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Nonprofit CoreFire pitches buying Commercial Appeal building to train up to 10,000 youth weekly
Summary
Ty Cobb told the Public Service, Arts and Youth Initiative Committee he wants to raise $1.1 million by Jan. 27 to buy the Commercial Appeal building for a self‑sustaining youth training enterprise called CoreFire High School interns; supporters pledged $250,000 and asked councilmembers to help connect donors.
Ty Cobb, president of the Have A Standard Foundation and founder of a youth program named CoreFire, asked the Memphis City Council’s Public Service, Arts and Youth Initiative Committee on Jan. 7 for help rallying private funding to buy the Commercial Appeal building at a planned January auction.
Cobb told the committee he and supporters seek $1,100,000 to secure the downtown building and convert it into a year‑round training campus that combines paid high‑school internships, live shows, escape‑room experiences, and vocational training. He told the committee: “If we're able to purchase this building at the auction on January 27th … we can create momentum that will become the most effective way…
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