The following is an excerpt from our May issue:

By Michael Roy Hollihan

Memphis finds itself on the horns of a three-pronged dilemma. The Brooks Road Corridor, or as it’s often called, the Airport Area, has long been a hodgepodge. Light industrial businesses, corporate offices, both of which feeding off the Memphis International Airport and FedEx. Middle and lower class neighborhoods, long-term stable retirees and transient workers. Commercial stores, check-cashing places, nail salons, liquor stores, cheap hotels, and most notorious, strip clubs. The latter category has long-since created a culture of crime and vice that spills into the entire Airport Area, interfering with both commerce and business. It has been an uneasy mix filled with tension, dashed hopes, and unceasing optimism.

That may be about to change. (more…)

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