Craft Food and Wine Festival, Twenty One Pilots, Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony and More Reasons to LOVE Downtown This Week!

This Week in Downtown Memphis

Mark your calendar for next week! Join the Downtown Memphis Commission on June 26 at Comeback Coffee from 5:00-7:00 pm to get a sneak peek at potential parking strategies and recommendations being developed through the Downtown Memphis Parking Study. Chat with the project team and share your feedback on how we should prioritize implementation and improve your Downtown parking experience! For more information, click here. Check out our full list of events below!

Wednesday–June 26

Parking Study Open House
Comeback Coffee
5-7 PM

Saturday–June 22

Sunset Skate Night
Tom Lee Park

7:30-9 PM

Sunday–June 23

Craft Food and Wine Festival

The Columns
8 PM

Friday–June 21
New Ballet's Summerdance
Halloran Centre
7 PM

Wednesday–June 26
Twenty One Pilots Concert

FedEx Forum
7 PM

Sunday–June 23

Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

Art Village Gallery
1:30 PM

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Incentives requested for McEwen's expansion, new South Main dog park

McEwen’s partners John and Adrienne Littlefield and Bert and Shantih Smythe are planning to transform the four attached historic buildings at 118-124 Monroe Ave. into “124 Newsroom.”

The ground-floor restaurant will be renovated to include a new kitchen and an additional dining room space in the westernmost bay. Read more>>

Craft Food and Wine Festival to showcase food artisans and chefs; here's what to expect

This new Memphis food festival celebrates local food artisans and their delicious creations. More than 40 vendors that include chefs and specialty foods companies will gather for an afternoon of tastings at The Columns at One Commerce Square in Downtown Memphis. Read more>>

Exclusive: See the first renderings of proposed Uptown Snuff District

“The core of Downtown is booming with development,” Orgel said in a June 6 interview. “South Main is booming with development. Everything from population to the amount of restaurants, amount of retail, to the new office tenants we have coming Downtown. The real estate prices are rising. We need to complete the full Downtown on the north side. … The Uptown area is ripe for development — and good development, mixed-use [that is] good for everybody.” Read more>>

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Downtown by the Numbers!

Downtown is for everyone!
40% of Downtown residents are millennials!

Downtown job density.
With 35 jobs per acre, Downtown has the highest job density in the region.