Josh Whitehead, zoning administrator for Memphis and Shelby County, plans to join the Burch Porter & Johnson law firm after Jan. 1.

“Now it’s our job to capitalize on the opportunity to lure suppliers to Ford and related companies.”

Salvaged over many decades from closed Episcopal churches in Tennessee, the 25 windows will be offered first to any local buyers until Jan. 1, then marketed internationally.

The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, 3% of the entire workforce. 

The facility at 7101 Goodlett Farms Parkway will become the medical device manufacturer’s second site in Cordova. 

Blue Oval City’s 3,600 acres will include space for a supplier park. Still, state officials anticipate some suppliers locating near the Megasite of West Tennessee.

They had their doubters, but leaders from three counties in the Tupelo, Mississippi, area believed in their vision for rebooting the local economy. 

The center’s newly renovated, 118,000-square-foot exhibit hall was recently used as the set for a History Channel commercial featuring Morgan Freeman. 

St. Jude presented plans for its proposed garage to the Board of Adjustment Wednesday, but the board postponed the decision until its Dec. 22 meeting.

The five-story development would include residential and retail space. 

Festivities include Black Restaurant Week, State of the City radio special hosted by Pearl Eva Walker and Kevin Brooks, and the Christmas Tree Lighting at Graceland. 

“We’re not just an auto town. It’s an important part of the community, but not that big gorilla,” said Chris Ziegler, who worked 31 years at GM, almost 28 of them for Saturn and GM in Spring Hill. 

A California company opens a distribution center in Olive Branch, the renovation of Tri State Iron Works nears completion and the Hilton Garden Inn is bought for $36 million by a Virginia-based investor.

The Birmingham-based developer is asking to move its closing deadline to next year. 

When two couples and loyal guests saw that 173-year-old James Lee House was for sale, they jumped at the chance to become part-owners with J.W. and Kathy Buckman Gibson.

Residents met at The Office@Uptown to hear the results of a community survey regarding a new parking garage Monday morning, just two days prior to St. Jude’s meeting with the Board of Adjustments to ask for approval on the rezoning and height variances. 

The Downtown Mobility Center would stand seven stories on the 1.3-acre surface parking lot immediately north of the Orpheum Theatre and include nearly 1,000 parking spaces and ground-floor retail space.

Once an outdated manufacturing and steel town, Chattanooga went to work on reinventing itself by taking advantage of its riverfront and Downtown. In the end, that was key to landing automaker Volkswagen and spurring a new generation of growth. 

The Daily Memphian launches a special project looking at the recruitment and impact of Ford Motor Co.’s project at the Megasite of West Tennessee, beginning today with the first of three stories examining partnerships between communities and auto manufacturers.

The subsidiary of Louisiana-based wealth management company Argent Financial Group is moving its Memphis office to Ridgeway Center.

The Krosstown Kleaners building was built in 1910 and originally served as a bakery, before becoming a dry cleaning business in 1944 with its distinctive neon sign.

Christian Brothers University appointed David Archer, an associate professor and director of the MBA program, as its interim president, following the Nov. 5 departure of Jack Shannon.