Textile manufacturing executives representing 14 countries are visiting the U.S. Cotton Belt this week for the Cotton USA Orientation Tour.

The University Park Flats project will convert a vacant, blighted office building in an economically distressed stretch of Park Avenue into apartments and a coffee shop.

A private company has paid all back city and county property taxes on the main parcel of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in North Memphis, indicating some possible movement toward new development on the long-dormant site.

The MBCC formed in 2014 when the rate of African American women in Memphis dying from breast cancer was 2:1 with white women. 

Memphis Made will join friends at High Cotton in the Edge District when its second brewery opens next year.

Carrie Cobb, CH Sullivan, Connie Stressel, and Debbie Reed have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners. 

A locally owned seafood restaurant that opened in Cordova a year ago will soon open a second location in Midtown.

Hero & Sage salon opens in Crosstown Concourse as a result of one of those conversations that occurs while the stylist cuts a client's hair. 

Analysis of a property tax break for “Bluff City Law” suggests a big payoff in film tourism and spending in Memphis, but some experts believe the claims are exaggerated.

Genesis is part of the culture in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, where more than 500 people have signed on to donate their bodies to a facility in Midtown Memphis. 

Memphis International Airport is expecting a big crowd of fall break travelers in October. Airport officials are taking steps to cope with long lines at security.

Active Implants’ president and CEO hopes to shave time off the FDA approval process for the company's synthetic meniscus device.

The $200 million renovation of the Memphis Cook Convention Center is taking place as the center continues to hold events. 

Grace Medical expects to be selling EndoEar's line of instruments in Europe late this fall.

FedEx is adding 3,250 workers in the Memphis area to help it handle a surge in package volume between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

A student-led protest at the University of Memphis over President David Rudd’s bonus package and other issues sparked to life briefly Friday afternoon with chanting before fizzling.

St. Jude symposium is designed to help hospitals worldwide see what works in palliative care and develop it at home.

New renderings for the 11-acre, first phase of the Union Row mixed-use development show a dense arrangement of apartments, parking garages, hotels and office buildings.

More than 200 FedEx volunteers assembled 12,000 holiday gift bags for the USO Holidays campaign Thursday, Sept. 26, at FedExForum.

Saint Francis hospitals in Bartlett and Memphis are among 26 in Tennessee and seven in southwest Virginia that have filed a civil lawsuit in Greene County (Tenn.) Circuit Court against the manufacturers, distributors and retailers of opioid-based drugs.

Construction will start soon on a BP gas station/convenience store on the now-vacant northeast corner of Poplar and Holmes. And next door, the Century Building will soon be demolished to make room for Woodie's Wash Shack car wash.

Memphians will have a choice on nonstop flights to Atlanta for the first time in more than three years, when Southwest launches Memphis-Atlanta service starting March 7, 2020.

Memphis Heritage will soon post a job opening to find a successor to June West, who is entering semi-retirement after leading the city's preservationists for the past 17 years.

Memphis medical device developer Entac Medical is among initial businesses backed by new statewide early-stage capital provider, TennesSeed Fund.

A mixed-use development of seven apartment units and 750 square feet of retail is proposed for 569 N. McLean, across from Snowden School.