the largest year of construction
deliveries since 2000, according to data from
CB Richard Ellis Memphis. 2016 is looking to
be another major year.
Construction is finally underway at
Ikea’s 271,000-square-foot store in Cordova.
The fall 2016 opening will cap more than
two years of discussions and red tape that
delayed the project. The Memphis-Shelby
County Economic Development Growth
Engine tailor-made a tax incentive to secure
the furniture store.
Two exits west on Interstate 40, the walls
are up on the Wal-Mart supercenter at 6790
Raleigh Lagrange Road. The Bentonville,
This former Kroger on Exeter Road in Germantown is where the Memphis area's first
Trader Joe's store will soon be constructed. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
The shell of the Wal-Mart supercenter under construction at Whitten Road just north
of Interstate 40 is almost complete. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
Ark.-based retailer paid nearly $4 million
in 2014 to assemble multiple properties
northwest of the Whitten Road exit off I-40.
The new supercenter will be the company’s
sixth inside the city of Memphis.
Trader Joe’s in Germantown marks
another long-awaited development. The
specialty grocery store is set to open in the
third quarter at the northeast corner of Poplar Avenue and Exeter Road.
Trader Joe’s will be built ground-up as
an outparcel on the parking lot of the former
Kroger at 2130 Exeter Road. Trader Joe’s
will occupy 12,500 square feet of the new
19,500-square-foot building, with the remaining space going to undisclosed tenants.
The Kroger building’s footprint will be
reduced from 61,332 square feet to 46,500
square feet and split into three retail bays
to promote infill development.
The Trader Joe’s development is in line
with a trend of repurposing big-box stores
and surface parking to densify key retail
corridors, like Poplar Avenue.
Within the next two years, the prized
retail stretch of Poplar between Perkins Road
and Interstate 240 will see an unprecedented
amount of vacant space.
This year, the new ownership group of
the Sears at 4570 Poplar Ave. plans to raze
the three-story building. In 2017, it will open
a new 135,000-square-foot shopping center
in the heart of the Laurelwood Shopping
Center. Nordstrom Rack and Ulta have been
named as tenants, and more announcements are expected.
“This will be a great development at
a great intersection within the core of the
city,” said Carson Claybrook, vice president
with Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial
Advisors. “As class A retail space inventory
continues to dry up, we will see more adaptive reuse of properties like this that aren’t
being used for their highest and best use.”
The Kroger store at Poplar and South
Perkins Road closed in late March, and a
significant, still-unnamed tenant in the
Eastgate Shopping Center is also set to
close, opening up valuable retail space in a
traditionally tight trade corridor.
MIXED-USE BECOMING BUZZWORD
Thinking outside the box carries retail
over to the multifamily sector, where mixeduse projects define Memphis’ construction
boom.
Mixed-use typically means retail on the
ground floor with multifamily and possibly
office use in the upper floors. The building
technique defines denser cities, and it’s
coming to Memphis in a big way with Crosstown Concourse, Highland Row, Central
Station and Midtown Market leading the
mixed-use wave.
Jimmy Ringel, chief operating officer of
Makowsky Ringel Greenberg, said Crosstown Concourse is unlike anything Memphis has seen before because of its scale
and structure.
The 1.1 million-square-foot former Sears
Tower will be mixed with commercial tenants, master-leased apartments for many of
the tenants and conventional apartments for
other residents. When Crosstown Concourse
opens in 2017, the 270 apartment units will
be part of a building unlike any other, with
residents cohabitating with major Memphis
organizations such as the Church Health
Center and St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital.
“The effect this development will have
is, literally transforming an entire neighborhood with thousands of people converging
on this spot on a daily basis,” Ringel said.
The mixed-use Highland Row development near the University of Memphis
includes 354 apartments, 35 townhomes,
32,000 square feet of retail and a 511-space
parking garage. The first round of apartments will be delivered in the spring, with
full completion slated for later in the year.
“This development along the Highland
Strip continues a trend of new development in the University District,” Ringel said.
“However, whereas developments such as
The Stratum and The Gather have been
strictly multipurpose, student-built housing,
Highland Row is a conventional property
with high rents aiming at a broader audience
than just students.”
Construction is also underway at the $55
million redevelopment of Central Station
in South Main Downtown. The functional
train station and its surrounding area will
house a boutique hotel, restaurants, retail,
a seven-screen movie theater and 175 apartments. The movie theater will be the first
phase completed, with Malco Theatres Inc.
filing a $6.5 million construction permit in
March. The rest of the project is expected to
be completed in early fall 2017.
Still to come is Belz Enterprises’ project
at the corner of Union Avenue and McLean
Boulevard. Plans for the Midtown Market
include demolishing the blighted Artisan
Hotel to make way for a mixed-use building
anchored by a gourmet grocery store with
188 apartment units in the upper floors.
Belz has cleared some significant funding and planning hurdles since announcing
the project last October, but a groundbreaking date has yet to be scheduled.
MEMPHIS SEEING SMALLER USERS
Dirt is always moving in the industrial
sector, just not in Shelby County.
Memphis hasn’t seen any new speculative industrial construction since 2007, while
the area’s most active submarket, DeSoto
County, has grown its Class A industrial
April 8-14, 2016 17
The long-awaited Ikea at Germantown Parkway and I-40 is beginning to take shape. The 271,000-square-foot store is slated to open this fall.
offerings by more than 6 million
square feet.
Brokers and business leaders
agree that the Mississippi industrial market is soaring past Memphis
because of incentives.
“The reason is because the
incentives are better. They're less
restrictive,” said Hank Martin,
vice president with NAI Saig Co.
“The city of Memphis and Shelby
County have to figure out a way
to remedy that situation. If you
look at track record, they have not
figured it out yet.”
At EDGE’s March 16 board
meeting, the Commercial Real
Estate Owners Alliance proposed
a “fast track PILOT” program that
would mirror North Mississippi’s
program. EDGE tabled a discussion on the proposal until its April
meeting. If adopted, a streamlined
PILOT process would help Memphis compete with the industrial
boom just across the state line.
Hillwood Investment Properties is about to wrap construction
on two buildings in the Legacy Park
development in Olive Branch. One
warehouse will be 800,838 square
feet and the other will be 293,760
square feet, according to data from
CBRE.
At the same time, IDI Gazeley is nearing completion on a
272,400-square-foot building in
Southaven and ProLogis is working
on a 902,700-square-foot warehouse in Olive Branch.
Panattoni Development Co. is
also growing its sprawling Gate-
way Global Logistics Park, which
crosses both Marshall and Fayette
counties.
Building III at Gateway, which
will be 554,000 square feet and
expandable up to 975,000 square
feet, will be completed in the third
quarter.
“These guys all have more land
to build,” Martin added. “If they get
these last couple leased up, they
might announce something new.”
Shelby County is seeing some
organic expansions, but not any
speculative builds or build-to-suit
deals.
Last year, Nike Inc. wrapped up
the $276 million expansion of its
North America Logistics Campus
in Frayser. In March, the company
started a $1.5 million build-out of a
Lamar Avenue warehouse.
Renovations continue at Cummins Inc.’s new distribution center
off Hickory Hill Road. In March,
Cummins filed a $944,000 building
permit for the 400,000-square-foot
warehouse. In August of last year,
Cummins began work on $2.7 million in internal renovations.
Martin said the Southeast
Shelby County submarket was very
active last year, garnering more
than half of 2015’s record 8 million
square feet of absorption.
“That’s been unheard of in the
past five years,” he said.
He attributed the submarket’s
growth to its stock of smaller,
300,000-square-foot buildings.
Most newly built warehouses in
North Mississippi are closer to
1 million square feet, so smaller
tenants are looking to Memphis to
meet their needs.
“We do not have anyone building anything that really services
the sub-400 market,” Martin said.
“I think there’s a definite market
out there for new development of
the 25,000 to 50,000 – even up to
100,000-square-foot warehouses
for those that want a little more
truck and trailer parking or their
own identity,” he said.
Martin added that a handful
of new developers are looking to
bring new buildings to the industrial market, but they’re looking
at DeSoto and Marshall counties.
While he’s not concerned about
overcrowding, he hopes that anyone new to the market would bring
a different kind of product, like
smaller warehouses.
CLASS A OFFICE
MARKET TIGHT
Tight Class A availability is the
primary influence in the Memphis
office market.
“Particularly in the suburban
office markets, especially in the
east, we're down to 3 percent vacancy,” said Ron Kastner, senior
vice president with CBRE. “It’s
really just the crumbs, the small
spaces that are just the misfit toys,
so to speak.”
Companies seeking 10,000
square feet or more have only a
handful of options. As availabilities
decrease, rents are continuing to
rise. Last year, rents at the Crescent
Center in East Memphis crossed
the $30-per-square-foot threshold,
which is the highest the market has
ever seen. In the fourth quarter of
last year, the Memphis MSA Class
A average rent came in at $20 per
square foot.
“The net returns of Memphis
office space previous to now just
weren’t lucrative enough to validate the investment to build a new
building,” Kastner said.
High construction and operating costs require landlords to
charge higher rents.
“If that number is too big, then
what makes you think that people
are going to pay it?” said Steve
Guinn, vice president of Highwoods Properties Inc. Memphis.
Highwoods owns and operates
the Triad III building, the newest
multi-tenant office building in the
East submarket, and the Crescent
Center, which has the highest rents
in the area.
“If the Crescent Center is $30,
can you build a new building and
lease it for $30 or does it have to
be more than that? How do you
feel about the likelihood of getting
that number?” Guinn added, saying that Class A rents need to move
up across the board to encourage
developers.
“I guess the timing of adding
new product would be clearly here
in front of us,” Kastner added. “All
the metrics are right – the velocity is there, demanding, pricing is
there now, as far as rental rates that
could be commanded.”
For the past five quarters,
eyes have been on the last parcel
in Boyle Investment Co.’s Ridgeway Center office park. Boyle
has announced plans to build a
new 175,000-square-foot Class A
building, but the project is taking
longer than expected to get off the
ground.
Mark Halperin, executive vice
president at Boyle, said that he
has one letter of intent signed and
three others in the process. If all
of those offers come through, the
new building would be fully leased.
Most of those tenants are Memphis
companies that have outgrown
their current headquarters.
“We’re looking at approximately $30 per square foot at the
new building,” Halperin added.
“Those are expensive rents, but
that’s what it costs to build the
building and operate.”
Further east is the 10-acre
TraVure planned development in
Germantown. The dense, suburban project consists of two hotels, a
parking garage, restaurants and retail and more than 150,000 square
feet of Class A office space. After
receiving hard-fought approvals
from the city of Germantown in
February, developer Gill Properties will soon kick off construction.
In January, graphic design firm
Speak Creative began construction
on its new East Memphis headquarters at 1648 W. Massey Road.
The 12,000-square-foot building
will have 1,500 to 6,000 square feet
for other tenants.
18 April 8-14, 2016
R E A L E S TAT E
Ambitious Lake District Project
Would Create A New Lakeland
MADELINE FABER
Before Lakeland became a
city, it was the Lakeland Amusement Park. A California-based
developer is bringing back that
original flair with his proposal
for The Lake District, a 165-acre
mixed-use development.
At a public meeting April 6 at
Stonebridge Country Club, Gilad
Development unveiled plans for
two hotels, 550 residential units,
a 500-seat performing arts space,
two parking garages, over 100,000
square feet of office space, luxury
retail and restaurants, an outdoor
farmers market, and an early
childhood learning center all centered around a 5-acre manmade
lake.
“Our intention is to make this
pretty spectacular,” said Gilad
principal Yehuda Netanel.
Netanel has had ties to Lakeland since 2005 when he purchased the former Lakeland
Factory Outlet Mall from Belz
Enterprises.
Gilad had several false starts
in redeveloping the 35-acre property. Now, he’s looking much
bigger.
He has a contract to purchase
from Belz the surrounding 130
acres that used to house the Lakeland International Raceway. Both
tracts of land will be transformed
into a walkable community.
“Like a European village,” said
Maggie Gallagher with Gilad Development. “Or an old Southern
town of the 1940s.”
The complex will stretch from
the vacant outlet mall to the
Canada Trace Mobile Home
lake district continued on P32
A five-acre lake will be the focal point for a sprawling, mixed-use complex that combines multifamily,
office, civic and retail uses. (Submitted)
THE TIPPING POINT
Daughter of Duality, Gibbs is Building a Better Justice System
Memphis stands at the threshold of
incredible possibility. In this series, we
introduce innovative Memphians who are
driving our city forward and forging its
future success.
Say you stole a television worth $300.
How long should you be punished?
A year? Five years? Whatever you answered, it probably wasn’t “for the rest
of your life.” But that’s how the U.S. legal
system currently treats many people who
have been convicted of felonies. For the
rest of their lives, they have limited or no
access to voting rights, certain jobs, public
assistance, financial aid for college, professional licenses or public housing.
When she talks about it, Allison Gibbs
can’t help but get a little worked up.
“Are we defined by the worst thing
we’ve ever done?” she wonders, eyes flashing. “Will I always be Allison Gibbs, the girl
who forged a doctor’s note in 12th grade?”
Gibbs has come a long way since the
doctor’s note. Today, she is director of
programs and operations at Just City, a
Memphis-based nonprofit that supports
and advocates for Mid-Southerners who
have been impacted by the criminal justice
system.
The organization is just a year old, but
already it’s made a big impact. Through
the Clean Slate Fund, Just City’s team has
guided 50 Memphians through the costly
ALLISON GIBBS
and complicated process of expungement:
deleting years-old, nonviolent convictions
from criminal records and allowing those
involved to get on with their lives.
That’s the good news. The bad news
is that there are more than 500 people on
the waiting list.
“Too often, we begin by assuming that
minorities and other marginalized communities are guilty,” Gibbs observes. “We
lock them up and throw away the key.”
“It’s not working,” she continues. “At
Just City, we’re trying to get criminal justice right.”
Gibbs got her first taste of inequality
early on. Her mother’s family was solidly
middle-class, while her father was a Jamaican immigrant who struggled to make
ends meet. Growing up in Miami, she was
sensitive to the split nature of her situation.
“On my mom’s side, we went to college and grad school,” Gibbs remembers.
“We took vacations and had debutante
balls. We were living the pseudo-Cosby
dream. On the other side, my dad’s living in Section 8 housing, and he can’t
read. I remember thinking, that’s kinda
messed up.”
In her spare time, Gibbs would help her
father apply for food stamps and Medicaid.
In one way or another, she’s been working
for marginalized communities ever since.
After graduating from the University
of Florida, she joined Teach For America,
a nonprofit that sends recent college grads
to teach in under-resourced public schools
around the country. Her assignment?
Memphis, Tennessee.
“I was driving down the interstate, calling different apartments,” Gibbs recalls.
“At that point, all I knew about Memphis
was Elvis and the National Civil Rights
Museum.”
It wasn’t an easy transition. Those first
few months, Gibbs lived alone in an apartment near Wolfchase Galleria and worked
60-hour weeks, with nothing for furniture
but an air mattress, a card table and two
folding chairs. But little by little, Memphis
began to grow on her.
“It’s is a great city to start your career
in,” Gibbs reflects. “If I were still in Miami,
I wouldn’t have had these kinds of opportunities.”
After serving out her contract with
Teach for America, she went on to community engagement posts at Freedom
Preparatory Academy and Stand for Children. Then a friend sent her the job listing
at Just City. The nonprofit – launched out
of the Shelby County Public Defender’s office – was brand new, and Gibbs ultimately
became its first hire.
One thing is clear: Memphis needs this
work. Although the U.S. has just 5 percent
of the world’s population, it contains more
than 25 percent of the world’s imprisoned
population.
Here in Shelby County, where AfricanAmericans are 53 percent of the general
population, they comprise more than 80
percent of the population of the county
jail at any given time. Those are the kinds
of statistics that get Gibbs out of bed in
the morning.
“The people we work with are vulnerable,” she observes. “They have been marginalized and deemed an underclass. The
thing I keep asking myself is, who’s working for them? How can we ensure that we
are doing unto the least of these the same
things we would want done for ourselves?”
“Today it’s them,” Gibbs adds. “Tomorrow it could be you.”
Allison Gibbs is a graduate of Embark
at New Memphis. Learn more at newmemphis.org.
April 8-14, 2016 19
R E TA I L
Pop-Up Retail Concept Housed In
Shipping Containers Comes to Memphis
MADELINE FABER
A local entrepreneur is looking to bring an innovative marketplace made out of shipping
containers to Memphis.
