Terminix has named Robert “Bob” Riesbeck, former CEO of Pier 1 Imports, as its next chief financial officer, in a corporate leadership move that’s been brewing since early 2020.

Vice President Mike Pence, CDC director and Health and Human Services Secretary paid a courtesy call on FedEx Dec. 3 to talk COVID-19 vaccine distribution and FedEx’s role in it.

How fast the vaccine is available to the general public will depend on how many people in the priority categories decide to get it.

It’s spacious, it’s modern and everybody can take advantage of river views. But most of its newly renovated workstations and offices are empty because of COVID-19.

Creekside Homes is becoming a major player in Arlington subdivision project with several developments in various stages of construction.

Three billboard companies are donating digital billboard space to encourage Memphians to “Shop Local 901.” The colorful message will be displayed on about 15 billboards about 140,000 times a week this holiday season.

Staffing shortages account for bottlenecks in emergency rooms, and the inability to staff hundreds of vacant hospital rooms.

Leaders of the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association and Mid-South Food Bank talked on “Behind The Headlines” about how the pandemic has changed their distribution models. 

A panel of experts shared their insights on how the pandemic has affected retail, office, industrial and multifamily real estate, and the effects long after COVID-19 is gone.

Vice President Mike Pence called Memphis-born FedEx “a remarkable American company” and said it will be crucial to successful execution of a COVID-19 vaccination program.

Crumbl Cookies’ first shop in Memphis will open early next spring in Williamsburg Village Shopping Center in East Memphis. And more are planned. 

Amazon has quietly started site work atop a hill behind its just-opened fulfillment center at 4055 New Allen Road. The future, 183,000-square-foot facility will be a delivery station that employs about 300.

While selectively adding some elective surgeries, Methodist anticipates it will pause elective procedures again in anticipation for increased COVID-19 cases stemming from the Thanksgiving holiday.

Memphis-based International Paper said Thursday, Dec. 3, it would spin off its printing papers segment and concentrate on growing corrugated packaging, an essential component of e-commerce.

The co-owners of Sonder Luxury Suites not only liked The Citizen’s location and vibe, they loved the built-in customer base living in its 173 apartments. 

People who potentially have been exposed but have no symptoms can return to normal life after 7 days, provided they have a negative test.

New ID card scanners, a computerized tomography baggage scanner and other measures have arrived at Memphis International Airport B Checkpoint as part of TSA’s Stay Healthy, Stay Secure campaign.

The addition continues FedEx’s strategy of serving businesses that compete with e-commerce giant Amazon.

In a recent three-year period, the total number of dollars granted to nonprofits led by people of color in Memphis actually dropped — from 37% to 31%.

Health Department, city leaders and hospitals accessing staffing, looking for more.

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U.S. Dist. Judge Mark Norris has rejected a petition by seven Memphis landlords to temporarily, at least, block a federal ban on evictions. But the full case continues in court. 

Plans are underway to build low-density graduate student housing on Deloach and 500 apartment-style dorms on the Park Avenue Campus.

Six experts in Memphis commercial real estate will offer their take on what’s happening during the pandemic and their forecast on what the post-COVID era will be like.

First, Chance Carlisle dropped his plan for an office tower at One Beale. More recently, he scrapped his plan for a tower that would have housed 150 hotel rooms and 240 apartments and condos. Now, he plans to build a 350-room Grand Hyatt hotel that would double as an extraordinary landmark for Beale Street.

A 40,000-square-foot entertainment and arcade venue called High 5 has signed a letter of intent to be at Liberty Park. And that doesn’t include High 5’s planned, 25,000-square-foot miniature golf course.