There are 212 article(s) tagged Downtown Memphis:

• February 2019

  • The Peabody spreads its wings at 150, launches yearlong celebration

    The Peabody marks the 150th anniversary of opening on Feb. 5, 1869, with the launch of a yearlong celebration, including multiple ticketed events and offerings.

    By Wayne Risher February 07, 2019

• January 2019

  • Hotel Indigo Memphis readies slice of authenticity for 2019 debut

    The Hotel Indigo in Downtown Memphis has begun taking reservations for the New Year as a $15 million project to retrofit a former Holiday Inn winds toward conclusion.

    By Wayne Risher January 11, 2019

  • Downtown’s Royal Furniture building may grow taller after sale

    The historic Royal Furniture building in Downtown Memphis has sold for $3.5 million, and the new owner may make the building taller for new commercial tenants.

    By Tom Bailey January 08, 2019

• December 2018

  • GALLERY: Memphis holiday parade rings in season

    The 2018 Memphis Holiday Parade on Beale Street in Downtown Memphis may have been delayed due to the late-running St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Saturday, Dec. 1, but it didn't deter thousands of Memphians from lining up to watch dancers, bands, floats, motorcycles and Santa usher in the holiday season.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 02, 2018

• November 2018

  • Conaway: Gravy. Maybe.

    LET’S SEE IF WE’VE GOT GRAVY. I’ve been part of the breakfast cooking team at my church for decades, and for the first 20 years or so I stood next to Dr. Fred Sage. Fred did sausage gravy. I did eggs, 72 at a time.

    By Dan Conaway November 30, 2018

  • Grand entrance: $950M Union Row proposed for Downtown

    The largest mixed-use development in Memphis history goes public this week, promising to transform a haggard Downtown gateway with apartments, stores, restaurants, a hotel, office towers, parking structures, green spaces, even a half-acre park perched over a roadway like a rooftop.

    By Tom Bailey November 19, 2018

  • Downtown Memphis: A pipeline of passion

    The Downtown Memphis from 2014 when I moved back home from Austin, compared to the Downtown I experience and represent today, is almost night and day.

    By Benjamin Orgel November 17, 2018

  • Museum Lofts developers move forward with large building permit

    The developers of a multifamily project in South City filed a $10 million building-permit application with construction code officials Friday, Nov. 2.

    By Patrick Lantrip November 05, 2018

• October 2018

  • Brooks wants ‘visual landmark’ museum at the river

    A "great achievement in museum design." That is what the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art leaders are telling architects they want for the museum’s future home overlooking the Mississippi River in Downtown Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 22, 2018

  • Downtown tourism zone revenues decline for second year

    Downtown tourism development zone (TDZ) revenue fell for a second straight year, signaling lower spending at Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid and other businesses.

    By Wayne Risher October 08, 2018

• September 2018

  • Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless

    Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet.

    By Dan Conaway September 29, 2018

  • Downtown sensors keeping tabs on feet on the street

    More feet on the street has long been a mantra in the Downtown Memphis Commission’s effort to attract development and improve quality of life Downtown.

    By Wayne Risher September 28, 2018