“It’s like a real shopping mall
but for pop-up shops,” said Brian
Christion, who recently returned
to Memphis after a real estate
career in New York City.
In 2011, Christion launched
the concept at an empty lot in
Brooklyn. Dubbed DeKalb Market, the outdoor venue was made
up of 22 shipping containers with
goods for sale ranging from tacos
to vintage clothes.
“The only thing that needed
to be modified was that we were
doing it in the most expensive city
on the planet,” said Christion.
For what he is calling the
Memphis Shab Chic market,
he’s looking at 16 vendors across
20 shipping containers. The repurposed containers are 20 feet
long and will be hooked up to
electricity and WiFi and renovated with windows and sliding
doors.
“What we'll be doing is giving
you a blank canvas. The idea is for
the vendors to bring the creativity,” he said.
Christion’s team will do the
build-out of the individual containers, and site construction will
take around 25 days. He hopes to
fill the remaining eight vendor
spaces by mid-April and have the
market open for business by the
summer. The market would run
until Oct. 31.
“The only hurdles we’re coming across are the vendors and
their commitment behind it,”
he said. “We're not reaching out
to established businesses. We're
trying to give opportunities to
people that have great ideas and
a great product.”
Shab Chic will sublease from
the existing owners of the lot.
A vendor would then lease a
shipping container for $1,000 to
$1,200 a month.
The market would have regular hours six days a week as well
as programming like movie nights
and live music.
The location for the market is
still being hammered out. Christion has narrowed the search to
Loeb Properties’ empty lot at the
Organizers behind the Dekalb Market in Brooklyn are working to bring a similar shipping container
market to Memphis. (Submitted)
corner of Central and Cooper,
Wiseacre Brewery on Broad Avenue and an empty lot west of
Gus’s Fried Chicken Downtown.
If Shab Chic lands at 2120
Central Ave., it would fulfill an
earlier, somewhat similar vision
for the site. Last year, restaurateurs Taylor Berger and Michael
Tauer scrapped plans for The
Truck Stop, a food truck court
complete with a bar and restaurant constructed out of shipping
containers. At the time, they cited
financial concerns and zoning
limitations.
Helping Christion in the location search is Ben Orgel, who
is behind pop-up beer gardens
at Tennessee Brewery Revival
and Station 3: The Memphis Fire
Haus.
“I think it will be successful,”
Orgel said. “I think it’s an amazing idea. Anything innovative and
cool coming to Memphis I’d love
to support.”
FINANCIAL SERVICES
United Housing Gets $1.1M Boost From Banks
ANDY MEEK
United Housing Inc. has gotten a boost
from area financial institutions in recent
days to the tune of $1.1 million.
Pinnacle Financial Partners and First
Tennessee Bank have made separate commitments to the nonprofit organization – $1
million from Pinnacle, and
$100,000 from First Tennessee.
The latter represents
one of the first grant
awards from the Memphis-based bank’s new
$50 million Community
Development Fund. The
bank says will award up
to $3 million annually in
grants to community and
nonprofit organizations
serving low- to moderate-income people
and neighborhoods.
United Housing executive director Tim
Bolding said those funds would help support
his organization’s home improvement and
credit counseling programs.
“We’ve got a program that’s put funding together to do 1.5 percent (interest rate)
loans for home repairs up to $15,000 – 10year loans, so it’s very low-cost funding
to help with home repairs,” Bolding says.
“These are private dollars going in to make
home improvement loans
for way below market.”
The funding from Pinnacle, meanwhile, is being
invested in United Housing’s loan pools that are
used for several purposes.
The Nashville-based
bank said its investment
will help fund three different loan pools. Those
TIM BOLDING pools finance first mortgages for small dollar
amounts, second-mortgage loans for home
improvements and the acquisition of properties for renovation and resale.
Said Pinnacle’s Memphis chairman
Kirk Bailey, “We are making this significant
investment in United Housing because we
believe affordable housing is critical to the
success of the community.”
United Housing will be able to originate
loans below $50,000 – typically as low as
most mortgage lenders go – as a result of
funding in the small-dollar loan pool. Bolding said those loan pools fill a need that can’t
be met through traditional financing mechanisms, as Memphis has an abundance of
properties that can be bought, renovated
and sold for less than $50,000.
Funds in the home-improvement loan
pool will be used to provide United Housing’s 10-year second mortgages at 1.5
percent interest to low-income borrowers.
And funds in the acquisition and rehab pool
will be used to buy properties to renovate
and sell.
Those funds will allow for five units to be
under construction at any given time and are
expected to support the development of up
to 20 properties a year.
“What we’ve found is that traditional
mortgage companies and banks don’t do
financing for low-cost housing – that it’s difficult to get a mortgage for a low-cost house,”
Bolding said. “And, of course, Memphis has
thousands and thousands of homes that are
less than $50,000. How do you finance it, if
your mortgage market doesn’t like doing
those?
“I was at the blight elimination summit a
couple of weeks ago, and the numbers they
put on the table there were just overwhelming. You start looking at these numbers
and you move from dozens to hundreds to
thousands and you start realizing the extent
of this is significant. It’s overwhelming when
you look at what’s out there. The good news
is the conversations are going on, and the
people involved are there at the table.”
Founded in 1994 as an affiliate of the
United Way of the Mid-South, United
Housing serves Memphis, Shelby County
and West Tennessee, targeting its services
to families underserved by the traditional
homeownership industry.
20 April 8-14, 2016
SMALL BUSINESS
Study Launches to Analyze Memphis Creatives
ANDY MEEK
One of the goals of Memphis’
EPIcenter entrepreneurship organization is to make sure the focus
and discussions around supporting local entrepreneurs are inclusive and take time to contemplate
non-traditional demographics.
That’s according to EPIcenter
president Leslie Lynn Smith, who
said in an interview with The Daily
News that creatives and makers
tend to get left out of those conversations too frequently. And
that’s one reason why her group, in
partnership with Memphis-based
consultancy Little Bird Innovation,
has launched a project to measure
the impact of what could be described as the artisan economy in
LESLIE LYNN SMITH
Memphis.
In addition to measuring it,
the study – which is being called
CraftWorks: Memphis – will also
identify recommendations for how
to grow the sector.
“It’s interesting – there’s data
that suggests creatives rarely selfidentify as entrepreneurs, but
when you’re commercializing
your craft, that’s exactly what you
are,” Smith said in describing the
project, which will involve a largescale survey paired with in-depth
participant interviews.
“We want to understand the
size and scale of the opportunities for creatives in Memphis and
create programs and places that
accelerate the growth of that activity. The CraftWorks study seeks
to engage the creative class, and
rather than us saying this is what
we think you need to do to be successful, it will identify things like
what the gaps are in the current
environment.”
The project launched April 4
at Ignite Memphis, which CraftWorks: Memphis co-sponsored.
The project backers set up an
information table at the event to
hear from attendees about their
interest in makers, artisans and
manufacturers.
From there, Little Bird Innovation plans to conduct a survey
paired with 30 interviews with
creative entrepreneurs in neighborhoods across Memphis as part
of the initial data collection. According to Little Bird co-founder
Nicole Heckman, the survey will
collect baseline information to
help estimate the economic impact and contribution of creative
entrepreneurs making physical
products.
The interview portion of the
project will, Heckman adds, “draw
on our social science-based methods and take place wherever the
artisan works.” The project can
from that then start to identify
common wants, needs and insights across interviews.
Explaining that a handful of
artisans will also be hired to help
conduct research, Heckman continues, “We think the best way to
reach a large number of creative
entrepreneurs is to employ those
very same people to work their
networks and help us expand our
reach.”
The project focuses on makers of products such as apparel
and accessories, home goods and
packaged food. Small-scale makermanufacturers are also included.
Little Bird design researcher
Cole Bradley, in a presentation
given at the Ignite Memphis event,
highlighted some of the project’s
findings already. For artisans,
enjoying community with other
artisans is essential. So is a creative
space in which to conduct their
business and show and sell their
work, as well as having resources
like capital and supplies.
Interested participants are
encouraged to visit http://craftworksmemphis.com, the CraftWorks: Memphis Facebook community page, and to follow along
on Twitter, via @CraftWorksMem.
“One thing we know,” Smith
says, “is that cities with strong
creative classes have more risktaking, they’re more engaged
and lead to that sense of place
and vitality.”
O V E R T O N PA R K
Lawsuit Challenges Greensward Decision
BILL DRIES
A lawsuit filed in Shelby County Chancery Court Tuesday, April 5, seeks to
void the March 1 Memphis City Council
vote that gave the Memphis Zoo undisputed control of most of the Overton Park
Greensward.
The lawsuit filed in the name of Susan
Lacy and Stephen Humbert, two Memphis
residents, argues the action should be
voided by the court because the council
allegedly violated the state’s open meetings law.
The resolution offered by council
member Reid Hedgepeth surfaced on the
council’s website hours before the council’s
11-1 vote in favor of it. And when the resolution was posted on the council’s website
it already had nine sponsors, including
Hedgepeth, listed.
There was no discussion of the details
of the resolution in council committee
where it was added to the council’s agenda
for a vote.
The lawsuit alleges that City Council
attorney Allan Wade “on behalf of councilman Hedgepeth and the MZS (Memphis
Zoological Society) made a number of
telephone calls to discuss the development,
objectives and drafting of the resolution
and to obtain sponsors for the resolution.”
“Any discussion among themselves and
with council attorney Wade regarding what
action to take based upon advice of counsel
should have been conducted in open to the
public and the failure to do so constitutes a
clear violation of the Open Meetings Act,”
reads the lawsuit filed by attorneys Don
Donati, Bryce Ashby and Robert Donati.
The lawsuit also claims that the council
had no authority to give the zoo control of
the Greensward because of a 2000 ordinance passed by the council that abolished
the Memphis Park Commission.
The argument is that with no park
commission the control and management
of parks went to the city’s Division of Park
Services.
“Accordingly the city council has no legal authority to take the actions contained
in the March 1, 2016, resolution as it had
ceded such power to the executive branch
more than a decade and a half prior,” the
lawsuit reads.
Don Donati said Lacy and Humbert are
both professionals who use Overton Park
and would have wanted to participate in
the council's discussion.
"Our clients don't take a position
about who should be managing anything," he added. "They want an open and
transparent dialogue about what to do
with this public asset."
The action asks the court to find that
the council violated the Open Meetings
Act state law and void the council action
on the Greensward.
The resolution’s passage asserted the
council’s right to make a determination of
who could use city property. And Mayor
Jim Strickland did not contest the assertion.
It came at a critical time in the Greensward controversy, which is now in its
third spring.
It came after the zoo filed a lawsuit in
January seeking a Chancery Court ruling
giving it undisputed control of part of the
Greensward. The Overton Park Conservancy, which was named as a defendant
– along with the city – in the lawsuit, filed
a counter-claim in February.
The zoo cited a 1988 master plan approved by the city that gives it control of the
area for overflow parking. The conservancy
cites its 2012 agreement with the city that
gives the conservancy control of all of the
Greensward.
The competing claims involve two conflicting maps and complex legal arguments
about whether an earlier plan trumps a
later agreement or vice versa.
As that court fight was forming, the
zoo and conservancy prepared to enter
into mediation proposed by Strickland
that continues.
In the gap between the two events, the
council acted.
The earlier claim and counter-claim
in Chancery Court are still pending before
Chancellor James Newsom and scheduled
for a motion hearing Friday.
Newson has been assigned the lawsuit
by Lacy and Humbert.
Zoo officials had said after the council
vote that they would drop the lawsuit if the
conservancy dropped its counter-claim.
The mediation aimed at a compromise
solution has proven to be leak-proof so
far with no specific details offered of what
might be on the table or off the table.
Strickland, in a written statement Monday, offered no specifics on the mediation
process either.
“I am pleased to report that mediation
remains ongoing,” he said. “Mediation
is a deliberate process meant to deliver
a thoughtful resolution, which means
its conclusions aren’t always reached as
quickly as we all would want them to be
reached. I urge patience as we continue to
work toward a solution.”
Daily News publisher Eric Barnes is on
the board of the Overton Park Conservancy.
He did not participate in the writing or editing of this story.
April 8-14, 2016 21
COMMUNITY
Jesse Jackson Tells Stories Of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“We couldn't stop
mean and hateful
people from killing
Dr. King. But today he
lives. The stone was
rolled away.”
Civil Rights activist
Civil rights movement icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. at the National Civil Rights
Museum on the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
48 years ago. (Memphis News/Bill Dries)
BILL DRIES
He was 26 years old in 1968 when he
was a guest at the Lorraine Motel with
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the
younger members of King’s inner circle.
Looking into a setting sun Monday,
April 4, from the balcony of the motel
turned National Civil Rights Museum,
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., now 74, remembered the day King was shot and killed
where Jackson stood 48 years later.
“The bullet knocked him against this
door,” Jackson said.
“The police were coming at us with
guns drawn. The shot had to come from
there,” he said of the now famous photo
taken just seconds after the assassination, pointing to the boarding house
across Mulberry Street where James Earl
Ray fired the shot that killed King from a
bathroom window.
King, at 39, was 11 years older than
Jackson.
“It was a lot of drama, a lot of trauma,
a lot of pain,” Jackson said in an older,
more even voice than the younger voice
that once shook church rafters and
didn’t need a microphone to be heard
from the balcony in past years.
“We couldn’t stop mean and hateful
people from killing Dr. King,” he continued. “But today he lives. The stone was
rolled away. We have gone from Selma,
Alabama to the White House.”
Jackson has stood on the motel
balcony many times in the last 48 years,
many times on April 4 just as he has retraced his steps in 1968 to the podium at
Mason Temple Church of God In Christ
in South Memphis where King delivered his final speech the night before
his death.
It was Jackson and Rev. Ralph Abernathy who initially went to the church
at King’s behest because King was tired
and thought the tornado warnings in the
area would translate to a small crowd in
the large church sanctuary.
“We walked in the door and there
was a loud cheer,” Jackson said Monday repeating again the story he and
Abernathy, who died in 1990, have told
countless times since the events of April
1968 in Memphis became part of American history.
“Ralph said, ‘Jesse, they’re not cheering for us. They think Martin’s behind
us.’”
Most of those at the event and other
events he attended Monday in Memphis
weren’t alive when King died.
Jackson reminded the crowd that
Abernathy called King from the church
on a rotary dial phone.
“You dialed, if you will,” he said.
Increasingly the memories given
voice on April 4 from the balcony and
from other places of critical importance
in the Memphis of 1968 aren’t memories
an audience can associate with their own
memories of the same events.
Rev. Alvin O’Neil Jackson, the former pastor of Mississippi Boulevard
Christian Church, recalled being 17
years old and working an after school
job in Indianola, Miss., when he heard
of King’s death.
“I went numb,” he said. “I felt rage.
… I felt all by myself. I felt lonely. I felt
deserted.”
They are accounts from a time long
ago of events that might seem un-imaginable to some.
To many in the Memphis audiences
Monday, they remember Jackson as a
Democratic presidential contender and
a successor to King in a movement that
wandered and then began moving in
multiple directions after the trauma of
King’s death – all before they were born.
“He didn’t come to Memphis to die.
He came to Memphis to bring light to
the workers and he died in the process,”
Jackson said to those in the courtyard
where he stood as a younger man years
ago.
“There’s more to Dr. King then there
ever was 48 years ago,” he added, referring to such issues as refugees, health
care, poverty and violence. “It is our
burden, not just to come to the grave. He
ain’t here. The stone has rolled away.”
It’s a point National Civil Rights
Museum President Terri Lee Freeman
has made as well.
“This is a somber day not a sad day,”
Freeman said. “He was not a dreamer.
He was a man of action. … Words are
good. Actions and deeds are far better.”
22 April 8-14, 2016
SPORTS
QB Paxton Lynch Passes Pro Day
Test, But Questions Remain
DON WADE
In the immediate aftermath of Paxton Lynch’s Pro Day at the University of
Memphis, it sort of felt like the postgame
following a season-opening victory over a
lesser non-conference opponent.
Good, satisfying in the moment, and
hopeful for the future. But not necessarily
an accurate predictor of what is to come.
In front of talent evaluators and decision-makers from more than two dozen
NFL teams, Lynch fought through winds of
about 25 mph to complete 57 of 69 scripted
passes, mostly to old teammates such as
tight end Alan Cross and receivers Tevin
Jones and Mose Frazier.
Wearing a white shirt with “Memphis”
in blue across his chest – nice pub for the
Tigers as the NFL Network carried Lynch’s
Pro Day – he made short throws and long
throws. He threw crossing patterns and
out routes aimed to test his arm strength.
