Memphis Teacher Residency Building Tennessee, United States Faith-based Organization
Memphis Teacher Residency Building in Tennessee
Key American Architectural Development – design by archmania architects
Aug 14, 2018
Memphis Teacher Residency Building, Tennessee
Memphis Teacher Residency Tennessee Building
Design: archmania, architects
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis Teacher Residency, a faith-based, non-profit organization required a new space for recruitment, training, and supporting teachers through an urban teacher residency graduate program.

As the context for their new home, the organization decided on a large and recently renovated Sears distribution center that sat empty and decaying for 17 years. MTR was one of eight founding tenants in arts, education, and healthcare involved in realizing the newly transformed, one million square foot ?urban village?, Crosstown Concourse. Crosstown Concourse contains all the essentials for a thriving community. MTR became the first tenants to move into the facility?a unique space distinctly suitable to serve its operation and mission.

The visionary organization understood the value of investing in a project that has, as imagined, had a dramatic impact on transforming the Crosstown neighborhood, one of the most ethnically diverse and economically challenged in Memphis. Students reside in the apartments located within the same building, which also features a YMCA, hospital, high-school, grocery store, retail, and re...