“We have an untapped resource of labor that they can get, and they probably are not aware of that,” says Troy Allen, director of employment for Shelby Resident and Vocational Services.

Memphis-based Planet Wealth considers itself ‘crowdfunding 2.0’ or wealth funding. “We want to empower the masses to go out and achieve financial independence,” Greg Sossaman, CEO of Planet Wealth, said.

June’s inflation rate jumped up 5.4% from the same time in 2020 and that has economists examining the causes and predicting what may lie ahead. Meantime, consumers with discretionary wealth continue to buy ‘optional’ items, but those with tighter budgets feel the pinch at the grocery store. 

“I want to pay it forward, and I’m working with an organization that is doing incredible things to help children and families,” Marie Pizano said of MVP3 Entertainment Group’s partnership with Rotary-Family Youth Initiative.

Stock up on school supplies, clothes and shoes this weekend. Tennessee’s tax-free holiday continues through Sunday, but Mississippi’s ends at midnight Saturday. The Volunteer State is also exempting most food items (except candy!) from sales tax.

Ridgeway Trace shopping center operates at a prime junction for Memphis retail: Interstate 240 and Poplar. The property changed hands this week.

The board also approved zoning variances for a Georgia-based developer that plans to build affordable housing complexes in the North Poplar neighborhood near Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. 

All the property within the vast, old Memphis Army Distribution Depot has been sold to private owners, so the public board overseeing the site was to have been dissolved Wednesday. But neighbors’ concerns delayed the action. 

Though the school announced Wednesday it would be adding new outdoor seating options for the upcoming season, there’s a much larger vision.

Robert Machen has been named chief information officer for Prospero Health, which runs its operational headquarters in Memphis.

One Beale’s developer unveiled the final renderings for the 20-story, $190 million Grand Hyatt Hotel. Construction is to start early next year.

The change reflects research that shows the vaccinated can transmit the COVID-19 virus to others.

A developer says he needs exceptions to zoning rules so he can build a 92-unit apartment complex near the University of Memphis and meet demand for student housing. But the University District Neighborhoods Corp. and others oppose the plan.

Memphis will soon be home to the corporate headquarters of six of the nation’s biggest companies.

The VA is the first federal agency to mandate vaccines. It applies to employees at the VA Hospital in Memphis. The only other Memphis hospital that mandates vaccinations is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Shelby County commissioners chose Dr. Michelle Taylor as the new head of the county’s Health Department Monday, and they picked Judicial Commissioner Danielle Mitchell-Sims to fill a General Sessions judge vacancy. 

Poplar Healthcare supports physicians across the country witha variety of technologies to process lab specimens.

‘The whole idea was to make it modern so when someone gets off the plane, they say Memphis is going places and Memphis is cool,’ said Scott Brockman, president and CEO of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority.

The Memphis-based architectural firm marks its 25th birthday with a new way it’s helping nonprofit organizations and by announcing new and emerging leaders within the firm.

Memphis hospitals relaxed strict visitation policies, allowing outside ministers to visit patients alongside family. But an uptick in COVID numbers could cause those policies to tighten again.

Memphis has been heralded in recent years for its exponential growth of women-owned businesses and women entrepreneurs.

According to Lakeland’s economic development specialist, a Downtown Memphis business owner who resides in Lakeland wants to bring a venue like Railgarten or Carolina Watershed to the suburb.

The initial estimate was a late July reopening for the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. TDOT officials also upped the number of replacement plates to be installed aside from the damage that prompted the closing of the interstate bridge from 16 to 17.

In lieu of a press release, there’s a sign that Tesla has big plans for Memphis.

Atlantic Track plans to expand its rail-manufacturing operations in South Memphis, hiring another 26 people.