He missed some throws – “there were
a couple of times I was just a little off,” he
said – but many of his throws went right
where he wanted: “I was really happy with
the placement.”
And placement is the key word going
forward, as in his placement in the April
28 NFL Draft.
Judging just by the business of Lynch’s
calendar – in Kansas City one day, in
Cleveland another – “it was cold,” he said
– Lynch could end up just about anywhere.
He has worked out and/or met with Philadelphia and Buffalo, was scheduled to go
to Dallas, and is supposedly on the radar of
the New York Jets and Los Angeles Rams,
and Denver Broncos, and, well, we could
list just about every team in the league if
we start trying to read into things.
Consider: Former Tennessee Titans
head coach and current San Diego Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt asked Lynch to throw specific routes
at his Pro Day. Some scouts from other
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Former Tigers quarterback Paxton Lynch completed 57 of 69 “scripted” passes during
his pro day workout before more than two dozen NFL teams on the south campus at
the University of Memphis this past week. Lynch has been projected as a first-round
draft pick with multiple teams showing interest in him. (Memphis News File/Andrew J. Breig)
teams paid more attention than others.
And sometimes, teams intentionally try
to throw other teams off by feigning only
mild interest.
So next time you scroll down another
“mock” draft, keep this in mind: The definition of mock is “not authentic or real …”
Lynch’s agent, Leigh Steinberg, has
had about 60 first-round draft picks in his
time in the game. He doesn’t even have a
great read on things at this point. But he
does know how to frame a client’s best
attributes.
“He has the highest upside of any
quarterback in the draft,” Steinberg said.
“He’s that new mode, Roethlisberger
(Ben), Newton (Cam), big and strong, can
fend off the rush, but also has escapability, which you wouldn’t think someone
6-7 would have. Natural leader. Teammates love him.”
The funny thing about that? Only the
first part about Lynch having the most
upside can be put up for debate. Generally, Lynch has been considered the third
choice at quarterback in this draft behind
Carson Wentz of North Dakota State and
Jared Goff of California.
But look at the other parts of Steinberg’s statement, biased though it may
be: Lynch is similar to Big Ben and Cam
Newton. He is big and strong and has a
rocket arm. He can scramble and run. He
did show good leadership characteristics
with the Tigers. Teammates did love him.
Of course, from the perspective of NFL
teams, some of that falls under the category
of intangibles and is down the list from
reading defenses and playing in a pro-style
offense, which Lynch did not do under
Justin Fuente here.
Lynch says in conversations with teams
he has consistently been told two things
need improvement.
“Footwork and tempo,” he said.
He does not sound overly concerned
about either, or worried about the team
that might draft him. There are teams, such
as the defending Super Bowl champion
Broncos or Rams, which might force the
issue and press Lynch to start during his
rookie season.
In other places, such as Arizona where
the Cardinals have Carson Palmer, or Kansas City where the Chiefs have Alex Smith,
the teams might be quite content to wait
a couple of years while grooming Lynch.
“I’m going to come in prepared to be
the starter wherever I go,” Lynch said of his
mindset. “Whether there is an established
guy or you are the guy.”
Steinberg believes Lynch is a franchisequality quarterback. Whether that turns
out to be true or not only time will tell
us, but the agent is right when he says
what NFL teams want: “You’re looking for
someone you can win because of, rather
than with.”
The draft experts are naturally split on
Lynch. Some concur Lynch has the most
upside. Others don’t think he’ll ever make a
full transition to a multiple-read, pro-style
quarterback.
Lynch is aware. And unmoved.
“Everybody has their own opinion,”
Lynch told The Daily News. “Like Leigh,
my agent, always says, if you post a tweet
about Santa Claus being the best fictional
holiday character, half the people will say,
`Yes, Santa Claus!’ And the other half will
say like, `Santa Claus sucks.’”
Lynch laughs and it’s worth a laugh.
But also a teaching point if he’s drafted
by Philadelphia, where they were booing
Santa Claus long before anyone had ever
heard of social media.
April 8-14, 2016 23
SPORTS
Memphis Baseball Team Sticking With Young Pitchers
DON WADE
University of Memphis baseball coach Daron Schoenrock
looks at his freshmen pitchers and sees talent and promise, even if at times this season
“the moments have been a little
big for them.”
But he also sees something
else. Or rather, someone else:
former Tigers quarterback Paxton
Lynch, who had an uneven year
as a redshirt freshman. Critics
called for then-head coach Justin
Fuente to replace Lynch with a
Schoenrock
says the lineup
is 'capable,'
but hitters feel
pressure trying
to carry the
load with such a
young pitching
staff.
more experienced player in senior
Jacob Karam.
Fuente didn’t budge from his
commitment to let Lynch grow
into the job and that worked out
pretty well for all concerned.
Schoenrock is taking a similar
approach, even with a 10-17 start
this season.
“Our record isn’t where we
want it at all,” Schoenrock said.
“Two-thirds of our weekend rotation is new. But if you were to rank
the top arm talents on our team,
six of the 11 are freshmen.”
And two key pitchers that are
not freshmen are young, sophomore weekend starters Colton
Hathcock (Brighton, Tenn.) and
Connor Alexander (Tipton-Rosemark Academy). Each owns a 2-3
record and they have respectable
ERAs with Hathcock at 3.83 and
Alexander at 4.10. Senior Matt
Ferguson is 3-4 with a 3.72 earned
run average.
As for the freshmen, 6-6 righthander Jonathan Bowlan (Bartlett
High) will get the start in the Tigers’ Wednesday, April 6, game
vs. Arkansas (19-4, 4-5 in the SEC)
at 6:30 p.m. at AutoZone Park.
Bowlan has six appearances and
two starts on the season and is 1-2
with a 3.00 ERA.
“A future star,” Schoenrock
said, adding that the descrip-
tion may fit several of his young
hurlers.
Of the other five freshmen,
left-hander Hunter Smith has the
best numbers in limited work – a
1-0 mark with a 1.80 ERA in 10
innings. Right-hander Alex Hicks
(Collierville) has pitched out of
the bullpen and right-hander
James Muse (Christian Brothers) has been used as both a
starter and a reliever. Lefty Cotton Neel has seen action as both
a relief pitcher and an outfielder
and right-hander Bryan Cruse
(Bartlett) has five appearances
out of the pen.
The anchor of the Tigers’ bullpen is junior Nolan Blackwood
(Southaven), whose 14 saves last
year set a program record; he also
had an almost invisible 0.52 ERA.
Blackwood, a right-hander who
throws from a down-under arm
slot, threw his fastball 87-88 MPH
last season. This year, Schoenrock says, he has been 89-91 and
touched 93.
“He doesn’t have quite the
sinker he had before,” Schoenrock said, adding that batters also
changed their approach to him.
“He’s been hit more (a 7.24 ERA
over 11 outings, with four saves).
They’re attacking him really early
in the count.”
Offensively, Memphis has
just one player batting above
.300. Senior Jake Little (Franklin,
Tenn.) leads the team with a .327
batting average and .400 on-base
percentage. He has hit a teambest three home runs and driven
in 17 runs.
“Everybody’s wanting to do it
themselves. Take a walk, trust the
next guy.”
In seasons past, the Tigers
were pushing to get their record
to a place where with a good
showing in the postseason con-
“Health-wise, he’s the best
he’s been,” Schoenrock said, noting a hamstring injury sabotaged
Little a year ago. “He’s running
well, playing a strong right field.
I don’t know where we’d be without him.”
The Tigers’ team batting average is just .257 and they’ve taken
fewer walks than their opponents
and struck out more. Schoenrock
says the lineup is “capable,” but
hitters feel pressure trying to carry
the load with such a young pitching staff. The result: forcing the
issue and chasing pitches out of
the strike zone.
ference tournament they might
get at-large consideration for the
NCAA Tournament. That scenario
is already off the table. But the
winner of the AAC’s tourney will
get an automatic bid to an NCAA
Regional.
For the Tigers to have a
chance to make a run, the coach
knows what it will take: multiple
freshmen pitchers making contributions. So he’s sticking with
them now.
“What you’re trying to do is
grow these young pitchers,” he
said. “Pitching depth is what wins
tournaments.”
Remember the Warriors? Yes, as Long as They Win It All
The Golden State Warriors may not
break, or even tie, the Chicago Bulls’ 7210 record from the 1995-96 season. By
the time you read this, if it is after the San
Antonio Spurs play at Oracle Arena on
Thursday night, April 7, the mathematics
for shattering the record may have turned
on them.
One more loss and the Warriors can’t
get to 73 wins. In their last four games they
were to get the Spurs at home – where the
Warriors have lost two after starting 36-0 –
come to FedExForum for a Saturday, April 9
game with the Grizzlies, go to San Antonio
the next night where the Spurs are 39-0 and
chasing their own slice of history, and then
close out the regular season next Wednesday in Oakland against the Grizzlies.
Before playing the Spurs, the Warriors
had dropped two of three at home including, inexplicably, losing an overtime game
to the Minnesota Timberwolves after blowing an early 17-point lead.
So the Warriors are, in fact, human.
Yet there is one person who isn’t
shocked by any of this. Coach Steve Kerr
was a player on that record-setting Bulls
team and he remembers well that Michael
THE PRESS BOX
DON WADE
Jordan, Scottie Pippen & Co. did not play
a great brand of basketball as the regular
season drew to a close.
“You have so much media attention
and everybody talking about breaking the
record, and you lose focus a little bit,” Kerr
said after the loss to the Timberwolves.
“The same thing happened 20 years ago.
We didn’t play well down the stretch. This
doesn’t surprise me.”
Even winning 70 games would put
Golden State in rare company, becoming
just the second NBA team to reach that
plateau. Tying the Bulls’ record of 72 wins
would at least give the Warriors space on
the same line in the record book.
Watching the Grizzlies year after year,
and especially with all their injury struggles
this season, Memphis NBA fans better understand the length and the depth that is
the 82-game regular season. Truth is, every
team has to have some grit and grind just
to get through.
So, there is division among the Warriors
over the ultimate importance of the regular-season win record. They are, after all,
defending NBA champions and they want
to repeat. There’s no division about that.
The Warriors also have heard the cautionary tale of the 2007 New England Patriots. They finished the regular season 16-0.
They then won two playoff games and were
18-0 when the New York Giants spoiled it
all by upsetting them in the Super Bowl.
Or as the Warriors’ Andre Iguodala
noted when questioned by media about
chasing the record: “What does it mean?
New England Patriots go whatever-and-0,
then they don’t win a Super Bowl and y’all
don’t talk about them anymore.”
Still, after the Timberwolves loss, Stephen Curry refused to accept the distractions that come with chasing “73” as some
sort free pass for the team’s recent funk.
“It can’t be an excuse that we put ourselves in this situation and now it’s draining to finish,” he said.
Valid.
Meantime, Draymond Green suggested
the Warriors, despite and/or because of
the record, are wilting in the latter days
of the regular season because it’s so
long and the playoffs and the larger prize
are so near.
“Talking 82 games,” he told reporters.
“We get bored with that after a while. And
that’s no excuse. Just, I’ll always give it to
y’all real and that’s about as real as I can
be. It’s kind of at a point now where you’re
ready for the regular season to be over.”
Also valid.
But whether the Warriors win 70, 71,
72 or 73 games, it’s the 16 wins needed
afterward that matter most.
And it almost sounds like at least one
more loss in the regular season would give
the Warriors permission to exhale before
fortifying themselves for the postseason.
That can’t be good news for anyone
standing between them and a second
straight NBA title.
Don Wade’s column appears weekly
in The Daily News and The Memphis
News. Listen to Wade on “Middays with
Greg & Eli” every Tuesday at noon on
Sports 56 AM and 87.7 FM.
24 April 8-14, 2016
D E - A N N E X AT I O N
Conrad's Call for De-Annexation Talks
Draws Favorable Reviews
BILL DRIES
Memphis City Council Chairman Kemp Conrad wants to open
talks with county commissioners
on possible voluntary de-annexations.
And County Commission
Chairman Terry Roland said he is
open to the idea.
Council members discussed
Conrad’s resolution Tuesday, April
5, in committee sessions.
The resolution would form
a joint committee “to study and
recommend to the city council
the reasonableness of de-annexing
areas of the city and the best way
to coordinate the provision of
essential services to residents
of an affected territory after deannexation.”
The item is
slated for a vote
April 19.
“This issue obviously isn’t going away,” Conrad
said. “There are a
lot of people that
think there maybe
is a more strategic
way to look at the
footprint of the
KEMP CONRAD
city of Memphis to
make the city better and stronger.
“But instead of having that just
be dictated by Nashville based on
when things got annexed or whatnot, I think what we’re trying to
do is lay out a thoughtful, rational
process with all of the key stakeholders to look at the footprint of
the city,” he said.
His proposal follows the death
for this year of a de-annexation by
referendum bill in the Tennessee
Legislature last week.
The 10-member body would
include two council members
appointed by Conrad, two county
commissioners appointed by Roland and two representatives each
of the city and county administrations appointed by the city and
county mayors, as well as two state
legislators from Shelby County appointed by state Senate Republican
leader Mark Norris and state Sen-
ate Democratic leader Lee Harris.
Conrad said he hopes to have
recommendations from the group
by the time the Legislature starts its
2017 session in January.
That’s when a new de-annexation bill is expected to surface
in the Legislature and begin its
journey through committees in
Nashville all over again.
Roland, on the WKNO-TV
program Behind The Headlines,
said Conrad’s call is a positive
development. Roland has been
an advocate of de-annexation by
referendum.
“They will be able to de-annex themselves through an ordinance,” Roland said of the possible
outcome for residents of areas who
favor being drawn out of the city of
Memphis boundaries.
“It’s a nightmare to service,” he
said of the city’s burden.
The joint committee would
also make recommendations on
terms like general obligation bond
debt and city employee benefits
that de-annexed home and property owners might have to pay once
they are no longer Memphians.
“The city and county have
both had teams kind of feverishly
working on what that would have
looked like had everything passed,”
Conrad said. “That’s a part of all of
this. It’s looking at all of the ramifications like the geography.”
But that could be challenging
based on big differences between
City Hall’s estimate of de-annexation’s impact on the city and the
estimates of Shelby County government leaders.
Roland believes SouthwindWindyke and south Cordova are
the only annexed areas where
there is a sustained interest in
de-annexation that would have
translated into a referendum.
And he contends if the city kept
the sales tax revenue and commercial property taxes in those areas,
the city wouldn’t lose money but
would profit by about $3.5 million.
“It would be a savings for the
city of Memphis and they can take
that money and invest it in the city
of Memphis,” Roland said.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland
estimated the city would lose $27
million to $80 million in revenue
if all 10 residential areas annexed
by Memphis since May of 1998
would vote to de-annex, leading
to the loss of 111,000 Memphians
in a city of 600,000.
Shelby County Commissioner
David Reaves believes the deannexation bill that the state Senate killed for this year by sending
it to a summer study committee is
the driving force behind the group
Conrad wants to form.
“I like what’s going on now,”
he said. “I don’t believe we get to
the table to have this without this
action in Nashville. … I think this
forces the discussion. I think it’s
the right discussion. And I think
the stability of the outer rim of the
county is incredibly important
to the long-term stability of the
county in general.”
Reaves and Roland were interviewed on Behind The Headlines.
The program, hosted by Eric
Barnes, publisher of The Daily
News, can be seen on The Daily
News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
Reaves said he attempted to
get city leaders to address the issue
when he took office as a county
commissioner in late 2014. But
Reaves said he couldn’t get city
leaders to even schedule a meeting
on the issue.
Three de-annexation proponents ran for the Memphis City
Council in the 2015 city election.
None of them won.
Conrad said the group would
also look at how the city delivers
services.
“Where does it make sense to
have urban services? Where does it
make sense to have more rural services?” he said. “It’s looking at the
whole thing from a strategic standpoint – not what had been reacting
to a couple of areas where there are
a lot of upset people. We’ve got to
look out for the whole city.”
The Evolving Role of Design, Part One
Editor’s note: Part one in a two-part
series.
The role of design evolves at the speed
of innovation, the dizzying, dynamic speed
of the market. Design now has a seat at executive and board tables across the globe.
More than ever, a holistic sense of design
is valued as a legal means of significant
competitive advantage.
But it hasn’t always been this way. The
journey from the cubicle to the corner office to the open office began with the scope
of what was being designed and the role
design played within organizations.
