New Downtown Memphis hotel planned by FedExForum: What we know about Blues Note Hotel project

Neil Strebig, Memphis Commercial Appeal

FedExForum might have some new neighbors soon.

On Thursday, development group Blues Note Hotel Development LLC submitted a planned development permit for a 15-story, 191-room hotel and mixed-use development with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development. The development, which is called Blues Note Hotel, is located at 0 Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. and 0 Fourth Street, according to the permit application.

Blues Note Development LLC purchased two parcels, totaling 2.2 acres, along Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue for $3 million in August 2022, according to the Shelby County Register of Deeds. The site development is the overflow parking lot, located catty-corneredfrom FedExForum and directly across from Robert R. Church Park.

Renderings for the Blues Note Hotel in Downtown Memphis. The mixed-use development campus will include 191-room hotel, 65-unit apartment building and a boutique hotel. The site is located along Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue.
Renderings for the Blues Note Hotel in Downtown Memphis. The mixed-use development campus will include 191-room hotel, 65-unit apartment building and a boutique hotel. The site is located along Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue.

In addition to the 191 hotel rooms, the development will include 65 apartments and 360 parking spaces. The proposed renderings of the development plan include three buildings: Blues Note Hotel, luxury condos and an unnamed boutique hotel for future construction. The 65-unit condominium and apartment will be nine stories. The hotel will include retail and restaurant amenities along with a guitar-shaped pool on its rooftop, according to the permit application.

Lakeland-based A2H Inc. is helping with architecture and design for the project. Javier Michael Bailey of Memphis-based Bailey Company Real Estate Services is a consultant in the Blues Note Hotel.

In 2021, Blues Note LLC, comprised of Nash Hassen, Bill McCrary, Reginald Fentress and Kennieth Richardson, proposed a 100-room hotel and 40-unit residential buildings along 463 N. Front St. in the Pinch District.

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Neil Strebig is a journalist with The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at neil.strebig@commercialappeal.com, 901-426-0679 or via X:@neilStrebig.

This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: New hotel planned in Downtown Memphis near FedExForum: What to know

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