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June 2025
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May 2024
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Calkins: What’s it look like when a 315-pound lineman learns to swim? PURE joy.
The YMCA needs lifeguards. The football-playing kids at PURE Academy need to learn how to swim. The two organizations hit on a creative way to solve both problems. And it’s already making quite a splash.
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January 2024
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Opinion: Council health care proposal ‘is as ludicrous as it is ... offensive’
“Is it fair to City of Memphis employees, many of whom have worked for 25 or 30 years, to not have the same benefit a part-time elected official would receive?” a former council member asks.
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City Council punts health insurance benefits extension for itself
The ordinance that would apply to four council members who left the council just last month would extend city health insurance to city elected officials who serve two terms or eight years in office.
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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.
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September 2022
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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.
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June 2022
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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.
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July 2021
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‘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.
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April 2021
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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.
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January 2021
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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.
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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.
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December 2020
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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.
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October 2020
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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.
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July 2020
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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.
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May 2020
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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.
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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.
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January 2020
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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.
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December 2019
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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November 2019
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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.
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October 2019
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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.
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September 2019
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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.
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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.
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