There's no doubt costs of maintaining and operating Tom Lee Park will increase after a planned $60 million overhaul of the riverfront park. How much is an open question.

In Shelby County, more than 28% of the people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are Latino. The percentage of positive tests is rising.

Direct from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Madan Babu will direct the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 

Hulet and Jackie Gregory this week bought the 85,000-square-foot Bartlett Station Plaza shopping center. Gregory Realty now has about 30 commercial properties and is hunting for more.

FedEx Corp. chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith is a 10% owner of the team.

University of Memphis economist warns that ending $600-a-week federal jobless payment would endanger a fragile economic recovery and dampen wages and wage increases for workers.

Gorney Realty Partners just bought the Centrum and Colonnade office buildings in East Memphis from Highwoods Properties.

The estimated $19 million project will provide 12 indoor courts, 24 outdoor courts and other amenities for both public tennis players and the University of Memphis Tiger tennis teams. 

Shelby County ranks No. 4 on the 14 highest-risk counties for Tennessee, behind Macon, Davidson and Sevier counties.

Southwest Tennessee Community College plans to convert the closed Office Depot building near Downtown for its performing arts programs, for an array of student services, for a bit of retail to serve students and for a more prominent presence along busy Union Avenue.

Campaign will provide resources to help people identify the signs of someone considering suicide and materials to build awareness.

A researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital says pH way of rooting out influenza viruses that could cause pandemics.

Organizations are scrambling to find other housing for refugee families in Woodcrest Apartments. The units are being renovated, but the below-market rent is about to rise substantially.

Memphis-based FedEx said it does not expect surging e-commerce business to weaken post-COVID-19. Earnings reported Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates.

Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.

Memphis International Airport reports nonstop flights pulled down by airlines because of COVID-19 are returning over the next couple months. A new Salt Lake City nonstop is coming August 1.

Faropoint has been buying industrial infill properties across the country, but continues to see Memphis as a top market for acquiring assets.

But, the percentage of female entrepreneurs in the area is close to 5% compared to about 8% nationally. 

Stryker has extended for a third time its tender offer to buy Memphis-grown medical device maker Wright Medical. The new deadline is Aug. 31.

For right now, U of M, Christian Brothers and Rhodes College all intend to have dorms open, classes in person and in some cases, online.

The pandemic has revealed both the size of the disparities here and the outcomes. African Americans account for 56% of the total number of COVID-19 cases in Shelby County but 61% of the deaths.

City Place apartments will comprise 398 units in 15 buildings on 19.8 acres near the southwest corner of Winchester and Forest Hill.

COVID-19, trade wars and efforts to increase efficiency and lower costs in residential deliveries are expected to be front and center when FedEx reports fiscal 2020 and quarterly earnings.

Women entrepreneurs, who own about half of Memphis area businesses, are finding ways to be creative as a result of challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Leaders of the half-century-old organization, challenged by shrunken membership, expected Saturday's annual U.S. flag sale to be its last. But the customers had other ideas.