Mary Claire Borys from Housing Community & Development joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

Starbucks wanted to amend the site plan because mobile ordering has changed the way its industry operates.

Despite the pandemic, the company continues to unveil new products. It tests ceiling fans in the basement of its Goodlett Farms headquarters.

Eversana Life Science Services now has three distribution facilities and 315 jobs in Memphis. It’s seeking a tax incentive to expand and add 50 jobs. Otherwise, company officials say it may move to North Mississippi or St. Louis.

Memphis-based FedEx bought TNT in 2016 and it has taken longer than expected to integrate the company.

Charisse Madlock-Brown leads a group looking at social determinants of health in a massive, NIH-funded database representing 2.5 million people tested for COVID in about 75 clinical centers around the nation.

The gift from Niantic Inc. is the largest one-time corporate gift in CodeCrew’s history. 

Suburban real estate remained strong in the pandemic as prices increased in the seller’s market. Germantown and Collierville saw a large increase in the percentage of homes sold.

Imperial Industrial Supply Co. seeks a tax incentive in return for buying an industrial building in Memphis for distribution of its products. The project would mean a $21 million investment and 35 jobs.

A development team has purchased three Edge District buildings, plans to renovate them, and already has signed a lease with Sweet Magnolia Gelato Co. to open a shop in one of them. 

The Hyde Family Foundation has purchased 15 vacant acres on the south edge of Binghampton for the Lighthouse Project. The strategy is to provide and integrate a strong school with accessible housing, job development and health care.

Overton Park golf course may be jammed this weekend with golfers playing one last round before the nine-hole track closes until the fall. The course is being redesigned and rebuilt.

Robert Pera’s communications technology firm seeks a 10-year tax incentive that would save the company $1.8 million total in local property taxes. But the company would create 25 jobs paying $37,027 on average.

Woodhill Real Estate bought a fully leased, 268,000-square-foot building at 5020 Tuggle Road, in Memphis’ vast Southeast industrial submarket.

Not a Coffee Shop is open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 6:45 to 11:15 a.m. and serves all of its coffee, including pour overs and espresso shots, black.

Dr. Brown holds numerous positions in genetics, genomics and pediatrics at UTHSC.

The Land Use Control Board approved two unsurprising changes for a couple of big, suburban planned developments. Out, or diminished, is brick-and-mortar retail from the projects.

The investors who own the building housing RockHouse Live (formerly Poplar Lounge) have just bought the two ragged, midrise office buildings that flank the bar near Midtown. Immediate plans are to make improvements to woo more tenants back, but long-range plans may include demolition and a new hotel.

The popular restaurant has a ground lease for the 1.25-acre site where the old Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church buildings were razed.

The designation signifies UMRF can help with domestic market research, patent reviews, import/export law, plus offers access to capital investment. 

Banking company plans to grow Memphis presence, establish permanent office in the Crescent Center in East Memphis.

Silo Square is to comprise 13 mixed-use buildings, 305 single-family housing lots, six retail outparcels, a bank outparcel, two hotel sites, three office buildings, a 2.6-acre farmer’s market, 10 acres of apartments, and 64 acres of green space.