The facts: According to the Shelby County Board of Education website, Made in Memphis, LLC c/o Elvis Presley Enterprises, paid $200,000.00 for the 10.2 acre former site of Graves Elementary School, 3398 Graves Road, on December 3, 2019, for the purpose of creating "a light manufacturing facility for apparel, jewelry, home decor, and collectibles. They plan to train students in manufacturing and provide jobs." I say NO! My community is zoned single-family residential and no homeowner should have to open their door to semi-tractor trailers nor a light, medium, or heavy manufacturing facility. Why not put this and Waste Connections, LLC of TN in Chickasaw Gardens, Cordova, Bartlett, or Germantown? Jobs in Whitehaven, sure, but not at the expense of the replacing the serenity and comfort of our homes with a center focal point of a vocational training school bringing increased foot, bus, and large-vehicles traffic. We encourage you to tell Joel Weinshanker to put it in front of his front door or better yet, join our petition against this development in ours. What we need is not a light manufacturing facility in the middle of our beautiful neighborhood. What we need is a real community center. A center that will cater to everyone from the infant, through the teen, to include activities for our adult population and our seasoned citizens. What we desire is to provide reasonably-priced healthy food choices, free meals for the homeless, training and "enterpreneurshop" activities, safe and affordable housing for aging vets and their family members, 24-hour high-quality family and youth care, community meeting rooms, entertainment and recreation space for all ages, and similar programs that bring value to communities; not strategies that just make the rich, richer. Thank you.
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We say no more. Stop putting environmentally-unfriendly businesses in black residential areas.
I Don't want A New Building in This Neighborhood
Not our residential areas
This community needs a family friendly project, such as a community center so the youth in the area can have a safe place to learn life skills, improve reading skills, learn how to swim, and just play to stay healthy. This manufacturing plant will lower the residents property value of their homes, increase traffic, noise, dust debris in this residential community. I am in Whitehaven Hills and the city let Amazon slip in on us. It has been a nightmare for the residents in our community. Heavy traffic, can't get in/out of neighborhood on to Holmes Road due to the increase in traffic flow. Noise, dust, debris, potholes all over this old outdated 2-lane road. The City of Memphis was to have expanded in 2004 but got put on the back burner and is still burning in 2019! Please do not listen to the city officials when they say let compromise to get this project completed because they will agree to get residents to say "yes" and they will forget you in a heartbeat! Whitehaven Hills East is still waiting for our promises from the AMAZON PROJECT -2 YEARS AGO! Councilman Patrice Robinson seemed to have had a sudden loss of memory when the community confronted her for answers. She says, I don't remember and we didn't take any minutes of the meeting so I don't know what was agreed upon!!! District 3 has 4 more years with her and I sure hope she stop lying to her constigients. Keep me posted with any updates. Happy Holidays!
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The facts: According to the Shelby County Board of Education website, Made in Memphis, LLC c/o Elvis Presley Enterprises, paid $200,000.00 for the 10.2 acre former site of Graves Elementary School, 3398 Graves Road, on December 3, 2019, for the purpose of creating "a light manufacturing facility for apparel, jewelry, home decor, and collectibles. They plan to train students in manufacturing and provide jobs." I say NO! My community is zoned single-family residential and no homeowner should have to open their door to semi-tractor trailers nor a light, medium, or heavy manufacturing facility. Why not put this and Waste Connections, LLC of TN in Chickasaw Gardens, Cordova, Bartlett, or Germantown? Jobs in Whitehaven, sure, but not at the expense of the replacing the serenity and comfort of our homes with a center focal point of a vocational training school bringing increased foot, bus, and large-vehicles traffic. We encourage you to tell Joel Weinshanker to put it in front of his front door or better yet, join our petition against this development in ours. What we need is not a light manufacturing facility in the middle of our beautiful neighborhood. What we need is a real community center. A center that will cater to everyone from the infant, through the teen, to include activities for our adult population and our seasoned citizens. What we desire is to provide reasonably-priced healthy food choices, free meals for the homeless, training and "enterpreneurshop" activities, safe and affordable housing for aging vets and their family members, 24-hour high-quality family and youth care, community meeting rooms, entertainment and recreation space for all ages, and similar programs that bring value to communities; not strategies that just make the rich, richer. Thank you.
Don't believe it can be done? It can and we already have the perfect plan to make it happen...
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Gentrification is their GOAL! Continually making dis-investments in African American's community and neglecting their concerns and desires are a nucleus for BLACK EXODUS! Stop the BLACK GENOCIDE in the City of Memphis... NO JUSTICE...NO PEACE! Only the entities that Shelby County and the City of Memphis have selected to receive the abundance of local, state and federal funding have ascertained the money. WAKE UP MEMPHIS...
We say no more. Stop putting environmentally-unfriendly businesses in black residential areas.
I Don't want A New Building in This Neighborhood
Not our residential areas
This community needs a family friendly project, such as a community center so the youth in the area can have a safe place to learn life skills, improve reading skills, learn how to swim, and just play to stay healthy. This manufacturing plant will lower the residents property value of their homes, increase traffic, noise, dust debris in this residential community. I am in Whitehaven Hills and the city let Amazon slip in on us. It has been a nightmare for the residents in our community. Heavy traffic, can't get in/out of neighborhood on to Holmes Road due to the increase in traffic flow. Noise, dust, debris, potholes all over this old outdated 2-lane road. The City of Memphis was to have expanded in 2004 but got put on the back burner and is still burning in 2019! Please do not listen to the city officials when they say let compromise to get this project completed because they will agree to get residents to say "yes" and they will forget you in a heartbeat! Whitehaven Hills East is still waiting for our promises from the AMAZON PROJECT -2 YEARS AGO! Councilman Patrice Robinson seemed to have had a sudden loss of memory when the community confronted her for answers. She says, I don't remember and we didn't take any minutes of the meeting so I don't know what was agreed upon!!! District 3 has 4 more years with her and I sure hope she stop lying to her constigients. Keep me posted with any updates. Happy Holidays!
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Gentrification is their GOAL! Continually making dis-investments in African American's community and neglecting their concerns and desires are a nucleus for BLACK EXODUS! Stop the BLACK GENOCIDE in the City of Memphis... NO JUSTICE...NO PEACE! Only the entities that Shelby County and the City of Memphis have selected to receive the abundance of local, state and federal funding have ascertained the money. WAKE UP MEMPHIS...