Members of the CRA Board, March 1, 2018 (from left to right): Kevin Spragling, McKinley "Mack" Martin, Ann Langston, Dynisha Brown Woods, Sam Cantor, and R. Miles Mason, Sr.
     

Officers

Chairman: McKinley "Mack" Martin
Vice Chairman: R. Miles Mason, Sr.
Secretary: Ann Langston
Treasurer: Sam Cantor
 

Standing Committees

 Policies and Procedures Committee

 Ann Langston, Chair
 Sam Cantor  
 Kevin Spragling
 Britney Thornton
   
 

Finance Committee

 Sam Cantor, Chair Kandace Stewart
 R. Miles Mason, Sr.
 Kevin Spragling
 

 Personnel Committee

McKinley "Mack" Martin, Chair
Ann Langston
 Kandace Stewart
 Britney Thornton
  

Functions & Authority

The function of the joint Memphis and Shelby County Community Redevelopment Agency is to review applications for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts and expenditures of TIF funds. Click here to download the Board's Bylaws.
 
The Community Redevelopment Agency is guided by state legislation passed by the Tennessee General Assembly on April 29, 1998. A link to that act, the Community Redevelopment Act of 1998, may be found here. On October 28, 2013, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution that set a 15-year cap on any County Tax Increment Financing. That resolution may be viewed here.

Applications

All TIF District applications must be first approved by the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Board before they proceed to the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners for final approval. Only those TIF Districts that are included in the CRA Workable Program are eligible for TIF Districts (see link below). The CRA Board will analyze all TIF applications to ensure the proposed TIF District will create a tax increment. The tax increment is the difference in property taxes collected before the development and those collected after the development. This increment may fund certain public infrastructure and affordable housing development costs.
 
Click here to view the CRA TIF Manual with policies and applications for creating a new TIF district  

Contact CRA staff for an application for TIF funding for a project within an existing TIF district.

Click here to view the CRA Workable Program.
Click here to view the CRA Workable Program Maps.
Click here to view the 2007 Amendments to the Workable Program approved by the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners.
Click here to view the CRA Act, approved by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1998.

Approved TIF Districts

The Community Redevelopment Agency Board, Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners have approved three TIF districts in Shelby County: Uptown, Highland Row, and Binghampton.

Uptown Redevelopment Plan, 2001
Uptown TIF district boundaries (revised, January 2020).

Highland Row TIF district boundaries

Binghampton TIF district boundaries. 
   

Applications for the Uptown Single Family Rehab Program

 
Please e-mail Lisa Ivy or call our office for more information.

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For most recent agendas, minutes, or for additional information about the Community Redevelopment Agency, please contact us at (901) 435-6922 or visit www.CRAMemphis.org