Statistically, COVID-19 is more likely to claim the lives of people 65 and older than any other age group. But apart from that, the pandemic has introduced layers of complications for seniors, especially those living alone and/or on fixed incomes.
All proceeds from the sale of the $30 ties go to GoDaddy Empower partner, The Tapestry Project, to help Black entrepreneurs.
Eduardo Sanchez Borja came here from Mexico at age 14. Laurynas “LP” Petrauskas arrived from Lithuania at 13. Now partners in development, they may help change how Memphians see their built environment.
Pat Gamble is now senior vice president at Avison Young after spending 24 years with CBRE. Gamble also is broadening his focus to include industrial as well as office real estate.
For Dedicated Senior Medical Group, it’s better for them when patients stay healthy.
Holly Jansen Fulkerson started work as executive director of Memphis Heritage in January 2020, and resigned on Thursday, March 4.
Columnist Geoff Calkins, Grizzlies writer Drew Hill and Tigers basketball writer Danielle Lerner were named top 10 in three writing categories.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris believes he may have found a way to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline. Or at least give the community a tool for better regulating projects like it in the future.
The convenience store with fuel pumps would be built on the southwest corner of Jackson and Evergreen, requiring the demolition of an 86-year-old commercial structure.
Minglewood Plaza owner Richard Roberts also is looking for someone to manage Minglewood Hall concert venue. Other businesses inside Minglewood Plaza continue to operate.
New applications to the Land Use Control Board also include plans for a 156-lot subdivision on Walnut Grove, a 129-lot subdivision near Tenn. 385, and a gated, nine-lot subdivision in East Memphis on White Station Road.
ServiceMaster Brands will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Atlanta. Terminix, the larger of the two companies created in a spinoff last year, has no plans to move its corporate headquarters out of Downtown Memphis.
One of the hearings scheduled for next month will be on the issue of whether an oil pipeline company has a right under state law to use eminent domain proceedings to gain access to property it needs to build the pipeline.
The number of houses sold in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties in February dropped 5.2% from a year earlier. But the week of snowy weather was likely a factor.
Hass will remain president of Rhodes through mid-August.
David Skinner is appealing the Planning Commission’s decision to Germantown aldermen. The land owner has tried for years to get his family land rezoned.
The company is setting aside $2 billion “of initial investment” in vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon sequestration.
Locally owned Frost Bake Shop will open its third location in The Lake District, the latest business to claim a spot in the mixed-use development.
The developers of the Historic Snuff District plan a second, mixed-use building of six stories, 292 apartments, 420 parking spaces and 10,000 square feet of commercial space. They seek a tax incentive valued at $19 million over 20 years.
The existing PILOT on the center runs through December 2026.
The Memphis-based company reports strong financial numbers despite the pandemic.
With the approval of a new COVID-19 vaccine, FedEx is preparing to increase the number of doses it delivers on behalf of the federal government each week.
The owners of Tops Bar-B-Q have sold at least seven of their 15 restaurant buildings to a Phoenix firm that buys the real estate of businesses and leases it back to them.
It seems counterintuitive, but traffic fatalities and accidents with injuries were actually up in Memphis last year, even though the COVID-19 pandemic caused fewer people to be on the roads. The reduced traffic may have just opened up the roadways for dangerous drivers.