There are 32 article(s) tagged Kemp Conrad:

• September 2022

  • Guest Column: My Friend, Memphis

    Memphis weeps for the beautiful lives and souls of those cut short by monsters. Yet all of this — all the horrors and the beauty — are a byproduct of the same place. A juxtaposition that is difficult to comprehend.

    By Kemp Conrad, Gina Weathersby September 19, 2022

• June 2022

  • Opinion: Partisan city primaries would further divide us

    Partisan primaries would make Memphis city government more like the divisive dumpster fire that is today’s Washington, D.C.

    By Kemp Conrad June 21, 2022

• July 2021

  • ‘Torrid’ pace smashing records for industrial real estate deals

    So far this year, a total of 10.1 million square feet of new or renewed leases of industrial space have been signed. That’s just 600,000 square feet short of the record-setting 2019, and it’s only July.

    By Tom Bailey July 02, 2021

• April 2021

  • Industrial property gets even hotter

    Last year was the second-strongest for for industrial real estate ever recorded by Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors. But in just the first three months of 2021, the net, new space absorbed by users has already reached 68% of last year’s total.

    By Tom Bailey April 01, 2021

• January 2021

  • Memphis-area industrial real estate ‘on fire’ so far in 2021

    Eight transactions for Class A industrial space, totaling 2.4 million square feet, have either been completed or are pending during the first three weeks of January, reports Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors.

    By Tom Bailey January 21, 2021

  • Canadian firm buys Olive Branch industrial building

    The Quebec-based Quint Group paid $8.75 million to Illinois-based Agracel Inc. for a 258,000-square-foot industrial building. Kemp Conrad, a principal with Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors, will represent Quint Group in leasing the building.

    By Tom Bailey January 06, 2021

• December 2020

  • Logistics facility sells as Memphis industrial spec construction heats up

    Completed in 2019 at 6200 Global as the city’s first spec warehouse in 11 years, the 421,000-square-foot, Class A facility quickly landed a tenant and has just sold for a second time. And, several other speculative logistics centers in Memphis are in the pipeline.

    By Tom Bailey December 21, 2020

• October 2020

  • Memphis industrial real estate remains solid despite pandemic

    Despite COVID-19, companies have absorbed more than 3 million square feet than they have vacated in the Memphis area during 2020.

    By Tom Bailey October 13, 2020

• July 2020

  • Pandemic boosts Memphis-style industry: Distribution

    Strong industrial real estate activity happened in the Memphis market during April, May and June, in part because of the pandemic, not despite it. 

    By Tom Bailey July 17, 2020

• May 2020

  • Commercial real estate offers first clues of life in a pandemic

    Two Memphis CRE executives talk on "Behind The Headlines" discuss the challenges, opportunities and changes behind the pandemic.

    By Bill Dries May 09, 2020

  • Behind the Headlines Podcast: Coronavirus impact on business and future developments

    Darrell Cobbins and Kemp Conrad join host Eric Barnes to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic in Memphis, including the impact it has had on businesses and future developments.

    By Eric Barnes May 08, 2020

• January 2020

  • Strickland pushes literacy efforts, promises programs for older youth

    The Memphis mayor promised details at his Wednesday oath of office ceremony on a city effort aimed at "opportunity youth" between the ages of 16 and 24. 

    By Bill Dries January 01, 2020

• December 2019

  • Behind the Headlines Podcast: Memphis City Council

    Kemp Conrad, outgoing chair of the Memphis City Council, and Patrice Robinson, incoming chair of the Memphis City Council, discuss MLGW rate hikes, increased solid waste fees, the fire and police pension referendum, and more with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes.

    By Eric Barnes December 27, 2019

  • Conrad, Robinson say police and fire benefits restoration could be on different terms in 2020

    The incoming and outgoing leaders of the Memphis City Council agree the city probably doesn't have enough money from a half-cent sales tax hike approved by voters in October to fully restore benefits cut by the city in 2014. 

    By Bill Dries December 26, 2019

  • City Council farewells reveal turbulent recent history, City Hall traditions

    The six Memphis City Council members whose terms end with the new year said their farewells Dec. 17 at the last council meeting of the year. For some it was emotional, for others it was a time to reflect and for still others it was political.

    By Bill Dries December 22, 2019

  • Council approves solid waste, partial MLGW fee hikes

    Water and gas rate hikes were approved but a proposed electric rate hike was rejected. The council also took back its rejection of a solid waste fee hike that goes on the same monthly utility bills. That after Mayor Jim Strickland threatened layoffs and reductions in garbage service in the new year without the hike.

    By Bill Dries December 19, 2019

  • Sanford: Sanitation workers are pawns in a political tussle – again

    A $7 increase for enhanced trash collection stalled in a City Council vote. If the increase isn’t approved, 199 full-time Solid Waste employees will lose their jobs. 

    By Otis Sanford December 12, 2019

• November 2019

  • Conrad prepares to show new council members the ropes, pushes for residency vote

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, outgoing council Chairman Kemp Conrad discusses Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division rate hikes and a recent visit to Hungary. 

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2019

• October 2019

  • Conrad suggests Memphis in May rotation of honored countries

    Memphis City Council chairman Kemp Conrad says the Memphis in May International Festival should focus on honoring a rotating set of countries instead of the broad range of countries the festival has honored over more than 40 years.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2019

• September 2019

  • Conrad and Malone debate sales tax hike ballot question

    The City Council chairman and the Memphis Fire Fighters Association president debated the proposed sales tax hike on "Behind The Headlines" in a discussion that featured lots of disagreement.

    By Bill Dries September 19, 2019

  • Council contenders sign progress pledge, Conrad and Ford come out against sales tax hike

    The "Pledge for Progress" is a promise on the priorities five council contenders would have if elected to the body, including a possible change to 13 single-member districts. Meanwhile, council Chairman Kemp Conrad and county commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. are the first public opponents of the sales tax hike ballot question on the Oct. 3 ballot.

    By Bill Dries September 11, 2019

• July 2019

  • Waste Connections vote reveals city council conundrum

    Before rejecting plans this week to reconfigure the Waste Connections facility in Whitehaven, several Memphis City Council members said the decision is probably not the best outcome for area homeowners.

    By Elle Perry, Bill Dries July 06, 2019

  • Lemonade and mopeds frame re-election summer for City Council

    Three of the 13 council members are term-limited. The other 10 each face potential challengers in the summer campaigns on their way to the Oct. 3 election day.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2019

• June 2019

  • Council delays Graceland vote, warns EPE against changing terms

    Memphis City Council members delayed a vote Tuesday setting up Tourism Development Zone funding to partially finance an $80 million expansion of Graceland.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2019

  • Budget votes breeze through City Council, Beale Street cover charge extended

    The City Council stuck with a compromise 4% pay raise for police and firefighters and kept the city property tax rate at $3.19, but also extended a controversial cover charge for Beale Street on summer weekends. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019