Room service with a flair takes flight at Westin during pandemic
Room service was never so varied as the Westin Beale Street's dinner offering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests can get meals delivered to their rooms free from eight restaurants.
Topic: Downtown Memphis
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April 2020
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Downtown’s forgivable loan program grows by $60,000
The Center City Development Corp. has added $60,000 to the money available to help small Downtown businesses survive the effects of COVID-19.
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March 2020
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Landscape, lighting plan submitted for new FedEx Logistics headquarters
The Design Review Board will consider the proposed landscaping and lighting plans for the $62.5 million conversion of the former Gibson Guitar Factory into the new headquarters for FedEx Logistics.
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$26M Cotton Row renovation moves forward
Two river bluff buildings will be converted into 112 apartment units and 5,300 square feet of commercial space on Front Street.
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February 2020
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Indigo Ag: Memphis office growing despite job cuts
Indigo Ag indicates that roughly 50 Memphis employees have been laid off. Yet, the Memphis staff of 280 is still larger than it was a year ago and will keep growing, a company representative says.
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Kemmons Wilson Companies buys historic Downtown building
The 115-year-old brick warehouse that for decades housed a chain Italian restaurant in Downtown sold this week for $3.35 million.
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December 2019
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Design of One Beale’s second hotel approved
The Design Review Board approved a design that preserves the facade of the historic Ellis Building in front of One Beale's second, nine-story hotel.
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Rooms with a view: Memphis hotel developers going gangbusters
The supply of hotel rooms in Memphis would increase by nearly 25% if everything in the pipeline was built. That's unlikely, but oversupply is a concern.
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Big tax incentives approved for Union Row, Pinch District
How do you jump-start nearly $1.4 billion worth of new apartments, stores and offices? A Downtown board answers that by approving $306 million worth of tax incentives, with $143 million more to come from other sources, for two large developments.
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November 2019
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Another firm heads Downtown for ‘something bigger’
Cargill Cotton is now headquartered in a woodsy, spacious office setting surrounded by easy, suburban parking. But the firm is moving to a Downtown office tower where the views are panoramic and sidewalks are vibrant.
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The Extra Podcast: Brooks Museum’s Emily Neff discusses move Downtown
The Brooks’ executive director walks through the decision to move the museum to the riverfront – and gives a progress report on the new building.
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Cargill Cotton moving HQ Downtown next spring
Cargill Cotton said Monday it will move its headquarters and about 75 people from Cordova to One Commerce Square Downtown next spring.
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The Extra Podcast: Henry Turley on how Downtown development began
The legendary developer renovated buildings Downtown when everyone else thought he was crazy. “I didn’t know what I was doing,” he says. “And I was scared to death.”
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Fire-delayed Forum Flats preparing to open first apartments
Delayed four months by a fire, construction of Forum Flats apartments has resumed and the first units should become available soon.
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Bright lights, bigger city
The Mighty Lights add to the Downtown living experience: Anytime you drive up or down Riverside Drive, you see this magnetic glow, like holiday lights hanging in your backyard. They make us look like the first-tier city that we are becoming.
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October 2019
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Race for the Cure takes over Downtown, despite heavy rain
Survivors and their supporters took to the street with ponchos covering their pink paraphernalia for a rainy 5K in Downtown Memphis.
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Workplace health care provider’s grant application removed from agenda
Workplace health care provider We Care tlc is asking for a grant of up to $30,000 from a Downtown Memphis Commission board for interior renovations of its proposed center site at 119 S. Main.
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Revised plans for Union Row unveiled
New renderings for the 11-acre, first phase of the Union Row mixed-use development show a dense arrangement of apartments, parking garages, hotels and office buildings.
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September 2019
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Prospero Health to set up operations in Memphis
Prospero Health plans to invest $1.5 million and hire 249 workers in Memphis, setting up operations in One Commerce Square Downtown.
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Raymond James confirms move within Memphis
Raymond James confirmed Thursday that more than 800 employees will work at new locations once its move within Memphis is finished.
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$33 million permit pulled for FedEx Logistics HQ Downtown
A nearly $33 million building permit for interior finishwork has been pulled for the FedEx Logistics headquarters project in Downtown Memphis.
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August 2019
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Special ground is broken for One Beale
A ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday morning celebrated the first, $150 million phases of One Beale. Work already has started to erect the Hyatt Centric hotel and Landing Residences at One Beale apartments.
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Variety of site’s character surprises museum architects
The architect in charge of the new Brooks Museum design says the Downtown site offers much more character than just the river views.
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Hasta la Vista: Old motor court hotel closing for Union Row
Demolition to clear the way for the $950 million project is delayed until this fall.
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July 2019
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TRUE Sports moving headquarters to Downtown
True Temper Sports has rebranded itself as TRUE Sports and will move its 35 headquarters jobs from the suburbs into Downtown's One Commerce Square.
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