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The Stockwell and Abbott families started a Downtown lunch spot 40 years ago that inspired a son’s lifelong belief in city-building: ‘Nine-year-old me didn’t doubt Downtown could rally, because I had seen my own family do it.’
Downtown projects at One Beale, FedEx Logistics' headquarters and Union Row are working toward completion. What's missing in the pandemic is pedestrian vibrancy.
Sixty-three percent of the 46 Downtown businesses receiving the forgivable loans were minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE).
The Center City Development Corp. has now approved about $200,000 in forgivable loans for 33 Downtown businesses.
The Center City Development Corp. has added $60,000 to the money available to help small Downtown businesses survive the effects of COVID-19.
Twenty Downtown businesses severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic have now received forgivable loans totaling $135,000.
Twelve more Downtown businesses have applied for forgivable loans totaling $79,900 and which are designed to help them survive the effects of COVID-19.
Acting with a sense of urgency, the Center City Development Corp. board approved the first forgivable loans for eight Downtown businesses that have been disrupted by COVID-19.
Members of a Downtown Memphis Commission board used a teleconference to keep their social distance and to approve a $30,000 grant to bring the healthy food business to Peabody Place.
Havana Mix will also add a new restaurant into Downtown retail space never before occupied.
A Chattanooga-based real estate firm is collaborating with an Edge District developer to carry out a $3.6 million adaptive reuse of the Memphis Cycle Shop building.
The Snuff District proposal would create more than 40 new waterfront townhomes in Memphis, along the river harbor.
The Downtown Memphis Commission staff particularly liked that the three ground-floor retail bays are virtually ready now for tenants.
Board approves signage, light and art for series of other projects including Equality Trailblazers monument.
The Regional Economic Alliance announced goals for 2020 on Thursday, Jan. 8: 68 projects, 3,800 jobs, $1.1 billion in capital investment, $109 million to minority and women-owned enterprises.
A New York developer plans to convert one of the South Main District's brick, two-story buildings into 18 short-term rental apartments and three ground-floor retail bays.
The Downtown Review Board will consider public art and signage for a number of projects, including Wiseacre Brewing Co., a suffrage monument and Sugashack on Beale.
Good morning, it’s Friday, Dec. 13, and today, Gov. Bill Lee will be in town to make an economic development announcement.
Downtown Memphis Commission-affiliated agencies provided incentives to 52 projects, from mega-projects to mom-and-pop retailers, during 2019. That was the most activity ever for the 42-year-old Downtown revitalization agency.
The Downtown Memphis Commission has pulled from the agenda of its Thursday, Dec. 12, meeting a proposed bylaws change limiting appeals of design review board decisions to project applicants.
Tom Intrator is described as “a self-made, self-taught investor, developer and entrepreneur.” So, just who is the man behind one of Memphis' biggest proposed mixed-use real estate projects ever?
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.
A pair of $1 billion-plus Downtown development projects that would require heavy doses of public incentives are scheduled for an initial vote on Monday, Dec. 2.
18 Main, led by New York real estate developer Tom Intrator, has submitted applications for tax incentives for five Downtown Memphis projects valued at more than $100 million.
Tom Intrator's development group 18Main wins tax relief for $104 million in projects on South Main and South Front Downtown.