Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.
The Memphis Area Transit Authority launched its new Groove On-Demand service, which enables people to use their smartphones or other devices to order rides with specified pick-up and drop-off points, similar to the way ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft operate.
New EEOC proposal says incentives have to be minor, not “100 bucks,” said Burch, Porter & Johnson lawyer Lisa Krupicka.
The city would seek proposals from developers, but has no preference whether Memphis’ tallest building is demolished or redeveloped.
A new real estate development company plans to transform a blighted, long-vacant commercial structure into retail space and apartments.
Grant over two years allows Alliance to add staff, serve more people.
Friends and colleagues talk about the irrepressible good sport and hard worker who had just begun his life of service.
Independent Bank will match cash prize winners with an equal gift to the charity of their choice.
The Land Use Control Board also approved a transitional group home in Binghampton for veterans, an attached-townhouse development on Brookhaven Circle, and plans for a used-car lot in Raleigh. The board rejected plans a 35-lot subdivision of container homes in New Chicago.
The Center City Development Corp. will consider a $50,000 grant to help create new stained-glass windows for Historic Clayborn Temple.
Memphis has its share of restaurant couples, and a few of them have surprises to share when they talk about how they met and what it’s like to work together.
Suga Mama SnoBalls is opening a second location in Southeast Memphis next month.
Opponents of the proposed pipeline believe local governments can stop the project and nine property owners are still refusing to give Plains All American access to their land.
Dr. J. Barton Williams did not know he had COVID; antibody was present in his blood, doctors say.
In a luncheon speech to the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, the secretary of state highlights a smooth Tennessee election and the problems facing businesses during the pandemic.
Each college will receive $1 million, with a portion going towards students, faculty and staff impacted by COVID-19.
Project was designed by A2H in Memphis and Detroit, Michigan-based SmithGroup.
The measure could move to a vote before the full Senate if it passes through the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, which is scheduled to meet on Feb. 16.
The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum will move just two blocks from its long-time headquarters at 158 Madison.
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. approved $28 million in tax breaks Tuesday, Feb. 9, but members were critical of the absence of one of the developers seeking incentives.
The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.
The variety of COVID-19 scams we’ve seen since the beginning of the pandemic are overwhelming.
The people designing the changes at Overton Park golf course — and those on the bulldozers — consider the entire landscape as one big sculpture, not nine different holes with spaces in between.
Local resistance to the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline project has been gaining momentum recently. And with a new president in the White House, the project may face tougher scrutiny from federal regulators as well.
Using surrogate viruses developed by UTHSC professor, labs working on COVID vaccines and boosters can check their efficacy without using the dangerous SARS-CoV-2 virus.