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.
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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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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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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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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July 2020
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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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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Real Estate Google taps Southaven for first center of its kind in U.S.
Google's goal is to hire 100 people by the end of 2020 and open its operations center at 5665 Airways by summer 2021.
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Real Estate Planning board - again - approves Elvis Presley manufacturing site and Cooper-Young four-plex
After the City Council sent the cases back, the Land Use Control Board for a second time approved two development proposals over the stiff opposition of neighbors.
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Real Estate Sellers rule as home listings keep shrinking
The number of houses for sale in the Memphis area has dropped by a third over the past year.
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Food News Southall Cafe to offer ‘chef driven’ breakfast, lunch in East Memphis
Owners of the new restaurant at 669 S. Mendenhall anticipate Southall Cafe will open by mid-August. It's part of Boyle Investment Company's newly renovated Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.
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Real EstateChick-fil-A in Wolfchase district among state’s largest
Chick-fil-A's unusually short but expensive move seems to affirm the Wolfchase shopping district has still got 'it': The power to draw customers from far and wide.
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Real EstateCordova snags a Hook & Reel
Yet another seafood boil restaurant is coming to Memphis. The Hook & Reel will breathe new life into a building where an O'Charley's Restaurant closed recently.
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City of Memphis Dick Williams’ long-running ‘Magicland’ set the record
Dick Williams has died at age 92. He and his wife Virginia hosted a television magic show for children and families each week for 23 years, a record.
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Bartlett About face: Bartlett firm makes shields to cope with COVID-19
American Paper Optics – best known for its solar eclipse and special effects glasses – is now making and marketing face shields as an added layer of protection, especially for students.
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North Memphis Frayser gets $1.3 million grant to build community
The MassMutual Foundation grant will establish the Frayser Connect resource hub, an initiative that will match every $1 a Frayser family saves with $2, provide grants and loans for small businesses, and support other ideas created by a new resident advisory committee.
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