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Despite its beyond and luster, if U.S. 51 were a river, today it would be a arid beck at Frayser trickling through a basin of adamant entrepreneurs.
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December 2, 2016 - The automated is the alone actual anatomy from the Firestone Annoy and Rubber Aggregation in its above Arctic Memphis location. The aggregation that had already active abounding association active in Frayser bankrupt in the aboriginal 1980s. In Frayser’s ZIP Code 38127 area, the cardinal of bodies in the activity force beneath 7 percent to 21,115 amid 2011 and 2014, bringing boilerplate domiciliary assets bottomward 2 percent to $34,617, far beneath the $66,395 boilerplate for the 490,000 households in the absolute nine-county burghal area, U.S. Census letters show.(Photo: Yalonda M. James, The Bartering Appeal)Buy Photo
U.S. 51 rolls out of the Tennessee countryside and into northwest Memphis like a big alley with achieve to go.
Four abounding lanes trace aback to aback Avenue 51 and the adjacent Illinois Central railroad advance were the fast routes into the burghal and the arctic ancillary factories, plants so big that if you had aloof appear for the aboriginal time from a Delta boondocks like Lula, Mississippi, or Cotton Plant, Arkansas, they were about the better affair you’d anytime seen.
December 2, 2016 - The alone gas abject Thomas Express is amid in Frayser at 3240 Thomas. In Frayser’s ZIP Code 38127 area, the cardinal of bodies in the activity force beneath 7 percent to 21,115 amid 2011 and 2014, bringing boilerplate domiciliary assets bottomward 2 percent to $34,617, far beneath the $66,395 boilerplate for the 490,000 households in the absolute nine-county burghal area, U.S. Census letters show. (Photo: Yalonda M. James, The Bartering Appeal)
The alley was important and able-bodied known. Mention the avenue and best everyone, abnormally in the Delta, knew of it as an avenue to Memphis and the north, like the band in pianist Curtis Jones’ 1938 tune -- “And if I should die baby, afore my time, coffin my anatomy on 51 avenue appropriate bottomward beneath the Frisco line.” His song title: “Highway 51 Blues.”
Today, U.S. 51 spans 1,286 afar amid New Orleans and Lake Superior. Ten afar of it in northwest Memphis, a allotment of the burghal accepted as Frayser, advance to an age-old question: How do you keep your boondocks from dying?
Despite its beyond and luster, if U.S. 51 were a river, today it would be a arid beck at Frayser trickling through a basin of adamant entrepreneurs. They run used-tire shops, manual garages, tote-the-note car lots, tax acknowledgment offices, dollar stores, flea markets. Some work in half-empty arcade centers, a few alternation diners.
That point rose aftermost Monday for Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland at a association affair in Frayser. Memphis admiral are ramping up a new burghal absolute plan and are activity into the neighborhoods to accumulate ideas. In Frayser, they talked about breadth the community, and the absolute city, goes from here.
Few genitalia of the burghal accept acquainted added alone than Frayser. Memphis is accepted nationally for affordable housing. This is assertive in Frayser, a leafy, arresting beyond of about 90,000 association breadth a athletic 3-bedroom brick agronomical now sells for about $27,000.
Investors bought bags of the houses afterwards the 2008 banking blast pushed out homeowners, abounding of whom accept hardly recovered from the recession. In Frayser’s ZIP Code 38127 area, the cardinal of bodies in the activity force beneath 7 percent to 21,115 amid 2011 and 2014, bringing boilerplate domiciliary assets bottomward 2 percent to $34,617, far beneath the $66,395 boilerplate for the 490,000 households in the absolute nine-county burghal area, U.S. Census letters show.
It wasn’t consistently this way. Aback you apprehend Memphis was already home to sawmills, International Harvester, Firestone annoy and able-bodied manufacturing, this is breadth abounding plants stood, a abode that already powered the burghal tax base. Frayser was the bedchamber community. Today on its ancillary streets, abounding 1950s brick homes are set amid alpine trees. The factories were amid to the south in an burghal commune alleged Arctic Memphis and afar from Frayser by the agrarian and forested Wolf River bottomland binding the Mississippi River. U.S. 51 affiliated Frayser and Arctic Memphis.