Design started with designing things,
objects, and then expanded to the graphics,
packaging and advertising. Now, designers
– not necessarily decorators – help design
spaces, experiences, innovations and business models.
If you look at the world of organizational
management you'll see this same progres-
MICHAEL GRABER
LET’S GROW
sion: First, the species learned how to manage things, then time, now energy.
Because business, the world of nonprofits, and the market are all so quickly
transforming, they need designers to help
craft meaning, purpose and inspiration, as
well as to optimize overall gestalt – from
signs to things to space to experiences.
Design is beginning to drive business
needs, instead of the other way around –
and that’s a positive move.
Remember what happens when design
stays subservient to business needs?
Look at any mass store – Wal-Mart,
Target, Walgreens, any grocery store – and
you'll see the precarious quagmire that
happens when design is subservient to
business needs. So much waste is created.
So many me-too products fail – 95 out of
100, in fact.
When design is on the product-attribute
level without fresh consumer insights (not
even on the brand level, or the business
level, or on the social level yet), a glut gets
created with too many things that we will
not consume and that will surfeit landfills
across the globe. Why bother?
But if you start by creating a problem for
a real human need, you craft a solution –
and isn’t this urge at the heart of the design
process: to make something that is beautiful
both functionally and aesthetically?
So, now that design has a voice at the
decision table, how can we better decide
what to create? By widening the scope of
design to include human factors, consumer
or customer insights, and by understanding
the context deeply before deciding what
problem to fix.
In other words, by scanning the landscape door-to-door and being willing to
challenge all organizational orthodoxies:
the business model, the channel strategy,
the brand elasticity, everything.
Of course there is a paradox at play.
Once you design a business model and
begin to craft at the experience level, then
you have more freedom to design better
artifacts and interiors at all with a holistic
design world. Think of it as a meta-design.
The emerging role of the designer
makes it imperative that you zoom out to
the widest perspective of possibilities and
then zoom back into the details that conjure
an irrepressible world unto itself.
Michael Graber, managing partner
of the Southern Growth Studio, can be
reached at southerngrowthstudio.com.
April 8-14, 2016 25
Three Ways to Finish Last
RAY & DANA BRANDON
In the world of sales, we are conditioned to live life by the month. We
are driven by monthly sales goals and
monthly paychecks. But when we don’t
take time to create a plan of attack at the
start of each month, we are workhorses
rather than stagecoach drivers. We work
reactively instead of proactively. We allow our sales pipelines to control us and
ultimately find ourselves spending the
last week of the month scrambling to
close business and meet targets.
If you would rather be a workhorse
who merely produces instead of performs, consider the strategies below
for staying at the bottom of the leaderboard.
You’ve gone this long without
planning; don’t start now. Abraham
Lincoln once said, “Give me six hours
to chop down a tree, and I will spend
the first four sharpening the axe.” What
you’ve always done may be getting you
by, but if you’d like to improve your
game, it’s never too late to adopt the
practice of strategically planning your
month. Consider your sales funnel.
How many new prospects do you need
to contact each week to close one deal?
JENNY JO SMITH
GUERRILLA SALES & MARKETING
Plan to front-load your month with
prospecting activities such as prospect
research and cold calling to set up
meetings with potential customers so
you can spend the second half of your
month bringing those prospects across
the finish line.
You don’t need a more detailed
plan than “sell, sell, sell.” When you
aimlessly sell, you lose sight of activities that align with your goals. Adopting
5-15 planning can help you better focus
your energy. Spend five minutes each
day tactically planning the following
day, and spend 15 minutes each Friday
planning your upcoming week. Write
down stalled prospects and creative
solutions to “unlock” them, prospects
or clients you absolutely need to con-
tact, and your goals and how you plan
to achieve them. Planning can make
you up to 25 percent more productive,
which equates to adding two more
hours to your day.
Leave prospects soaking to ensure
you have sales lined up for next month.
It can be tempting to stall a sale until
next month when you are fairly certain
you have enough lined up to meet this
month’s goals. But what happens when
a sure thing this month falls through?
If the prospect is ready to close, don’t
leave them soaking in the wading pool.
Rather than intentionally dragging out
your sales cycle, become diligent about
prospecting activities that keep your
pipeline active.
Like a good game of Texas Hold ’Em,
what looks like sheer luck in sales is
actually a well-played strategy. Whether
you steer the stagecoach or allow the
wild forces of an unmanaged pipeline
to drive you is your choice.
Jenny Jo Smith, Manager of Training and Development at RedRover
Sales & Marketing Strategy, can be
reached at redrovercompany.com.
Travel in a World of Warnings
LANCE WIEDOWER
THE DAILY TRAVELER
In the pre-dawn hours of March 22
I found myself awake and decided to
check Facebook on my phone before
attempting to go back to sleep.
The first update was from a friend
who lives in Paris. Just four months
prior, that friend declared herself safe
on Facebook following the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks there.
The March 22 update on her Leah
Travels page started, “With suitcase in
hand, I left this morning for Gare du
Nord to catch my Thalys train to Brussels for the opening of a new art museum. Just as I was about to go through
passport control, a friend living in Brussels called and suggested that I stay in
Paris. He went on to tell me that two
bombs exploded in the city’s airport. I
had no clue.”
Leah Walker is a travel writer from
Texas living in Paris. The person I know
is brave. She has that Texas quality that
won’t back down from a challenge. But
in that moment she said she decided to
stay home.
That same day, the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert for all
of Europe that expires June 20. It says
“terrorist groups continue to plan
near-term attacks throughout Europe,
targeting sporting events, tourist sites,
restaurants, and transportation. …
U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance
when in public places or using mass
transportation.”
The alert doesn’t say avoid Europe,
but I’m sure some Americans are considering not following through with
travel plans there.
Later this spring I’ll join friends on
an annual baseball trip. We’ll catch
games in Baltimore and Washington.
I’ve attended about a fourth of the
Grizzlies home games this year. It’s
become protocol to go through what is
termed the NBA’s heightened security,
which basically means airport-worthy
metal detectors. It’s become a fact
of life.
I’m not concerned about two random baseball games, just like I’m
never concerned when I go to a Grizzlies
game. That’s not to say I haven’t had
my version of personal understanding of how unsafe this world can be
sometimes.
I was in London and frequently used
the Underground a month before 52
people were killed during bombings on
separate trains on July 7, 2005. I was in
Centennial Olympic Park hours before
the bombing there during the 1996
Olympics.
I visited the World Trade Center
when it was still a clean-up effort. Those
experiences don’t make me stay home,
though, no matter what the State Department advises.
The U.S. State Department alert
warns to exercise caution during holidays, festivals and events. In June I’ll
watch some of the UEFA European
Championship soccer tournament
played in France. I can’t imagine the
threat of terrorism will keep soccer-mad
fans away.
There isn’t a State Department alert
for travel to Brazil later this summer
during the Olympic Games. But will fear
keep attendance down? Should it?
I’d like to say I won’t let safety fears
keep me from traveling internationally.
In some ways I think avoiding international travel out of fear is like avoiding
California because an earthquake could
happen.
Contact Lance Wiedower at tripsbylance.com.
RAYS OF WISDOM
Student Loans:
The Next Crisis?
Ray’s Take
If you Google the words “student loan crisis,” millions of hits should convince you that
this is a very hot topic.
According to the most recent Department of
Education report released in September 2015,
the federal loan default rate stands at 11.8 percent for borrowers who were required to start
making payments during the 12 months prior
to October 2012. While this is slightly lower than
the previous report, it’s still not good. And the
rate doesn't include borrowers who have been
able to defer payments. Additionally, the most
recent graduates will face the highest costs and
will be emerging into what continues to be a
very poor job market. We have every reason to
believe that defaults are not only understated,
but they will increase.
Student loan debt loads are a problem and
a big one. Not only do they create a significant
drag on short-term economic activity, but they
stunt our long-term growth as well. And the
situation is deteriorating.
Because of this debt, millions of young
Americans are not buying houses or cars,
starting businesses or families, or otherwise
contributing to rebuilding the economy.
It's not just former students who are struggling; parents are struggling, too. Loans that
parents have taken out to help their children
have climbed 75 percent since the 2005-2006
school year. Parents who took out loans for
children or co-signed loans will find those loans
more difficult to pay as they stop working and
their incomes decline in retirement.
The fact that “free education” or “loan
forgiveness” has been lobbed into the political
arena emphasizes how serious this problem
has become. Will student loan debt become the
next subprime disaster? The problem is real; it’s
just more subtle and insidious than a financial
market boom and bust. What will happen from
here remains to be seen.
Dana’s Take
We all know that a college degree can mean
a higher income over the course of life. But
now we’re seeing our children graduate with
degrees, both undergraduate and graduate, and
yet are unable to find salaried employment. The
debt that came with that college degree is now
the ball-and-chain holding back our kids from
realizing their dreams.
Before borrowing to pay private or out-ofstate tuition, research the Academic Common
Market available through the Southern Regional Education Board at SREB.com. In-state
tuition is offered for out-of-state students in 15
participating southern states.
Also, look into honors colleges offered within state universities. Of the 50 Rhodes Scholars
in the world, one is attending UT Chattanooga’s
honors college. Academic rigor doesn’t always
require an Ivy League price tag.
Minimize college debt to maximize freedom
and peace of mind for your family.
Ray Brandon, CEO of Brandon Financial
Planning, and his wife, Dana, a licensed clinical social worker, can be reached at brandonplanning.com.
26 April 8-14, 2016
NEWSMAKERS
ANGELA COPELAND
CAREER CORNER
Career Fairs Not
Just for Kids
Yesterday, I found myself saying something I often say this time of year: “One of my
all-time favorite things is to go to a job fair!”
The response I received was not unexpected.
The job seeker hadn’t even thought of attending a job fair since college.
I will admit, tiny job fairs aren’t always
everything they’re cracked up to be. I’ve been
to fairs with 10 or fewer employers who have
tiny booths and very few actual jobs. These
events add little value and could eat up a
perfectly good afternoon.
But a good job far can be worth its weight
in gold. On more than one occasion, I’ve successfully landed a job as a result of attending
one of these events.
Large fairs have 300 or more employer
booths. Often, the companies represented
are the ones you’ve been dreaming of, such
as Facebook, Google or FedEx. Each employer
has a booth that’s manned by someone from
their recruiting team. They’re there to answer
questions, collect resumes, and in some cases,
conduct interviews.
You heard me right. The recruiters often
conduct first-round interviews at large career fairs. Can you imagine how much time
might be saved from applying online, if you
could simply walk from recruiter to recruiter
in person?
Finding the right fair can take time but
is worth the effort. Start by looking on local
chamber of commerce websites and the websites of young professional groups. They often
help career fairs to get the word out.
Then, check out the websites of various
national organizations, such as National
Society of Hispanic MBAs, Society of Women
Engineers or Net Impact. These groups have
huge annual conferences. As part of a conference, they will typically host a large career fair.
And, the organization will often sell a career
fair only pass for $100 or less that can save
hundreds off the conference price.
If you’re not sure which organizations to
look up, try checking out your local convention center website. There is often a calendar
of events page on the site that will contain a
listing of all upcoming fairs and conventions.
Keep in mind that the same recruiters
attend many different job fairs all year. The
particular fair you attend is not as important
as the specific employers represented.
Once you’ve found the fair you want to
target, prepare four things: your suit, your
resume, your business cards and your elevator pitch. Study the job fair map provided and
decide which employer booths you want to
stop by. Look up those companies online to
see which open positions they are promoting.
The day of the event, arrive early. Prepare
to stay all day. Feel confident when talking to
recruiters about your job search, and don’t be
afraid to ask for their business card. After the
fair, follow up through e-mail and LinkedIn.
With a little work, you’ll find job fairs can
be helpful for years after college is completed.
Angela Copeland is CEO and founder of
Copeland Coaching and can be reached at
CopelandCoaching.com.
Gaskins Leading Cannon &
Cannon’s Memphis Office
KATE SIMONE
ksimone@memphisdailynews.com
WAIN GASKINS has joined consulting engineering firm Cannon & Cannon Inc.
as manager of the company’s new Memphis office as well as director of West
Tennessee operations and business development.
Knoxville-based CCI, which also has offices in Brentwood, Tenn., and Bowling
Green, Ky., provides services in civil engineering specializing in transportation
and traffic design, electrical engineering design, water, wastewater and gas
design. Also, CCI offers services in community, commercial and industrial
development, as well as municipal revenue enhancement.
Hometown: Spring Creek,
Tenn. (just outside Jackson)
Experience: Graduate of the
University of Tennessee. Over
37 years of engineering experience, with it about equally
split between the public and
private sectors. Public-sector
experience includes 14 years
with the city of Memphis, with
eight of those serving as the
city engineer. I also serve as a
structural specialist with the
FEMA Tennessee Task Force 1,
Urban Search & Rescue.
Family: Wife, Karen; children:
four ranging in ages from 34
to 7 years old, all boys. Four
grandkids, three girls, one boy
and 35+ foster children.
Favorite quote: “It’s not paranoia if they are really after
you.”
Favorite movie: “Jeremiah
Johnson” (a classic)
The sports team(s) you root
for: College: UT; NBA: Grizzlies; NFL: Green Bay Packers
What’s playing on your stereo
right now? Casting Crowns
Activities you enjoy outside of work: Fishing with
my 7-year-old, following my
sports teams.
What talent do you wish you
had? There are so many talents I don’t have, choosing
one is tough.
Adam Yoe has been
named chief executive officer of HealthSouth Rehabilitation
Hospital of MemphisNorth, a 50-bed inpatient physical rehabilitation hospital. Yoe
YOE
comes to HealthSouth
Memphis-North from HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Altoona in Pennsylvania, where he served as an associate
administrator.
Scott Jordan, financial adviser with Shoemaker Financial in
Germantown, has
earned the Certified
Financial Planner designation, which indicates he has met
JORDAN
rigorous professional
standards and has agreed to adhere to
the principles of integrity, objectivity,
competence, fairness, confidentiality,
professionalism and diligence when deal-
Who has had the greatest
influence on you and why?
My dad, who was big, strong,
patient, kind, considerate, loving and very slow to anger. He
would do just about anything
for anyone.
What attracted you to Cannon & Cannon? I knew the
firm had a good reputation
in the engineering community, but also had more of a
family-first atmosphere than
corporate. We are also a quality-driven woman-owned
business enterprise (WBE),
which should do very well in
the Memphis market.
What are your goals in your
new position? I want to grow
the Memphis office to the
ing with clients.
Ted Cummins has joined the law firm of
Weiss Spicer Cash PLLC. Prior to joining
Weiss Spicer Cash, Cummins was an associate partner with Wilson & Associates
PLLC, where he specialized in representing mortgage lenders and servicers in
bankruptcy proceedings and other mortgage-related default matters.
Janet Bodo has joined
Monogram Foods as
director of purchasing. Bodo has more
than 20 years of food
industry procurement
experience, most recently with The
BODO
Schwan Food Co. in
Marshall, Minn., where she was senior director of purchasing global supply chain.
Hal Williford, president and CEO of
Memphis Stone & Gravel, has been
named chairman of the National Stone,
Sand & Gravel Association board of di-
WILLIFORD
WAIN GASKINS
point where we provide our
full range of services with
Memphis-based personnel
with a compressed time frame.
What do you consider your
greatest accomplishment?
Working under some adverse
conditions while maintaining
character and integrity.
What do you most enjoy
about your work? Providing
quality engineering services
to new clients.
If you could give one piece of
advice to young people, what
would it be? Your job is what
you do, not who you are.
rectors. He will hold
the position until the
next annual convention. Williford began
his career at LehmanRoberts Co., Memphis
Stone & Gravel’s sister
company, in 1985.
ArtsMemphis has awarded five Memphis
artists working in the visual arts $5,000
ArtsAccelerator grants to help them ease
the burden of work-related expenses.
They are: Paula Kovarik, Lawrence
Matthews III, Madsen Minax, Michael
Roy and Laurel Sucsy. More than 60 artists applied for the 2016 ArtsAccelerator
grants.
John Seay, general manager of the Cleaning Services Department at Memphisbased total protection company State
Systems Inc., won the Memphis Restaurant Association’s Associate Member of
the Year award. Seay has been a member
of MRA since 2003 and has served on the
board since 2012.
April 8-14, 2016 27
Lawmakers Lure Us In With Momentary
Sanity, Then Go Back Out on a Limb
Just when it appears the Tennessee
Senate is made up of sensible people – as
evidenced by the killing of de-annexation
legislation – the body is changing course
with a Bible-thumping measure.
