Tom Bailey
Reporter
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 :
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November 2018
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Real Estate CrossFit Hit & Run’s Midtown location will move early next year to Crosstown, directly across Autumn Avenue from Crosstown Concourse. -
Real Estate Permit sought for $11.3 million brewery in Uptown
There are plans to construct a building for Grind City Brewing Co. in Uptown, according to a building permit application filed this week. -
Real Estate Memphis starts reacting to Union Row
The proposed $950 million Union Row development will soon start appearing on the agendas of local government boards, which will consider everything from tax incentives to the design of the massive mixed-use project. -
Real Estate Uptown brewery would include tap room, plans show
Construction plans indicate a new Uptown brewery project would involve at least some renovation and partial demolition at an old industrial or mill facility. -
Real Estate Renewable gas firm files $3.3M permit for facility near Memphis landfill
A company that converts the methane given off by landfills into renewable natural gas apparently has plans for a $3.3 million construction project near the South Shelby Landfill in Memphis, records indicate. -
Business Sign of the times: Code officers start measuring light
For the first time the city saw the light, at least in a measured way. -
Real Estate The Flats at Overton Square nears construction
Construction is to start by January on The Flats at Overton Square, part of which will be among the first live/work apartment buildings in Midtown. -
Business The Citizen edges Union toward safer avenues
The Citizen is still being built but the $35 million development already has made the corner of Union and McLean more urban. -
Real Estate Grand entrance: $950M Union Row proposed for Downtown
The largest mixed-use development in Memphis history goes public this week, promising to transform a haggard Downtown gateway with apartments, stores, restaurants, a hotel, office towers, parking structures, green spaces, even a half-acre park perched over a roadway like a rooftop. -
Real Estate Patrons may drink in the views at Grind City Brewing
A father and son planning an $11.3 million craft beer brewery and taproom are intentional about the business engaging with and helping to lift its neighborhood, a long-distressed part of North Memphis. -
Real Estate Metal Museum makes its case for Overton Park’s Rust Hall
The Metal Museum proposes to spend $21 million to renovate Overton Park’s Rust Hall and make it a “world class museum and educational center." The museum board approved what it calls the “expansion plan" in September as part of its campaign to win the keys to Rust Hall. The 78,000-square-foot headquarters of Memphis College of Art becomes available after the school closes in May 2020. -
Real Estate Wiseacre plans larger brewery Downtown
Wiseacre Brewing Co. plans to build a second, larger brewery Downtown. Abel Parcels LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wiseacre, is seeking a Board of Adjustment variance to build on 2.5 acres at the southeast edge of Downtown. B.B. King Boulevard, East Butler and Vance avenues and Abel Street border the site. -
Real Estate Wiseacre to double jobs, expand distribution with Downtown brewery
A new, larger Wiseacre brewery Downtown would enable the Memphis company to double its full-time employment and expand distribution of its craft beer initially into all of Alabama as well as Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. “We’re in seven states full-time,’’ co-founder Kellan Bartosch said Friday of Wiseacre Brewing Co.'s current footprint. “And we’ve had conversations with markets all over.’’ -
Real Estate Century Building would be razed for car wash
A familiar East Memphis office building, with its script “Century Building" sign in front and mechanized, louvered windows on the sides, is proposed to be demolished and replaced with a car wash. -
Real Estate Retail is part of Madison apartment building
The Madison@McLean apartments under construction in Midtown will include ground-floor retail space, the developers confirmed Monday. -
Real Estate City helping Tigers’ tennis teams find a new home
The city of Memphis is helping University of Memphis tennis teams find new home courts to use after The Racquet Club closes next spring. -
Real Estate Ollie’s discount retailer coming to Memphis
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet will fill two spaces in Memphis vacated recently by the closing of Toys R Us stores. -
Real Estate Citizens offer more feedback on future of Overton Park buildings
However Overton Park’s two iconic buildings are reused in the future, they should welcome the public with open arms, continue to celebrate art and support artists, and provide continuing education. -
Real Estate One & Only BBQ expanding to Southaven
One & Only BBQ is expanding its footprint outside of East Memphis for the first time with the purchase of a closed restaurant property in Southaven. -
Real Estate Memphis has big presence at World Architecture Festival
They didn’t win this week, but two of Memphis’ new architectural gems were among 535 “short-listed” projects in the 2018 World Architecture Festival Awards in Amsterdam. -
Real Estate Jobs center moves to Midtown
Workforce Investment Network is moving its central employment center from Downtown to Midtown, at 155 Angelus. -
Real Estate Gibson moving Memphis guitar production to Nashville
Gibson Brands Inc. will stop making guitars in Memphis by April and move the operation to its Nashville headquarters.
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December 2018
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Real Estate I-40’s solar visitor center is open
A ribbon-cutting ceremony 30 miles northeast of Memphis will be held this week for one of the most unusual visitors center/rest stops along Tennessee interstates. -
Business Verizon installing new technology at Memphis-area switch station
Verizon Wireless is spending nearly $3.5 million to update its Memphis-area switching station. -
Real Estate Developer proposes Poplar Arts Lofts in Midtown
A developer proposes to demolish Poplar-fronting buildings being sold by the Memphis College of Art and erect a six-story, 120-unit apartment building there.
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