2019 was busiest in three decades for planning board
The 134 cases heard by the Board of Adjustment this year were the most since 1989, states a year-end report.
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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Real EstateConstruction well underway at Silo Square in Southaven
The first two mixed-use buildings are well under construction at Silo Square, the 228-acre, $220 million development in Southaven designed as a place to live, work and play.
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Real EstateCouple reviving overgrown Midtown mansion
Michael and Mallory Seeker have uncovered a regal home on Stonewall. They plan to take all the time they need to restore its luster.
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Real Estate Snuff District may embrace ‘cool’ silos
The Snuff District developers have just purchased an adjacent, old cement plant and its tall silos. Instead of tearing them down, the developers of apartment, office and retail space may may preserve the silos as a landmark.
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Real Estate Buyer of Atrium buildings liked their location, quality and tenants
A Nashville-based real estate firm led a group of Memphis and Nashville investors in buying two of the 15 buildings that Highwoods Properties is selling off in Memphis.
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Business LEDIC becomes ‘Envolve’
The 40-year-old LEDIC Management Group has told its apartment residents that the company will refresh its branding and image with a new name, look, logo and tagline.
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Business Trolley Stop was at the vanguard of a new era in Memphis
The Trolley Stop Market on Madison Avenue in the Edge District will close its doors on Jan. 10, owner announces.
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Business Nucor Steel Memphis plans expansion for new equipment
Nucor Steel Memphis is expanding its mill in the 3,500-acre Pidgeon Industrial Park.
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Downtown New public art, signs proposed for Downtown
The Downtown Review Board will consider public art and signage for a number of projects, including Wiseacre Brewing Co., a suffrage monument and Sugashack on Beale.
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North Memphis The robots are coming!
A suspected Amazon facility in Frayser/Raleigh will include 787,000 square feet for "robot storage" platforms.
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Real Estate Google search: Southaven may head the list for ops center
Google has been looking for a site in Southaven for its operations center, according to sources not directly involved in the company's search.
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Business FedEx invests in Indigo Ag
Indigo Ag announces that FedEx has invested in the startup's latest round of capital fundraising.
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Real Estate Short-term rentals, retail proposed for S. Main building
A New York developer plans to convert one of the South Main District's brick, two-story buildings into 18 short-term rental apartments and three ground-floor retail bays.
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Real Estate Medtronic sells its Memphis campus, leases back about half of it
Medtronic has sold its Memphis office campus to a Chicago real estate firm, and leased back just more than half the space. The rest will be marketed to other office tenants.
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Health Care Memphis-based nexAir acquires 16 Linde branches, production plant in Southeast
Memphis-based nexAir has just acquired the 16 Southeast branches of Linde LifeGas as well as a production facility in Georgia.
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Business Memphis Country Club wants street closed for its ‘safety’
The private club has purchased all the property bordering a short street near its tennis courts and is asking the city to close Terrell Place and vacate the right-of-way.
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Downtown Union Row plan approved; gas sales on Lightman property rejected
The Land Use Control Board on Thursday approved plans for the first 10.5 acres of the $1.3 billion Union Row mixed-use development. But the board rejected a proposed convenience store with gas sales in a wooded part of southeast Shelby County.
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Business New commercial center will rise soon in East Memphis
Gill Properties has applied for a building permit to start work soon on a new 27,000-square-foot commercial center, White Oak at White Station.
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Real Estate UPS seeks tax break for $217M expansion at airport
UPS plans to build a 268,000-square-foot expansion at its logistics facility at Memphis International Airport. The project will create 25 more jobs there.
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Business TVA, Memphis ask big things of each other
Memphis wants TVA's property at McKellar Lake for a big, new river port. TVA wants Memphis to remain as a long-term power customer. Will both get what they want?
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Business Brewery plans to add 155 jobs, make $49M upgrade
Demand is so great for processing and packaging beverages that Blues City Brewery in Hickory Hill plans a $49 million upgrade to its equipment and to hire another 155 people.
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Business Retail-ready spaces coming Downtown
The Downtown Memphis Commission staff particularly liked that the three ground-floor retail bays are virtually ready now for tenants.
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Real EstateQuestion flipped about buildings: ‘What does Overton Park want?’
A partnership of professionals is using social media to promote their loosely defined proposal for reusing Rust Hall and Brooks art museum buildings at Overton Park.
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Business Memphis-based Sedgwick makes acquisition
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, with global headquarters in Memphis, will grow by seven employees with its acquisition of G&E Enterprises.
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Metro New co-working space coming to Poplar Corridor
Serendipity Labs Coworking will offer 20,000 square feet of co-working space in part of 6584 Poplar, the four-story office building that MAA sold after moving its headquarters to the new TraVure mixed-use building at 6815 Poplar.
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