COVID-19 pandemic closes city golf courses despite their wide-open spaces
Even after taking precautions to prevent golfers from potentially spreading the virus, all eight city golf courses are closed until further notice.
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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March 2020
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Business MCA fights virus to graduate last class
Memphis College of Art does not have the luxury of closing temporarily because of the pandemic. The school has long planned to close permanently in May, but is now having to fight to stay open long enough to graduate the last class of its 84-year history.
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Real EstateDevelopers push ahead with $90M senior community after delay
Construction is expected to start on Oaks Edge in three to four months now that the Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board has approved a tax incentive for the senior-living development in East Memphis.
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Real Estate Real estate work goes on despite distancing
Realtors say they intend to tell potential homebuyers to remain in their cars if too many of them show up to open houses at the same time.
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Business Homing in: Tips for a 24/7 home life
Experts and others share their ideas for dealing with the emotional, financial and health-related stresses of the stay-at-home emergency order.
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Real Estate $26M Cotton Row renovation moves forward
Two river bluff buildings will be converted into 112 apartment units and 5,300 square feet of commercial space on Front Street.
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Spirit of Memphis Wedding crasher: Love in the time of coronavirus
Many impending weddings are disrupted by the need for social distancing.
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BusinessLandscape, lighting plan submitted for new FedEx Logistics headquarters
The Design Review Board will consider the proposed landscaping and lighting plans for the $62.5 million conversion of the former Gibson Guitar Factory into the new headquarters for FedEx Logistics.
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Real EstateDowntown board navigates pandemic to help Raw Girls
Members of a Downtown Memphis Commission board used a teleconference to keep their social distance and to approve a $30,000 grant to bring the healthy food business to Peabody Place.
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Real EstateDevelopers unfazed by COVID economy, forge ahead with construction
Taking the long view, Gill Properties is forging ahead with construction of a $3.9 million commercial center in East Memphis despite the recent economic disruption caused by COVID-19.
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City of MemphisA mission in Memphis and beyond: Locals create unified front to fight virus
“We’re building an airplane in the air and doing it on a stopwatch. We’ve got a minute to build it.”
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City of Memphis Mayor threatens to close parks if restrictions ignored
Abuses of social-distancing restrictions at city parks could force the city to close them.
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Coronavirus Coronavirus daily blog, March 23: Second St. Jude employee tests positive
The Tennessee Department of Health releases the latest numbers: 93 cases of coronavirus confirmed in Shelby County and 615 cases in Tennessee.
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Coronavirus Memphis kindness blog, March 30: Generosity infects Starbucks
Across the Memphis area, people are reaching out to others with gestures of kindness and generosity.
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Real EstateMidtown shopping center sells
Gregory Realty has just purchased the Cooper-Young shopping center occupied by local and national tenants.
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April 2020
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City of Memphis Health Department allows golf; Memphis does not
The Health Department made public some social-distancing guidelines that golf courses should follow if they want to operate. But the eight public courses in the City of Memphis will remain closed.
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City of Memphis Is golf allowed? The answer in Shelby County is ‘maybe’
Some local golf courses are open but imposing social-distancing precautions.
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Real EstateBoyle buys four Highwoods office buildings
Boyle Investment Co. has purchased four of the city’s premier office buildings in East Memphis as seller Highwoods Properties continues to divest itself from Memphis.
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Real EstateHighland Row sells for $65 million
A California-based private real estate investment and development company has bought the mixed-use development two blocks west of the University of Memphis.
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North Memphis Roll, Kruger, roll: Memphis plant churns out the TP
The giant plant makes more than 1 million rolls of toilet paper a day and it's figured out a way to increase production even more.
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East MemphisEast Memphis synagogue may get ‘historic’ label
A national historic status may come to the Anshei Sphard-Beth El Emeth Congregation building because of its striking architecture and the synagogue's rich history.
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Business Ready, set, apply: Law firm’s chart simplifies forgivable loan program
The $349 billion can be free money for Memphis small businesses hurt by COVID-19, but it's first-come, first-serve for the nationwide Paycheck Protection Program.
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Real Estate Landlords choose ways to help business tenants during crisis
Many commercial landlords in Memphis are using a range of options to help business tenants that have little or no income to pay rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Real EstateRacquet Club redevelopment stalls; acreage may shrink
And another residential subdivision is being proposed in Raleigh, this one comprising 11 lots near the intersection of James Road and Warford Street.
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Real Estate Kemmons Wilson Cos. plans move into Downtown historic building
The old Spaghetti Warehouse property on West Huling will become home to the new corporate headquarters for the company that began Holiday Inns.
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