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A Midtown ice cream shop serves more than just sweets
The first Mid-South Stella’s Ice Cream opened a few months ago in Midtown Memphis. Co-owner Rebecca Schneider said it felt like “angels were bringing this into fruition.”
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Real Estate Seminar to discuss back to office trends and impact of possible tariffs
Three panelists and a keynote speaker will talk at the Daily Memphian Commercial Real Estate: Review and Forecast Seminar at the Memphis Botanic Garden on Thursday, Dec. 5.
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Real Estate Seminar to showcase 2024’s commercial real estate outlook
Local commercial real estate experts will discuss how many businesses are building the spaces they will occupy themselves and how work from home is affecting office space in Memphis.
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BusinessAnother local AI data center planned, this one on Sycamore View
A Nashville-based investor has spent 18 months looking “relentlessly” for properties to house his modular AI data centers.
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Food NewsNot so fast, barbecue fans. Amid uncertainty over combined BBQ fest, community reacts
The announcement that the SmokeSlam BBQ Festival and MIM’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest would likely participate in a shared 2027 event was met with happiness, suspicion, disbelief and — from many MIM board members — confusion.
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Real EstateFood Files: Cat cafe comes to Southaven, Gibson’s and Carrington Oaks Coffeehouse Collierville reopen
In this edition of Food Files: Fancy Cat Cafe in Southaven offers coffee and cats. Gibson’s Donuts made some upgrades, but “everything is back to normal.” And Carrington Oaks Coffeehouse in Collierville has reopened.
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Ford MegasiteFord suppliers to pay $5M in property taxes to Stanton, Tenn., throughout 10 years
“Rebuilding Main Street and creating a vibrant downtown continues to be my main priority,” Stanton’s mayor said. “This funding gives Stanton the ability to move from planning to construction and to invest in the core of our town.”
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Real EstateIncentives aim to bring small businesses to Downtown Memphis
The policy changes, submitted by the DMC Policy Committee in December, align with the newly adopted Downtown Action Plan, which focuses resources on Main Street, invests in activation, infill and blight remediation and to maximize walkability.
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BusinessMemphis Gift Basket to open first retail store with mini grocery
Online gift-basket retailer Memphis Gift Basket will open its first storefront and small fresh market this summer in Uptown.
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Food NewsFood Files: Restaurants in Whitehaven, Downtown close for upgrades
It’s renovation time for a Whitehaven barbecue joint and a Downtown bakery. Also, a Highland Street restaurant is up for sale.
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Food NewsMemphis handroll sushi restaurant came to owners in a dream
A sister restaurant to Red Koi has rolled into a two-story space in East Memphis, and it’s not your typical sushi bar.
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Food NewsFood Files: Wild Beet Salad Co., The Pop Spot opening
The Pop Spot Bar & Grill on Brookhaven Circle and Wild Beet Salad Co. in Cooper-Young are opening, and may be joined by a new restaurant on Mississippi Boulevard.
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Spirit of MemphisSeeds for lawyer’s success planted when she was a child
Instead of bedtime stories, Lauran Stimac would request her dad, Memphis-based lawyer Richard Glassman, to tell her about his cases.
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Real EstateFood Files: Playa Bowls opens in the Edge, The Melting Pot to return
Playa Bowls has opened its third location in Memphis, this time in the Edge District, and The Melting Pot is returning to the area and could be open as soon as 2027.
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Business After decade-long run, IKEA Memphis will close
IKEA Memphis was the retailer’s first and only store in Tennessee.
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BusinessWhat it means to lose Tennessee’s first Ikea
As a brand, Ikea has a large regional draw with people still driving in from out of town to shop there. And then there’s the question of what the building might become.
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Business Ford Motor Co. incurred billions in charges after ending SK battery venture
Though currently pivoting away from electric vehicles, Ford has lost more than $16 billion on its EV business since 2022.
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Food NewsFood Files: Evelyn & Olive reopens as Jamaica Soul
The owner of Evelyn & Olive reopened the East Memphis location on Saturday, Feb. 7. Also, TacoNGanas is one step closer to its first brick-and-mortar restaurant and two former Wendy’s properties have been sold.
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Food NewsWhere there’s smoke: Fuego Vivo brings live-fire, global menu to East Memphis
The restaurant, located in the former Carrabba’s Italian Grill at 5110 Poplar Ave., officially opens with a ribbon-cutting Monday, Feb. 9.
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East MemphisInvestors plan $25 million project at former Houston’s site
Local investors Darrell Horn and Brown Gill are partnering to bring office, retail and restaurant space to the former Houston’s site at Poplar Avenue and South Mendenhall Road.
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BusinessWomen & Business seminar speakers to share advice, empowerment
The Daily Memphian is hosting its Women & Business Seminar on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road, featuring Gina Neely, Karen Carrier and Shannon Briggs as guest speakers.
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Transportation & Logistics GXO Logistics to lay off 185 in Memphis
The logistics provider has been cutting its Memphis operations since 2024.
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Business Convention Center leader leaving Memphis
Renasant Convention Center general manager Dean Dennis has accepted a job as the general manager of the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
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Real EstateFood Files: Grab that microphone, Memphis, and get ready to sing
Both The Studio Karaoke and The SovereignTea Cafe will have their grand openings in February. Also, a new Pizza Hut is coming to Marketplace at Raleigh.
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Real EstateConvention center Sheraton could be redeveloped, rebranded by 2029
The redevelopment project includes moving the hotel entrance to Main Street to face the convention center, and adding meeting space and an outdoor event lawn.
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