When Chris Porter started Creative Punch Marketing Group, he said he had three goals: Do great work, make an impact and work with friends.

Preservationist William “Bill” Townsend is on a tear. He just bought the Lowenstein Mansion, which is a mile east of his Masonic Temple and four miles west of his Luciann Theater building.

Think of it as Tamiflu for COVID.

Join The Daily Memphian’s virtual seminar focused on key development projects across Memphis beginning at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21.

City Council members took a test vote of sorts in committee sessions on a proposal to make pay of $21 an hour the minimum for getting tax breaks from EDGE. The new Ford plant in Haywood County came up in the discussion.

The union representing the Memphis employees say workers are striking in all four of Kellogg’s ready-to-eat cereal factories, which include sites in Michigan, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. 

City Chief Operating Officer Doug McGowen talked with The Daily Memphian about the factors that led the city and zoo to return to a parking plan that would take some of the Overton Park greensward and several trees. Listen to the interview.

The shopping center’s anchor stores, Trader Joe’s and the Container Store, are the only locations for both retailers in the local market. 

Economic leaders in east Shelby County expect to see the impacts of Ford in their communities.

“People don’t understand why they are being asked to name people. They don’t understand the whole role of contact tracing,” said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, director of Public Health Administration and Policy at the University of Minnesota. 

Memphis area industry recruiters share stories of how West Tennessee landed “the big one.”

The organization is licensed through the Employer Resource Network USA, but it operates as its own entity to address challenges that are specific to Memphians.

The tsunami of electric vehicles will eventually hit. And the effect on Memphis should be substantial. Memphis has a lot of gas stations, 369, according to a study by the Division of Planning and Development.

The naming rights deal with Simmons Bank will help make dramatic improvements to the stadium, Mayor Jim Strickland said. 

Townsend, who has split his time between the Greater Memphis Chamber and the University of Memphis over the past year, is now working exclusively for the Chamber. 

Corky’s BBQ chief executive Jimmy Stovall also leads BBQVC Food Group, which just bought the Memphis restaurant chain.

The massive mixed-use building will be part of a $62 million parking overhaul across Downtown Memphis.

In its application to the Board of Adjustment, St. Jude says the new garage will improve blighted, unusable property and exposed sections of the Gayoso Bayou. 

The center’s new report found that Memphis is No.1 when compared to its peers in the area for diverse tech talent.

The Crescent Center’s new owner said he was impressed by both the building and its East Memphis neighborhood. 

Two organizations with different track records — one for building quality, affordable housing and the other for removing blight — are merging to serve the entire core city.

AutoZone’s annual national sales meeting earlier this week became the first large event to be held at the newly renovated Renasant Convention Center. 

“What a great time it is to be doing business in West Tennessee,” said Phillip Rogers with Stifel. 

From its founding in 1809, to the Civil War and through the 1980s, fewer than 1,000 people lived in rural Spring Hill. Then, in 1985, General Motors came to town.

Arlington, Bartlett and Lakeland could emerge as the suburban municipalities that benefit most from Blue Oval City given its proximity to the Haywood County site. Arlington and Lakeland also seem prime for more growth in both housing and retail development before Ford’s announcement, this may only accelerate that process.