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<\/a>CCC president Jeff Sanford gives a presentation about New Main at Wang’s China Bistro. Wang’s was nice enough to host the event and provide a buffet for guests.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I also stopped in Main Street Dental, and they were super-friendly. They gave me a tour of the office… they use technology to make the experience as painless and as little like a dental office as possible. They told me that the dental chairs massage you as you sit in them, for example, and their X-rays are digital and emit only a quarter of the rays that a traditional dental X-ray would. By the time I got back to the front, it was pouring rain, and they gave me a plastic dental chair cover to use as a poncho. Nice people. Here’s a link to an MBJ article<\/a> about Main Street Dental.<\/p>\n Thanks to Jeff, Nicole and all the folks at the CCC, and the businesses on New Main, for a great tour.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every month, the Center City Commission’s “Inside Downtown” program hosts businesspeople, homeowners, and other people with a stake in Downtown Memphis, taking them on a tour of a notable building or area. This month’s meeting happened this past Thursday, May 3, and was a tour of the “New Main” block between Union and Gayoso. Once … Continue reading “Pics: Inside Downtown’s New Main tour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The audience listens to Jeff’s presentation at Wang’s before heading out on a self-guided tour of the block.<\/p>\n<\/a>I want to make special note of See Main Street, the optometry clinic located on the New Main block. I don’t wear glasses or contacts myself, but several of my friends have gone there and have heaped praise upon the place – they’ve even told me, “Paul, you need to mention it in your blog.” So I went in and talked to them – they told me their 3 doctors see patients Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and do glasses and contact fittings Tuesday and Thursday. You can check out their website<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n<\/a>This is a pic of one of the units at the One One O’Six Lofts, a condo development across the street from See Main Street. The first units have just recently been completed and the first tenants have moved in.<\/p>\n<\/a>Another pic of the One One O’Six unit. There are 18 units in the building and some are still available; here’s a flyer<\/a> with more information.<\/p>\n