Despite opposition from the attorney
general, governor and lieutenant governor,
the Senate is on the verge of making the
Holy Bible the state book, sending a bill to
Gov. Bill Haslam’s office as 19 members
approved it.
If it’s signed into law, God’s Word could
rest right beside the Barrett .50-caliber,
which became the official state rifle in this
session of the General Assembly. After all,
God, guns and guts made America great.
Too bad some legislators show the most
backbone when beating up on gay people or
trying to tell Tennesseans which restroom
they can use.
In a remarkable turnaround, though,
the Senate State and Local Government
Committee recently sent a municipal deannexation bill to a summer study committee, meaning it is dead for the year but
could resurface in 2017 when it would have
to start from scratch, which is probably what
it needs to do.
The House previously passed a much
different version.
During Senate committee testimony,
victims of alleged “egregious” annexation
pleaded with senators to give them freedom
from forced city life, some claiming they got
nothing from living inside the city limits
except a garbage can or a handful of signs –
and, of course, a big tax bill.
Residents from Chattanooga and Memphis contended they were brought into the
city limits mainly to boost city revenues.
“Please do us right by the will of the
people,” Hamilton County Commissioner
Sabrena Turner-Smedley told the panel.
Their argument is that until the Legislature adopted a new law in 2014 giving people
a vote on annexation, residents could be
brought into city limits without a voice. They
couldn’t go to city council members who
didn’t represent them yet, and they couldn’t
seek help from county commissioners who
had no say on annexation votes.
Annexation moves swept across Tennessee after previous legislation set up a method
for local governments to draw urban growth
boundaries and then to annex areas as part
of an orderly expansion plan. Residents in
many areas balked, though, filing lawsuits
that spent years in the courts.
The aggrieved residents make a strong
point as victims of taxation without representation.
Sen. Mark Green of Clarksville went as
far as to compare these examples of forced
annexation to Communist Russia invading
Poland.
But as the old saw goes, two wrongs don’t
make a right. And comparing Tennessee
cities to the Soviet Union, and ostensibly
city mayors to Josef Stalin, well, that’s a
little harsh.
The main problem with this session’s
bill, besides creating the potential for financial instability for cities such as Memphis,
was this: It was confusing and unworkable.
For instance, if residents in annexed
areas were to vote to secede from their city,
they would still have to pay their share of the
debt the city incurred during their time as
city residents. Figuring out just how much
they might owe could be difficult – a possible
task for the state Comptroller’s Office or a
boon for financial consultants.
Sen. Jack Johnson, a Franklin Republican who wound up voting to send the bill
to the Senate floor, pointed out many annexations involve property where nothing
but a pasture previously existed. Under the
bill senators were considering, Johnson
explained, a 200-home neighborhood could
be developed and, after a few years, people
could vote to de-annex.
The bill also would have allowed cities
to keep commercial and industrial properties inside their limits but allow residential
properties to leave, creating a situation in
which they would provide fire and police
protection to businesses but not to residents.
Even more nonsensical, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Bo Watson of Hixson, pointed out
the beauty of the bill was that people who
didn’t want out of a de-annexing area could
call city hall the day after the vote and tell
municipal leaders they wanted to stay in.
Imagine that scenario in the case of 911
calls. Dispatchers and emergency responders could be put in the quandary of asking
people if they live in the new part of the old
city limits or the old part of new old city
limits. Good grief.
This measure, which would have affected only a handful of cities in the House
version but the entire state under the Senate
version, clearly needs more study – and a
long, hot summer at that.
Just a few days after the Senate committee stiffed the de-annexation bill, the
full Senate decided to make the Holy Bible
Tennessee’s official state book, taking up a
resolution that passed the House in 2015 but
failed in the Upper Chamber.
Even with the Attorney General Herb
Slatery warning legislators such a measure
raises constitutional questions, Sen. Steve
Southerland, a Morristown Republican,
contends it should be Tennessee’s official
book because of the historical significance
it holds for the state.
Never mind the fact state leaders such as
Gov. Bill Haslam and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey
believe the Bible belongs anywhere but in
the Tennessee Blue Book beside the state
animal and the state flower. Senate Speaker
Mark Norris even calls this move sacrilege.
“I understand it’s hard to vote against the
Bible,” says Democratic Sen. Jeff Yarbro, of
Nashville, during floor debate. But he points
out, while state lawmakers may put their
hand on the Bible while taking the oath of
office, they swear to uphold the constitutions of Tennessee and the United States.
His argument did little to sway folks
such as Republican Sen. Kerry Roberts, of
Springfield, who argued that since George
Washington and some of the founders went
to church during his inauguration, then Tennessee should make the Bible its state book.
Southerland appeared ready to break
into tears as he defended his bill, saying,
“Should we recognize something all we can,
or should we not recognize it at all.”
Ah, but as the session begins to draw
to a close in late April and Friday’s election
qualifying deadline approached, legislators
might need a little ammunition to take back
home to the voters to demonstrate just how
spiritual they are when they climb up on
Capitol Hill.
POTTY PROBLEMS
In a reversal of good news for students
with sexual uncertainty, a House Education committee recently killed the so-called
“bathroom bill,” but another panel may
dredge it back up.
The legislation, which would require
students to use restrooms and locker rooms
based on their birth gender, faces opposition
from Haslam, who is concerned about losing
millions of dollars in federal education funds
if the state discriminates against students.
The committee found it unnecessary
to create a problem where none exists. But
one of its members asked to revive the bill.
Here’s the question they must answer:
Why do any of our legislators – Rep. Susan
Lynn of Mt. Juliet sponsored the bill – feel
the need to pass a law, to put it into Tennessee Code Annotated, telling young people
where they can go pass water? Is that what
our General Assembly has become?
SENDING A MESSAGE
If Nashville philanthropist Martha
Ingram and House Speaker Beth Harwell
squared off in a fight, who would win? Early
on, it looks as if Harwell is dodging punches,
though it’s hard to say Ingram is trying to
knock her out.
Ingram, who declined to be interviewed
by The Ledger (a division of The Daily News
Publishing Co.), recently joined a group of
Tennesseans in backing Citizens for Insure
Tennessee with a billboard campaign essentially calling out Harwell and urging her
to bring the governor’s 2015 insurance proposal to a House floor vote. It stalled in the
Senate last year and never received House
debate until two related measures failed to
gain traction in House committees this year.
When the citizens group announced its
billboard messaging in March, Ingram, one
of the state’s wealthiest women, said she
was “very disappointed” in the Legislature’s
failure to support Haslam’s plan to “bring
relief to the working poor.”
The governor’s plan calls for using
Affordable Care Act funds paid through
Tennessee taxes to pay for market-based
insurance for some 280,000 people caught
in a coverage gap.
“To turn their backs on these federal
dollars that are already collected from Tennesseans, almost $2 billion per year, to have
their backs turned on this, these legislators
who already have their own insurance are
really not fulfilling their responsibilities to
other Tennesseans,” Ingram says in a conference call with reporters.
“That’s why they were hired. That’s why
they were elected – to help look after those
who could not look after themselves. And I
honestly don’t really know how they sleep
at night. Now Speaker Beth Harwell could
lead the way and I think that she has the will
to lead the way with our encouragement.”
It’s hard to say where Harwell stands,
since she hasn’t supported or opposed
Insure Tennessee. As a result, Democrat
SAM STOCKARD
VIEW FROM THE HILL
Sydney Rogers is prepared to run against her
in November, according to reports.
Asked if she’s concerned about Ingram
and Citizens for Insure Tennessee putting
pressure on her, Harwell says she always
welcomes opinions from Tennesseans but
contends Gov. Haslam decided early this
year not to pursue Insure Tennessee.
“As Speaker, I cannot unilaterally bring it
to a vote. All bills go through the committee
process, and this has failed to receive the
support needed to advance,” Harwell says
in a statement.
“At the end of session last year, I began
to have discussions with members of the
House and the (Haslam) administration on
creative elements that could garner widespread support. These elements reflect not
only a desire to assist, but also to enhance,
the effectiveness of our current TennCare
program. I’m confident we will reach a
solution and have an announcement by
mid-April.”
If Harwell were to propose a TennCare
expansion to catch those in the coverage
gap, she could be seen as responding to the
group’s demands.
Mary Falls, co-founder of Citizens for
Insure Tennessee, says the group isn’t calling for Harwell to say, “Hey, we’re gonna
have a full vote.”
“It means Beth Harwell says this is good
legislation. She gets off the fence and gets
behind it and engages on it, because the
minute she does that, the representatives
who are for it will stick their necks out and
say so,” Falls says.
Ingram is among a number of business
people who played host to Insure Tennessee
education forums in April 2015, and they
point out the initiative has bipartisan support across Tennessee, including the music,
hospitality and health care industries.
They also note a sixth Tennessee hospital, McNairy Regional, is set to close in May,
and in doing so, cites the Legislature’s failure
to pass Insure Tennessee and to deal with
uncompensated care.
Hospital closings cause a domino effect on surrounding health care facilities,
which must take up the slack for indigent
and uncompensated care, they point out.
Several key legislators say they want to see
the outcome of the presidential election
before acting on Insure Tennessee or any
type of Medicaid expansion.
If Hillary Clinton wins, Obamacare will
survive. But if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz
win, God knows what will happen.
Then again, by that time we could have
the Holy Bible on display as the official
state book. And if they bothered to read it,
at least the New Testament, they might find
the answers.
Sam Stockard can be reached at sstockard44@gmail.com.
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January
30-February
5, 2015
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public notices
Foreclosure Notices
Fayette County
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on April
25, 2016 at 10:00AM local time, at the
south door, Fayette County Courthouse,
16755 Highway 64, Somerville, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by Johnny Dean Hurst and Cathleen R.
Hurst, to Marcus D. Jimerson, Trustee,
on September 7, 2007 at Instrument No.
07008286; all of record in the Fayette
County Register’s Office.
Party entitled to enforce security
interest: CitiFinancial Servicing LLC, its
successors and assigns
The following real estate located in
Fayette County, Tennessee, will be sold
to the highest call bidder subject to all
unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
All that certain parcel/unit of Land in
Fayette County, State of TN, as more
fully described in Book D777 Page
288 ID# 100A-A-100A-026.00, being
more fully described and designated
as Lot Nos. 53, 54 and 55, Section C
Oakland Acres Lake Subdivision, filed
in Plat Book 2 and Page 171.
Parcel Number: 100A A 025.00; 100A
A 026.00; 100A A 027.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Johnny
Dean Hurst
Other interested parties: Cathleen
Hurst
Street Address: 145 Martha Cv, Oakland, Tennessee 38060
Any property address provided is
not part of the legal description of the
property sold herein and in the event of
any discrepancy, the legal description
referenced herein shall control.
All right of equity of redemption,
statutory and otherwise, and homestead
are expressly waived in said Deed of
Trust, and the title is believed to be
good, but the undersigned will sell and
convey only as Substitute Trustee.
If you purchase a property at the
foreclosure sale, the entire purchase
price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of
a certified/bank check made payable
to or endorsed to Shapiro & Ingle, LLP.
No personal checks will be accepted.
To this end, you must bring sufficient
funds to outbid the lender and any other
bidders. Insufficient funds will not be
accepted. Amounts received in excess
of the winning bid will be refunded to
the successful purchaser at the time
the foreclosure deed is delivered.
This property is being sold with the
express reservation that the sale is
subject to confirmation by the lender
or trustee. This sale may be rescinded
at any time.
Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a Tennessee
limited liability partnership Substitute
Trustee
10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
www.shapiro-ingle.com
File No. 15-102049
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12835
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, default has occurred in the
performance of the covenants, terms,
and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note
dated September 22, 2010, and the
Deed of Trust of even date securing the
same, recorded September 30, 2010,
Document No. 10005290, in Office
of the Register of Deeds for Fayette
County, Tennessee, executed by Duane
K. Woods and Kelly E. Woods, conveying
certain property therein described to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq. as Trustee for Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A.; and the undersigned,
Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having
been appointed Successor Trustee by
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby
given that the entire indebtedness has
been declared due and payable; and
that an agent of Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue
of the power, duty, and authority vested
in and imposed upon said Successor
Trustee, by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., will,
on April 28, 2016 on or about 11:00
AM, at the Fayette County Courthouse,
Somerville, Tennessee, offer for sale
certain property hereinafter described to
the highest bidder FOR certified funds
paid at the conclusion of the sale, or
credit bid from a bank or other lending
entity pre-approved by the successor
trustee. The sale is free from all exemptions, which are expressly waived in
the Deed of Trust, said property being
real estate situated in Fayette County,
Tennessee, and being more particularly
described as follows:
The following described property:
Beginning at an iron stake in the north
margin of Watkins Drive, being 784
feet, S 83 degrees west along the
north margin of Watkins from the S.
E. corner of the 250 acres owned by
Patsy O. Floyd, runs thence North
558 feet to an iron stake, thence
S 80 degrees 05 minutes west 272
feet to an iron stake, thence south
557 feet to an iron stake in the North
margin of Watkins Drive, thence N
82 degrees 30 minutes East 273
feet with the North margin of Watkins Drive to the point of beginning,
containing 3.41 acres, this being a
portion of the 250 acres owned by
Patsy O. Floyd as shown on drawing
No.6 of the James 0. Wiles Survey,
dated 12-20-75 and surveyed by L W.
Yates on July 11, 1979.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 1995 Watkins
Drive, Moscow, TN 38057-6926
This sale is subject to all matters
shown on any applicable recorded plat;
any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines
that may be applicable; any statutory
rights of redemption of any governmental
agency, state or federal; any prior liens
or encumbrances as well as any priority
created by a fixture filing; and to any
matter that an accurate survey of the
premises might disclose. In addition, the
following parties may claim an interest
in the above-referenced property:
DuANE K. WOODS
KELLy E. WOODS
The sale held pursuant to this Notice
may be rescinded at the Successor
Trustee’s option at any time. The right
is reserved to adjourn the day of the
sale to another day, time, and place
certain without further publication, upon
announcement at the time and place
for the sale set forth above. W&A No.
246361
DATED March 29, 2016
WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,
Successor Trustee
FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.
MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC.
COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12849
Sale at public auction will be on May
12, 2016 at 11:00 am local time, at
the south door, Fayette County Courthouse, 16755 Highway 64, Somerville,
Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust
executed by Mary L. Bland and Gary T.
Bland, to Robert M Wilson, Trustee, on
January 11, 2008 at Instrument No.
08000511; all of record in the Fayette
interest: Federal National Mortgage
Association (“Fannie Mae”), a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the united States of America,
its successors and assigns
Fayette County, Tennessee, will be sold
Lot 14, Phase I, Canterbury Manor
Subdivision, as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 8, Page 16, in the
Register’s Office of Fayette County,
Tennessee, to which plat reference
is hereby made for a more particular
description of said property.
Parcel Number: 102 012.14
Current Owner(s) of Property: Mary L.
Bland and Gary T. Bland
Other interested parties: Citibank, N.A.
c/o Javitch, Block & Rathbone, LLC,
Canterbury Manor Property Owners
Association Inc
Street Address: 50 Amesbury Cove,
Eads, Tennessee 38028
at any time.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
www.auction.com
File No. 16-105004
Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016
Fln12848
dated March 25, 2008, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded April 4, 2008, Document No.
08002590, in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Fayette County, Tennessee,
executed by Stephanie C. McGill, conveying certain property therein described
to John V. Masserano as Trustee
for Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc., as nominee for Patriot
Bank, its successors and assigns; and
the undersigned, Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association.
Trustee, by JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association, will, on May 26,
2016 on or about 11:00 AM, at the
Fayette County Courthouse, Somerville, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
property hereinafter described to the
highest bidder FOR certified funds paid
at the conclusion of the sale, or credit
bid from a bank or other lending entity
pre-approved by the successor trustee.
The sale is free from all exemptions,
which are expressly waived in the Deed
of Trust, said property being real estate
situated in Fayette County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described
as follows:
Lot 23, Section A, Oakland Woods
Subdivision, as shown an plat of record in Plat Book 7, Page 55, in the
Register’s Office of Fayette County,
description of said property.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 15 Rolling Oaks
Drive, Oakland, TN 38060
STEPHANIE C. MCGILL
302631
DATED April 1, 2016
Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016
Fln12851
Foreclosure Notices
Madison County
dated May 1, 2006, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same, recorded June 9, 2006, in Book No. T1761,
at Page 127, in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee,
executed by William H. Bancroft, Jr. and
Phyllis D. Bancroft, conveying certain
property therein described to Dennie
R. Marshall as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation DBA Ditech.com, its successors
and assigns; and the undersigned,
The Bank Of New york Mellon Trust
Company, National Association FKA
The Bank Of New york Trust Company,
N.A. As Successor To JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, As Indenture
Trustee For Residential Asset Mortgage
Products, Inc., GMACM Home Equity
Loan Trust 2006-HE2.