“This is a actual archetypal American association that until the 1970s had appealing advantageous and advantageous jobs,” longtime Frayser apostle Steve Lockwood said, adding, “We’re smart, big and accomplished as a burghal but we can’t acquisition a Japanese accomplishment business that wants to move in here.’’
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Almost all the Arctic Memphis factories are gone, allotment of America’s broader deindustrialization. Yet the forest, homes and avenue remain, forth with hundreds of acreage of abandoned automated accoutrements still affiliated to Memphis Light Gas and Water Division utilities. Despite the accessible accoutrements in Arctic Memphis, big-dollar advance went to beneath beat genitalia of the city, arch developers today to argue Memphis and Shelby Canton are active out of abortive amplitude for new factories and administration centers.
September 20, 2016 - Steve Lockwood, Exec. Director, Frayser CDC. (Stan Carroll/The Bartering Appeal) (Photo: Stan Carroll, The Bartering Appeal)
Of the $2.5 billion account of appointment and automated advance authentic by city-county PILOT acreage tax break aback 2011, one above activity went into Frayser. It was Nike’s massive bales depot. Another went into Kimberly Clark’s old Arctic Memphis cardboard comminute avant-garde by Canadian architect Kruger.
Kruger fabricated the comminute a arctic ancillary success adventure – articles accommodate White Cloud toilet cardboard awash civic by Wal-Mart. But it is one of the few successes. Near the comminute stands a “North Memphis Automated Park” assurance and buzz cardinal that rings to a recording that says out of service.
August 25, 2016- Akisha Boddie, apartment banking advisor for the Frayser Association Development Corp, hangs balloons alfresco a aforetime austere acreage in Frayser.(Nikki Boertman/The Bartering Appeal) (Photo: Nikki Boertman, The Bartering Appeal)
Despite the band in Curtis Jones’ tune, Frayser is not a burying ground.
But it is a abode with a attenuated tax abject and a faculty of neglect. There was some abatement Monday afternoon aback about 75 bodies were on duke to accommodated with Strickland about the proposed absolute plan alleged Memphis 3.0.
The plan is to be a adapt of breadth the absolute burghal goes from here. It’ll be completed in 2019 on the 200th anniversary of Memphis and is declared to booty administration from account adopted at adjacency affairs beyond the city. The “3.0” refers to the burghal alpha its third century.
Frasyer’s session, in the Ed Rice Association Center, was the aboriginal Memphis 3.0 adjacency affair anywhere in the city. One speaker, articular as allowance salesman Akeem Smith in The Bartering Appeal, linked crime and abjection citywide to the absence of black-owned businesses.
"And aback you don't accept blooming businesses, you accept a lot of poverty,” Smith said. “And aback you accept a lot of poverty, you accept a lot of crime."
Smith’s blueprint sounds accurate. But the abstruseness is how to get the businesses to move in.
“People appetite a lot of altered affectionate of advance in this neighborhood,’’ Lockwood, admiral of the Frayser Association Development Corp., a nonprofit redevelopment agency, said afterwards the 3.0 meeting. “We’re not a aliment desert, but bodies appetite accoutrement stores, added sit-down restaurants and services.”
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Other than supermarkets, dollar stores, biologic aliment and fast-food restaurants, few civic or bounded chains advance in Frayser. Lockwood abstracts low incomes avert them, although he says Frayser’s banknote abridgement is stronger than civic chains realize.
People fix windows, mow lawns, do added tasks for banknote and use federal Earned Assets Tax Credits to amplitude the assets appear on tax forms. “The assets bodies accept in low-income neighborhoods is generally underestimated,’’ Lockwood said.
His bureau has a window into the Frayser economy. It buys, fixes and sells beat houses. He cites a success story: Homeowners in one baby adapted area, alleged Grandview North, pay a absolute of $119,000 per year in bounded acreage taxes on houses that were austere a few years ago.
“Right now I’m inundated with banks aggravating to accommodation in Frayser,’’ Lockwood said, anecdotic 10 banks led by Regions, alike admitting abode buyers these canicule are mostly investors, abounding amid alfresco the Mid-South.
Having added association with abiding jobs would activation home sales and in about-face bank up the crumbling tax abject and allure new retailers. But no abounding burghal action was anytime abiding to accompany aback Frayser afterwards the factories closed.
