Author: Smart City Memphis

Paul Krutko is our kind of economic development director.A cornerstone of his program to sell San Jose: cultural development.In fact, his hometown in the heart of Silicon Valley is so serious about the connection between culture...

It’s our prediction that Memphis Area Transit Authority can give away rides on excessive ozone pollution days – rather than the 25 cents special fares it’s proposing – and it’s still not going to lure anyone aboard our city...

Stories of cities and the changes they endure over time always have something to teach us. Our guests this week are at the forefront of change in two American cities in two great neighborhoods.Bob Eury has for 23 years served as...

We understand Shelby County Government’s dire need for additional revenue to close a $16 million funding gap, but a fire sale of its interests in local sports facilities – The Pyramid, Mid-South Coliseum and Liberty Bowl –...

The decision by the University of Memphis to oppose plans for an on-campus stadium felt suspiciously like a well-scripted three-act play.In the end, the script called for the athletic committee of the Board of Visitors to weigh...

We’re pleased that Memphis City Schools has finally done what makes sense in finding a new superintendent. It began a national search.It didn’t come without missteps and personal agendas, but at least it’s finally come. Of...

It didn’t get any headlines, but it was news nonetheless.In a presentation to 500 people at Leadership Memphis’ annual community breakfast, Portland economist Joe Cortright said that our city gets a $3 billion bonus if it can...

A recent Kentucky news article caught our eye because of Memphis and Shelby County Governments’ questionable decisions to fund the chronically financially ailing Lemoyne-Owen College.In a lawsuit in our neighbor to the north, a...

Every city seems to have at least some ambition linked to creativity. It may be expressed as the creative class, innovation, the creative industries or the creative city. Colin Jackson who runs Epcor Centre for the Performing...

While Memphis has never been categorized as an older industrial city, we’ve always thought that it had similarities – challenges, grittiness and demographics – that give us more in common with these cities than Sunbelt cities.We...