There are 5 article(s) tagged Innovation Corridor:

• April 2026

  • $13 million MATA bridge loan tops City Council agenda

    The Memphis City Council also looks at moving $6 million from riverfront projects to improvements around the future Memphis Art Museum.

    By Bill Dries April 13, 2026

• January 2024

  • Gary Rosenfeld retires as MATA CEO

    Rosenfeld’s retirement is effective immediately, with the MATA board announcing deputy CEO Bacarra Mauldin starts as interim CEO Thursday, Feb. 1. Rosenfeld has led the city’s bus system since January 2017.

    By Bill Dries January 31, 2024

• August 2022

  • MATA secures $76.3M in federal funding for long-planned public transit upgrades

    When U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen hosts the Federal Transit administrator Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s maintenance shop and head office in North Memphis, the good and the bad will be on display.

    By Bill Dries August 24, 2022

• March 2022

  • White House budget proposal includes funding for Memphis’ first rapid transit

    On The Daily Memphian’s On The Record podcast, Rep. Steve Cohen talks about the proposed system, in which buses would have their own lanes and would be timed to hit green lights. 

    By Bill Dries March 31, 2022

• November 2019

  • MATA begins long push for public buy-in of ‘innovation corridor’

    A public comment session Monday at the Central Library drew several dozen people and plenty of reminders of the city's long-running debate about the bus system run by the Memphis Area Transit Authority. The corridor has almost all of the $74 million to build the Union and Poplar corridor that would start operations in 2024.

    By Bill Dries November 19, 2019