Trustee, by The Bank Of New york Mellon Trust Company, National Association
FKA The Bank Of New york Trust Company, N.A. As Successor To JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association, As
Indenture Trustee For Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., GMACM Home
Equity Loan Trust 2006-HE2, will, on
April 21, 2016 on or about 11:00 AM,
at the Madison County Courthouse,
Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
situated in Madison County, Tennessee,
as follows:
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF 3RD
CIVIL DISTRICT OF MADISON AND
STATE OF TENNESSEE:
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE
NORTH MARGIN OF MCCOOL DRIVE,
SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF LOT NO. 84 IN SECTION
A OF HOLIDAY GARDENS SUBDIVISION, A PLAT OF WHICH APPEARS
OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 1, PAGE
262, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE
OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE,
AND RUNS THENCE NORTH, WITH
THE WEST LINE OF LOT NO. 84, 130
FEET TO A POINT; THENCE WEST,
WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF LOTS 81
AND 79, 90 FEET TO AN EXISTING
CORNER POST AT THE NORTHEAST
CORNER OF LOT NO. 80; THENCE
SOUTH, WITH THE EAST LINE OF LOT
NO. 80, 130 FEET TO A POINT IN THE
NORTH MARGIN OF MCCOOL DRIVE;
THENCE EAST, WITH THE NORTH
MARGIN OF MCCOOL DRIVE, 90
FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
BEING LOT NO. 82 IN SECTION A OF
HOLIDAY GARDENS SUBDIVISION,
PLATTED AS AFORESAID AND SURVEYED BY AKIN AND PITTMAN ON
JANUARY 6, 1987.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 15 Mccool Drive,
Jackson, TN 38305-3726
WILLIAM H. BANCROFT, JR.
PHyLLIS D. BANCROFT
REGIONS BANK
312936
Successor Trustee
COM
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12827
WHEREAS, default having been made
in the payment of the debts and obligations secured by a Deed of Trust
dated 04/13/05, by Ida M. Burrell
to Andrew Valentine, Esq., Trustee,
for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee
for American Home Mortgage, its successors and assigns and appearing of
record in Register’s Office of MADISON
County, Tennessee, in Book T1663,
Page 451, and WHEREAS, the beneficial
interest of said Deed of Trust was last
transferred and assigned to Federal
National Mortgage Association (“Fannie
Mae”) and WHEREAS, Federal National
Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”),
as the holder of the Note for which debt
is owed, (“Note Holder”), appointed the
undersigned, Priority Trustee Services
of TN, LLC, as Substitute Trustee by
instrument filed or to be filed for record
in the Register’s Office of MADISON
County, Tennessee, with all the rights,
powers and privileges of the original
Trustee named in said Deed of Trust;
and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby
been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Note
Holder, and that the undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of TN, LLC, Substitute
Trustee, or its duly appointed attorneys
or agents, by virtue of the power and
authority vested in it, will on April 28,
2016, commencing at 10:00 AM at
the Main entrance (North Door) of the
Madison County Courthouse location
in Tennessee, proceed to sell at public
outcry to the highest and best bidder
for cash or certified check only. The
wiring of funds will not be accepted. The
conducting of the sale will be handled
by Auction.com. More information concerning their policies and procedures on
bidding at the foreclosure sale can be
found on their website Auction.com. The
following described property situated in
MADISON County, Tennessee, to wit:
BEING uNIT NuMBER TWENTy-ONE (NO.
21), TIMBERLAKE ESTATES, AS SHOWN
ON RECORDED PLAT OF TIMBERLAKE
ESTATES, A HORIZONTAL PROPERTy
REGIME, AS SHOWN ON THE RECORDED
PLAT IN PLAT BOOK 3, AT PAGE 266, IN
THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF MADISON
COuNTy, TENNESSEE. REFERENCE IS
HEREBy MADE TO SAID PLAT FOR A
MORE PARTICuLAR DESCRIPTION AND
LOCATION OF THE uNIT HEREIN CONVEyED. BEING THE SAME REAL PROPERTy CONVEyED TO IDA M. BuRRELL By
DEED OF RECORD IN DEED BOOK 665,
PAGE 909, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE
OF MADISON COuNTy, TENNESSEE.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1104 N PKWy
# 21, JACKSON, TN 38305 CURRENT
OWNER(S): Ida. M. Burrell The sale of
the above-described property shall be
subject to all matters shown on any
recorded plan; any unpaid taxes; any
restrictive covenants, easements or
set-back lines that may be applicable;
any prior liens or encumbrances as
well as any priority created by a fixture
filing; and any matter that an accurate
survey of the premises might disclose.
Substitute Trustee will only convey any
interest he/she may have in the property
at the time of sale. Property is sold “as
is, where is.” For every lien or claim of
lien of the state identified above, please
be advised notice required by § 67-11433 (b)(1) was timely given and that any
sale of the property herein referenced
will be subject to the right of the state
to redeem the land as provided for in
January 30-February
5, 2016
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April 8-14,
April 8 - 14, 2016 2 9
public notices
§ 67-1-1433(c)(1). All right and equity
of redemption, statutory or otherwise,
homestead, and dower are expressly
waived in said Deed of Trust, and the
title is believed to be good, but the
undersigned will sell and convey only as
Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved
to adjourn the day of the sale to another
day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at
the time and place for the sale set forth
above. PRIORITy TRuSTEE SERVICES
OF TN, LLC 2970 Clairmont Road NE,
Suite 780Atlanta, Georgia 30329 770234-9181 File No.: 7345.29080 Web
Site: www.rcolegal.com Memphis News
03/25/16, 04/01/16, 04/08/16 TS#:
7345.29080
FEI # 2013.04093
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12828
north door, Madison County Courthouse,
100 East Main Street, Jackson, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by Russell Williams and Ronniestein
Williams, to Teel, McCormack, Maroney,
Trustee, on September 18, 2006 at
Book T1773, Page 1084, Instrument No.
06016906; all of record in the Madison
interest: Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as trustee for the holders
of the First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust
2006-FF17 Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2006-FF17, its successors and assigns
Madison County, Tennessee, will be
sold to the highest call bidder subject
to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
Beginning at a stake in the west margin
of Fairground Street, said beginning
point being about three hundred (300)
feet south of the south margin of Maple
Street, runs thence west 208 feet to a
stake; thence south 62 feet to a stake;
thence east 208 feet to the west margin of Fairground Street; thence north
with the west margin of said Fairground
Street 62 feet to the point of beginning.
Being the same real property conveyed
to the grantees herein by deed appearing of record in Deed Book 683,
page 1027 in the Register’s Office of
Madison County, Tennessee.
Parcel Number: 077L C 039.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Russell
Williams and Ronniestein Williams
Other interested parties: North Star
Capital Acquisitions, LLC as assignee
of Capital One Bank (uSA), N.A. c/o
Nathan & Nathan
Street Address: 325 North Fairgrounds
St, Jackson, Tennessee 38301
at any time.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-102239
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12829
dated January 19, 2000, and the Deed
of Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded February 1, 2000, in Book No.
T1226, at Page 258, in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Madison County,
Tennessee, executed by Jessie Graves
and Cheyenne Graves, conveying certain
property therein described to I. Dyke
Tatum, Esq. as Trustee for Advanta
National Bank; and the undersigned,
First American Funding, LLC.
Trustee, by First American Funding, LLC,
will, on April 21, 2016 on or about 11:00
AM, at the Madison County Courthouse,
as follows:
BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN ON THE
WEST MARGIN OF FOX STREET (20
FEET AT THE RIGHT ANGLES FROM
CENTERLINE) AT THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF JOHN JOHNSON AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 517, PAGE
339 IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF
MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE;
THENCE WITH THE WEST MARGIN
OF FOX STREET SOUTH A DISTANCE
OF 50 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AT THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF JAMES
GAMMON; THENCE WITH GAMMONS
NORTH LINE NORTH 86 DEGREES 46
MINUTES 45 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 149.91 FEET TO AN IRON
PIN AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF
ROBERT ELLISON; THENCE WITH ELLISON EAST LINE NORTH 2 DEGREES
04 MINUTES 44 SECONDS EAST A
DISTANCE OF 50.40 FEET TO AN IRON
PIN AT JOHNSON’S SOUTHWEST
CORNER; THENCE WITH JOHNSON’S
SOUTH LINE SOUTH 86 DEGREES
35 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EAST A
DISTANCE OF 148.11 FEET TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING
0.17 ACRE.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 33 Fox Street,
Jackson, TN 38301
JESSIE GRAVES
CHEyENNE GRAVES
HEIRS OF JESSIE GRAVES
THE ESTATE OF JESSIE GRAVES
128769
Successor Trustee
COM
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12830
WHEREAS, default has occurred
in the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of a Deed of
Trust Note dated April 7, 2006, and
the Deed of Trust of even date securing
the same, recorded April 13, 2006, in
Book No. T1751, at Page 64, in Office
of the Register of Deeds for Madison
County, Tennessee, executed by Ronald
Shockley and Julie Shockley, conveying certain property therein described
to Charles Patterson, Atty as Trustee
Systems, Inc., as nominee for Fremont
Investment & Loan, its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee by u.S.
Bank National Association, as Trustee
for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2006FRE2, Asset Backed Certificates, Series
2006-FRE2.
Trustee, by u.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2006-FRE2, Asset Backed
Certificates, Series 2006-FRE2, will, on
April 14, 2016 on or about 11:00 AM,
at the Madison County Courthouse,
as follows:
Land lying and being in the Third Civil
District of Madison County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows, to-wit: BEGINNING
at an iron pin on the south margin of
Glenhurst Drive at the northeast corner of Lot 48, Section III, Glenhurst.
Place as recorded in Plat Book 6 at
page 219 in the Register’s Office of
Madison County, Tennessee; thence
with the south margin of Glenhurst
Drive following a curve (radius of 50
feet) to the left a distance of 50.11
feet to an iron pin at the northwest
corner of Lot 46; thence with the west
line of Lot 46 South 0 degrees 20
minutes 17 seconds East a distance
of 120.22 feet to an iron pin; thence
South 89 degrees 29 minutes 20
seconds West a distance of 110 feet
to an iron pin at the southeast corner
of Lot 48; thence with the east line of
Lot 48 North 27 degrees 04 minutes
48 seconds East a distance of 134.59
feet to the point of beginning. Being
Lot 47, Section III, Glenhurst Place
platted as aforesaid, as surveyed by
David Hall Land Surveying Company,
RLS. #943, on July 12, 1996. Being
the same property conveyed to Ronald
Shockley and wife, Julie Shockley,
as tenants by the entirety in Warranty Deed, as filed at Book D679,
Page 962 in the Register’s Office of
Madison County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 105 Glenhurst
Drive, Jackson, TN 38305-5358
RONALD SHOCKLEy
JuLIE SHOCKLEy
u.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRuSTEE FOR SG MORTGAGE SECuRITIES TRuST 2006-FRE2, ASSET BACKED
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FRE2
ATLANTIC CREDIT AND FINANCE INC ASSIGNEE FOR HSBC CONSuMER LE
313248
Successor Trustee
COM
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12834
22, 2016 at 1:00PM local time, at the
100 East Main Street, Jackson, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by Ebony C. Milam, to Sheila B. Stevenson, Trustee, on November 17, 2006 at
Book T1780, Page 1705, Instrument No.
06021000; all of record in the Madison
interest: u.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, in trust for registered
holders of First Franklin Mortgage Loan
Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed
Certificates, Series 2007-FF1, its successors and assigns
Madison County, Tennessee, will be
sold to the highest call bidder subject
to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
Beginning at a power pole in the west
margin of Pueblo Cove said point being
the northeast comer of Lot No. 24,
Section I of Windy Acres Subdivision, a
plat of which appears of record in Plat
Book 3, page 243, in the Register’s
Office of Madison County, Tennessee
and runs thence South 86 degrees
54.1 minutes West, with the north line
of Lot No. 25, 115 feet to an existing
iron pin; thence North 03 degrees
05.9 minutes West 174.57 feet to
a point in the south margin of Aztec
Drive; thence North S6 degrees 41.3
minutes East, with the south margin
of Aztec Drive, 100 feet to a point;
thence in a Southeasterly direction
along a curve to the right, having a
radius of 15 feet, to a point in the west
margin of Pueblo Cove; thence South
03 degrees 05.9 minutes East, with
the west margin of Pueblo cove, 160
feet to the point of beginning. Survey
taken by James M. Akin, TN. No. 1144,
on February 11, 1995.
Being the same real estate conveyed to
Floyd Jathan Scott by deed as recorded
in Deed Book 620, page 631, dated
7/30/01, in the Register’s Office of
Madison County, Tenenssee.
Being the same real estate conveyed
to the grantor by deed as recorded in
Deed Book 684, page 1364, in the
Register’s Office of Madison County.
Parcel Number: 044E F 005.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Ebony
C. Milam
Other interested parties: FIRST
FRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NATIONAL
CITy BANK
Street Address: 19 Pueblo Cove,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
at any time.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 12-032640
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12832
dated August 19, 2013, and the Deed
recorded September 3, 2013, in Book
No. T1962, at Page 557, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Carla Michelle
Eldridge, conveying certain property
therein described to First American
Title Insurance Company as Trustee
for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; and
the undersigned, Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association.
Madison County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
as follows:
Land Situated in the County of Madison in the State of TN BEGINNING
AT AN IRON PIN ON THE SOUTH
MARGIN OF WESTWOOD AVENUE
(25 FEET AT RIGHT ANGLES FROM
CENTER LINE) AT THE NORTHEAST
CORNER OF DOYLE CROWELL AS
RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 201, PAGE
519 IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF
MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE;
THENCE WITH THE SOUTH MARGIN
OF WESTWOOD AVENUE SOUTH 89
DEGREES 52 MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 62.50 FEET TO AN IRON
PIN AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER
OF MAY BELLE SCOTT; THENCE
WITH SCOTT’S WEST LINE SOUTH
0 DEGREES 28 MINUTES WEST A
DISTANCE OF 153 FEET TO A PIPE ON
THE NORTH LINE OF ROBERT CLARK;
THENCE WITH CLARK’S NORTH LINE
NORTH 89 DEGREES 52 MINUTES
WEST A DISTANCE OF 62.50 FEET
TO A 20 INCH PIPE TREE AT THE
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CROWELL;
THENCE WITH CROWELL’S EAST LINE
NORTH 0 DEGREES 28 MINUTES
EAST A DISTANCE OF 153 FEET TO
THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Being
the same property conveyed to Carla
Michelle Eldridge, unmarried in Warranty Deed, as filed at Book D573,
Madison County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 508 Westwood
Avenue, Jackson, TN 38301
CARLA MICHELLE ELDRIDGE
305735
Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12838
Continued on Page 30
30 January
30-February
5, 2015
2016
30 April
April8-14,
8 - 14,
2016
public notices
Foreclosure Notices
Continued from Page 29
dated November 20, 2006, and the Deed
recorded November 27, 2006, in Book
No. T1780, at Page 1805, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Lakeesha
Currie and Kirby Holloway, conveying
certain property therein described to
Trace Robbins as Trustee for Beneficial
Tennessee Inc.; and the undersigned,
u.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for
LSF9 Master Participation Trust.
Trustee, by u.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as
Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation
Trust, will, on April 28, 2016 on or
about 11:00 AM, at the Madison County
Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer
for sale certain property hereinafter
described to the highest bidder FOR
certified funds paid at the conclusion
of the sale, or credit bid from a bank
or other lending entity pre-approved by
the successor trustee. The sale is free
from all exemptions, which are expressly
waived in the Deed of Trust, said property
being real estate situated in Madison
County, Tennessee, and being more
particularly described as follows:
That certain lot or parcel of real estate
lying and being in Madison County,
Tennessee, and more particularly
bounded and described as follows,
to-wit:
Being Lot No. 91 of Hickory Hills
Subdivision, Section VII, A Plat of
which appears of record in Plat Book
4, Page 203, in that Register’s Office
of Madison County, Tennessee.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 30 Millsap Drive,
Jackson, TN 38305
LAKEESHA CuRRIE
KIRBy HOLLOWAy
PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION
CAVALRy SPy I, LLC
312882
Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12843
100 East Main Street, Jackson, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by Gloria Savage, to Hunter Simmons,
Trustee, as trustee for First South Bank
on December 19, 2001 at Book T1348,
Page 278; conducted by Shapiro & Ingle,
LLP, a Tennessee limited liability partnership having been appointed Substitute
or Successor Trustee, all of record in
the Madison County Register’s Office.
