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Business Bill Townsend feels he didn’t so much buy a building as a 107-year-old time capsule. He’s already got short-term plans and has discussed long-term possibilities with brg3s architects.
Construction firms and suppliers describe the effects created by the tight supply and rising costs of lumber and steel.
Ubiquiti, a communications technology company, has completed a lease for 161,000 square feet of warehouse space in the Southeast Memphis industrial district.
The Kraft Heinz Co. is partnering with The LEE Initiative and Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice on the grant program.
Youth Villages recently announced the addition of three new members to its national board of directors: Monica Wharton, Jes Averhart, and Chris Hunter.
The board will take final action on David Skinner’s property rezoning request at Poplar and Forest Hill-Irene during its April 26 meeting.
The ornate Memphis Masonic Temple has sold for $2.225 million, according to the Shelby County Register’s Office website.
On the high end, applications at Rhodes College are up 25%, but down an equal percent at Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Nigerian letter scams now reap only $700,000 annually, but the same crooks get billions of dollars from more sophisticated scams: ‘That Nigerian prince has grown up, has gone to college, and has found a new, lucrative career,’ says an expert.
The new stayAPT Suites company plans to enter the Memphis market with a 76- or 88-room hotel behind the Commons at Dexter Lake shopping center in Cordova. And it won’t be the last stayAPT in the Memphis area, one executive says.
A developer has unusually elaborate plans for a convenience store with gas at the long-vacant corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street.
American Queen is offering a new Memphis-to-New Orleans cruise along the Mississippi River that includes stops at four popular golf courses, including Colonial Country Club in Memphis.
U.K. variant is now the most common in Shelby County. The question is, how sick will it make people in their 20s, 30s and 40s?
Laura Meanwell has worked as an engineer, led a successful campaign to change Germantown school hours, served on civic commissions, and even been a “director of euphoric events.” Now, she has a job that’s unusual for women in Memphis: Industrial real estate broker.
Carlisle Development responded to the rejection of its design for a $43 million, mixed-use building in a positive, forward-looking way. The co-developers said they plan to “resolve any outstanding design issues.”
All the litter showing up in each case file photo was not the focus of the development issues. But Land Use Control Board members took notice and rejected a landlord’s plan to enlarge his rental property in South Memphis.
The Land Use Control Board is recommending a setback requirement for oil pipelines built in Shelby County. It remains legally questionable whether the requirement could be applied to the controversial Byhalia Connection pipeline project.
The number of home sales rose 45% from February and nearly 13% from a year ago. But the stat that affects more people the most – the inventory of homes available for sale – remained low at 1,990.
The Design Review Board approved and heaped praises on the design for the massive Walk on Union mixed-use development. But the board rejected the design for the $43 million 7 Vance Building, saying it might fit in Cordova or the suburbs but not in Downtown’s historic warehouse district.
It might be too late to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline, but Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is still proposing a setback requirement for any other oil pipelines that might be built in the future.
Eric Robertson of Community LIFT joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
Sherrie Hollis has joined the IMC Companies team as CAO.
Lovesac will open its first Mid-South showroom at Shops of Saddle Creek South in Germantown later this month.
The relocation of the ServiceMaster Brands headquarters to Atlanta will result in some significant job losses for Memphis.
In 2005, UTHSC began the first doctor of nursing program in the state. It now offers eight concentrations.
With ample vaccine, the push is on to get people in line to stem the tide of the rapidly growing U.K. strain, which now accounts for 30%-50% of COVID cases in Shelby County.
Lakeland officials think the continued growth of the suburb should make it attractive to potential businesses and is willing to listen to an advisory group about that recruitment.
At a glance, boxes don’t seem that complicated. But when your business involves shipping lots of them around the world, it makes sense to understand the science behind what makes a good box. That’s why FedEx Corp. has its own packaging lab.
Residents of two East Memphis neighborhoods request that their streets be permanently gated or blocked from two busy streets, Poplar and Highland. But doing so would degrade the connectivity of the city’s street network, the Division of Planning and Development says.