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Tom Bailey covers business news for The Daily Memphian. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He's worked in journalism for 40 years and has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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A doctor’s hobby evolved into the world’s largest company of its kind, and Roger Cicala’s expertise in lens sharpness and quality has even drawn the attention of NASA.
Employers are giving hiring bonuses, creating retention incentives, making work schedules more flexible, raising pay, providing transportation to workers and providing other incentives to fill positions during this tight labor market.
A stormy-weather forecast has pushed back for one week the Inaugural MAM Helicopter Ball Drop fundraiser for Memphis Athletic Ministries.
Miriam ‘Mili’ Cordero put the petal to the metal in a flower truck business. Now she’s about to open a flower and gift shop across from Snowden School in Midtown, in a new, mixed-use building on North McLean.
Whataburger plans to hire more than 530 new employees in the greater Memphis area by the end of this year. The number is to reach 930 by the end of 2022.
Memphis attorney Don Campbell will become Carlisle LLC’s chief administrative officer and general counsel. CPA Eric Lucka will be senior vice president for accounting and investments.
Plans for a $104 million development comprising a hotel, apartments, office and parking garage near the University of Memphis got off to a smooth start, receiving unanimous support of the Land Use Control Board.
Helm Fertilizer Terminal has now exceeded 51,622 hours of work without workplace-related injury or sickness.
Opera Memphis is listing for $3.8 million its 18-year-old, suburban headquarters. Like Ballet Memphis before it, the company plans a move to the heart of Memphis.
The Peabody seeks to fill more than 115 jobs. And in this tight labor market, the hotel is offering two hiring-bonus installments.
Work colleague Simon Wadsworth recalls George Cates’s extraordinary attention to detail that went far beyond the balance sheet.Related stories:
The Memphis-born company that has become the nation’s largest online rental company for camera equipment seeks planning board approval so it can move from Cordova to an existing building in the Southwind business park.
TPA Group of Atlanta wants to convert 72 undeveloped acres near Memphis International into property that can host warehousing, distribution and fulfillment uses.
In age of online shopping, car dealership wants to ‘click it’ with a new photography studio.
“Goshen Place” would be a nearly 16-acre, gated subdivision for luxury homes near the planned BLP Film Studios site in Whitehaven.
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.
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.
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.
Each silhouette in a new public art installation in the Heights represents a Memphis pedestrian killed by a vehicle in 2020.
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.
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.
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.Related stories:
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.
Memphis-based company, IAC Supply Solutions, is merging with a similar company in St. Louis, where the new headquarters will be.
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.