Harbor Town

When I grew up in Memphis, the island inlets in Mississippi River where the Wolf River converged with the Mississippi River were just barren pieces of land. Nothing much to look at.

But this week I ventured out to Harbor Town. Wow!!!! Much of what has been done at Harbor Town can be credited to legendary Memphis developer Henry Turley! I remember Henry Turley from my teenage years. He has always been a huge promoter of the downtown Memphis area. When everyone else was running as hard as they could from downtown in the 70s, there was Henry Turley steadily working on the downtown area.

I lived in an apartment building downtown in the early 1980s. So much promise but so little done.

Why had there been so little done? Politics. Money is in East Memphis and businesses, like the former Union Planters National Bank, abandoned downtown Memphis and ran as hard as they could to East Memphis. Companies moving to Memphis chose to come to East Memphis rather than Downtown.

But we are seeing a renaissance of Downtown and I'm glad to see it. Well now I'm working in a downtown real estate office ... I'm loving it!

Come check out downtown Memphis, it is more than a place to party but to live!