Moving to Windyke/Southwind (Memphis, Germantown: apartment complex, crime, hotel)

[Impatient1]

I recently purchased a house in the Windyke/Southwind area. Does anyone have any info on the neighborhoods at Hacks and Shelby? (Buckingham Farms and Mid-Summer Commons)? Please and Thank you for your opinions.

[Pearlbob]

I don't know the answer to this, other than Shelby Dr is bad when you go west into town. I don't even know what it looks like at Hacks Cross.

However, my question for others is: what does "Southwind" even mean anymore??? I have always thought of Southwind as being the specific gated area, where the CEO's, the NBA players, etc etc live out by Fed Ex. Does "Southwind" now apply to that whole entire area down there, not just that gated community?

[chuck1229]

Originally Posted by Pearlbob

I don't know the answer to this, other than Shelby Dr is bad when you go west into town. I don't even know what it looks like at Hacks Cross.

However, my question for others is: what does "Southwind" even mean anymore??? I have always thought of Southwind as being the specific gated area, where the CEO's, the NBA players, etc etc live out by Fed Ex. Does "Southwind" now apply to that whole entire area down there, not just that gated community?

Sorry but Southwind now means the area of Hacks Cross Roads down to and past the new Southwind High School on Shelby Drive. Hacks Cross at I385 is some businesses, fast food, an apartment complex, a middle school off to the west a bit. As you proceed down Hacks Cross, you pass a church and some open land, then the school on the right, and a gas station. Then it goes to some open land again. Have to believe that with the school opening and getting more kids over the next two years, that part of the county will get really developed.

[chuck1229]

Here are a few pics that may help.

This is the northern beginning of the Southwind area, the intersection of I385 and Hacks Cross Roads. Hotel, some fast food, new developments, and the middle school is just out of the pic on the bottom right. There is an apartment complex out of the pic to the immediate left of the photo.



This is the west edge of the Hickory Hill area, the intersection of I385 and Winchester/Riverdale. All the businesses on Northeast corner of Winchester and Riverdale(middle left of photo) have closed, Kroger gone, Sports Authority gone, Best Buy gone, part of the rapid departure of businesses on Winchester since the city of Memphis took that area over.

[SMitch]

I've been down there several times. It looks like a really nice area. Nice new homes, very clean, very middle and upper middle class-looking But for some reason I keep hearing about it on the news and how there's a lot of crime down there.

[Pearlbob]

There is a lot of crime in SE Memphis, and the southern part of Germantown (and thus this Southwind area) is in SE Memphis, just more east of it. So, there would be spill-over crime from SE MEmphis (the Hickory Hill area) into this area I assume.

You have to figure, when you have a really bad part of town, like in Hickory Hill, an area that has gone downhill immensely lately...right next to a part of town that has rich people in it...the criminals in the bad part can easily go over a mile or two to rob the rich people. Especially if it's a "newer" area.