Default has occurred in the performance
of the covenants, terms, and conditions
of said Deed of Trust and the entire
indebtedness has been declared due
and payable.
Party Entitled to Enforce the Debt:
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., its successors
and assigns
Madison County, Tennessee, will be sold
to the highest call bidder:
Described property located at Madison
County, Tennessee, to wit:
BEING Lot 14 of Crestmont Subdivision, a plat of which appears of record
in Plat Book 3, page 171, in the
Register’s Office of Madison County,
Tennessee, reference to which plat
description of said lot showing its
location and the length and direction
of its boundary lines.
Being the same real estate conveyed
to Gloria Savage by deed of record
in Deed Book 624, page 593, in the
Register’s Office of Madison County,
Tennessee.
Street Address: 51 McDaniel Dr,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
Parcel Number: 055M D 018.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Gloria
Savage and Michael Savage
The street address of the above
described property is believed to be
51 McDaniel Dr, Jackson, Tennessee
38305, but such address is not part
of the legal description of the property
sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein
shall control.
shown on any applicable recorded plat
any unpaid taxes; and any restrictive
covenants, easements, or setback lines
right of redemption of any governmental
premises might disclose.
The right is reserved to adjourn the
day of the sale to another day, time, and
place certain without further publication,
upon announcement at the time and
place for the sale set forth above. If you
purchase a property at the foreclosure
sale, the entire purchase price is due
and payable at the conclusion of the
auction in the form of a certified/bank
check made payable to or endorsed
to Shapiro & Ingle, LLP. No personal
checks will be accepted. To this end,
you must bring sufficient funds to outbid the lender and any other bidders.
Insufficient funds will not be accepted.
Amounts received in excess of the
winning bid will be refunded to the
successful purchaser at the time the
foreclosure deed is delivered.
subject to confirmation by the lender or
trustee. This sale may be rescinded by
the Substitute Trustee at any time.
This office may be a debt collector.
This may be an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained may be
used for that purpose.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
www.auction.com
File No. 16-105646
Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016
Fln12846
dated February 28, 2001, and the Deed
recorded March 2, 2001, in Book No.
T1281, at Page 648, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Markeith T.
Golden, conveying certain property
therein described to Larry N. Westbrook,
Esq. as Trustee for Cendant Mortgage
Corporation d/b/a Coldwell Banker
Mortgage; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by MidFirst
Bank.
Trustee, by MidFirst Bank, will, on May
26, 2016 on or about 10:00 AM, at
the Madison County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the west
margin of Greenfield Drive, said point
is the northeast corner of Lot No.
15, Section II, Old Hickory Estates
Subdivision as recorded in Plat
Book 3, page 35, in the Register’s
Office of Madison County, Tennessee; thence South 53 degrees 27
minutes West with the north line of
Lot No. 15 a distance of 113 feet to
a point; thence North 25 degrees 51
minutes West a distance of 20.4 feet
to a point; thence North 41 degrees
49 minutes West a distance of 29.3
feet to the southwest corner of Lot
No. 13; thence North 37 degrees 59
minutes East with the south line of
Lot No. 13 a distance of 103 feet to a
point in the west margin of Greenfield
Drive; thence southeasterly with the
west margin of Greenfield Drive as
curves a distance of 78 feet to the
point of beginning. Being Lot No. 14
of the aforesaid platted Subdivision.
This description was written from
the recorded plat. As surveyed by
McRae Engineering, Inc., RLS 430,
Jackson, Tennessee on October
24, 1994. Being the same property
conveyed to Markeith T. Golden in
Warranty Deed, as filed at Book D,
Madison County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 265 Greenfield
Drive, Jackson, TN 38305-4405
MARKEITH T. GOLDEN
LVNV FuNDING, LLC, ASSIGNEE OF
SEARS
313258
Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12847
Foreclosure Notices
Tipton County
Sale at public auction will be on
April 28, 2016 at 10:00AM local time,
at the north door, Tipton County Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington,
Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust
executed by Shirley Dale Vandergrift, to
M. Rushing, Trustee, on September 14,
2006 at Record Book 1299, Page 266,
Instrument No. 93582; all of record in the
Tipton County Register’s Office.
interest: CitiFinancial Servicing LLC, its
Tipton County, Tennessee, will be sold
ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND
IN , TIPTON COuNTy, STATE OF TN,
AS MORE FuLLy DESCRIBED IN BOOK
772 PAGE 120 ID# 065-065-013.06,
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS
LOT 2 MOORMAN-ADKINS ROAD SuBDIVISION, FILED IN PLAT CABINET D,
SLIDE 81 B.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTy CONVEyED By FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM
BOBBy N. MOORMAN and CAROLyN
R. MOORMAN HuSBAND AND WIFE
TO SHIRLEy DALE VANDERGRIFT ,
DATED 05/15/1996 RECORDED ON
05/21/19961N BOOK 772, PAGE
120 IN TIPTON COuNTy RECORDS,
STATE OF TN.
Parcel Number: 065 01306 000
Current Owner(s) of Property: Shirley
Dale Vandergrift
Street Address: 813 Adkins Rd, Burlison, Tennessee 38015
All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are
expressly waived in said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed to be good, but
the undersigned will sell and convey only
as Substitute Trustee.
price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of a
certified/bank check made payable to
or endorsed to Shapiro & Ingle, LLP.
bidders. Insufficient funds will not be accepted. Amounts received in excess of
the winning bid will be refunded to the
at any time.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
www.auction.com
File No. 16-104598
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12836
dated March 19, 2012, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded March 26, 2012, in Book
No. 1545, at Page 25, in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Tipton County,
Tennessee, executed by Rodney A.
Delashmit and Holly Delashmit, conveying certain property therein described to
Monte Connell as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for American Mortgage
Services, Inc., its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee by Wells
Fargo Bank, NA.
Trustee, by Wells Fargo Bank, NA, will,
on May 26, 2016 on or about 10:00
AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse,
Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
situated in Tipton County, Tennessee,
as follows:
Being a part of Lot 1 Bennett Woods
Estates Subdivision Section A recorded in Plat Cabinet C, Slide 52 in the
Register’s Office, lying on the West
side of Bennett Woods Drive in the
Second Civil District of Tipton County,
Tennessee, being more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin found at the
Southeast corner of Lot 2 Bennett
Woods Subdivision Section A, said
point being on the West right of way
line of Bennett Woods Drive (50
foot right of way), thence South 08
degrees 48 minutes 04 seconds East,
140.00 feet along the said right of
way line to an iron pin found at the
Southeast corner of this partition;
thence South 81 degrees 11 minutes
56 seconds West, 311.14 feet along
the South line of this partition to an
iron pin found on the East interior line
of Lot 2; thence North 08 degrees 48
minutes 08 seconds West, 140.00
feet along the East interior line of Lot
2 to an iron pin found at the South
interior corner of Lot 2; thence North
81 degrees 11 minutes 56 seconds
East, 311.14 feet along the South
line of Lot 2 to the Point of Beginning, encompassing 1.00 acres of
land, more or less.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 203 Bennet Woods
Drive, Brighton, TN 38011
RODNEy A. DELASHMIT
HOLLy DELASHMIT
LVNV FuNDING, LLC AS ASSIGNEE OF
FIRST CONSuMERS NATIONAL BANK
235038
Successor Trustee
COM
Mar. 25, Apr. 1, 8, 2016 Fln12831
Sale at public auction will be on
May 5, 2016 at 10:30AM local time,
at the north door, Tipton County Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington,
Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust
executed by Danielle McAnally, to Glenn
D. Everton with Griffin, Clift, Everton and
Maschmeyer PLLC, Trustee, as trustee
Systems, Inc. as nominee for American
Mortgage Service Company on December 20, 2013 at Record Book 1611, Page
474, Instrument No. 173183; conducted
by Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a Tennessee
limited liability partnership having been
appointed Substitute or Successor
Trustee, all of record in the Tipton County
Register’s Office. Default has occurred
in the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of said Deed of
Trust and the entire indebtedness has
been declared due and payable.
January 30-February
5, 2015
April 8-14,
2016 29
31
April 8 - 14, 2016 3 1
public notices
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, its successors
and assigns
Described property located at Tipton
Lot 28, Section D, Cherokee Hills
Subdivision as shown on plat of record
in Plat Cabinet E, Slide 184 in the
Register’s Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, to which reference is hereby
made for a more particular description
of said property.
Street Address: 74 Cherokee Hill Ln,
Munford, Tennessee 38058
Parcel Number: 081M C 028.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Danielle
McAnally, unmarried
described property is believed to be 74
Cherokee Hill Ln, Munford, Tennessee
shall control.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 16-105502
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12833
dated December 19, 2008, and the
Deed of Trust of even date securing
the same, recorded January 23, 2009,
in Book No. 1423, at Page 639, in Office of the Register of Deeds for Tipton
County, Tennessee, executed by Merle
W. Johnson and Margaret H. Johnson,
conveying certain property therein described to Larry Weissman as Trustee
for Equipoint Financial Network, Inc.;
and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed
Successor Trustee by James B. Nutter
& Company.
Trustee, by James B. Nutter & Company,
will, on May 25, 2016 on or about 10:00
AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse,
Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
as follows:
The following described parcel of
land lying and being in the Seventh
Civil District of Tipton County, Tennessee, and thus described: Beginning at a stake in the West line of
the C.H. Strong 97.83 acre tract,
of which this survey is a part, said
stake being South 01.75 degrees
West 620.00 feet from the original
Northwest corner of the Strong 97.83
acre tract; runs thence with the West
line of the Strong tract and the East
line of the old Blaydes farm, South
01.75 degrees West 478.86 feet to
a stake; thence North 81.5 degrees
East 510.00 feet to a stake; thence
North 08.5 degrees West 455.00 feet
to a stake; thence South 83 degrees
West 427.00 feet to the beginning
and containing 5.07 acres, more or
less, according to survey of Milton
Thornton, Surveyor, made on July 7,
1971, and being a portion of the 97.83
acre tract conveyed to C.H. Strong
by deed recorded in Book 247, Page
21, in the Register’s Office of Tipton
County, Tennessee.
NOTE: Legal description revised in
accordance with an Attorney’s Affidavit recorded March 14, 2016 at
Book 1680, Page 66.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 209 Talley Road,
Atoka, TN 38004
MERLE W. JOHNSON
MARGARET H. JOHNSON
SECRETARy OF HOuSING AND uRBAN
DEVELOPMENT
EquIPOINT FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC.
ESTATE OF MERLE W. JOHNSON
HEIRS OF MERLE W. JOHNSON
311218
Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12839
26, 2016 at 11:00 am local time, at
the north door, Tipton County Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington,
Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust
executed by Lori L. Moore, to Robert B.
Robinson, Trustee, as trustee for First
Trust Mortgage Company on May 21,
1998 at Record Book 828, Page 910;
conducted by Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a
Tennessee limited liability partnership
having been appointed Substitute or
Successor Trustee, all of record in the
Tipton County Register’s Office. Default
has occurred in the performance of
the covenants, terms, and conditions
of said Deed of Trust and the entire
indebtedness has been declared due
and payable.
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, its successors
and assigns
Described property located at Tipton
Lot 8, Plantation Road Subdivision as
recorded in Plat Cabinet “B” Slides 83
and 84 in the Register’s Office of Tipton
County, Tennessee and being more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin in the East
line of Plantation Road, said pin being in the Northwest corner of Lot 7;
thence North 00 degrees, 42 minutes,
58 seconds East along the East line
of Plantation Road, 90.00 feet to a
point of curve; thence along a curve
right having a radius of 25.00 feet,
39.27 feet to a point in the South
line of Plantation Lane; thence South
89 degrees, 17 minutes, 02 seconds
East along the South line of Plantation
Lane, 219.12 feet to a found iron pin in
the Northwest corner of Lot 9; thence
South 06 degrees, 29 minutes, 05
seconds East along the West line of
Lot 9, 94.03 feet to a point; thence
South 69 degrees, 30 minutes, 04
seconds West 60.00 feet to a found
iron pin in the Northeast corner of
Lot 7; thence North 89 degrees, 17
minutes, 02 seconds West along the
North line of Lot 7, 200.00 feet to the
point of beginning.
Subject to subdivision restrictions,
building lines and easements as recorded at Plat Cabinet B, Slides 83 and
84 and amendments to restrictions
at Book 801, Page 491 in the Tipton
Street Address: 376 Plantation Rd,
Munford, Tennessee 38058
Parcel Number: 095C A 008.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Lori L.
Moore
described property is believed to be
376 Plantation Rd, Munford, Tennessee
shall control.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 12-034654
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12840
Sale at public auction will be on June 6,
2016 on or about 11:00AM local time,
at the North door of the Tipton County
Courthouse in Covington, Tennessee,
conducted by the Substitute Trustee
as identified and set forth herein below,
pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by
ESTATE OF DANNy A. BROWN, to FMLS.
INC., Trustee, on March 6, 2009, at
Record Book 1431, Page 74 in the
real property records of Tipton County
Register’s Office, Tennessee.
Owner of Debt: REGIONS BANK DBA
REGIONS MORTGAGE
Beginning at a point in the center of
the Tabernacle to Mason Road, said
point being the Northwest corner of
the Burrell 58.43 acre tract of which
this survey is a part; runs thence with
the center of the road, same being the
west line of the Burrell tract, south 154
feet to a point in the road; thence south
83 degrees east 349 feet to a stake;
thence north 7 degrees east 191 feet
to a stake in the north line of Burrell;
thence with the north line of Burrell,
west 370 feet to the beginning.
Being the same property conveyed
to Danny A. Brown by warranty deed
placed of record June 26, 2001 and
recorded in book 948, page 954, in
the register`s office of Tipton County,
Tennessee.
Tax ID: 070 03303 000000
Current Owner(s) of Property: ESTATE
OF DANNy A. BROWN
The street address of the above described property is believed to be 1150
Tabernacle Road, Covington, TN 38019,
but such address is not part of the legal
description of the property sold herein
and in the event of any discrepancy,
the legal description referenced herein
shall control.
SALE IS SuBJECT TO OCCuPANT(S)
RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.
THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO ADJOuRN
THE DAy OF THE SALE TO ANOTHER
DAy, TIME AND PLACE CERTAIN WITHOuT FuRTHER PuBLICATION, uPON
ANNOuNCEMENT AT THE TIME AND
PLACE FOR THE SALE SET FORTH ABOVE.
THE TRuSTEE/SuBSTITuTE TRuSTEE
RESERVES THE RIGHT TO RESCIND
THE SALE. IF THE SALE IS SET ASIDE
FOR ANy REASON, THE PuRCHASER AT
THE SALE SHALL BE ENTITLED ONLy TO
A RETuRN OF THE DEPOSIT PAID. THE
PuRCHASER SHALL HAVE NO FuRTHER
RECOuRSE AGAINST THE GRANTOR,
THE GRANTEE, OR THE TRuSTEE.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: None
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT
AND ANy INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE uSED FOR THAT PuRPOSE.
If applicable, the notice requirements of
T.C.A. 35-5-117 have been met.
All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are
expressly waived in said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed to be good, but
the undersigned will sell and convey only
as Substitute Trustee.
If the u.S. Department of Treasury/IRS,
the State of Tennessee Department of
Revenue, or the State of Tennessee
Department of Labor or Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties
in the advertisement, then the Notice of
this foreclosure is being given to them
and the Sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities’ right to
redeem the property as required by 26
u.S.C. 7425 and T.C.A. §67-1-1433.
This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject
to confirmation by the lender or trustee.
This sale may be rescinded at any time. If
the sale is set aside for any reason, the
Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled
only to a return of the deposit paid. The
Purchaser shall have no further recourse
against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee
or the Mortgagee’s attorney.
