This week, we announced plans to increase staff. Soon we’ll have four reporters covering local business and eight covering local schools, city and county government, and suburban governments.

The expansion in Henderson County will cost $42 million and add 45 jobs over five years.

The concept contradicts traditional ideas about real estate, but buyers are snapping up the relatively expensive houses Laurynas Petrauskas and Raymond Sharkus build next to less-valuable homes.

Tension of the moment, COVID-19 itself and all the ways people are trying to cope create an uptick in headaches.

A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.

Memphis area’s Apple retail store is reopening after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Memphis in May International Festival recorded a loss of nearly $1.8 million in fiscal 2020, the largest loss in its 44-year history.

Duncan-Williams Inc., the family- and employee-owned brokerage firm that has been part of Memphis for 52 years, is being acquired by South State Corp. a publicly traded firm based in Florida.

The project employs U of M students to manage about half of Raymond James’ national identity and access program.

Principals involved in major developments (and redevelopments) in South City, the Fairgrounds and Poplar Plaza will talk about their projects as well as trends in real estate and construction as a whole.

Indigo Ag has launched a new line of business selling carbon credits that benefit farmers in sustainable agriculture. And Indigo’s first eight corporate customers include some stellar names.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is accused of awarding more than $400 million to West Clinic and its physicians, a significant portion of in kickbacks, for business that netted the hospital $1.5 billion between 2012-2018.

The SS Hail Mary rolled into Mud Island Marina Oct. 12, about 1,000 miles from journey’s beginning in St. Paul, Minnesota. Its skipper, Erich Mische, is raising money for charity.

A study done for the Memphis River Parks Partnership by Leo Events estimates new venues in Tom Lee Park could generate as much as $1.243 million in the first year.

The program began in 1969 with a goal of building up the MWBE community within the markets where Turner operates.

Despite COVID-19, companies have absorbed more than 3 million square feet than they have vacated in the Memphis area during 2020.

ROSA, short for robotic surgical assistant, is Zimmer-Biomet’s answer to more precise knee surgery. The robot figures out the math for each patient and builds a plan for the surgery.

The pandemic, combined with low interest rates, may be fueling home sales. At least among those who have job security.

Built 65 years ago for the Baron Hirsch Synagogue and sold 28 years ago to a Church of God in Christ jurisdiction, the historic property at 1740 Vollintine is up for sale for only the second time.

Many office moves occurring now were being planned before the pandemic.

Some people have asked but the owners of Piano’s flower shop say there is no reason for them to leave the Whitehaven community.

MRPP officials and designers fielded such questions as how views of the river would be preserved, whether playgrounds would create noise for nearby Downtown dwellers and where visitors would park.

Some of the biggest breaches include one at Marriott that affected over 5 million customers and one at Nintendo that compromised 300,000 user accounts. At least five state unemployment databases have been hacked.