The AM/DM podcast: The future of Liberty Park
Overgrowth on the private development at the corner of Central Avenue and Early Maxwell Boulevard at Liberty Park on Monday, April 29, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The City of Memphis has spent $13.7 million over the past five years to bring a hotel, apartments and an entertainment venue to Liberty Park, as a way to spark economic development in the area.
But years into the project, the hotels and the apartments haven’t been built, the tax growth hasn’t come to fruition and the city has had to use other money to pay its debt on the project, for three consecutive years.
Today, Mary Cashiola, editorial director of The Daily Memphian, and enterprise reporter Sam Hardiman look at what’s going on with the property and why it’s so important to the city.
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AM/DM Liberty ParkMary Cashiola
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
Before joining The Daily Memphian, she was the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
She also has a background in advertising, with a focus on higher education and the hospitality industry.
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