The Kroc Center: Shining a Light on the Best of Memphis
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It can happen today, if we all come together.
So promises a recent ad for the Salvation Army’s Kroc Center, a place “where everyone in our community can come to learn, share, play, and grow together. This is a place where relationships will be built, boundaries will be broken, and lives will be changed for the better.”
Two of the best features on the Kroc Center have been published in the The Memphis News. Eric Smith writes about the Center’s strength as a gathering place for diverse groups and neighborhoods. Publisher Eric Barnes discusses the Center as an exemplar of what is so uniquely wonderful about Memphis:
And so places like the Kroc Center, the kind of effort and commitment that so many people are putting behind it, that, to me, is what defines Memphis. Places like the redeveloped public housing projects in Uptown and Midtown, developments that could well be national models for how to deal with the public housing that blights all cities. Programs like The Great Outdoors University, which is sponsored by The Daily News, and which gets inner-city kids out of the projects and into the woods to fish, hike and simply be outdoors.
Places like St. Jude. Companies like FedEx. Events like Memphis in May…
These are great places. Great changes. Great things that go on, every day, in Memphis. These things get done because, fundamentally, there are so many people here who care.
We encourage you to read each of these articles in their entirely, and to visit the Kroc Center’s website where you can take a virtual tour and learn how to get involved with this remarkable project. We look forward to posting progress as the Kroc Center comes to life!
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