Carlisle adds brick, other changes to 7 Vance design
The Design Review Board will meet in a special-called meeting Thursday, April 22, to judge whether a revised design for the 7 Vance Building fits in South Main’s historic warehouse district.
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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Transportation & Logistics Strong arm: Muscular poles replacing wire that holds Memphis traffic signals
A nearly $3.4 million project is underway to install “mast arm traffic signal poles” at a dozen intersections along a six-mile stretch of Jackson Avenue. The city will place mast arms at more intersections as funding allows.
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Real Estate Sylvamo focused on Memphis for its global headquarters
Executives of the printing paper-making company that is spinning off from International Paper expect to decide by October where to put their global headquarters.
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East MemphisSultan of swat: East Memphis artist invents better flyswatter
Kim Willson is an artist and entrepreneur who grew frustrated swatting at and missing flies with the traditional flyswatter. She invented Taddy Smack, a blend of whimsy and physics that may give a positive meaning to “one-hit wonder.”
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BusinessALSAC buys half-acre from Uptown’s St. Stephen church
ALSAC is further expanding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s campus at the seam of Uptown and the Pinch District.
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Business Memphis house rakes in awards in fight against climate change
Earth Day honor: Two of the most meaningful awards and certifications in the battle against climate change were announced Thursday for a Harbor Town house.
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Business Amazon confirms two new Memphis-area facilities
Amazon confirms plans to build two more facilities in the Memphis area, one in Frayser/Raleigh and the other in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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Real Estate 200 yards of trees below Martyrs Park cut without permission, official says
On a Wednesday afternoon, March 10, someone without permission cut down scores of trees on the publicly owned Mississippi River bank below Martyrs Park, a parks official says.
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Real EstateFirst 0-energy, 0-carbon house is still cOzy inside
The Yoakums’ new house creates more electricity than it consumes. And it’s uber-chic, complete with a pneumatic elevator tube. Plus, the home stays snug in the winter and just as comfortable in the summer.
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Real Estate Longtime owner Russell Gwatney closes his last area new car dealership
For the first time in 33 years, no new car dealerships named “Gwatney” are operating in Memphis.
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Real Estate Former Heinz warehouse, Linda Lou store could become housing, ‘makerspace’
Two building owners are asking for variances so they can offer boarding rooms or apartments in areas zoned for employment.
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Real Estate Midtown’s Lululemon Pop Up store closes
The Lululemon Pop Up store in Midtown, which opened last year as the pandemic spread, has closed.
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Real Estate Board approves zoning exceptions for Orleans Station
The Board of Adjustment approved zoning exceptions for the nearly 10-acre, mixed-use Orleans Station on the campus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Other cases included the rejection of illegal business signs on Summer and a compromise for a nonconforming hotel sign on Lamar.
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Real EstateWooded site cleared for Opus East Memphis senior-living community
Work has begun on the nearly $90 million Opus East Memphis at 1029 Cherry Road, which developer Kevin Adams says will take about two years to complete. The 240-unit facility will offer independent living, assisted living and dementia care.
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Real Estate Construction to make Highland Strip safer for pedestrians
A $6.5 million project to install along the Highland Strip five crosswalks, medians, better sidewalks, more lighting, lusher landscaping and improved drainage is set to be complete by June 2022.
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Business Archimania’s ‘World Changing Idea’: Make Cooper St. a carbon-neutral corridor
The firm has run a yearlong experiment after buying and renovating a 64-year-old Midtown building for its new office. It concludes that spending the money to make an older building zero-energy, zero-carbon pays off sooner than you may think.
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Real EstateChickasaw Gardens duplex hits the market for $1.2 million
About $4,000 is the projected, monthly rent for each of the two units. But the apartments – if that’s how a buyer uses them – are more than 3,000 square feet each, have luxury finishes, and are nestled in one of the city’s leafiest neighborhoods.
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Real EstateExclusive: Mixed-use development may transform entire block of Lamar
Midtown’s hot real estate development may soon stretch south to embrace an entire block of Lamar Avenue, which has experienced disinvestment over the decades.
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South Memphis Proposed South Memphis TIF district could generate $93M for improvements
Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.
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Real Estate Hollywood-scale film lot planned for Memphis
The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.
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BusinessWhoa. Careful. Mind the ‘baby grass’ at Overton Park, please
Careful where you step, please. Baby grass is growing on the Overton Park golf course.
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DowntownFamily’s printing shop in Pinch District turns 100
The C.A. Davis Printing Co. marks its 100th year of being in business. The two-person shop still operates in the Pinch District at 349 N. Main, where it has completed printing jobs for the past 77 years.
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Business Big projects from Capleville to Downtown seek planning board approval
The new planning board applications for the June meeting include a 500-plus door truck terminal, a $75 million warehouse park and a proposal for 15-lot subdivision in East Memphis that would use a public street but be gated.
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Real Estate Loews Hotels drops plans to use historic police building
Any plans Loews still has for a Civic Center convention center hotel have changed. The hotel company won’t be buying the historic police headquarters building on Adams Avenue.
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Real Estate The Memphian surrounds its ‘pilgrims’ with color and art
The Memphian in Overton Square has just opened. Inside, the place is as much a lively, luminous art gallery as a hotel.
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