A new food market is planned for two buildings Downtown, and the team behind it hopes to give the area around it a new name.
The Memphis Public Market is planned for the northwest corner of Madison and B.B. King. The two now-vacant buildings are Leader Federal Building at 158 Madison and the adjacent Hill Building at 164 Madison.
Transactions for both were recently completed by a new nonprofit organization, HiFi Memphis, a group established by the development team behind the restoration of the historic Sterick Building…