Esco Restaurant & Tapas is scheduled to open this year on the ground floor of the 200 S. Second parking garage at 156 Lt. George Lee Ave.

St. Jude Heroes have raised more than $100 million since the event started in 2002. The goal for 2023 is to raise $15 million to help St. Jude advance its six-year, $12.9 billion strategic plan, which includes tripling its global investment to annually help more children with cancer from across the globe. 

A neighbor saved the Burke’s Book Store aluminum sign from demolition heap. It spent the last 16 years on her back fence, and now it’s coming back. 

A man hired by Sephora in Olive Branch has filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission saying the company unfairly dismissed him after discovering his 10-year-old criminal conviction.

In this edition of Inked, The National Civil Rights Museum expansion gets a foundation, Tesla will expand its charging station on Park Avenue and there will be a new Starbucks on Winchester.

ALLMemphis and Memphis Black Arts Alliance announce new additions. 

Earlier this month, the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council, the union which represents the pilots, announced its members had voted to strike if necessary to achieve a new labor agreement.

The new center honors the legacy of internationally known nurse theorist Margaret A. Newman, a native Memphian and UTHSC alumna and former faculty member who died in 2018. 

“When we say we have the highest concentration of Black talent in health care and life science, the companies we’re recruiting to Memphis sit up and pay attention,” said Gwyn Fisher, chief economic development officer of the Greater Memphis Chamber. 

He helped perfect the early science of lipids, the fats in the blood that cause high blood pressure and strokes. The clinic he started at the VA Medical Center in 1985 is busier than ever. 

Officials envision the new entity — the name UT Health was floated — as a hub of innovation that would attract top medical talent, grow research opportunities and offer new therapies, specialized surgeries and access to clinical trials.

The Sustainability Insights tool is designed to assist FedEx in its goal of reaching carbon neutral operations by 2040. 

“This shortage is causing oncologists to make difficult decisions. Treatments are being skipped and delayed, doses are being reduced, treatments plans are being changed, and sequences of usual treatment are being altered.”

“We are living in a time of an identity crisis for K-12 and higher education. The laser-focus on college preparation for all students in K-12 education, regardless of their interests or skills, led to mismatched priorities, frustrated families, and uninterested graduates.”

The report from the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth found Shelby County ranked low in health, education and economics. 

As Molly Smith finalizes the end of Bhan Thai, new owners Thuan Pham and family percolate plans for a cafe.

Previous guest speakers in the luncheon’s 21-year history include Barbara Bush, Leslie Odom, Jr., Andie MacDowell, Octavia Spencer, Rob Lowe, Sally Field and Michael Douglas. 

Patients will have the opportunity to host their own radio and TV shows, play games, watch live musical performances and interview celebrity guests. 

Pilots picketing outside the FedEx Express Air Operations Center on Airways Boulevard Wednesday held signs that read “When the world shut down, FedEx pilots delivered” and “Now is the time!”

The airport and TSA have shared tips for people traveling for the holiday.

In this week’s Inked: University Lofts is moving forward in the Edge district, a private shooting range has plans for Cordova, the Highland Strip gets a Red Koi and Rumble Boxing opens its first Memphis location.

Southwest Tennessee Community College, SRVS and Colliers announce promotions and additions. 

The increase in revenue will be supplemented by the federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act funding and surplus funds that will carry over from 2023.

Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab launched a new Wishmakers program with residents being granted wishes from going to the top of the Bass Pro Pyramid to visiting Crosstown Concourse to enjoying a trip to Herb Parsons Lake.

What causes long COVID in some people and not others?