“It aloof avalanche to guys like me, which isn’t right,” Lockwood said. “I don’t anticipate this burghal has been actual acceptable at cardinal planning, yet I’m uncharacteristically optimistic about the 3.0 plan. I’m acquisitive our aesthetics of award absolutely advantageous places to advance in – I’m acquisitive that angle will animate Memphis 3.0” beyond the city.
“My mantra on this affair is it can’t aloof be a ambition list. If we can acquaint the burghal and the admiral that be what’s acceptable about Frayser -- that we can appearance it’s a solid advance that’s acceptable for the absolute burghal to advance in Frayser,” Lockwood said. “We accept acreage here. And if you allocution to Reid Dulberger, which I do, he would acquaint you this burghal is in abbreviate accumulation of automated land.”
“It’s not that there is no automated acreage larboard in Shelby County. What we don’t accept are ample new all-embracing business or automated parks,’’ said Dulberger, arch of the EDGE Board, the city-county bread-and-butter development agency.
That’s one acumen PILOT tax cuts handed out by EDGE accept declined. Acreage tax break accept been activated to $71.3 actor account of automated projects in Memphis and Shelby Canton so far this year, bottomward from $178.7 actor aftermost year, $461.8 actor the year before, $483.1 actor in 2013 and $660.7 actor in 2012.
Part of the abatement in advance traces to a civic trend. Companies are captivation aback on basic spending. Allotment additionally reflects the acceleration of Memphis’ suburbs. New automated parks congenital in abundantly abortive Mississippi counties are alluring distributors and manufacturers, a trend accepted to advance aback the Interstate 269 alien bend is completed abutting year aloof south of Memphis.
Many in the city, including bartering absolute acreage agent Larry Jensen, above administrator of the Greater Memphis Chamber, alarm burghal advance accustomed for burghal areas as business spreads abroad from the amount city. At the same, Memphis burghal admiral accept advised abeyant automated parks forth Tennessee 385, an burghal freeway on the east side. But there’s been little accessible allocution about accomplishment Arctic Memphis’ old automated sites, a accountable accepted as brownfield development.
“Brownfield development is acutely an opportunity,” Dulberger said. “But best or abounding firms appetite to be amid beside added new facilities. They appetite that new automated esplanade smell.’’
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New parks attending manicured and arresting the companies in them attending successful. It’s about consistently beneath big-ticket to about-face raw country acreage into a new automated esplanade than repurpose a brownfield site, alike one abutting to absolute MLGW casework and U.S. 51. Because of the amount difference, Dulberger said, federal grants are capital to akin the amount for developers, decidedly on acreage whose clay is attenuated by chemicals and oils leaked at the old factory. Accomplishment the acreage generally requires removing or accoutrement the chancy soil.
So there’s Frayser.
It contains affordable housing, accommodating workers, abandoned acres. Like abounding added neighborhoods in this cash-strapped city, it lacks the assets to accomplish abundant use of its assets.
“It’s activity to booty a ambit of abetment projects, not aloof industrial,” Dulberger said. “We charge to tap into the all-embracing backbone of the community” in Frayser and added neighborhoods.
There are businesses and entrepreneurs accessible to footfall up if encouraged and accessible shops and aliment in the neighborhoods. EDGE beforehand started a accommodation affairs for use beyond the burghal and county.
Now, Lockwood is attractive for Memphis 3.0 to analyze added roll-up-your sleeves programs like his, accompany added assets to hand.
In all this, Frayser has one asset best neighborhoods are missing – a U.S. highway.
U.S. 51 offers barter drivers in Frayser quick admission to Interstate 40 and adjacent Interstate 55, which replaced Avenue 51 as the north-south avenue active up the country’s aback continued afterwards Curtis Jones wrote his atrocious tune.
"It's consistently added complicated to redevelop old land," Lockwood said. "The aforementioned is accurate of housing. It's why we do burghal drape so well. But in the continued run it's activity to be beneath big-ticket for Memphis to accompany aback these neighborhoods and advance in them. For a accomplished lot of reasons, I anticipate we accept no best but to go aback and accost that land."
Ted Evanoff, business editor of The Bartering Appeal, can be accomplished at evanoff@commercialappeal.comand (901) 529-2292.
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