Plans for convenience stores with fuel pop up across Memphis
The Land Use Control Board in September is to consider applications for three convenience stores with gas, plus a truck stop. And those are hardly all of the proposals floating about.
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August 2020
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Work starts on Freddy’s in East Memphis
The Wichita, Kansas-based chain first opened a Freddy's in the Memphis market in 2017, and now operates three restaurants in the area.
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July 2020
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C-store/gas stations fuel American dream for hard-working couple
Rooziman and Nighat Shah have just bought 45 acres at Hacks Cross and Shelby Drive, with plans to build a convenience store/gas station as well as a 16,000-square-foot shopping center on the corner. They own more than 100 C-stores in and around the Memphis area.
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New Downtown grant would help with pre-construction costs
The proposed "Pre-Development Assistance Grant" would provide up to $5,000 for such costs as marketing studies, architecture, engineering and environmental assessments.
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Proposed C-store on Broad draws 93 opposition emails
Opponents' reasons can be grouped into about 10 categories, from traffic congestion to environmental concerns over underground gas tanks. Still, the Office of Planning Development has recommended the C-store be approved because the area around it has become more commercial. But now the case may be delayed until late August.
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Father and son team aim to transform building near Medical District
A two-story commercial building at the seam of Central Gardens and the Medical District will soon become 18 units of luxury apartments.
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Cordova snags a Hook & Reel
Yet another seafood boil restaurant is coming to Memphis. The Hook & Reel will breathe new life into a building where an O'Charley's Restaurant closed recently.
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Chick-fil-A in Wolfchase district among state’s largest
Chick-fil-A's unusually short but expensive move seems to affirm the Wolfchase shopping district has still got 'it': The power to draw customers from far and wide.
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Southall Cafe to offer ‘chef driven’ breakfast, lunch in East Memphis
Owners of the new restaurant at 669 S. Mendenhall anticipate Southall Cafe will open by mid-August. It's part of Boyle Investment Company's newly renovated Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.
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Event center proposed near Summer Ave. Corridor
The applicant proposing The Stratford event center plans several measures to prevent the commercial activity from affecting residences nearby.
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Raymond James takes another step from Downtown toward E. Memphis
Building permit applications show Raymond James plans to spend $7.25 million renovating the 1100 Ridgeway Loop building and $6.33 million renovating the 889 Ridge Lake building.
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Mixed-use development proposed for Poplar Plaza’s corner at Poplar & Highland
Finard Properties has filed requests with the planning board to transform Poplar Plaza's southeast corner into a mixed-use development. A rendering indicates existing buildings on the corner will be replaced with six- or seven-story structures.
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Soybean field turned Square starts to take shape
Two of Silo Square's mixed-use buildings, each three stories, are effectively designed as illusions, with a nod to the past. The presence of a kitchen-appliance delivery truck nearby signals that completion of those buildings is within the near future.
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Gregory Realty buys Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center
Hulet and Jackie Gregory this week bought the 85,000-square-foot Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center. Gregory Realty now has about 30 commercial properties and is hunting for more.
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Nashville-based Gorney Realty buys 2 more E. Memphis office buildings
Gorney Realty Partners just bought the Centrum and Colonnade office buildings in East Memphis from Highwoods Properties.
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Southwest community college plans expansion, new ‘front door’ on Union
Southwest Tennessee Community College plans to convert the closed Office Depot building near Downtown for its performing arts programs, for an array of student services, for a bit of retail to serve students and for a more prominent presence along busy Union Avenue.
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June 2020
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Varsity Spirit resumes talks on move to Snuff District
Varsity Spirit president Bill Seely confirms his company has restarted discussions about moving its headquarters from the suburbs to Uptown's planned Snuff District.
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Orgel presses ahead with $32M Snuff District permit, but no office space yet
Despite the pandemic, the development team files for a building permit to put the first 107 apartment units, community center and fitness center in the historic buildings of the Snuff District. But, the documents do not yet mention plans for office space.
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Blood plasma donation firm plans facility in Raleigh
Octapharma Plasma is seeking a conditional use permit to operate where the Salvation Army closed its Family Store and Donation Center on Austin Peay Highway.
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UPDATED: Developer asks for 30-day hold on Broad Ave. gas station plan
Faced with stiff and diverse opposition, the developers have requested a 30-day hold on their already revised plans for a gas station/convenience store at the gateway to Broad Avenue.
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Fitness club quickly takes big-box space vacated by Best Buy in Southwind
Mississippi-based Club 4 Fitness will spend about $1 million tailoring the former electronics store space into its first gym in Memphis.
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New deli coming to Park Ave. near Audubon Park
The building that for decades housed Consignment Music will become a deli restaurant.
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Pilgrim, Tiger and Peacock to be part of The Memphian hotel in Overton Square
Developers of the 106-room boutique hotel have just rolled out some of the branding and concepts for the hotel that already towers over Overton Square.
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Agency may increase grants for South City businesses because of pandemic
The Downtown Memphis Commission staff recommends that grants for exterior improvements to South City businesses start covering 90% of the costs instead of 75%.
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Avenida’s plan for active seniors: No food service, no medical care, lots of fun
The soon-to-open "active adult rentals" development eliminates food and medical services but packs in resort-style amenities and programming.
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