Liberty Park Breaks Ground After 14 Years and Three Mayors
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Public Records & Notices Monitoring local real estate since 1968 View a complete day’s public records Subscribe Presented by and notices today for our at memphisdailynews.com. free report www.chandlerreports.com Wednesday, June 16, 2021 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 136 | No. 72 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ Vaccinated against COVID-19 but still sick JANE ROBERTS County. Based on the number of Health Department. “That means for Disease Control, COVID vac- hospitalized and improved. The Courtesy of The Daily Memphian people who have received two dos- there are 3%-5% of the population cine breakthrough is defined by rest got better on their own. State- In Tennessee, 940 people have es of vaccine, it means about .0002 that gets the COVID vaccine are detection of the virus 14 days or wide, 19 (2%) people have died in contracted COVID-19 after being of the population here has been not going to be immune.” more after full vaccination. breakthrough cases; 112 or 11% vaccinated, according to the lat- infected after being vaccinated. At 5% vulnerability, 14,640 Of the 73 infected in Shelby were hospitalized. Of the few peo- est Critical Indicators Report from “The vaccines are 95%-97% vaccinated people here may still County, one resident died of a ple Dr. Stephen Threlkeld has seen the state Department of Health. effective,” said David Sweat, dep- get the disease if they are ex- breakthrough case after being The number includes 73 in Shelby uty director of the Shelby County posed. According to the Centers hospitalized; 59 others here were VACCINATED CONTINUED ON P2 Fairgrounds footprint. The complex, to be com- pleted in October 2022, is the centerpiece of the Liberty Park breaks ground after $126 million conversion of the Fairgrounds into Liberty Park — a complex that will host public play as well as regional and national youth sports tournaments. Other parts of the plan include hotels on the Central Avenue frontage as part of private 14 years and three mayors development that will include parking, retail and other mixed use commercial development. Strickland said tournaments are already booked for the youth sports complex. Memphis Tourism CEO Kevin Kane said the tournaments are “big business.” “Over the past few weeks, we hosted basket- ball tournaments all around Shelby County,” Kane said. “And let me say ‘all around Shelby County’ because we did not have a sportsplex that we are building here that will be able to handle it all un- der one roof.” “This will be unlike anything else in the Mid-South,” Strickland said in the second major groundbreaking for his administration in less than a week. The first was last week’s groundbreaking for the new Leftwich Tennis Center in Audubon Park. The new name for the Fairgrounds is a reference to the Libertyland amusement park that once stood about where the complex will be built. Behind the tent where the dignitaries and con- tractors gathered, numerous trees that were the only reminder of the contours of the theme park paths had been upended and laid on their sides in the site preparation work that began last week. Other changes will include moving the Shelby County Schools football field and track bordering Central Avenue to nearby Tobey Park. So far, the plan includes no uses for the Mid- South Coliseum, which remains mothballed. “A Dignitaries break ground for Liberty Park youth sports complex Monday, June 14, on the southwest corner of the Fairgrounds lot of our greatest moments are on this footprint,” property. (Bill Dries/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Kane said of the Fairgrounds as a whole. Plans to change the Fairgrounds began during the admin- BILL DRIES and redefine the Fairgrounds. Mayor for the acreage. “This is the intersec- istration of Herenton with plans for a larger youth Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Jim Strickland recalled his first meet- tion of so many elements,” Strickland sports complex and more retail. After attempts across 14 years and ing as a city council member-elect in said just before the ceremonial shovels Herenton considered demolishing the Coli- three mayoral administrations, city 2007 was a meeting at the Children’s came out for the ground- breaking of seum and in its earliest stages building a new leaders broke ground Monday, June 14, Museum of Memphis on developing the 227,000-square-foot youth sports on the first part of a plan to overhaul plans by the Herenton administration complex in the southwest part of the LIBERTY PARK CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Public Records ���������������� 4 Public Notices ��������������� 11 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Marriage licenses are unavailable ©2020 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company while Shelby County Clerk’s Office Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 135th year information since 1968 reviews internal policies for its digital Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information platforms� Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Collierville adopts $90.3 million budget, sets property tax rate ABIGAIL WARREN at $1.55 — the certified rate after Courtesy of The Daily Memphian reappraisal — and factored in Collierville’s Board of May- an additional two cents for an- or and Aldermen unanimously ticipated appeals of the increase passed their 2021-22 budget Mon- property values from reappraisal. day, June 14, and approved an ac- They settled on $1.72 — an official companying $1.72 property tax 15-cent increase — with the ad- rate for the coming fiscal year. ditional revenue earmarked for The final review of $90.3 mil- some paving, but mostly for public lion plan marks the end of months safety costs. of discussions by the town officials As part of the increase, Col- who have met several times per lierville will bring its ambulance month since January to discuss service in-house and no longer de- needs in work sessions. The board pend on an outside source. Bring- approved the financial blueprint ing the ambulance service into with no discussion during the the town’s network also requires meeting Monday. The budget is hiring more personnel for the Col- one of the most important votes lierville Fire Department. the board makes annually, setting The budget also aims to make the town’s operations, but also ad- police and fire salaries more dressing needed improvements competitive with surrounding and enhancements. departments. “I don’t ever remember two budgets that were so hard,” said Collierville’s town adminstrator James Lewellen. (Houston Cofield/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) “I don’t ever remember two The police department will budgets that were so hard” due to also add three supervisor posi- unknowns with COVID-19, Town tions and the drug fund allows million in capital improvements preparations for its sixth fire sta- proposed until next year. As part Administrator James Lewellen Collierville Police to add a third with $1.9 million allocated for tion on Shelby Drive across from of the budget review process, the told the board ahead of the ap- K-9 officer. There will also be four projects on the north of Poplar Colliierville High to serve the mayor and aldermen also adopted proval. Regarding the $1.72 prop- new part-time police positions. and more than $3.1 million to south side of town. Funding for Collierville Schools’ $99 million erty tax rate, town leaders started The budget also includes $13.1 the south. The town will begin building the station will not be budget. VACCINATED CONTINUED FROM P1 “Part of the thinking is that they just may have been exposed to large amounts of breakthrough cases sick enough to be of virus (inoculum effect) and frequently hospitalized, nearly all had compromised large amounts of virus.” immune systems. On May 1, the CDC shifted from re- “We have had one or two people actu- cording all identified breakthrough cases ally not survive the infection, but that was to only those reported in hospitals or that with significant immune suppression. We caused death. don’t count on very good protection in those “This shift will help maximize the qual- situations, particularly in solid-organ trans- ity of the data collected on cases of greatest plant patients,” he said. clinical and public health importance,” it Threlkeld works in private practice in said in a statement. Memphis and sees patients from across As much as possible, the specimens the region. from these cases are being collected for “It’s pretty clear that if you have received genome sequencing to identify the variants an organ transplant that you need to be very that caused the infections. careful and essentially, practically consider Unless people get sick enough to be in yourself to be unprotected,” he said. the hospital, Threlkeld notes many break- But there are local cases of people with through cases will not be documented short seemingly healthy immune systems getting of a campaign to conduct large-scale anti- very ill with breakthrough cases, Threlkeld body tests on vaccinated people to see who said. has natural antibodies. These people may have been exposed to While he expects instances of serious Firefighter Philip Cole loads up a COVID-19 vaccine dose March 19, 2021. people who were unmasked and shedding breakthrough disease will continue to be (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) large amounts of virus. rare, and rarer still among people who do “We saw this a lot in New York where a not have compromised immune systems, didn’t get a large amount of virus exposing As of June 10, Shelby County had the lot of health care workers died because they he says the inoculum effect is real.