Tom Bailey
Reporter
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 :
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November 2018
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Real Estate The city of Memphis is helping University of Memphis tennis teams find new home courts to use after The Racquet Club closes next spring. -
Real Estate Retail is part of Madison apartment building
The Madison@McLean apartments under construction in Midtown will include ground-floor retail space, the developers confirmed Monday. -
Real Estate Century Building would be razed for car wash
A familiar East Memphis office building, with its script “Century Building" sign in front and mechanized, louvered windows on the sides, is proposed to be demolished and replaced with a car wash. -
Real Estate Wiseacre to double jobs, expand distribution with Downtown brewery
A new, larger Wiseacre brewery Downtown would enable the Memphis company to double its full-time employment and expand distribution of its craft beer initially into all of Alabama as well as Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. “We’re in seven states full-time,’’ co-founder Kellan Bartosch said Friday of Wiseacre Brewing Co.'s current footprint. “And we’ve had conversations with markets all over.’’ -
Real Estate Wiseacre plans larger brewery Downtown
Wiseacre Brewing Co. plans to build a second, larger brewery Downtown. Abel Parcels LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wiseacre, is seeking a Board of Adjustment variance to build on 2.5 acres at the southeast edge of Downtown. B.B. King Boulevard, East Butler and Vance avenues and Abel Street border the site. -
Real Estate Metal Museum makes its case for Overton Park’s Rust Hall
The Metal Museum proposes to spend $21 million to renovate Overton Park’s Rust Hall and make it a “world class museum and educational center." The museum board approved what it calls the “expansion plan" in September as part of its campaign to win the keys to Rust Hall. The 78,000-square-foot headquarters of Memphis College of Art becomes available after the school closes in May 2020. -
Real Estate Patrons may drink in the views at Grind City Brewing
A father and son planning an $11.3 million craft beer brewery and taproom are intentional about the business engaging with and helping to lift its neighborhood, a long-distressed part of North Memphis. -
Real Estate Grand entrance: $950M Union Row proposed for Downtown
The largest mixed-use development in Memphis history goes public this week, promising to transform a haggard Downtown gateway with apartments, stores, restaurants, a hotel, office towers, parking structures, green spaces, even a half-acre park perched over a roadway like a rooftop. -
Business The Citizen edges Union toward safer avenues
The Citizen is still being built but the $35 million development already has made the corner of Union and McLean more urban. -
Real Estate The Flats at Overton Square nears construction
Construction is to start by January on The Flats at Overton Square, part of which will be among the first live/work apartment buildings in Midtown. -
Business Sign of the times: Code officers start measuring light
For the first time the city saw the light, at least in a measured way. -
Real Estate Renewable gas firm files $3.3M permit for facility near Memphis landfill
A company that converts the methane given off by landfills into renewable natural gas apparently has plans for a $3.3 million construction project near the South Shelby Landfill in Memphis, records indicate. -
Real Estate Uptown brewery would include tap room, plans show
Construction plans indicate a new Uptown brewery project would involve at least some renovation and partial demolition at an old industrial or mill facility. -
Real Estate Memphis starts reacting to Union Row
The proposed $950 million Union Row development will soon start appearing on the agendas of local government boards, which will consider everything from tax incentives to the design of the massive mixed-use project. -
Real Estate Permit sought for $11.3 million brewery in Uptown
There are plans to construct a building for Grind City Brewing Co. in Uptown, according to a building permit application filed this week. -
Real Estate Resurgent Crosstown draws CrossFit Hit & Run
CrossFit Hit & Run’s Midtown location will move early next year to Crosstown, directly across Autumn Avenue from Crosstown Concourse. -
Real Estate Board approves Madison Gardens apartments
The Land Use Control Board on Thursday approved a planned development for a three-story, 24-unit apartment building at 1655-1665 Madison in Midtown. -
Real Estate Historic Ashlar Hall finally being renovated
The long-suffering Ashlar Hall – the 122-year-old castle-like and historic house – is finally being repaired and restored after years of decay and broken promises. -
Real Estate Arlington Tennis Center nears construction
Arlington is moving forward with plans to build six tennis courts with an open lawn and other amenities. -
Real Estate Sweet success: Gibson’s Donuts expanding yet again
Gibson’s Donuts is about to expand for the second time in less than three years. -
Financial Services Home equity: New leader making mark on United Housing
Amy Schaftlein was an elementary student in the Arlington area in the 1990s when her yellow school bus stopped in front of a blighted house. -
Business Big contractor fills need in U of M neighborhood
The construction firm building the University of Memphis’ $35 million pedestrian bridge, parking garage and plazas this week completed a small project – free of charge – that solves a problem for the adjoining neighborhood.
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October 2018
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Business Concourse starts work on Church Health YMCA swimming pool
The planned swimming pool for Church Health YMCA and Crosstown Concourse will be 2,569 square feet and offer a separate spray/splash area, a deck for lounging, a lift and steps to make the pool accessible, four swim lanes, starting blocks at the deeper end, and an accessory building that houses bathrooms, an office, storage and check-in counter. -
Real Estate I-40 solar & welcome center finally nears opening
A new Interstate 40 welcome center and solar exhibit near Memphis is expected to be completed in late November, about a year behind schedule. -
Real Estate DeSoto corporate park sold; vo-tech school to expand
The 32-acre Desoto Farms Corporate Park in Horn Lake has sold, with Delta Technical College planning to expand there, according to commercial real estate investment services firm Marcus & Millichap.
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