This week, in our print product, Chris Davis reported on a recent Memphis Heritage meeting about plans for future development in Overton Square. (You can read that story here.)
The assembled crowd wasn’t too happy with the plan to demolish the buildings on the south side of Madison at Cooper. The plans for the property also include a new grocery store, but some community members are concerned no matter how well-intentioned the developers that a discount grocery store will open there.
Now SquareTalk.org is asking community members for input on what businesses “old or new” they’d like to see be part of the new Overton Square. The Memphis Regional Design Center will then forward those responses on to the developers.
So far, the sole response calls for a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe’s.
The developers plan to submit their plans to the Office of Planning and Development in early December.
You can also see the results of the regional design center’s earlier Overton Square survey here. A majority of the web respondents wanted to see a combination of preserving and demolishing the buildings on the south side of Madison. Almost 70 percent said they wanted to see a grocery store in the area.
