Salad restaurant tossed into the mix near URBN on Union
Salad Expressions will be wedged between the new URBN on Union buildings. The restaurant will open at 1308 Union, which formerly housed E’s 24 Hour Café.
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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February 2021
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Midtown Michigan grocery business looks to Midtown Memphis location
Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis.
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Business UPDATED: VECA opposes ‘smoke shop’ near Snowden School
The Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association is appealing a decision to allow what it calls a “smoke shop” to open next to Dino’s Grill and near Snowden School. While renovations have been made, the business has not yet opened.
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Real Estate Board blocks quick-loan business in Whitehaven
The applicants argued unsuccessfully to the Board of Adjustment that their flexible-loan business is not as financially punishing to customers as payday or title loan shops.
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Real EstateDumpster ire: Landlord cuts tree, installs garbage bin at front sidewalk
The new owner of an apartment building near the Highland Strip applied for a variance allowing a dumpster to be placed near Walker Avenue. The retroactive request will require the owner to make significant changes for approval amid significant opposition.
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North Memphis New equipment means Memphis plant can make 40M boxes of facial tissue yearly
The mammoth K.T.G. (USA) plant in North Memphis has room to add a new equipment line. The $20 million investment also means the hiring of another 27 employees who will be paid more than $20 an hour.
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Business Search for next DMC president taking extra time
The Downtown Memphis Commission board may meet in a special called meeting over the next few weeks to consider the search committee’s selection.
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Real Estate Sold Burger: Earnestine & Hazel’s changes hands
A new ownership group has bought Earnestine & Hazel’s for $900,000 and and a nearby warehouse for $200,000. The old bar will reopen soon, and the new owner promises to keep those Soul Burgers sizzling.
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Real Estate Plan would convert Crowne Plaza on Thousand Oaks to veteran campus
The $10 million project is dependent on obtaining approval for changes to the property’s planned development.
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Real Estate Residence for veterans, seniors would be part of large U.S. network
Veterans Services (USA) plans to transform the East Memphis Crowne Plaza into a mixed-use development marketed to veterans and other seniors. The organization’s goal is to operate such a facility in all 50 states.
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March 2021
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Real Estate Tops Bar-B-Q sells part of its real estate
The owners of Tops Bar-B-Q have sold at least seven of their 15 restaurant buildings to a Phoenix firm that buys the real estate of businesses and leases it back to them.
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Real Estate Tax incentive sought for another big Snuff District building
The developers of the Historic Snuff District plan a second, mixed-use building of six stories, 292 apartments, 420 parking spaces and 10,000 square feet of commercial space. They seek a tax incentive valued at $19 million over 20 years.
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Real Estate Memphis homes on market dip below 2,000; average sales price tops $200,000
The number of houses sold in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties in February dropped 5.2% from a year earlier. But the week of snowy weather was likely a factor.
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Real Estate Apartments, commercial space proposed for old Holiday Inn HQ site
New applications to the Land Use Control Board also include plans for a 156-lot subdivision on Walnut Grove, a 129-lot subdivision near Tenn. 385, and a gated, nine-lot subdivision in East Memphis on White Station Road.
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Real Estate Minglewood owner plans to resume concerts after restrictions lift
Minglewood Plaza owner Richard Roberts also is looking for someone to manage Minglewood Hall concert venue. Other businesses inside Minglewood Plaza continue to operate.
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Midtown C-store with gas proposed for VECA neighborhood
The convenience store with fuel pumps would be built on the southwest corner of Jackson and Evergreen, requiring the demolition of an 86-year-old commercial structure.
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Real Estate Veteran real estate broker takes leadership role at Avison Young
Pat Gamble is now senior vice president at Avison Young after spending 24 years with CBRE. Gamble also is broadening his focus to include industrial as well as office real estate.
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Real EstateBorja/Petrauskas: Building a world of new ideas in Midtown
Eduardo Sanchez Borja came here from Mexico at age 14. Laurynas “LP” Petrauskas arrived from Lithuania at 13. Now partners in development, they may help change how Memphians see their built environment.
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Real EstateReal estate prodigy: Buy, renovate, sell, rent, repeat
Cameron Ellis is just 27 years old, but his real estate business called WeOffr buys and renovates about 100 houses a year in Memphis and 20 to 40 annually in Nashville. Plus, Ellis is rapidly buying and renovating multifamily properties in the core city.
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Real Estate State investigating death of Downtown construction worker
A 36-year-old construction worker fell to his death while helping renovate a building in the Cotton Row National Historic District.
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Real EstateYoung associate broker confidently embarks on career in retail real estate
Twenty-six-year-old Hurston Reed has just launched his career at TSCG despite the challenges to retail real estate caused by COVID and e-commerce. “People want to get out of the house and be socially interactive. … I’m very confident in it,” he says.
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Business ‘Bold’ purchase of city’s tallest building approved
“This will allow us to get rid of a black eye that exists right in the heart of our Downtown,” said the DMC’s interim president.
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Arts & Culture Memphis Heritage executive director resigns
Holly Jansen Fulkerson started work as executive director of Memphis Heritage in January 2020, and resigned on Thursday, March 4.
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Real Estate Fox-Greenberg named chief executive of Memphis Heritage
Leah Fox-Greenberg has a deep history with both preservation work and nonprofit organizations. She will start her job as chief executive of Memphis Heritage in April.
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Real Estate Behind on mortgage? New COVID program can help
The application process for the $7,500 in home-loan payments starts March 15. United Housing will host a free, online workshop on Thursday, March 11, to guide homeowners through that process, but also will counsel anyone struggling to keep current on their mortgage payments.
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