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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.
There are 1216 articles by Tom Bailey :
Surveillance video shows a five-man crew with chainsaws and other equipment in Martyrs Park on March 10. That’s the day that a 200-yard-wide swath of trees were cut — without permission — from the public riverbank.
“Even though Memphis may seem like a smaller city or less important in the world of art, I think that the project is one of the most significant opportunities for me,” the artist said.
Preservationist William “Bill” Townsend is on a tear. He just bought the Lowenstein Mansion, which is a mile east of his Masonic Temple and four miles west of his Luciann Theater building.
The tsunami of electric vehicles will eventually hit. And the effect on Memphis should be substantial. Memphis has a lot of gas stations, 369, according to a study by the Division of Planning and Development.
Two organizations with different track records — one for building quality, affordable housing and the other for removing blight — are merging to serve the entire core city.
William E. “Billy” Orgel, whose Tower Ventures builds cell towers, has become a towering figure himself in the redevelopment and preservation of Memphis’ historic buildings.
The giant new Tesla Center at 3020 N. Germantown Parkway has been servicing electric cars for a few weeks.
Broadway-like lights of the Luciann Theater building’s newly restored marquee were turned on Thursday night.
The Luciann theater building just took a big step in returning to its glory days, long before its more recent history as an adult entertainment business.
The extra, 5,300 square feet of buried stones would expand the area of the cobblestone-landing project by nearly 2% if state and local officials agree to enlarge the restoration site.
Poll participants identified the need for protected bike lanes, safer pedestrian crossings, more appealing building development, better lighting and increasing the sense of security as issues on a five-mile stretch of Summer.
Rebecca Schoepfer started her job Tuesday, Sept. 7, as chief human resources officer at Memphis-based TruGreen. The company has about 13,000 employees.
Paint Memphis will spend hundreds of dollars applying an anti-graffiti coating on murals vandalized shortly after last year’s event in Uptown. Meanwhile, Paint Memphis 2021 will carry on in South Memphis with a festival on Oct. 9.
The Forrests’ reburial ceremony on Sept. 18 in Middle Tennessee may come sooner than restoration of Health Sciences Park.
Memphis River Parks Partnership has received 73% of the $1.1 million needed to repair the façade that has been cracking.
A Memphis commercial real estate firm played a major role in the adaptive reuse of Atlanta’s historic Coca-Cola headquarters.
Crosstown Concourse will host a job fair Sept. 11 for 17 of its business and nonprofit tenants who are seeking to fill dozens of jobs.
The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.
Buying a 675,000-square-foot office tower for just $55 a square foot in a prime, East Memphis location gives the new owners latitude to spend a lot more money improving the building and adding tenant amenities.
The $5 million project not only will provide a complete makeover of the old golf course in South Memphis, but build a new golf house in a new place for easier access.
The newly planted greens of MiniVerde Bermudagrass are 99% ready. But the Bermuda Certified 419 fairways and tees still have bare spots, and the tall fescue for the natural areas and habitats must be reseeded this fall, the city’s top golf official says.
The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum will move just two blocks from its long-time headquarters at 158 Madison.
Good commercial real estate trumps a pandemic and any surge in e-commerce, figures Ray Gill of Gill Properties. Exhibit A: His new White Oak at White Station center is 96% filled.
A state agency also finds that a carpentry subcontractor inappropriately used an automotive winch to lift and lower wood beams, columns, joists and decking from the roof of the historic Butcher Shop Building.
Jesse Chapman Sr. stopped parking cars for a living about 75 years ago to open the Downtown store now called Chapman Furniture. His children just sold their building at 335 and 341 S. Main St. and plan to close shop within six months.