Ideas Unlimited recently won a prestigious honor from the Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum.

Demand is so great for processing and packaging beverages that Blues City Brewery in Hickory Hill plans a $49 million upgrade to its equipment and to hire another 155 people. 

UPS plans to build a 268,000-square-foot expansion at its logistics facility at Memphis International Airport. The project will create 25 more jobs there.

Burson-Marsteller public relations agency founder Harold Burson died in Memphis Friday, Jan. 10, at age 98.

Four days after a DeSoto County couple installed a Ring system, their 8-year old daughter heard a man talking in her bedroom. The father disabled the system to stop the harassment and the couple is now dealing with their kids’ trauma.

Public meetings about the proposed crude oil pipeline called the Byhalia Connection are scheduled in Memphis and North Mississippi Jan. 21-Feb. 8.

Gill Properties has applied for a building permit to start work soon on a new 27,000-square-foot commercial center, White Oak at White Station. 

Study will probe the damage Type 2 diabetes causes in arteries and how that contributes to cardiovascular disease.

The Regional Economic Alliance announced goals for 2020 on Thursday, Jan. 8: 68 projects, 3,800 jobs, $1.1 billion in capital investment, $109 million to minority and women-owned enterprises.

A proposed residential development just outside Collierville has failed to gain county support before the Land Use Control Board for a second time.

The Land Use Control Board on Thursday approved plans for the first 10.5 acres of the $1.3 billion Union Row mixed-use development. But the board rejected a proposed convenience store with gas sales in a wooded part of southeast Shelby County.

Up to several dozen labs will move to the new facility, expected to be completed in July.

Venus Austin entered the Salvation Army’s Renewal Place program nearly 15 years ago. Today, she owns a hair salon 800 feet from the facility that she credits for changing her life. 

Board approves signage, light and art for series of other projects including Equality Trailblazers monument.

Memphis-based nexAir has just acquired the 16 Southeast branches of Linde LifeGas as well as a production facility in Georgia.

Medtronic has sold its Memphis office campus to a Chicago real estate firm, and leased back just more than half the space. The rest will be marketed to other office tenants. 

A New York developer plans to convert one of the South Main District's brick, two-story buildings into 18 short-term rental apartments and three ground-floor retail bays. 

Atlanta-based United Parcel Service has applied for a building permit for $22.5 million in work at its hub at Memphis International Airport.

The private club has purchased all the property bordering a short street near its tennis courts and is asking the city to close Terrell Place and vacate the right-of-way.

A growing part of the practice is helping men and women through hormone therapy to improve sleep and stamina. 

Crye-Leike Real Estate Services Affiliate Broker Frances Anderson has earned the Commitment to Excellence (C2EX) Endorsement from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR). 

Choices is the modern remake of Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, started in 1974 by a group of Midtown women.

Former Metropolitan Bank CEO Phillip May comes out of consulting to take post as Memphis president of Pinnacle Financial Partners. 

Indigo Ag announces that FedEx has invested in the startup's latest round of capital fundraising. 

A suspected Amazon facility in Frayser/Raleigh will include 787,000 square feet for "robot storage" platforms.