Senior living, warehouse projects will total $85M, documents show
Building permit applications have been filed for a $35 million senior living facility in southeast Memphis and a $50 million warehouse near the airport.
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 Estate Event center proposed near Summer Ave. Corridor
The applicant proposing The Stratford event center plans several measures to prevent the commercial activity from affecting residences nearby.
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Real Estate Raymond James takes another step from Downtown toward E. Memphis
Building permit applications show Raymond James plans to spend $7.25 million renovating the 1100 Ridgeway Loop building and $6.33 million renovating the 889 Ridge Lake building.
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Real EstateMixed-use development proposed for Poplar Plaza’s corner at Poplar & Highland
Finard Properties has filed requests with the planning board to transform Poplar Plaza's southeast corner into a mixed-use development. A rendering indicates existing buildings on the corner will be replaced with six- or seven-story structures.
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Real Estate5.11 Tactical aims for Memphis
The retail chain that serves civilian and professional gun shooters, law enforcement and other first responders has signed a lease in the Market at Wolfcreek, across from Wolfchase Galleria.
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Real Estate Soybean field turned Square starts to take shape
Two of Silo Square's mixed-use buildings, each three stories, are effectively designed as illusions, with a nod to the past. The presence of a kitchen-appliance delivery truck nearby signals that completion of those buildings is within the near future.
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Real Estate City moves forward on larger Leftwich Tennis Center
The estimated $19 million project will provide 12 indoor courts, 24 outdoor courts and other amenities for both public tennis players and the University of Memphis Tiger tennis teams.
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Real EstateGregory Realty buys Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center
Hulet and Jackie Gregory this week bought the 85,000-square-foot Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center. Gregory Realty now has about 30 commercial properties and is hunting for more.
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Real Estate Nashville-based Gorney Realty buys 2 more E. Memphis office buildings
Gorney Realty Partners just bought the Centrum and Colonnade office buildings in East Memphis from Highwoods Properties.
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Real EstateSouthwest community college plans expansion, new ‘front door’ on Union
Southwest Tennessee Community College plans to convert the closed Office Depot building near Downtown for its performing arts programs, for an array of student services, for a bit of retail to serve students and for a more prominent presence along busy Union Avenue.
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Visual Arts Metal Museum gets recommendation as Rust Hall’s next tenant
Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.
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Real EstateRent and concern for refugee families rise in Woodcrest Apartments
Organizations are scrambling to find other housing for refugee families in Woodcrest Apartments. The units are being renovated, but the below-market rent is about to rise substantially.
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June 2020
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Real Estate Developers move forward with $40M City Place apartments near Germantown
City Place apartments will comprise 398 units in 15 buildings on 19.8 acres near the southwest corner of Winchester and Forest Hill.
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Spirit of Memphis Memphians for America sells out of flags, draws new volunteers
Leaders of the half-century-old organization, challenged by shrunken membership, expected Saturday's annual U.S. flag sale to be its last. But the customers had other ideas.
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Business Lombardo succeeds Koury as AIA Memphis executive director
Heather Koury is stepping down after working for 17 years as the first full-time executive director for the Memphis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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Real Estate Varsity Spirit resumes talks on move to Snuff District
Varsity Spirit president Bill Seely confirms his company has restarted discussions about moving its headquarters from the suburbs to Uptown's planned Snuff District.
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BusinessMemphians for America may fade away after Saturday’s flag sale
The time for “Taps” may have arrived for Memphians for America. The group anticipates its street-corner sales of U.S. flags may be the last after holding the event yearly for a half-century.
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Real Estate Orgel presses ahead with $32M Snuff District permit, but no office space yet
Despite the pandemic, the development team files for a building permit to put the first 107 apartment units, community center and fitness center in the historic buildings of the Snuff District. But, the documents do not yet mention plans for office space.
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Real Estate Luciann theater project hits roadblock; nursing home approved for Binghampton
Board of Adjustment members praised the vision to revive the historic Luciann movie theater, but rejected a zoning variance with a tie vote because of a procedural issue.
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Real EstateCarlisle Corp. plans to partially preserve historic Nylon Net Building, build 210 apartments
The plan is to preserve the bottom 20 feet of 7 Vance’s historic masonry facade, plus the smokestack.
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Real Estate Blood plasma donation firm plans facility in Raleigh
Octapharma Plasma is seeking a conditional use permit to operate where the Salvation Army closed its Family Store and Donation Center on Austin Peay Highway.
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Real EstateHeadstone company sues, claiming planned gas station would kill its business
West Memorials on Broad Avenue claims the proposed gas station next door blocks access to its loading dock.
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Real EstateUPDATED: Developer asks for 30-day hold on Broad Ave. gas station plan
Faced with stiff and diverse opposition, the developers have requested a 30-day hold on their already revised plans for a gas station/convenience store at the gateway to Broad Avenue.
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Real EstateFitness club quickly takes big-box space vacated by Best Buy in Southwind
Mississippi-based Club 4 Fitness will spend about $1 million tailoring the former electronics store space into its first gym in Memphis.
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Food News New deli coming to Park Ave. near Audubon Park
The building that for decades housed Consignment Music will become a deli restaurant.
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