Jason Farmer was a Marine when President George H. Bush visited The Commercial Appeal in 1989 to award his first Point of Light Award. Thirty years later, close to the first anniversary of Bush's death, Farmer is the 6,656th honoree.
Two apartment developments totaling 487 units and more than $73 million in construction costs are about to rise next to a well-known Midtown bar and the city's 4,500-acre park.
The busy LRK has added 14 employees this year as part of its effort to meet the work demands created by a robust economy for new development.
Goal of engineering college to double B.S. graduates in 10 years would begin to fill void in West Tennessee, which produces about one-third the national average of bachelor of science engineers.
FedEx volunteers and Operation Warm, a Philadelphia nonprofit that gives coats to needy children, combined for coat giveaways at Bruce and LaRose elementary schools in Memphis this week.
Memphis International Airport has added $6 million in federal funding for centralized aircraft de-icing facilities.
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FedEx expects to more than double normal package volume of 15 million packages a day on three Mondays in December, starting with Cyber Monday, Dec. 2.
Remember when it was possible to arrive at Memphis International Airport minutes before a flight? Those days are over, at least at peak times like Thanksgiving.
Adding a rural system allows UTHSC to schedule residencies and rotations in the settings where many will be serving.
Cargill Cotton is now headquartered in a woodsy, spacious office setting surrounded by easy, suburban parking. But the firm is moving to a Downtown office tower where the views are panoramic and sidewalks are vibrant.
Plans for a new St. Jude building with security fencing and a windowless, ground-floor wall ignited a planning board's concern that it would deaden street life in the resurgent Pinch District. But ALSAC/St. Jude officials won concessions, saying safety of its ill children is a priority.
Tupelo-based Renasant Bank's newly minted naming rights for the Memphis Convention Center are expected to generate more than $7 million over 10 years.
An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."
The Snuff District is the first of four big mixed-use developments around Downtown to recruit a substantial office tenant.
Luis Orbegoso says he found the right cultural fit, both as president of American Residential Services and as a resident of Memphis.
Adelman Law Firm has hired attorney Ormonde Landry Payne as a senior associate.
Media expert at the Neiman Foundation says one in eight people could be laid off in the combined company.
Loews Hotels & Co. won a 30-year property tax abatement Tuesday, Nov. 19, for its $240 million project to build a second Memphis Convention Center hotel.
Allegiant will increase its nonstops from Memphis by about one-third next summer with added frequencies to Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale.
Orion plans two to three new branches in the Little Rock area and is replacing or redesigning three branches in the Memphis market as it considers other new markets.
FedEx won't offer a pension plan for new hires starting Jan. 1, but will offer a stronger 401(k) retirement savings plan.
A new Amazon fulfillment center will handle larger products with the help of 500 employees receiving starting pay at $15 an hour.
Cargill Cotton said Monday it will move its headquarters and about 75 people from Cordova to One Commerce Square Downtown next spring.
Historic preservation advocates cast a wary eye toward a developer's $1.1 billion plan to transform the Pinch historic district into 2.8 million square feet of apartments, hotels, offices and retail.