Rebecca Schoepfer started her job Tuesday, Sept. 7, as chief human resources officer at Memphis-based TruGreen. The company has about 13,000 employees.

Riceland Foods Inc. is selling its rice hulls to Glanris, which approached the farmer-owned agriculture marketing cooperative with a business deal.

ConveyMD podcasts helps health care professionals fulfill continuing education requirements on the run.

In the first of two parts, leading physicians speak to the history of COVID-19, its possible origins, the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and the the role of masking, among other topics. 

While some small local businesses struggled throughout the pandemic, 901 Comics saw record sales. This summer, owners Shannon Merritt and Jaime Wright opened a second location, 901 Comics East. 

Proposals include known names like Chance Carlisle and Tom Intrator, as well as ones new to Memphis like Aaron Mesner of Block Real Estate Services. 

The Forrests’ reburial ceremony on Sept. 18 in Middle Tennessee may come sooner than restoration of Health Sciences Park.

The school’s faculty will work with Apple to learn about coding and app development.

The U of M moved up nine spots from last year. 

The period for bids on Memphis’ tallest building is over, culminating in 11 offers.

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Sites across the nation were asked to recruit more 5- to 11-year-olds to get a broader look at vaccine side effects.

The group intends, if its bid is accepted, to invest around $267 million to revitalize one of the city’s most alluring pieces of commercial real estate. 

Developers of Orleans Station, the proposed 10.2-acre mixed-use development in the Medical District, have the go-ahead to begin exterior renovations to the shopping strip that once housed the Trolley Stop restaurant. 

Memphis River Parks Partnership has received 73% of the $1.1 million needed to repair the façade that has been cracking.

The Starbucks will be built near the Aldi grocery store.

The Cascades will resemble developments like The Lake District in Lakeland and Silo Square in Southaven, a broker with the project said. 

The East Memphis shopping center will become Bayer’s third asset in Shelby County. 

A Memphis commercial real estate firm played a major role in the adaptive reuse of Atlanta’s historic Coca-Cola headquarters.

Crosstown Concourse will host a job fair Sept. 11 for 17 of its business and nonprofit tenants who are seeking to fill dozens of jobs.

Vacation Express brought the popular flights from Memphis to Mexico back this summer, following a year’s absence due to the pandemic. 

City Attorney Will Patterson says an anchor store is interested in a parcel on the north side of U.S. 64 at Berryhill Road.

Women in the U.S. die at higher rates in childbirth than many other developed nations. For women of color, the rate of death is at least four times higher. To chisel away at the gap, in January CHOICES is starting a fellowship to coach two Black midwives a year.

The redesign at The Westin, which started in 2016, includes all guestrooms as well as the lobby, exercise facility and 9,000 square feet of meeting space.

Buying a 675,000-square-foot office tower for just $55 a square foot in a prime, East Memphis location gives the new owners latitude to spend a lot more money improving the building and adding tenant amenities.

Enrollment in tech training courses at 901Tech average 72% people of color and 34% women.