There are 32 article(s) tagged Downtown Memphis:

• February 2019

  • FedEx Logistics, The Clipper are variations on a Downtown theme of live-work-play

    Developers of a new FedEx Logistics headquarters in the Gibson Guitar building and an adjoining $250 million mixed-use project hope to fill gaps in Downtown office, hotel and retail. 

    By Wayne Risher February 13, 2019

  • FedEx Logistics announces headquarters at Gibson Guitar building

    FedEx Logistics, the specialty services and trade unit of Memphis-based FedEx Corp., announced Tuesday it would put its headquarters in the Gibson Guitar building, giving FedEx a significant Downtown office presence.

    By Wayne Risher February 13, 2019

  • Office/hotel tower to rise Downtown next to FedEx Logistics

    The Clipper, a mixed-use, eight-story tower for offices, 250-room hotel and ground-floor retail, will rise next to the future home of FedEx Logistics in Downtown. 

    By Tom Bailey February 12, 2019

  • Johnny Cash memorial adds incentives at Midtown apartment project

    Developers of an apartment complex on South Cooper in Cooper-Young received an extension on tax incentives for adding a public art element, a tribute to Johnny Cash, who played his first gig near the property. 

    By Michelle Corbet February 07, 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

  • Chancellor delays hearing on expanded Sheraton challenge of Loews incentives

    Attorneys for the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel and the City Council squared off in Chancery Court Tuesday over a challenge to public incentives for a new Loews Hotel. 

    By Wayne Risher January 29, 2019

  • Downtown Memphis Commission board members hit the road

    On a bus ride spanning one end of Downtown to the other, Downtown Memphis Commission board members got a tour of projects Thursday they have helped along through financial incentives.   

    By Michelle Corbet January 19, 2019

  • Downtown's latest, Hilton Garden Inn, harnesses greyhound's charm

    The Hilton Garden Inn Memphis Downtown, with 150 guest rooms on seven stories and a bar called The Greyhound, pays homage to the site's past as the Greyhound Bus Station.

    By Wayne Risher January 15, 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

  • Former hotel proposed for renovation into apartments, Airbnb units

    Downtown incentives are sought for renovation of Main Street section of Ambassador Hotel and a 1920s warehouse in the South End and development of Grind City Brewery in Uptown.

    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

  • Without philanthropy, Ravine will be 'grittier' than the renderings

    A vacant rail spur beside the former Kudzu’s Bar & Grill received initial funding to be transformed into a shared public plaza.

    By Michelle Corbet December 20, 2018

  • Wonder Bread developers seeking grant for expansive Edge District park

    PGK Properties, which is spearheading the redevelopment of the former Wonder Bread plant in the Medical District, is seeking a grant from the Downtown Memphis Commission for a park that could cost up to $5.7 million.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 14, 2018

  • Wiseacre lands tax break to build 'Instagramable' Downtown taproom

    A swath of vacant land is purposely part of Wiseacre Brewing Co.’s plans for its new brewery and taproom Downtown.

    By Michelle Corbet December 14, 2018

  • Building density, building community

    With a shared private and public goal to increase population density as a mechanism to become more efficient and successful as a city, the expansion of Memphis and Shelby County’s Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) payment in-lieu-of taxes (PILOT) incentive to include Midtown has been welcomed by multifamily developers in our community.

    By Rick Wood December 11, 2018

  • Union Row project clears initial 30-year TIF approval

    The first phase of Union Row, the $950 million mixed-use project along Union Avenue, is one step closer to securing the tax revenue it needs to fund public infrastructure improvements.

    By Michelle Corbet December 11, 2018

  • Wiseacre seeking 15-year PILOT for $9M brewery

    Wiseacre Brewing Co.’s new Downtown Memphis brewery will carry a price tag of more than $9 million, according to new documents made public Thursday, Dec. 6.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 06, 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

  • DMC board questions capacity for apartments Downtown

    Several major Downtown Memphis apartment projects received tax breaks Tuesday morning, causing some board members to question just how many apartments are too many?

    By Michelle Corbet November 13, 2018

  • Downtown master plan kicks off with 'less vacancy, more retail, dining'

    The Downtown Memphis Commission is collecting feedback that will help it shape the next decade of development and initiatives for the Bluff City’s core.

    By Michelle Corbet November 08, 2018

  • Apartment project near Loflin Yard tacks on warehouse renovation

    Developers planning a mixed-use apartment and commercial building next to Loflin Yard in Downtown Memphis have upped the ante, adding a warehouse redevelopment to the project.

    By Michelle Corbet November 07, 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

  • Downtown Dining Week returns for year 10 with more than 50 restaurants

    Downtown Dining Week ushers in its 10th year Monday with more than 50 restaurants, about triple the number it started with back in 2008. But all those extra choices will cost you: This year a three-course dinner is $20.18, up 10 cents from $20.08 when it started.

    By Jennifer Biggs November 02, 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 agency to posthumously honor Phil Trenary in rescheduled awards

    The Downtown Memphis Commission will posthumously honor Phil Trenary during an Oct. 26 awards program that was postponed after Trenary’s death.

    By Wayne Risher October 20, 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

  • City ready to re-institute Beale Street Bucks cover charge for security

    The first weekend the Downtown Memphis Commission and Memphis Police Department considered reinstituting a cover charge on Beale Street did not occur.

    By Bill Dries September 24, 2018