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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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Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.
The city would seek proposals from developers, but has no preference whether Memphis’ tallest building is demolished or redeveloped.
The Center City Development Corp. will consider a $50,000 grant to help create new stained-glass windows for Historic Clayborn Temple.
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. approved $28 million in tax breaks Tuesday, Feb. 9, but members were critical of the absence of one of the developers seeking incentives.
The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.
The people designing the changes at Overton Park golf course — and those on the bulldozers — consider the entire landscape as one big sculpture, not nine different holes with spaces in between.
In what may be a first for Memphis, a company called Next Chapter Neighborhoods plans a 167-acre development featuring build-to-suit, market-rate rental houses. The plan calls for 230 houses, plus open space and a commercial district to be built later.
A 21-acre, senior-living community is proposed for a site that was partially occupied by the Coro Lake Elementary School, which was razed four years ago.
The townhomes would be built to be sold and rise on a vacant lot at the southwest corner of South Main and Carolina.
The average price of houses sold continued to rise also, up nearly 15% compared to a year earlier.
Residents point to safety concerns and crime in proposing that a gate be erected across Saint Nick Drive to prevent cut-through traffic from using their street.
NexAir expected a surge in its sales of dry ice to ship and store Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. That never happened. But the company still forecasts a 16% increase in dry ice sales this year because of the growing demands of e-commerce.
The development of 270 apartments, 17,500 square feet of retail and a 411-space parking structure would replace the existing First Horizon and IberiaBank branches on Union, between Cleveland and Claybrook.
The commercial lot on the east end of Poplar Viaduct may now be empty, but it’s full of memories for the new owner. Ray Gill of Gill Properties is looking for a way to pay homage to The Bitter Lemon, a hip teenage coffee house that operated there in the 1960s.
Stella Maris Development owner Amin Zaki plans to revive apartments at 1030 Poplar. They’ve been vacant and deteriorating more than five years.
Developers who plan to raze the historic Nylon Net Building have unveiled renderings for the $52.2 million, mixed-use building that would replace it.
There’s nothing common about the new residential development that is to open March 1 in Uptown. The first phase features two rows of rental cottages that face each other across a 30-foot-wide courtyard.
Should the cans of Tiger Tail — the first official beer of the Memphis Tigers — be blue, black or gray? Fans can vote this month in the taproom of Grind City Brewing.
Divvy Homes in Shelby County so far has purchased between 40 and 100 homes that were chosen by renters who plan to buy them within three years.
Cassandra Bell-Warren credits her mother and grandmother for the self-confidence and curiosity that has helped her experience the world she never saw from her childhood home in South Memphis.
Singh Development designs its combo convenience stores/retail centers a bit differently than most.
Plans for a new hotel at the east end of the Beale Street entertainment district show a mostly glass-and-brick building that will house 145 guestrooms. At six stories, the building would tower over the nightclubs and restaurants.
Idahoan Foods is saying thanks to Memphis and the residents who consumed 8.5 million servings of the company’s instant mashed potatoes last year.
The Board of Adjustment approved zoning variances for a planned retail center in East Memphis, an expansion of Memphis Country Club, a retail and townhouse development in Cooper-Young, and the expansion of a funeral service on Lamar.
The City of Memphis seeks zoning exceptions so the 219-unit Tillman Cove redevelopment can have ground-floor commercial space on Tillman, a second entrance into the neighborhood, and a maintenance building.