Edge District restaurants get funding
Edge District restaurants Bar Limina and Gussied Up received $44,650 in improvement grants Thursday, May 22, from the Downtown Memphis Commission Center City Development Corp.
The CCDC awarded Gussied Up, a dive bar from the owners of Hard Times Deli, a $30,000 Retail Tenant Improvement Grant to renovate the vacant 1,100-square-foot space at 655 Marshall Ave.
Gussied Up, co-owned by chefs Harrison Downing, Cole Jeanes and Schuyler O’Brien, will begin a $183,500 construction project in June to open for business in the fall.
“To us, this will build that final piece of what we’re trying to put together there,” O’Brien said. “We think it complements everything else and grows that area. … I think this is going to be beneficial for everybody.”
The restaurant is on the south side of the Hard Times Deli between Monroe and Union avenues and will create 15 jobs.
The DMC grant will go toward developments for the flooring, ceiling, interior walls, casework, millwork and mechanical, plumbing and electrical upgrades.