Waltons’ $20M will help complete 85-mile trail southwest of Memphis
Memphis outdoor enthusiasts will have another regional bike and walking trail to enjoy covering 85 miles along the Mississippi River, thanks to the Walton Foundation.
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 New details revealed for Snuff District, Poplar Art Lofts
The Snuff District proposal would create more than 40 new waterfront townhomes in Memphis, along the river harbor.
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Real Estate Group-living sites proposed for Hickory Hill, North Memphis
Planning board to consider zoning exceptions that would allow group living facilities in two areas of Memphis.
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Business Make less than $56,000? Free Tax Prep lives up to its name
Lack of awareness, misunderstanding and even distrust are among reasons the vast majority of Memphis-area residents who are income-qualified do not take advantage of Free Tax Prep.
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Real Estate Memphis National Cemetery: Still open, now improved, forever hallowed
Memphis National Cemetery may be surrounded by obstacles that could keep visitors away, but the park-like burial grounds are undergoing a $10 million upgrade to make it easier to celebrate and pay respects to the heroes buried there.
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Business Electrolux seeks new workers — even though its local plant is slated to close
The company will host a recruiting event Jan. 30 to find new, full-time employees.
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City of Memphis Driver hits pedestrian in heavily marked crosswalk
Video shows a Jeep motoring through the new Highland Strip crosswalk, and striking and hurling a schoolteacher through the air. Police did not charge the driver, raising questions about how serious the city takes pedestrian safety.
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Real Estate Developers: Snuff District plan won’t block public access to river
Keel Avenue runs west through Uptown, crosses what will be the future Snuff District mixed-use development and dead ends at a floodgate immediately west of where Keel goes under a small CN Railroad bridge. -
Real Estate Development team buys old nightclub building in Edge District
A sprawling, blighted building in the heart of the Edge District has been purchased by some of the same people who have improved other properties in the neighborhood.
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Business It’s official: Tennessee’s first Amazon Robotics facility coming to Memphis
After months of declining to acknowledge its plans in the Frayser/Raleigh district, Amazon announced Tuesday it will hold a ground-breaking on Monday at 4055 New Allen Road.
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Real Estate Opening move: Memphis Chess Club builds business for food, coffee, play
Memphis Chess Club has transformed itself into a business, and is changing the shopfront space of a Downtown building into a café/coffee shop and its new home.
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Metro The Park at Forest Hill apartments sold
The 601-unit Park at Forest Hill apartments, which are adjacent to Irene Golf & Country Club, have sold to a Kansas real estate company.
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Real Estate Proposed oil change business draws some Midtown opposition
Valvoline Instant Oil Change seeks two zoning variances so it can build on Union in Midtown.
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Real Estate Methodist Healthcare buys building next to The Citizen
Methodist Healthcare has purchased the Midtown building it has been leasing for minor med and diagnostic centers.
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Metro Memphis-based State Systems acquires Middle Tenn. firm
State Systems, which specializes in fire safety equipment, support and technology, has purchased Fire-Tek of Middle Tennessee.
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Metro Wunderlich co-founds new financial firm
Gary Wunderlich, who founded and sold Wunderlich Securities, and financial services veteran Rick Hendrix have formed a new company called Live Oak Merchant Partners.
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Metro New co-working space coming to Poplar Corridor
Serendipity Labs Coworking will offer 20,000 square feet of co-working space in part of 6584 Poplar, the four-story office building that MAA sold after moving its headquarters to the new TraVure mixed-use building at 6815 Poplar.
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Business Memphis-based Sedgwick makes acquisition
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, with global headquarters in Memphis, will grow by seven employees with its acquisition of G&E Enterprises.
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Real EstateQuestion flipped about buildings: ‘What does Overton Park want?’
A partnership of professionals is using social media to promote their loosely defined proposal for reusing Rust Hall and Brooks art museum buildings at Overton Park.
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Business Retail-ready spaces coming Downtown
The Downtown Memphis Commission staff particularly liked that the three ground-floor retail bays are virtually ready now for tenants.
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Business Brewery plans to add 155 jobs, make $49M upgrade
Demand is so great for processing and packaging beverages that Blues City Brewery in Hickory Hill plans a $49 million upgrade to its equipment and to hire another 155 people.
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Business TVA, Memphis ask big things of each other
Memphis wants TVA's property at McKellar Lake for a big, new river port. TVA wants Memphis to remain as a long-term power customer. Will both get what they want?
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Real Estate UPS seeks tax break for $217M expansion at airport
UPS plans to build a 268,000-square-foot expansion at its logistics facility at Memphis International Airport. The project will create 25 more jobs there.
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Business New commercial center will rise soon in East Memphis
Gill Properties has applied for a building permit to start work soon on a new 27,000-square-foot commercial center, White Oak at White Station.
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Downtown Union Row plan approved; gas sales on Lightman property rejected
The Land Use Control Board on Thursday approved plans for the first 10.5 acres of the $1.3 billion Union Row mixed-use development. But the board rejected a proposed convenience store with gas sales in a wooded part of southeast Shelby County.
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