Tennessee's jobless claims from the Memphis area rose slightly in the week ending April 18 and totaled 56,932 since coronavirus-related business closings began in mid-March.

The campus developed a free test, and put it in play at Tiger Lane; now it's adding ‘cub’ sites to the mix.

Despite the beginnings of what will likely be a pandemic-caused recession, the industrial vacancy rate for the first three months in the Memphis area was 6.5%. That is below the five-year average of 7.8%.

The owner of a Whitehaven tire and repair shop is searching for a way to store and protect his inventory from theft in a way that does not violate zoning.

Hosts can name the price for their time, but anyone can be a buyer and anyone a host.

Q1 earnings more than doubled from a year earlier, but Mueller Industries warned Tuesday, April 21, coronavirus is expected to take a big bite out of April-June results.

The clock is ticking on medical device maker Stryker's $30.75 a share offer to buy Memphis-grown Wright Medical and boost Stryker's position in the global orthopedic surgical products market.

The Center City Development Corp. has now approved about $200,000 in forgivable loans for 33 Downtown businesses. 

The Center City Development Corp. has added $60,000 to the money available to help small Downtown businesses survive the effects of COVID-19.

The City Council last year rejected a solid waste company's plan to expand operations in Whitehaven. Now the firm plans to enlarge operations in a way that does not need City Hall approval.

The site is where the Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church building was closed and demolished last year.

Memphis banking company expects to close on its $3.9 billion merger with Iberiabank by the end of the second quarter.

With Tennessee’s safer-in-place order expiring April 30, many restaurants will reopen. Memphis and Shelby County will set a local schedule, but some restaurateurs want to open soon.

Return on average assets and on common equity fall sharply in the first quarter as Pinnacle boosted reserves for loan losses by $86 million.

The real estate industry is deemed an essential business and is still operating during the pandemic. But agents are taking such safety precautions as hosting live, virtual open houses and arranging drive-by closings. 

BancorpSouth records $46 million provision for loan losses as COVID-19 increases loan volume under CARES Act.

American Esoteric Laboratories in Memphis will begin processing blood samples Tuesday to see if people who had COVID-19 and recovered developed antibodies that may give them immunity.

FedEx Office, the Dallas-based printing and office services retail outlet of FedEx Corp., is furloughing some employees because of business slowdown during COVID-19 pandemic.

These are not just places to go to find a thing you know you want. They are places to be. To share space with people who share your affinities. They are at their best when you go in just to browse and a book or record finds you. 

“Our system isn’t toxic and will eventually break down. This is important because the more stuff you put in landfills, the more likely it is that it will leach down into your water,” says Glanris CEO Bryan Eagle.

Will demand for space in office buildings go up or down as a result of COVID-19? How does a company balance teamwork and social distancing in designing its floor plan? We picked the brains of several leaders in the world of Memphis office buildings.

Experts expect the surge in e-commerce during the coronavirus pandemic to be a permanent fixture going forward.

When you start a company that does odd jobs, sometimes you get an odder one than you expected: Two Broke Bartenders can now claim to be cockatoo couriers.

Organizers at the FedEx Institute suspect the session could pack a wallop: Some 3,800 people are registered with Meetup.com’s Memphis Technology Users Group. 

Behind the Saturday trial opening of the city-owned Links at Whitehaven course is a lot of jockeying for positions by local businesses that want to be in the first wave of reopenings — from elective medical procedures by doctors to car washes and barber shops and nail salons to restaurants.