A housing project proposed for the area off of Beale Street and FedExForum has triggered a debate by locals living in the existing development known as Foote Homes. While the plan called for tearing down the housing project and relocating the existing residents. Residents, however, aren’t so keen to leave. They have expressed a desire to stay put and simply update the existing housing.

This idea was met with disagreement from the city Housing and Community Development Division, who thinks the goal should be to get these residents out of the project mentality and relocate them to an area that may encourage them to seek out and utilize opportunity, rather than living their whole lives in the projects. The Memphis movers understand the complications here and hope that the proposal obtains the third party review it requires to being moving forward one way or another.