Author: Smart City Memphis

From Forbes magazine this week comes this report on the PILOT program that waives more than $50 million a year (city and county taxes combined; this article only addresses city tax freezes):States and cities lure businesses with...

Located as we are near the foot of Union Avenue, we have a front row seat as witnesses for the consternation and confusion felt by visitors when they wander down from the Peabody Hotel and nearby restaurants to experience the...

Memphis is # 345 on a list of world cities with the most people.Memphis is # 70 on a list of world cities with the largest land areas.Memphis is tied at # 638 on a list of world cities with the highest densities.A study of...

See if this sounds familiar:* New school construction is dramatically raising property taxes.* New schools are used to attract families with students to sprawling areas.* Building new facilities to combat overcrowding can...

From the CEOs For Cities blog:Paul Graham, essayist, programmer, and programming language designer, used his keynote address at Xtech to explain how to become Silicon Valley. You need two kinds of people to create a technology...

Sometimes life just feels too confusing.There they were tonight, to all the world the perfect married couple, longingly looking into each other’s eyes and professing their undying love to each other – Mary Kay Letourneau...

Ouch.It was beginning to feel like a really dull weekend, so I thought I’d check the AOL City Guide to see what exciting is going on in Memphis.The recommendation under Today’s Pick: the CMA Music Festival in...

It just seems strange to me.I’ve got friends who are obsessed about their children’s safety. They give their daughters warnings about strangers, about over-familiar friends and about the risk factors for every conceivable...

Chicago is a city that does so much right.And we’re not just talking about the remarkable phenomenon that is Millennium Park. More to the point, a recent visit to the Windy City reminded us of the impact of how important it is...

Sometimes it’s easy to feel sympathy for our elected officials who, spending their lives in the hothouse that is Memphis politics, try to do something to show action, and in the end, it does just the opposite.That’s what we...