Increases aren’t just a pain in the neck for motorists. They present challenges for transportation, shipping and logistics businesses in and around Memphis. 

Nearly $60 million in development projects are at various stages of completion in Frayser addressing neighborhood issues such as early childhood education, recreational activities and affordable housing.

Growth in e-commerce has prompted FedEx Express to expand its services and operations.

The Dallas office includes more than 100 employees.

The distribution building that changed hands has been Hunter Fan’s logistics headquarters since 1996.

Property records show that developer Chance Carlisle’s RCM Devco has just added 2.7 acres to the 9.3 acres he plans to develop in East Memphis. The site at 5111 Sanderlin is where the Racquet Club of Memphis closed and was razed.

CBU will offer summer school online. Fall classes will begin in mid-August.

The application process will open in early April; FEMA has not yet set the date.

Consortium has $2.4 million to award for studies that draw links, create solutions.

A planned tobacco shop will be allowed to open near Snowden School, but the owner must provide sales documents after the first three months proving that he’s not running a vapor shop, the Board of Adjustment voted.

The company that provides accounting, tax, insurance, auditing, and human resource services to businesses decided to stay and renovate its lofty place in Clark Tower.

The future residence hall will have more than 61,000 square feet, single rooms, suites, common spaces and a lodge for the campus’ cultural organizations.

A new, mixed-use development is designed to bring hundreds of new residents and new retail to a 10-acre area that touches the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus, Victorian Village, the Edge District and the Medical District.

“The Brews Every Which Way” pays tribute to the 1960 blues collaboration between Peter “Memphis Slim” Chatman and Willie Dixon.

The first of five buildings at I-269 Logistics Center can be expanded to 1.74 million square feet. 

Two extreme lows have turned Memphis into a battleground for would-be homebuyers: Low mortgage interest rates that make borrowing so attractive, and a low number of “For Sale” signs that make finding and grabbing a house so difficult. Experts share their advice.

With generations of work as a foundation and decades of experience in the homebuilding business, David Goodwin Jr. is setting the residential landscape in Arlington.

When Shelby County Schools students entered their school buildings this month, many did so for the first time in about a year. But children attending smaller suburban municipal districts had been back for months.

Severe COVID disease in infants is rare, but antibodies may protect them from transmitting to others.

California-based Mullen Technologies has been literally all over the map in deciding where it will make its first electric vehicle. Now, Memphis leaders feel they’ve made a safe bet on the start-up, and the payoff could be hundreds of manufacturing jobs.

The first- and second-place designs adapt the vacant Highland Heights United Methodist Church buildings for residential, commercial and community event space. The third-place winner transforms the space into assisted living for seniors.

The pilot is designed to get logistics down in a house-to-house vaccination effort, the most expensive way by far to deliver vaccination doses.

A judge has decided she wants to hear from attorneys representing a community group that opposes a controversial oil pipeline project proposed for South Memphis.

An overflow crowd came for the opening celebration for the new West Memphis Public Library & Innovation Center. Twice as large as the old library, the new place serves the community with much meeting spaces and as a potential catalyst for new development along Broadway.

It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’ 

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