Sears to self-storage: Hickory Ridge Mall space to open this summer
The former Sears location in the Hickory Ridge Mall will reopen as an indoor storage business as early next month.
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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Real Estate Townhouses with functional art planned for Broad gateway
A developer plans to build 15 townhouses and dual-purpose public art on another acre of Midtown’s abandoned I-40 property.
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Education Drive-thru scholarships: ‘Cream of the crop’ awarded $2,000 each
Two nonprofits organized a colorful way to hand over scholarship checks of $2,000 each to 104 girls and young women on Friday, June 18.
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Arts & Culture Exclusive: Life of art, Hollywood deal-making hone Resnick to lead Brooks art museum
The same guy who reeled in Marvel Comics so 20th Century Fox could make the X-Men movies is now leading the city’s art museum. Meet Mark Resnick.
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Real Estate ‘Game-changer’ homes showcased in Uptown
During the open house for Uptown’s new Malone Park Commons, guests — like the residents — mingled among rental homes that are not spaced apart by driveways, carports and garages.
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Real EstateProposed gas station grandfathered in despite Summer rezoning
Yet another convenience store with gas may be built on Summer Avenue in Highland Heights. The Board of Adjustment determined Wednesday, June 23, that a C-store developer submitted required paperwork in time before the City Council rezoned the area to prohibit gas sales.
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Financial Services Renasant Bank designs a transparent Memphis headquarters
Renasant bankers brainstormed with LRK Architects to envision the kind of building that millennial employees and customers would want 20 years from now.
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BusinessMuscle-car shop helps rev up retros for racing — but discourages it on the streets
Muscle-car shop owner Kenny Bomar warns customers that if they keep racing in the streets he may see them at the weekly Bible class he leads at the Penal Farm.
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Financial ServicesFirst Horizon closing 4 branches in Memphis market
First Horizon officials confirmed that it plans to close three Memphis branches and one in Southaven next month.
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Real Estate Hilton Memphis has window missing at roofline
Management of East Memphis’ tall, round, glass-encased hotel knows a window is missing.
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Financial Services After almost 40 years, FHN Financial is leaving Audubon Woods
FHN Financial will move its offices next May from one East Memphis office building to another.
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Real Estate Link Apartments Broad Ave. starts to rise
The project is big and potentially impactful, comprising two buildings fronting Broad and filled with 370 apartments.
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Real Estate 92-unit apartment development proposed for University District
A Florida-based developer seeks a number of zoning variances to build student apartments near the University of Memphis main campus.
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Real Estate Multi-block residential development proposed for Medical District
The application states that the project is intended to serve as a model for small-scale neighborhood development that can be applied to other Memphis neighborhoods.
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Real Estate Uptown developer reveals plans for historic Greyhound complex
A developer wants to move an Uptown mini-storage business out of the historic Greyhound bus complex and into a planned building next door. But the plans for the old, brick bus facility are far more intriguing.
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Bartlett Memphis supply firm merges with St. Louis company
Memphis-based company, IAC Supply Solutions, is merging with a similar company in St. Louis, where the new headquarters will be.
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Real Estate‘Torrid’ pace smashing records for industrial real estate deals
So far this year, a total of 10.1 million square feet of new or renewed leases of industrial space have been signed. That’s just 600,000 square feet short of the record-setting 2019, and it’s only July.
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Real Estate Civic leader George Cates killed in airplane crash
Memphis civic leader, philanthropist and real estate entrepreneur George E. Cates was killed Monday when the single-engine plane he piloted crashed near Jackson, Tennessee.
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Real Estate Cotton Gin building to anchor Olive Branch entertainment, residential district
A developer plans to remove a hodgepodge of additions from Olive Branch’s historic Cotton Gin building, and turn the site into the anchor for a residential and entertainment district across from City Hall.
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Real Estate‘Missing middle’ housing to rise near Le Bonheur, St. Jude
Pockets of new duplexes, quadplexes, cottage courts, live/work spaces and small single-family homes may provide affordable homes for workers and serve as an example for reviving other core-city neighborhoods.
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Visual ArtsCrosswalk cutouts: Grim reminders of pedestrian deaths
Each silhouette in a new public art installation in the Heights represents a Memphis pedestrian killed by a vehicle in 2020.
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Real Estate Wolf River Brisket Co., Abner’s Famous Chicken Tenders coming to Crosstown Concourse
One restaurant specializes in Texas-style smoked, beef brisket and smoked salmon, and the other features fried or grilled chicken tenders. Both are owned by the same company, and both are coming to Crosstown Concourse this fall.
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Real Estate ‘Union Station’ would bring hotel, retail and residences to Union Ave.
Developers say that the city administration will recommend on Tuesday that the City Council approve their $3.5 million bid for the now-closed police precinct at 1925 Union Ave.
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Real Estate Planning board rejects industrial park project near Hillshire
The Land Use Control Board rejected plans for an industrial park because of the potential negative impact on the Hillshire neighborhood and because the Memphis 3.0 plan calls for the land to remain undeveloped.
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Real Estate Luxury home development proposed for Whitehaven
“Goshen Place” would be a nearly 16-acre, gated subdivision for luxury homes near the planned BLP Film Studios site in Whitehaven.
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