Rhodes’ satellite is expected to have cleared the hurdles to launch by June 2023.

Opponents of the Byhalia Connection pipeline project have done a good job of making their voices heard, but the project’s supporters in the community have been less vocal. Some of those supporters may have been intimidated into silence, according to officials at the company that wants to build the pipeline.

A nearly $3.4 million project is underway to install “mast arm traffic signal poles” at a dozen intersections along a six-mile stretch of Jackson Avenue. The city will place mast arms at more intersections as funding allows.

The Design Review Board will meet in a special-called meeting Thursday, April 22, to judge whether a revised design for the 7 Vance Building fits in South Main’s historic warehouse district.

Memphis City Council is delaying final consideration of an ordinance that would restrict oil pipeline development within the city limits, but apparently not in response to a peace offering from a company that wants to build such a pipeline.

Can a private oil pipeline company force private property owners to provide access to their land? The eminent domain case involving the Byhalia Connection project will attempt to answer that question.

The Citizens to Preserve Overton Park took its fight to stop a highway all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Playwright Virginia Ralph saw an imaginative children’s musical in that real-life story.

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Two women are leading the effort to stop Byhalia Pipeline from running its crude oil through South Memphis neighborhoods. The fight is reminiscent of the battle won decades ago by women who stopped a freeway from running through Overton Park.

Current disease modeling of the U.K. variant, 50% more contagious than the original Wuhan strain of coronavirus, shows Shelby County cases could rise to 300 to 400 a day. This can pose a problem for employers already struggling to fill positions. 

Although Memphis has long battled perceptions (and reality) about its crime rate, community leaders say it’s not as much of a factor in economic recruitment efforts as one might expect.

MVP3 Entertainment Group and ATWEC Technologies plan to buy Malco Majestic Cinema in Southeast Memphis and transform it into a sports complex and film production facility. A hotel is also set to be built on the 20-acre site.

With continued growth in Arlington and northeast Shelby County, Crye-Leike plans a strip center on Airline Road near Arlington High.

The Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival and Art in the Loop are planning for thousands over the weekend in distanced events.

A shooting at FedEx Ground’s Indianapolis facility that left eight people dead and several others injured is likely to cause delivery service disruptions.

Sylvamo Corporation, a new spin-off of International Paper, is considering where to put its global headquarters that will create 300 jobs paying $179,000 on average in salaries and bonuses, or $217,133 a year including benefits.

A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic.

Proposals by Memphis City Council members and Shelby County commissioners emerged during a second joint meeting Thursday of the two bodies. But other elected officials expressed concern that just talking about changes in economic development incentives could put the city and county at a disadvantage.

Several mixed-use projects in Germantown are looking forward more than a year after the start of the pandemic.

A Mississippi tree service owner says Steve Harvey’s wife, Marjorie Harvey, told him she had permission to remove the two large magnolias, even though they were on public land.

Passenger traffic is steadily increasing at Memphis International Airport. However, people arriving in the city may find it tougher to arrange ground transportation at the airport.

Owner Dara Vongphrachanh said the Paycheck Protection Program loan and Our Beautiful Comeback Grant were “lifelines” for her business.

The Hyatt Centric is the city’s first hotel with a Beale Street address. It’s intended to be a mix of the old and the new, as well as a mix of the familiar and the unique.

WLOK seeks a $50,000 grant to beautify its buildings at 363 S. Second. And the owner of the planned Big River Market, a small food/coffee store, seeks a $60,000 grant to help prepare space at the corner of Tennessee and G.E. Patterson.

Most resistance to getting vaccinated is among rural, white people who identify as conservative, the survey found.

Indoor dancing and buffet lines will be back on Saturday, April 17.