MWZM FILE NO. 16-000015-625
JASON S. MANGRuM, JOHN R. ROAN, OR
JERRy A. BRIDENBAuGH, SuBSTITuTE
TRuSTEE(S)
PREMIER BUILDING, SUITE 404
5217 MARYLAND WAY
BRENTWOOD, TENNESSEE 37027
PHONE: (615) 238-3630
EMAIL: TNSALES@MWZMLAW.COM
Apr. 1, 8, 15, 2016
Fln12845
north door, Tipton County Courthouse,
100 Court Square, Covington, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by Gregory F McGaughy and Rayna A
McCaughy, to Jeanine B Saylor, Trustee,
on November 22, 2004 at Record Book
1175, Page 359, Instrument No. 65414;
all of record in the Tipton County Register’s Office.
interest: HSBC Bank uSA, N.A., its
Lot 261, Williamsburg Estates, Section
I as recorded in Plat Cabinet G, Slide
120 in the Register’s Office of Tipton
County, Tennessee, to which plat
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said lot.
Subject to the subdivision restrictions
at Book 1028, Page 257, building
lines and easements at Plat Cabinet
G, Slide 120 of the Tipton County
Register’s Office.
Being the same property conveyed to
Grantor(s) herein at Book 1175 Page
357 of the Tipton County Register’s
Office.
Parcel Number: 128D B 023.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: The Heirs
of Gregory F. McGaughy
Other interested parties: City of
Memphis Credit union, All persons
claiming by, through or under Gregory
McGaughy, deceased
Street Address: 281 Beverly Dr, Atoka,
Tennessee 38004
at any time.
Trustee
400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 16-105606
Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016
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The Memphis News
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Deed of Trust of even date securing the
same, recorded November 29, 2007,
in Book No. 1373, at Page 520, in Office of the Register of Deeds for Tipton
County, Tennessee, executed by Christie
L. McDuffie, conveying certain property
therein described to Monte S. Connell as
Trustee for American Mortgage Services
Inc.; and the undersigned, Wilson &
Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association.
Tipton County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
as follows:
Being Lot No. 2, of Country Place
Estates, Section A, as recorded in
Plat Cabinet F, Slide 41-A, in the
Register’s Office of Tipton County,
description of said property. Being
the same property conveyed to
Christie L. McDuffee in Special Warranty Deed, as filed at Book 1373,
Tipton County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 5287 Bride Road,
Covington, TN 38019
ANTHONy EDGAR ELAM
CHRISTIE L. MCDuFFIE
u.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRuSTEE FOR CVI LOAN GT TRuST I
lake district continued from P18
Community, filling the southeast quadrant of the Interstate 40 and Canada Road
intersection. Land on the south side of
the lake will be densely residential. Structures range from assisted senior living to
Downtown-style lofts. Most of the units
will be two-story townhouses that average
1,600 square feet.
On the north and east side of the
lake will be office, retail and civic uses.
The big-box district will be anchored
by a 70,000-square-foot grocery tenant.
Surrounding the lake will be “al fresco” restaurants and water activities like
paddle boats. Further north will be the
small shops of the Main Street Mall and
the two hotels.
“You can walk from big-box retail to
your home if you want to,” Gallagher said.
Gallagher said she’s betting on a growing trend of baby boomers choosing to rent,
adding that the Lake District takes a whole
family perspective, with young families
able to live alongside their parents.
“Where is the heart of Lakeland? It does
not exist. It is our hope to create that,”
Netanel said.
The median age of Lakeland’s 12,430
citizens is 38 years old, according to data
from the 2010 U.S. Census. The median
household income is $76,000, which is
nearly 75 percent higher than the average
Shelby County income.
Netanel said he went through rigorous
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Successor Trustee
COM
Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2016
Fln12853
Misc. Notices
Shelby County
NOTICE OF SALE
GARAGE KEEPER
AAA COLLISION OAKLAND, INC
145 BOWERS RD
OAKLAND, TN 38060
PHONE: 901-465-5535
FAX: 901-465-5426
PERSuANT TO TCA 66-19-103, THIS
IS TO GIVE NOTICE THAT AAA COLLISION OAKLAND, INC WILL ON APRIL
13TH , 2016 ---- AT 8:00 A.M., AT 145
BOWERS RD, OAKLAND, TN, SELL TO
THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH THE
FOLLOWING DESCRIBED VEHICLE:
1- (ONE) 2006 BMW X5
VIN # 5uXFB53546LV28705
THE ABOVE DESCRIBED VEHICLE IS
OWNED By; KEITH HAyNES WHO HAD
THE VEHICLE TOWED TO OuR SHOP ON
JuLy 31, 2014.
AAA COLLISION OAKLAND
By: BRuCE HuDGINS
OWNER
Apr. 1, 8, 2016
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economic analysis to support the project.
While he wouldn’t give a total project cost,
he said it was “well above” the $120 million initially slated for revitalization of the
outlet mall.
Gilad hopes to secure the necessary approvals from the City of Lakeland by July.
Construction would start a year from now
and continue for two years. The project
will open all at once as opposed to opening in phases.
Residents who attended the meeting
said that the project would bring muchneeded tax revenue to Shelby County’s
smallest city. In 2014, Lakeland hiked its
property taxes 65 percent to build a $50
million middle and high school.
Other residents harbored concerns
about the project.
“It’s almost become a joke now,” said
one resident about the stalled redevelopment of the outlet mall. He asked Netanel
to consider demolishing the eyesore immediately, in case the Lake District doesn’t
come to fruition. Netanel committed to
demolishing the outlet mall but not before
an official groundbreaking.
Other residents had concerns about the
increase of renters in a city mostly made up
of large single-family homes.
“This is designed to have a market of
its own. They will be the highest possible
places around this kind of environment
that you cannot actually buy,” Netanel
responded. “This is not something seen
around Memphis.”
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LEGAL NOTICE
The TDEC Division of Water Resources (DWR) proposes to issue a water quality
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit:
Applicant: Gateway Global Logistics Center
Permit Number: TN0081809
Permit Writer: Vojijn Janjic
Rating: Minor
County: Fayette
EFO Name: Memphis
Location: 0.5 miles south of Knox Road, south of proposed N. Industrial
Road
City: Rossville, TN
Activity Description: disturbance of 78.8 acres in order to construction a commercial warehouse
Effluent Description: stormwater runoff associated with construction activity
from Outfalls SW1, SW2, SW3, and SW4
Receiving Stream: unnamed tributary of Wolf River for Outfalls SW1, SW2,
SW3, and SW4
Latitude: 35.00
Longitude: -89.58
The proposed permit contains limitation on the amount of pollutants to be
discharged, in accordance with Federal and State standards and regulations.
Permit condition are tentative and subject to public comment.
For more information, or to review and/or copy documents from the permit
file (there is a nominal charge for photocopies), contact Vojin Janjic at (615)
532-0670 or the Memphis Environmental Field Office at (901) 371-3000. To
comment on this permit issuance or proposed conditions submit written comments to TDEC-DWR, William R. Snodgrass - Tennessee Tower, 312 Rosa L.
Parks Avenue, 11th Floor, Nashville, Tennessee 37243. Comments should be
received within 30 days from the Legal Notice and should include the applicant
name and NPDES Number.
Interested persons may request a public hearing on any application. The request must be filed within the comment period and must indicate the interest
of the filing party and reasons for the request. If there is significant interest, a
hearing will be held pursuant to Rule 1200-4-5-.06(9)(a), and the Director will
make determinations regarding permit issuance.
Apr. 8, 2016
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happenings
Hollywood Feed and the North Shore Animal League will host the
Overton Bark Adoption Tour on Sunday, April 10, from noon to 3 p.m.
in Overton Park’s Overton Bark Dog Park, 2080 Poplar Ave. Attendees
can meet pets available for adoption, preview dog treats from Hollywood Feed’s soon-to-open Midtown bakery, and learn how to support Overton Bark through the “Give Your Dog a Bone” campaign. Visit
overtonpark.org.
2016 Multicultural Career Expo will be
held Saturday, April 9, from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the Hilton Memphis, 939 Ridge
Lake Blvd. Job seekers from all cultures
and backgrounds are invited to attend
and connect with influential local employers. Visit multiculturalcareerexpo.com for
details.
Memphis Made Brewing Co. will host
Hopped II, its annual spring beer festival,
on Saturday, April 9, from noon to 9 p.m.
at 768 S. Cooper St. The celebration of
hoppy beers will feature a mix of new,
old and limited-release IPAs; live music;
food trucks; and free Hopped II glassware
to the first 100 customers. Admission is
free. Visit memphismadebrewing.com.
American Association of University
Women of Tennessee and AAUW-Memphis will host n Equal Pay Day panel discussion Tuesday, April 12, at 11 a.m. at the
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030
Poplar Ave. Local experts will discuss how
the gender pay gap affects women and
their families. Call Vicki Armstrong at 901606-4055 for details.
Memphis Child Advocacy Center will
host its annual children’s memorial flagraising on Wednesday, April 13, at noon
on Civic Center Plaza outside Memphis
City Hall, 125 N. Main St. The ceremony
remembers Shelby County kids who have
died as a result of abuse or neglect. Visit
memphiscac.org.
Hard Rock Cafe Memphis and MIFA will
host the Lip Sync Plus Grand Championship on Thursday, April 14, at 6 p.m. at
Hard Rock, 126 Beale St. Finalists from
MIFA’s online lip-syncing contest will
compete against Memphis notables in
this benefit for the MIFA Emergency Services program. Cost is $50, which include
food and first drink. Buy advance tickets
at mifa.org.
The Booksellers at Laurelwood and
Christian Brothers University will host
a Memphis Reads event with author Erik
Larson on Friday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in the
CBU Theater, 650 East Parkway S. Single
and couples tickets are $15 and include a
copy of “Dead Wake,” Larson’s book about
the sinking of the Lusitania; students get
in free with student ID. Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
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opinion
Police Search Needs
Better Sense of Urgency
S
ixty-one homicides in 90 days,
including a March death that
was classified as a homicide
by police on the other side
of April.
This will likely get worse before it gets
better because there is no quick fix.
The answer isn’t a massive show of
force by the Memphis Police Department, because if that was the solution
it would have already worked. It hasn’t.
And the answer isn’t to wait until
every single piece of a redirection of resources is in place. The public has a right
to be protected while hearts and minds,
as well as the criminal justice system
and a better approach to mental health
issues, are being resolved.
The solution, we believe, is to emerge
from what amounts to a holding pattern
at the police department.
The search for a permanent police
director is moving too slowly.
Every day that the current interim
director preaches neighborhood watch
as the answer to all problems or says
citizens need to “ride or die” with the
police department, the task at hand becomes more difficult because of a loss of
credibility.
There has to be time to get this and
the steps that follow right. But there is
a difference between taking the necessary time and losing a necessary sense
of urgency.
This applies to other fronts as well.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the death of
Alexio Allen, who was shot by Memphis
police officers March 23 in Raleigh, under the recent agreement in which the
district attorney general and MPD hand
off such investigations to the TBI.
This agreement was the result of last
summer’s fatal police shooting of Darrius
Stewart and came with the undisputed
concept that the TBI investigation should
be made public.
In Stewart’s case, District Attorney
General Amy Weirich had to go to Chancery Court to open a file that is closed
eight of the nine ways to Sunday by a state
law that all of the entities involved have
talked about changing.
As the Tennessee Legislature nears
the end of its 2016 session, the law that
seals all TBI records is still in place.
To add insult to injury, the Legislature
considered a move to seal body camera
recordings for a year. The measure was
defeated, but it indicates the Legislature’s
intent is moving in precisely the opposite
direction.
And there is much more debate left
about the idea that body camera and
dashboard camera recordings should not
be released until a police investigation is
completed.
The debate should consider the recommendations made last year by former
county commissioner Mike Carpenter
during Wharton’s tenure to release many
details and reports of such incidents immediately.
We understand that the Strickland
administration does not want to make
decisions that will limit the options and
vision of whoever it selects as the next
permanent Memphis police director.
But we have to begin to make at least
some interim moves in directions there
seems to be a consensus on, with the idea
that those moves may change with the
choice to be made.
THE MEMPHIS NEWS | almanac
April 8-14
This week in Memphis history:
1976: The Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board takes the
first step toward pursuing federal funding for a coal gasification
plant in Memphis. Federal funding totaling $2.8 billion is available
to build eight of the plants, each using a different method for coal to
liquid or gas fuel starting in the 1980s.
“We are running out of natural gas,” says MLGW president Calvin
Henze. “But this country has an abundant supply of coal.”
The utility plans to curtail gas supplies to more than 400 of the
city’s largest businesses and industries by 50 percent during the
summer of 1976.
Meanwhile, the Cotton Carnival is making plans for nine days of activities at the Mid-South Fairgrounds at the end of April into the first
week of May. Among them: Goodings Million Dollar Midway, The
Zacchini Cannon act in which an acrobat is fired 150 feet into the air
from a 25-foot-long cannon, Neil Diamond and the Ohio Players at
the Coliseum, and “this country’s fastest growing sport” – cowboy
polo – in the Arena Building.
1935: The House of David
baseball team is in the city
to play the Memphis Chicks.
And the Memphis city
commission approves on
the first of three readings
an ordinance permitting
the showing of movies on
Sundays after 1 p.m. The city
ordinance is to comply with a previously passed state law.
1832: The steamboat Brandywine catches fire on the Mississippi
River north of Memphis, killing more than 100 people. The boat
runs aground on an island approximately 25 miles north of Memphis, which thereafter was known as Brandywine Island.
A Great Big Little Golf Course
MEMPHASIS
DAN CONAWAY
OVERTON EAGLES SOAR.
When the city last talked about closing
the Overton Park golf course, I told my story
in a column.
Rumor has it, the course is in jeopardy
again – a possible Greensward replacement – as if repurposing existing green
spaces will justify destroying others, as if
all the stories that have made the park so
personal to so many are worth no more
than a parking spot, as fleeting as a phone
call from power to council.
For 110 years, longer than any other,
this golf course has introduced this city to
the game, more than any other, open to
everyone far before any other. Short and
certainly sweet, first pars are found here,
first birdies sing, and first eagles soar. And
they come back for a lifetime.
More than a golf course, it’s one of
our city’s storied venues, a living, green
archive, open to all and as patient as the
giant trees that surround it.
My father learned to play golf there,
playing his first round with my grandfather.
I learned to play golf there, playing my first
round with Dad. I’ve watched my own son’s
eyes light up there when the stars align and
the ball actually becomes airborne for the
first time.
But that’s not my story.
Consider the evocative clubhouse itself,
dating from the ’20s, with vaulted ceiling,
fireplace and stone terrace overlooking the
first and ninth holes. Take in the view of
the course from Brooks, from the College
of Art, from Poplar, envisioned as part of
the park’s original grand plan.
But that’s not my story.
We couldn’t get out on Galloway, so my
friend and I drove in to Overton Park. The
starter gave us a choice. Go with the two
antiques over there (guys about my age
now) or with those two college girls. Yeah,
we went with the girls, and my buddy bet
me five bucks I wouldn’t ask either one of
them out. After all, I was just a senior in
high school and these fascinating women
of the world were sophomores in college. I
took the bet. When the cute redhead hit her
ball into the ditch on seven, I went to help
her find it. Since I figured no one would see
me get shot down in the ditch, I asked her
out. She said yes. A few years later she said
yes to another question, and we’ve been
married for 45 years.
That’s my story, and like the Overton
Park golf course itself, it’s about a lot
more than golf. It’s about our history, our
hopes, even our innocence. It’s also about
progress. You can improve and move on
to larger, more challenging stages. You
can learn to concentrate, to overcome,
to persevere, to succeed. But you should
never forget how it all began.
And how good it is when it’s good. Not
just worth saving, worth savoring.
I’m a Memphian, and I won five bucks
and found the love of my life on Overton
Park’s golf course.
Dan Conaway, a communication
strategist and author of “I’m a Memphian,” can be reached at dan@wakesomebodyup.com.
BE THE KNOW-IT-ALL
October 30-November 5, 2015, Vol. 8, Issue 45
BEATING
THE ODDS
ORGILL TO MOVE
TO COLLIERVILLE
The story of
WEVL 89.9 FM,
an independent
radio station that
operates out of digs in the South Main district, is
an improbable one. P. 12
Orgill is building
its new world
headquarters in
Collierville, bringing a
$15 million investment
and 115 new jobs. P. 7
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SHELBY
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FAYETTE
•
TIPTON
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MADISON
SPECIAL EDITION : COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Mix It Up
Memphis’ real estate
development industry on
a mixed-use tear P. 16
COULD AMAZON
TEST FEDEX?
'CADILLAC OF
OUTLET STORES'
Package shipping
network could be next
for Amazon. P. 6
Tanger could draw
more retailers to
DeSoto County. P. 11
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