Jim Strickland

Jim Strickland was sworn in as mayor of Memphis for a second term on January 1, 2020, with a continued pledge to reinvest in our neighborhoods, our citizens, and to keep growing our economy.

In partnership with the hard work of City employees, 911 call answer times have been drastically reduced; the percentage of city spending with minority and women-owned businesses has dramatically increased; and major development has occurred such as the retention of ServiceMaster, St. Jude expansion, IndigoAg, the Union Row development, Amazon, a $200 million Renasant Convention Center renovation, Loew’s Hotel, and FedEx Logistics moving downtown— speak to the momentum of some $19 billion in recent, current or future development in the region.

Mayor Strickland’s vision is to reverse population loss through a strategy that reinvests in Memphis’ core and its neighborhoods — changing a long-held view that Memphis should grow outward. The mayor said his administration will focus on “building up, not building out,”, and through the implementation of the city’s first long-range plan in nearly 40 years—Memphis 3.0—we’re doing just that.