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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, January 6, 2021 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 136 | No. 3 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ Adams resigns judge post; will run for Olive Branch mayor TONI LEPESKA winning seven four-year terms mayoral primary is set for April reelection. No other names have mayor following that election, Courtesy of The Daily Memphian in District 1. The Republican 6. The general election will be emerged as running for the City after he learned Phillips would DeSoto County Justice Court submitted his resignation at the June 8. Supervisors are expected Hall job, however, Monday is only not be seeking a third term. Judge Ken Adams resigned his DeSoto County Board of Supervi- to appoint an interim judge to fill the first filing day for municipal Adams believes his lengthy position Monday morning and sors meeting in Hernando. Adams’ vacancy. offices. experience in the corporate announced he will run for may- He made his formal an- Scott Phillips, in his second Adams won his latest judicial world has prepared him for or of Olive Branch. Adams, 60, nouncement to seek the may- term as mayor of Olive Branch, term last year. He said Monday spent 25 years on the bench after or’s post a short time later. The announced he will not seek that he only decided to run for ADAMS CONTINUED ON P2 Holdings, last summer demolished the club build- ings to leave a blank canvas for development. Carlisle envisions a defining development A previous potential buyer had planned a high- end hotel and apartments before those plans fell through. But Carlisle said until he hears from com- munity stakeholders he is uncommitted to any spe- for East Memphis, if stakeholders want that cific uses, be they multifamily, retail, office, enter- tainment or whatever. However, the same developer who is building Downtown’s landmark One Beale — three hotels including a 20-plus story Grand Hyatt, 232 apartments, parking structure and a half-dozen or so restaurants – expressed a strong willingness to create a destination development for East Memphis. If that’s what stakeholders want. Unlike Midtown, East Memphis lacks a sense of identity, a sense of place, he said. With all the com- munity input to gather and master-planning to do, Carlisle estimated at least six months will pass be- fore he has any plans to present to the public. As first reported Monday by the Memphis Business Journal, RCM Devco LLC bought the site Dec. 31. The East Memphis private club closed in spring 2019, two years after losing its national professional tennis tournament. Initially, Nashville-based Chart- well Hospitality and Memphis-based M&M Enter- prises planned to co-develop the site for an upscale hotel and apartments. But those plans fell through, and the club ownership group, Golden Set Holdings, began marketing the property. There’s at least one common denominator between Carlisle and the East Memphis property. In November, Carlisle announced that M&M Enterprises’ owner, James Maclin, had become his co-developer in the demolition and redevelopment of Downtown’s 7 Vance, or the historic Nylon Net Building. That plan involves building 210 apartment units near the river bluff. Value Acquisition Fund had been advising Gold- The view from the sky during demolition of the former Racquet Club property (shown here in August 2020) in East Memphis. en Set Holdings since the tennis tournament left (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Memphis and the club prepared to close. Andy Cates is managing partner of Value Ac- TOM BAILEY creates a greater sense of place for East officials to learn what the community quisition Fund and is president and chairman Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Memphis. wants the 9.3 acres to become, Carlisle of the board of Memphis Fourth Estate, the non- If the community stakeholders want But leading the developer’s to-do said on Monday, Jan. 4. profit which owns and operates The Daily Mem- it, Chance Carlisle may strive to trans- list is hiring a master-planning firm Carlisle’s RCM Devco LLC last week phian. Also, Maclin is a board member of Memphis form the old Racquet Club property into and holding sessions with surrounding bought the site at 5111 Sanderlin for a development so consequential that it property owners, businesses and city $7,738,263. 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Construction of the 14,500 square-foot Group Architects designed the soccer athletes are seeing the ben- facility will begin in early 2021. (Renaissance Group Architects) facility, which will measure close efits as well,” Mayo said. to 14,500 square feet and attach to Mills sees minimal prelimi- MICHAEL WADDELL produced multiple state medalists walls of the new facility. “For us, the existing school. In addition to nary site work necessary to get Courtesy of The Daily Memphian including two state champions a big hurdle is keeping the kids seating for 300, the addition will construction underway. Following success in recent and a state runner-up. Wrestling, in our area, so they don’t go to a have a gymnasium, locker rooms, “It’s nothing like what the years on the state, regional and in terms of district, regional and variety of other private schools,” coach’s offices, weight rooms and school’s new indoor training fa- local levels, Arlington High’s wres- state championships/titles, is the said Simpson. “In a lot of cases, lobby area. cility required, where we had to tling squads will be rewarded next top-performing sport at AHS, but that comes down to facilities.” Ar- A new parking lot will add 127 install 11-foot-tall concrete stem fall with a new home facility. wrestling matches have been rel- lington also has a youth wrestling spaces on the southwest side of walls and 27,000 yards of dirt to Construction will begin on egated to a small gym in the back program for K-8 students, who will the school. fill that in,” he said. the $3.9 million building early of the high school. “We’re moving also use the new facility. The project also includes a Arlington High’s new $4 mil- next year. into that echelon of the schools “Coach Simpson, his staff and new 1,150-square-foot soccer con- lion indoor athletic training fa- “I really think it’s going to turn that are willing to provide not our athletes have built a wrestling cessions and restroom facility on cility (also built by Chris Woods) a lot of heads when it gets built,” only athletic opportunities for program that’s been recognized the west side of the soccer field, that opened in October and the Jonathan Simpson, Arlington’s our students but are also giving statewide for its achievements,” replacing an existing small ticket planned wrestling facility are part head wrestling coach, said. “For our sports programs the facilities Jeff Mayo, Arlington Community booth/concession stand. of the district’s five-year capital the school, it’s going to be on par to provide excellence for those Schools superintendent, said. “After our initial planning, we improvement blueprint. with the exceptional facilities student-athletes,” said Simpson. “This new facility will give our learned through the architect that Chris Woods is currently that they’ve been building, and I “Since I’ve been at Arlington, athletes even more opportunities we could do a suite of projects at building a similar wrestling fa- personally believe it’s going to be we have not had our own place to to host local and statewide com- a cheaper cost, so that’s why we cility as part of the new Lakeland the top-of-the-line facility in West work out. Now, we’ll have an ex- petitions, a chance to build their expanded it to include these other Preparatory high school wing, Tennessee.” tremely nice facility to call home skills to remain competitive for items as well,” Mayo said. which should open by the fall of His Arlington squads have where we can continue to build potential scholarships and help ACS wants to make sure the 2022.