Make Me a Memphian: Where to live
In today’s installment of Make Me a Memphian, we take on what could be the most important question of all: Where should you live?
Tom Bailey
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Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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August 2023
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January 2022
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Real EstateTouring 100 N. Main: Shattered glass, shell casings, law books and spectacular views
The Downtown Memphis Commission anticipates issuing in about two weeks a request for proposals to potential developers of the 100 North Main Building and the entire block it towers above.
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Real EstateArt of the deal: Buyer deftly times purchase of 47 acres
“It’s amazing that almost every commercial real estate developer has driven by this site for years, but nobody looked underneath the hood,” broker Barry Maynard said.
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Ford MegasiteFord Megasite: United Auto Workers may have edge in organizing Blue Oval City
What’s the difference between “card check” and a secret-ballot vote? Perhaps the unionization of the mammoth Blue Oval City that Ford Motor Co. plans to build just east of Memphis.
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Real EstateEdge District’s revival inches onto Union Avenue
The old Coleman Taylor Transmission shop on Union is leaving the Edge District. Its departure frees more room for new apartments that would be called The Rise on The Ravine.
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Ford MegasiteFord Megasite: Blue Oval City turns Haywood property red hot
Ford’s plans for a $5.6 billion auto plant campus with 6,000 workers has turned the spotlight on Haywood County property owners.
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December 2021
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Business Five Memphis firms win statewide architectural awards
Memphis architectural firms received more than a third of the statewide design awards announced by the Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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Real EstateWhitehead: Suburban housing still reigns, but wave of mixed-use projects offers variety
Arguably, planning expert Josh Whitehead knows more than anyone about trends in Memphis development. He answered a few questions before leaving City Hall to join a law firm.
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Arts & Culture Historic Mallory-Neely House to reopen for tours
In addition to tours, the Museum of Science and History plans to rotate exhibits monthly in the 169-year-old home and host a special event on March 5 with a Roaring 20s theme.
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BusinessNew owners renaming Stonebridge as ‘Lakeland Golf & Paddle Club’
Stonebridge Golf Course sold only about 20,000 rounds of golf this year. That creates an opportunity to improve the golfing experience and grow the business, the new owners say.
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Business Proposed new Terminix owner commits to ‘substantial’ Memphis presence
The proposed new majority owner of the merged companies, Rentokil, “supports us and our team and leadership,” a Teminix spokesman says.
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Real EstateWith enrollment falling, SWTCC drops Downtown expansion
Southwest Tennessee Community College is focusing on rebuilding its enrollment after a 24% drop during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Real Estate Stonebridge Golf Course in Lakeland sold
Businessman Mark Lovell has sold the privately owned but publicly accessible Stonebridge Golf Course.
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Financial Services First Horizon continues closing or rebranding Iberiabank branches
By late February, First Horizon will have closed six Memphis-area IberiaBank branches and rebranded another. One of the closed properties, near Saddle Creek in Germantown, just sold for $3.75 million.
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Real EstateTownsend buys sixth property on Summer Avenue’s west end
William “Bill” Townsend continues acquiring commercial properties on the west end of Summer, and he’s forming a plan.
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Business Memphis Bar Association gavel passes from one pioneer to another
Tannera Gibson becomes the Memphis Bar Association’s first Black female president. She succeeds Peter Gee, the organization’s first Asian American president.
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November 2021
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Public Safety Hit & ruin: Vandalism destroys art honoring dead pedestrians, cyclists
The 69 symbolic figures represented the record number of walkers and bikers who were killed on Memphis streets last year.
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Business Memphis ranks 2nd in nation for low-cost utilities
A firm that simplifies bill-paying for households around the country reports that Memphis is second only to Austin, Texas, for having the nation’s lowest average utility bills.
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Real EstateWhitehead leaving zoning office to join law firm
Josh Whitehead, zoning administrator for Memphis and Shelby County, plans to join the Burch Porter & Johnson law firm after Jan. 1.
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BusinessWant a vintage, stained-glass window? Now’s your chance
Salvaged over many decades from closed Episcopal churches in Tennessee, the 25 windows will be offered first to any local buyers until Jan. 1, then marketed internationally.
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Ford MegasiteFord Megasite: Motor Co. returns to roots in ‘vertically integrated’ Blue Oval City
Blue Oval City’s 3,600 acres will include space for a supplier park. Still, state officials anticipate some suppliers locating near the Megasite of West Tennessee.
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Real EstateAdoring guests buy into historic bed & breakfast; changes planned
When two couples and loyal guests saw that 173-year-old James Lee House was for sale, they jumped at the chance to become part-owners with J.W. and Kathy Buckman Gibson.
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BusinessInvestment firm buys Landau Uniforms
A Texas-based private equity firm has bought Landau Uniforms, an 83-year-old company born inside a Model A Ford on the streets of Memphis.
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October 2021
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Spirit of MemphisCourting Ford: How the Memphis Megasite was chosen as the winning site
Memphis area industry recruiters share stories of how West Tennessee landed “the big one.”
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Transportation & Logistics The robots are coming! To Memphis!
Robots and businesses — especially logistics companies like FedEx — will converge in Memphis Oct. 12-14 at the Autonomous Mobile Robots & Logistics Conference.
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