Passenger traffic is steadily increasing at Memphis International Airport. However, people arriving in the city may find it tougher to arrange ground transportation at the airport.

Owner Dara Vongphrachanh said the Paycheck Protection Program loan and Our Beautiful Comeback Grant were “lifelines” for her business.

The Hyatt Centric is the city’s first hotel with a Beale Street address. It’s intended to be a mix of the old and the new, as well as a mix of the familiar and the unique.

WLOK seeks a $50,000 grant to beautify its buildings at 363 S. Second. And the owner of the planned Big River Market, a small food/coffee store, seeks a $60,000 grant to help prepare space at the corner of Tennessee and G.E. Patterson.

Most resistance to getting vaccinated is among rural, white people who identify as conservative, the survey found.

Indoor dancing and buffet lines will be back on Saturday, April 17.

The Memphis airport is getting a new seasonal flight to a vacation destination. 

The Kraft Heinz Co. is partnering with The LEE Initiative and Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice on the grant program.

Ubiquiti, a communications technology company, has completed a lease for 161,000 square feet of warehouse space in the Southeast Memphis industrial district.

Bill Townsend feels he didn’t so much buy a building as a 107-year-old time capsule. He’s already got short-term plans and has discussed long-term possibilities with brg3s architects.

The ornate Memphis Masonic Temple has sold for $2.225 million, according to the Shelby County Register’s Office website.

Construction firms and suppliers describe the effects created by the tight supply and rising costs of lumber and steel.

On the high end, applications at Rhodes College are up 25%, but down an equal percent at Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Nigerian letter scams now reap only $700,000 annually, but the same crooks get billions of dollars from more sophisticated scams: ‘That Nigerian prince has grown up, has gone to college, and has found a new, lucrative career,’ says an expert.

The new stayAPT Suites company plans to enter the Memphis market with a 76- or 88-room hotel behind the Commons at Dexter Lake shopping center in Cordova. And it won’t be the last stayAPT in the Memphis area, one executive says.

A developer has unusually elaborate plans for a convenience store with gas at the long-vacant corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street. 

American Queen is offering a new Memphis-to-New Orleans cruise along the Mississippi River that includes stops at four popular golf courses, including Colonial Country Club in Memphis.

Laura Meanwell has worked as an engineer, led a successful campaign to change Germantown school hours, served on civic commissions, and even been a “director of euphoric events.” Now, she has a job that’s unusual for women in Memphis: Industrial real estate broker.

Carlisle Development responded to the rejection of its design for a $43 million, mixed-use building in a positive, forward-looking way. The co-developers said they plan to “resolve any outstanding design issues.”

All the litter showing up in each case file photo was not the focus of the development issues. But Land Use Control Board members took notice and rejected a landlord’s plan to enlarge his rental property in South Memphis. 

The Land Use Control Board is recommending a setback requirement for oil pipelines built in Shelby County. It remains legally questionable whether the requirement could be applied to the controversial Byhalia Connection pipeline project.

The number of home sales rose 45% from February and nearly 13% from a year ago. But the stat that affects more people the most – the inventory of homes available for sale – remained low at 1,990.

The Design Review Board approved and heaped praises on the design for the massive Walk on Union mixed-use development. But the board rejected the design for the $43 million 7 Vance Building, saying it might fit in Cordova or the suburbs but not in Downtown’s historic warehouse district.

It might be too late to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline, but Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is still proposing a setback requirement for any other oil pipelines that might be built in the future.

Eric Robertson of Community LIFT joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.