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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 :
The Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association’s effort to become the 17th neighborhood with historic-overlay protections was delayed when an adjoining neighborhood asked to be included. The application now goes back to the Landmarks Commission.
Mullen Technologies of Brea, Calif., proposes to open a large electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in a warehouse that Nike vacated five years ago.
The search committee for a new Downtown Memphis Commission president has apparently completed its work. The commission is to meet Tuesday to vote on the candidate.
Alphatec Spine of California proposes to establish a distribution and repair operation in Memphis, with 95 employees and a $3.5 million capital investment.
The state court’s general counsel emailed notice to judges and courts at all levels in 22 West Tennessee counties stating that the eviction ban is now lifted.
The city’s director of the Housing and Community Development Division is leaving one important, Memphis job for another. Paul Young tells why and more in an Q&A with The Daily Memphian.
The Centers for Disease Control exceeded its authority in imposing an order prohibiting landlords from evicting renters during the pandemic, U.S. District Judge Mark Norris ruled Monday.
Demolition has started on Downtown’s historic Nylon Net Building, 7 Vance, where a new apartment building will rise.
The California-based medical device company plans to hire 95 employees and spend $3.5 million to open a distribution and repair operation in the city’s southeast industrial submarket.
Mullen Technologies received tax break in return for hiring 434 people, investing $362 million and becoming the first company to make cars in Memphis since the Ford plant closed in 1958.
An overflow crowd came for the opening celebration for the new West Memphis Public Library & Innovation Center. Twice as large as the old library, the new place serves the community with much meeting spaces and as a potential catalyst for new development along Broadway.
The Highland Heights Community Development Corp. will award $1,000 for the best concept to reuse the old church buildings anchoring a corner of Summer at Highland.
California-based Mullen Technologies has been literally all over the map in deciding where it will make its first electric vehicle. Now, Memphis leaders feel they’ve made a safe bet on the start-up, and the payoff could be hundreds of manufacturing jobs.
Two extreme lows have turned Memphis into a battleground for would-be homebuyers: Low mortgage interest rates that make borrowing so attractive, and a low number of “For Sale” signs that make finding and grabbing a house so difficult. Experts share their advice.
The first of five buildings at I-269 Logistics Center can be expanded to 1.74 million square feet.
The first- and second-place designs adapt the vacant Highland Heights United Methodist Church buildings for residential, commercial and community event space. The third-place winner transforms the space into assisted living for seniors.
The future residence hall will have more than 61,000 square feet, single rooms, suites, common spaces and a lodge for the campus’ cultural organizations.
The company that provides accounting, tax, insurance, auditing, and human resource services to businesses decided to stay and renovate its lofty place in Clark Tower.
A new, mixed-use development is designed to bring hundreds of new residents and new retail to a 10-acre area that touches the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus, Victorian Village, the Edge District and the Medical District.
A planned tobacco shop will be allowed to open near Snowden School, but the owner must provide sales documents after the first three months proving that he’s not running a vapor shop, the Board of Adjustment voted.
Property records show that developer Chance Carlisle’s RCM Devco has just added 2.7 acres to the 9.3 acres he plans to develop in East Memphis. The site at 5111 Sanderlin is where the Racquet Club of Memphis closed and was razed.
The distribution building that changed hands has been Hunter Fan’s logistics headquarters since 1996.
Former Memphis City Council member Brent Taylor for years has acquired and operated funeral homes in small towns near Memphis. But he recently innovated a relatively affordable funeral service in the heart of the bustling Poplar Corridor in East Memphis.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the government’s request for an emergency, temporary halt to a Memphis-based ruling that allows evictions in West Tennessee.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said he hopes landlords and tenants in Shelby County will “work together” – with the aid of an additional $8.6 million in federal emergency rental assistance – to prevent evictions.