An online petition opposing the opening of a Petland shop in Memphis has drawn more than 21,000 digital signatures. But the daughter of Petland’s founder mounts a defense, complete with Shelby County statistics on dogs placed into homes by animal welfare organizations in Shelby County.
The emergency-use therapy is available for people who test positive and who could become severely ill due to age or underlying conditions.
A Cummins manufacturing plant that rebuilds turbochargers in Memphis will close, eliminating 300 jobs.
The museum in Overton Park will reopen under the new Health Directive 17.
The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.
Major films including “Wonder Woman 1984” and “One Night in Miami” will be showing as theaters reopen following the newest health directive.
Hear the experiences of three exceptional women in business as they tell the story of their professional journeys at our Women in Business Virtual Seminar on Feb. 25 at 3:30 p.m.
The building that for years housed the restaurant is coming down to make room for a new Sleep Number store and Aspen Dental office.
The county’s large-scale evictions, relatively affordable housing and median unemployment rate make it representative of hundreds of communities in the nation.
Eight transactions for Class A industrial space, totaling 2.4 million square feet, have either been completed or are pending during the first three weeks of January, reports Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors.
One company distributes pharmaceutical or medical device products. Another sells information-technology and WiFi-related items. And a third sells industrial tools.
AutoZone in Germantown is moving from its current location near Kroger on Farmington Boulevard to a larger spot on Poplar Avenue.
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.
PPP loans issued after June 5, 2020 have a maturity of five years at an interest rate of 1%.
Here’s what Memphis area business owners need to know as the second round of Paycheck Protection Program funds becomes open for applications.
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.