Car ‘vending machine’ now open for all to see
Carvana opens an eight-story, glass-encased “car vending machine” along Interstate 40 just southwest of Germantown Parkway.
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.
There are 1216 articles by Tom Bailey :
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November 2019
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Real Estate Midtown embraces and wrestles with modern architecture
How should historic Midtown respond to modern architecture as infill development occurs?
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Food News DeeO’s Seafood coming to Midtown
A locally owned seafood restaurant that opened in Cordova a year ago will soon open a second location in Midtown.
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Real Estate Fire-delayed Forum Flats preparing to open first apartments
Delayed four months by a fire, construction of Forum Flats apartments has resumed and the first units should become available soon.
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Real Estate $22M tax break sought for senior-living community
Developers of OaksEdge in East Memphis seek a residential PILOT to build an $89 million, 240-unit senior living campus near Dixon Gallery & Gardens.
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Real Estate United Housing to celebrate 25 years with ‘Hops for Homes’
The agency that has educated more than 10,000 people on buying their first home or avoiding foreclosure will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a fundraiser at Crosstown Brewing Co.
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Business Public Storage will fill Cordova’s closed Target building
The 176,000-square-foot building that housed Target at 475 N. Germantown Parkway until it closed in February will become 1,000 storage units for Public Storage.
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Real Estate Loews Hotel plan may impact historic police building
A revised, larger site plan for the Loews convention center hotel shows that the back of the historic Central Police Station would be replaced or retrofitted to support the 500-room hotel. Memphis Heritage opposes any demolition there "at this time."
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Real Estate New Loews Hotel may replace back part of historic building
A new request for a special use permit has been submitted for approval now that Loews Hotel & Co. has added the historic police station property to its site plan.
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October 2019
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Real Estate Does rendering point to Arrow’s future home on Broad?
The artist-support organization is not saying, but a rendering may provide clues for where in the Broad Avenue Arts District that Arrow plans to put its "forever home."
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Visual ArtsPhotographer spends year capturing the seasons in historic cemetery
Photographer Murray Riss took an assignment to capture the beauty of historic Temple Israel Cemetery. Over the course of a year, Riss found a lot of life among the graves.
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Midtown Arrow plans $10M facility in Broad Arts District
Arrow, the nonprofit organization that supports artists in multiple ways, has decided to drop its bid for Overton Park's Rust Hall and instead build a permanent, $10 million facility in the Broad Avenue Arts District.
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Real Estate Commercial Advisors elevates Spillyards, community service
A prominent commercial real estate firm makes Greg Spillyards its chief executive, doubling down on helping under-served neighborhoods in Memphis.
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Real Estate Urban development approved for Madison Avenue across from SCO
The Crosstown area of Madison Avenue will have a different, more pedestrian-friendly feel and look now that a four-story, mixed-use development has been approved to rise on what is now a surface parking lot.
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Business Midtown mixed-use development gets conditional approval
Developer will raze blighted, century-old building and build seven apartments and and retail space across from Snowden School.
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Real Estate New plan puts masonry apartments by Broad sidewalk
North Carolina-based developer requests the Board of Adjustment to review its plan for Broad Avenue Arts District apartments on Nov. 20.
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Real Estate Loeb revives Broad Ave. project with new developer and design
Property owner Loeb Properties has gone back to the drawing board with a new developer, new architects and a new design for proposed apartment development under the Broad Avenue water tower.
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Real Estate Kings of the hill: Competing developers now teaming on Crosstown Mound
The city has approved two development teams to work together on a plan for the undeveloped Crosstown Mound. The preliminary plan so far includes 80-100 residences, a public park and a building of shared office spaces.
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Real Estate HUD’s Ben Carson praises Union Row and Opportunity Zones
The tax advantages of the new Opportunity Zone program motivate investors to stay involved in new developments for the long-term, which help make struggling areas thrive, HUD Secretary Ben Carson says.
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Real Estate Rare sites: New E. Memphis subdivision offers 21 lots
The new Stockley subdivision in East Memphis offers a relatively rare number – 21 – of lots for luxury homes that will cost $600,000 to $800,000.
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Real Estate$4.5M redevelopment coming to blighted Park Avenue office building
The University Park Flats project will convert a vacant, blighted office building in an economically distressed stretch of Park Avenue into apartments and a coffee shop.
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Real Estate Back taxes paid on Firestone plant site
A private company has paid all back city and county property taxes on the main parcel of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in North Memphis, indicating some possible movement toward new development on the long-dormant site.
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Downtown Revised plans for Union Row unveiled
New renderings for the 11-acre, first phase of the Union Row mixed-use development show a dense arrangement of apartments, parking garages, hotels and office buildings.
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Real Estate New hair salon fills a need in Concourse’s ‘vertical village’
Hero & Sage salon opens in Crosstown Concourse as a result of one of those conversations that occurs while the stylist cuts a client's hair.
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September 2019
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Business June West stepping down at Memphis Heritage
Memphis Heritage will soon post a job opening to find a successor to June West, who is entering semi-retirement after leading the city's preservationists for the past 17 years.
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