Tag: Beale St.

  • Convention Center Facelift

    Convention Center Facelift

    Last week Memphis announced a major renovation to the Cook Convention Center. The investment is welcome, but is it enough to revive the convention business?

  • Thinking about convention centers

    Twice now, in the past two weeks, Memphis City Councilman Harold Collins has publicly voiced his support for at least thinking about a new convention center here and yesterday, here. Earlier this month, Kevin Kane of the Memphis CVB told the City Council that the Cook was functionally obsolete, something I could have told you…