Digital convenience store delivery service goPuff launched in the Memphis market this week from a location on Park near the University of Memphis.

Memphis River Parks Partnership expects an October launch of the historic cobblestone landing restoration and November start on the first phase of Tom Lee Park's transformation.

Project plan is to convert upper floors of four, attached buildings into six apartments, and enlarge McEwen's restaurant.

The Downtown Memphis Commission has just unveiled a draft master plan that could guide Downtown development for the next decade. The DMC will seek public response through June.

The coronavirus reproduction rate has hovered at 1.2 during Phase 2 of the business reopening, which went into effect May 18.

The newest inspection station at 2355 Appling City Cove had been open only three years before the city closed them all seven years ago.

The pandemic gets the blame for putting a hard brake on home sales in the Memphis area. But the average price for homes continues to rise and the year-to-date sales volume is still ahead of 2019.

Church Health chief executive Dr. Scott Morris: "Do you now somebody who has lost their job, who has lost their health insurance?... This might be a time to consider making a donation to Church Health."

There are thousands of cradles graves at Elmwood. Slowly, in pockets and bunches, they are being planted by a troupe of volunteers finding particular solace tending a cemetery in a pandemic.

On June 19, event planner Cynthia Daniels is hosting an online market for African American makers to sell their wares, crafts and services.

The Church of the Holy Communion members have two reasons to celebrate: They finally get to see their renovated worship space, and each other.

The Baumers opened their first store in May 1999 in the then-new Trinity Place shopping center at Trinity Road and Germantown Parkway.

UTHSC students organized the event to focus attention on disparities in medical care along racial lines, drawing hundreds of medical workers and students to the rally in the Medical District. 

EDGE has approved $304,000 in NEED grants for 54 businesses, many of them minority and women-owned enterprises.

FedEx Express has been reorganized from six regions globally to three, and Richard W. Smith is overseeing a newly formed Americas region: the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Patricia Myles, 49, was breathing on her own after being treated with the experimental drug, remdesivir. She was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started.

FedEx Logistics, Medline have distributed 900,000 face masks to hospitals in Central America and Caribbean, and more are on the way.

MMDC’s President Tommy Pacello talks about the group’s effort to support small businesses, residents in need, and future development on this week’s Extra Podcast.

The space that formerly housed the Cleveland Street Flea Market at 438 N. Cleveland is to become a medical clinic with a variety of services, a building document shows.

Tennessee reported 5,676 new unemployment claims from the Memphis area in week ending May 30, for total of 97,696 since COVID-19 began causing massive layoffs and business closings.

Some see new investment and neighborhood improvements that can lift the area's quality of life. Others see rising rents and property values that displace neighbors who cannot afford to stay. One or both is happening at Binghampton's Woodcrest Apartments. 

The new measure gives business owners 24 weeks to spend the federal aid — instead of eight as originally designed — and extends the program through the end of the year while also lengthening the maturity date and deferral period of the loans.

FedEx is adding a 30 cents-a-package surcharge for some residential deliveries as a result of a volume spike associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Civil rights protests create another headwind for Memphis Tourism's push to rebuild demand for hotels, attractions and restaurants after COVID-19 flattened travel.

With an assist from ALSAC and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University of Memphis plans to offer an interdisciplinary online master’s degree in nonprofit management, which could begin in January 2021.