There are 8 article(s) tagged public incentives:

• February 2020

  • City backs Sheraton deal to boost conventions

    City touts Sheraton hotel incentive deal, expansion or not, for boosting ability to host larger conventions, putting tax-exempt land back on tax rolls.

    By Wayne Risher February 12, 2020

• December 2019

  • Tom Intrator stakes claim as Downtown change agent

    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?

    By Wayne Risher December 09, 2019

  • Nashville chancellor dismisses petition seeking to block Loews incentives

    A bid by the Sheraton Downtown Memphis Hotel to block incentives for a new Loews convention center hotel in Memphis has been dismissed in Davidson County Chancery Court.

    By Wayne Risher December 05, 2019

• July 2019

  • Nashville court airs dispute over incentives for 2nd Memphis convention center hotel

    Lawyers for Memphis, the Downtown Memphis Commission and Sheraton sparred Tuesday in Davidson County Chancery Court over a bid to block state-approved incentives for a new Loews Hotel.

    By Wayne Risher July 18, 2019

  • Davidson County chancellor hears motions in hotel incentive case

    Rulings are pending in Davidson County Chancery Court on a variety of dismissal motions in a Downtown Memphis Sheraton lawsuit challenging incentives for a proposed Loews Hotel.

    By Wayne Risher July 17, 2019

• May 2019

  • 100 North Main owner sues Loews, former convention center hotel partner

    One New York firm is suing another over the breakup of their joint venture to develop a second Memphis convention center hotel using local and state financial incentives.

    By Wayne Risher May 13, 2019

• February 2019

  • Chancellor dismisses Sheraton petition challenging incentives for Loews

    Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins on Monday dismissed the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel's petition that sought to block a City Council action favoring public incentives for a Loews hotel.

    By Wayne Risher February 25, 2019

  • FedEx Logistics HQ project wins $3 million in grants, tax freeze worth millions

    Public incentives flowed Thursday into a project to retrofit the Gibson Guitar Factory and make it FedEx Logistics' global headquarters. A tax freeze and two grants sailed to approval.

    By Wayne Risher February 14, 2019