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Hunter Fan unleashing light fixtures in firm’s 135th year
Despite the pandemic, the company continues to unveil new products. It tests ceiling fans in the basement of its Goodlett Farms headquarters.
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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January 2021
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Real Estate Companies get incentives to stay, come to or grow in Memphis
One company distributes pharmaceutical or medical device products. Another sells information-technology and WiFi-related items. And a third sells industrial tools.
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Real Estate Agency supports, praises 3 adaptive-reuse Edge projects
The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.
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Real EstateMemphis-area industrial real estate ‘on fire’ so far in 2021
Eight transactions for Class A industrial space, totaling 2.4 million square feet, have either been completed or are pending during the first three weeks of January, reports Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors.
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Real Estate Our City, Our Story: MIFA hosts acclaimed sociologist who shows that evictions deepen poverty
MIFA has organized a “community conversation” on evictions in Memphis. The organization is encouraging everyone to read “Evicted,” and to register for the Our City, Our Story online event at mifa.org.
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Real Estate Old Chick-fil-A building being razed in Wolfchase area
The building that for years housed the restaurant is coming down to make room for a new Sleep Number store and Aspen Dental office.
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Downtown DMC takes step to keep Mobility Center on budget, on time
The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.
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Business Cummins to close Memphis plant
A Cummins manufacturing plant that rebuilds turbochargers in Memphis will close, eliminating 300 jobs.
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Real Estate Petland returning shopfront puppy sales to Memphis
An online petition opposing the opening of a Petland shop in Memphis has drawn more than 21,000 digital signatures. But the daughter of Petland’s founder mounts a defense, complete with Shelby County statistics on dogs placed into homes by animal welfare organizations in Shelby County.
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Real Estate Demolition starts on Summer Ave. for $9M health-crisis facility
Demolition has started to clear space for Alliance Healthcare Service’s $9 million-plus development in an economically distressed area of Summer Avenue.
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Real Estate UNIS leases additional industrial space
The California-based company that provides logistics services to other companies will open its second fulfillment center in Memphis, bringing its total footprint in Memphis to about 600,000 square feet.
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Spirit of Memphis Engineer Harvey Marcom helped shape Memphis
Engineer Harvey Marcom worked behind the scenes, but he played a big role for nearly six decades in forming the built environment of the Memphis area. The president of The Reaves Firm died on Saturday, Jan. 23.
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Real Estate Conversions planned for E. Memphis hotel, old Sears building in Hickory Hill
These days, hotels and department stores are struggling. Which may explain the proposed conversions of a sprawling East Memphis hotel and a former Hickory Ridge Mall Sears building.
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Transportation & Logistics Heights Line has a design, economic study, even a logo
The Heights Line has advanced a few more steps toward reality. The design of the 1.75-mile path, a logo and a one-time economic impact study have been completed.
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Real Estate Old warehouse may provide parking for Snuff District
Many of the Snuff District’s office workers and residents may park their vehicles inside what is now a vacant, historic warehouse at 700 N. Front. An added benefit for the mixed-use development: Fewer surface parking lots.
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Real Estate Kruger adding 27 jobs, equipment to make facial tissue
The North Memphis plant that makes facial and bathroom tissue and other paper products will soon invest $20 million in new equipment.
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Real Estate Tillman Cove project could be mixed-use development
The City of Memphis seeks zoning exceptions so the 219-unit Tillman Cove redevelopment can have ground-floor commercial space on Tillman, a second entrance into the neighborhood, and a maintenance building.
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Real Estate Zoning variance approved for Cooper-Young project
The Board of Adjustment approved zoning variances for a planned retail center in East Memphis, an expansion of Memphis Country Club, a retail and townhouse development in Cooper-Young, and the expansion of a funeral service on Lamar.
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Food News Memphis, your mashed potatoes are in the mail
Idahoan Foods is saying thanks to Memphis and the residents who consumed 8.5 million servings of the company’s instant mashed potatoes last year.
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Real Estate Redesigned hotel would rise over Beale’s east end, renderings show
Plans for a new hotel at the east end of the Beale Street entertainment district show a mostly glass-and-brick building that will house 145 guestrooms. At six stories, the building would tower over the nightclubs and restaurants.
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Real Estate Open space will separate ‘vibes’ of C-store, retail center
Singh Development designs its combo convenience stores/retail centers a bit differently than most.
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February 2021
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Spirit of Memphis Confidence pays off for president of Memphis Area Association of Realtors
Cassandra Bell-Warren credits her mother and grandmother for the self-confidence and curiosity that has helped her experience the world she never saw from her childhood home in South Memphis.
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Real Estate Divvy expands rent-to-own business, seeks Memphis Realtors
Divvy Homes in Shelby County so far has purchased between 40 and 100 homes that were chosen by renters who plan to buy them within three years.
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Downtown Fan vote will decide what Tiger Tail beer can looks like
Should the cans of Tiger Tail — the first official beer of the Memphis Tigers — be blue, black or gray? Fans can vote this month in the taproom of Grind City Brewing.
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Real Estate Uptown’s Malone Park Commons features an uncommonly social setting
There’s nothing common about the new residential development that is to open March 1 in Uptown. The first phase features two rows of rental cottages that face each other across a 30-foot-wide courtyard.
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