Developer ponies up $104M to fill gaps in Downtown’s recent renaissance
Tom Intrator's development group 18Main wins tax relief for $104 million in projects on South Main and South Front Downtown.
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Tom Intrator's development group 18Main wins tax relief for $104 million in projects on South Main and South Front Downtown.
FedEx Express regional president Richard W. Smith talked about Wing drones, Roxo the SameDay Bot and automation plans for the Memphis hub during an interview with The Daily Memphian.
While the First Horizon-Iberiabank merger’s ultimate impact on Memphis isn’t clear yet, First Horizon CEO Bryan Jordan said the goal is to minimize disruptions in the everyday flow of business.
Indiana Hunt-Martin, one of seven surviving members of World War II's 6888th Postal Battalion, spoke at FedEx Express World Headquarters Friday, Nov. 8, during an early Veterans Day program.
A University of Memphis economist and a Christian Brothers University banking center director believe a proposed merger of First Horizon and Iberiabank should be good news for Memphis.
Harold Burson, the Memphis-born co-founder of Burson-Marsteller, talks about covering Nuremberg Trials and helping Tylenol and Coca-Cola weather public relations crises, during an appearance at Halloran Centre Oct. 23.
FedEx survey of small business leaders finds strong support for NAFTA, stronger support for new North American trade agreement.
E-commerce giant Amazon will stage its first Amazon Academy in the U.S. in Southaven Nov. 1. It’s designed to help small businesses tap online sales while growing Amazon’s seller network.
FedEx has given employees 2% cost of living increases but said Tuesday, Oct. 22, it doesn't expect to fund annual incentive compensation bonuses when fiscal year 2020 ends next May.
Memphis International Airport received minor damage and temporarily evacuated A and C concourses Monday during a storm that still has more than 30,000 customers of Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division without power.
Robert A. “Bob” Wilson, president of Wilson Air Center, has hauled disabled veterans and orphaned mountain lions for free. On Oct. 23, he’ll be honored by the National Business Aircraft Association.
The Downtown Memphis Commission voted 6-3 Friday, Oct. 18, to uphold its Design Review Board's approval of the design of Peabody Falls apartments in Midtown.
FedEx and Wing Aviation completed what FedEx called the nation’s first “scheduled, commercial residential delivery” by drone in the U.S. in Virginia on Friday, Oct. 18.
OjO, a station-based scooter service that's already in Dallas and Austin, is rolling out in Memphis Oct. 23 in partnership with Explore Bike Share.
An addition of nearly a mile of new railroad tracks to the Port Commission public terminal on Presidents Island should be finished by May 31, 2020.
FedEx takes out $212 million building permit as part of $1.55 billion transformation of FedEx Express world hub at Memphis International Airport.
FedEx Freight Direct, a service that can move heavy, bulky e-commerce purchases into a consumer's home or business, is expanding to reach 80% of the contiguous U.S. population.
A crush of fall break travelers and a bank of early morning departures combined for the biggest crowd at Memphis International Airport's main security checkpoint since at least July 2008.
Memphis International Airport’s B Concourse modernization is sitting at 25% complete as construction crews start erecting steel framework of a larger, light-filled space for passenger loading and unloading.
The City of Memphis and Loews Hotels have signed a development agreement for a $220 million hotel on Civic Center Plaza, funded in part by public incentives.
A 500-room, 17-story Loews Hotel proposed for Civic Center Plaza won approval by a Memphis zoning board Thursday, Oct. 10.
The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council on Tuesday presented a discussion of the investor potential of Opportunity Zones and how federal tax law might benefit distressed neighborhoods.
FedEx Returns Technology will be deployed at FedEx pickup and dropoff locations inside about 9,000 Walgreens stores in time for the holiday peak season.
ALCO Management Inc., Memphis-based provider of government-subsidized rental housing in nine states, is expanding and updating Downtown offices and preparing for the July 2020 retirement of founder Frank Jemison.
CTSI Global, a Memphis-grown provider of logistics technology, marked its move to a new headquarters at 1 South Prescott near Poplar Plaza Friday, Oct. 4.