It’s not just the simple lines and large, aluminum-framed windows that make this East Memphis home a midcentury modern jewel.

A prolonged shutdown of the Interstate 40 bridge and boat traffic along the Mississippi River could have major consequences for businesses in the Memphis area and beyond. But no one knows for sure yet how significant those consequences will be.

Alderwoman Maureen Fraser provided additional insight about the board’s denial Monday of a mini-golf permit. She hopes the company will resubmit their plan with modifications.

Bloomberg noted that news of the bridge damage caused corn futures to tumble “by the most allowed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.”

Among the 18 cases it considered, the Land Use Control Board rejected a plan to gate one end of Saint Nick Drive, dropped long-range plans for a street at the request of a new car dealership, and approved a 156-lot subdivision along Walnut Grove.

Last week’s declared “truce” notwithstanding, a group of citizens opposing construction of an oil pipeline through South Memphis neighborhoods want two lawsuits involving the project to move forward.

Local health officer Dr. Bruce Randolph has said that the new rules will allow people to vote with their feet.

The Land Use Control Board will have a few less controversial cases to consider when it convenes Thursday, May 13. Three applicants have withdrawn requests that had faced opposition.

Bobby White, chief public policy officer for the Greater Memphis Chamber, said the I-40 bridge closure may help bring discussions of a third bridge across the Mississippi to the forefront of the community’s consciousness.

Restaurateurs aren’t happy with a new health directive that suggests people wear masks but puts the burden of the decision on them.

The number of Memphis-area homes sold in April 2021 rose 25.9% compared to April 2020, local Realtors report.

The city’s only Roto-Sphere business sign is in the shop for repairs. But fret not Memphis, says the management of Joe’s Wines & Liquor, “Sputnik” will return.

Against all odds, a $550,000 fundraising and work project to turn White Station High’s hardpan courtyard into an oasis is nearing the finish line. But a little work and fundraising are still to be completed.

As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital tested every front-line worker, every week, it put together a testing regime big enough to test and analyze hundreds of employee samples a day — providing a gold mine for immunology research.

Any plans Loews still has for a Civic Center convention center hotel have changed. The hotel company won’t be buying the historic police headquarters building on Adams Avenue.

Supply chain disruptions have made it more expensive to buy some consumer products. Other goods, when they can even be found, are taking longer to get delivered to buyers.

FDA advisory committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, May 12. 

The Memphian in Overton Square has just opened. Inside, the place is as much a lively, luminous art gallery as a hotel.

Personal injury lawyer Corey B. Trotz has been on television and billboards for so long, he’s now sort of a Memphis institution − and probably not at all who you think he is. 

The local personal injury law marketplace is not for the faint of heart, as legitimate firms spend millions of dollars on advertising and “bad actors” in the profession engage in illegal solicitation of clients that has triggered the attention of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. 

The manufacturing and sales operation, which aims hire up to 400 Memphians, has partnered with Memphis Medical District Collaborative’s Buy Local program and also TNEX, a minority-owned business formed to promote local manufacturing, sales and contracting.

The C.A. Davis Printing Co. marks its 100th year of being in business. The two-person shop still operates in the Pinch District at 349 N. Main, where it has completed printing jobs for the past 77 years.

Careful where you step, please. Baby grass is growing on the Overton Park golf course.

The new planning board applications for the June meeting include a 500-plus door truck terminal, a $75 million warehouse park and a proposal for 15-lot subdivision in East Memphis that would use a public street but be gated.

The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.