Ok, we've had the Pyramid(soon to be like the Coliseum), Mid-South Coliseum(tumbleweeds, eye sore), Libertyland, Adventure River, Celebration Station(eye sore), Al's Golfhaven, and the Mall of Memphis(demolished) all to only shut down and close. This is getting ridiculous!!!!!!!! our kids have no real place to play or hang out, we're a basketball city but dont see any basketball courts in the parks, no theme parks, or water parks, but we're shocked that kids committing crimes and obese. ReallY???? ............an idle mind is the devil's playground
The way they have things setup kids are doomed...when I was coming up..we had Liberty land(eye sore), Mud Island(no promotion)...Adventure River(furniture place now)....Club X???(exactly).....................Hell i even had the neighborhood Community Centers to go to and had fun. WTH is going on?!?!?!? We have nothing to do but be goons and commit crimes...sad. hell you wouldnt have to worry to much about the MPD if you gave kids something to do, even if education was what its suppose to be and kids were in their books, hell they'd STILL need SOMETHING to do for fun to reward themselves, to socialize. if YOU'RE bored your mind wonders, im just saying
the city turned down the idea to turn the Pyramid and the area around it into a theme park, to wait on Bass Pro shop who signed and intent to move in 4YEARS AGO!!! and yet its 20 dayum 10 and still its unoccupied!!!!!!!!!!!! Memphis doesnt like making money APPARENTLY. I think the city needs fresh eyes, someone who isnt afraid of new and fresh ideas, someone thats NOT from Memphis. The reason why i say that is because maybe he/she wont have the Memphis mentality.................which is that Memphis is a bandwagon city, whoever or whatever is hot at the moment Memphis is on it.
A city of Cowboy and Steeler fans, Laker, Cleveland and Celtic fans, altho we have teams that we can support and claim our own(Titans, Grizzles). People come to Memphis and take our ideas and take it back to their cities and its booming and now their famous, (ie. gangsta walking, crunk music except we called it buck or getting buck) We have ppl that have to leave the city 1st in order to become famous, look at Jazzy Pha. People heard his name but he didnt become "famous" until he LEFT Memphis, i can go on and on and name people and things but you should get my drift.
We need to quit just walking around watching NOTHING happen, as if there is nothing going. and what's going on is that Memphis is becoming stagnant while other cities pass us by. if that is cool with you then you have that Memphis mentality that i am referring too, and your probably at a job for 15 years working the same position w/o trying for advancement. not saying there is anything wrong with that cause that is stability but my point is AT LEAST gun for the advancement dont just be comfortable.................and that is what our city is COMFORTABLE and we arent in a position to be comfortable. There are too many negative things going on for the city to just be comfortable and not going thru extreme measure to change it. And it actually starts by the people in the city voicing themselves, cause if the city DONT speak then the officials dont think there is a issue or problem going on, EXCEPT for crime that they cant overlook.
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I agree 100% plus some. In my opinion, the issue is lack of accountability. We have so many broken "systems" here and no true leadership. We don't need a person to be in office for publicity but a true, honest, go-getter leader. Maybe if we define leadership and put that individual in office, that may be a start.
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