The Memphis Convention Center has a new general manager as it begins a $175 million renovation project designed to attract more convention business.

After canceling its inaugural advisory board meeting in Nashville last month, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has rescheduled the historic meeting for next week in Memphis. 

SunTrust Banks and BB&T announced Thursday that BB&T will purchase SunTrust for $28.24 billion in an all-stock deal.

A growing new restaurant concept in Memphis is about to open its third local store, this one in Germantown near Trader Joe's.

You have a dozen roses ordered for delivery on Feb. 14, dinner reservations booked and a card bought. You’re ready for Valentine’s Day.

The Peabody marks the 150th anniversary of opening on Feb. 5, 1869, with the launch of a yearlong celebration, including multiple ticketed events and offerings.

The dairy plant next to Overton Square is waiting to learn if it will be fined by the state for polluting Midtown's Lick Creek.

Developers of an apartment complex on South Cooper in Cooper-Young received an extension on tax incentives for adding a public art element, a tribute to Johnny Cash, who played his first gig near the property. 

Infant deaths from critical heart diseases have declined 33 percent in eight states where the American Heart Association was successful in passing laws to require mandatory testing for heart defects before newborns leave the hospital. 

FedEx Express Europe announced Wednesday that it was upgrading FedEx Intra-European Economy parcel shipments in seven countries with plans to go Europe-wide by May 31.

Professionals on LinkedIn are posting some very unprofessional things. It’s happening all the time, and columnist Angela Copeland says it's frankly shocking.

Attorneys for the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel and the City Council squared off in Chancery Court Tuesday over a challenge to public incentives for a new Loews Hotel. 

ServiceMaster by Stratos has promoted Salvador Cervantes to director of janitorial services, a newly created role. Cervantes joined ServiceMaster by Stratos in 2004 as a service partner and worked his way up through the organization’s structure.

Trinity United Methodist Church has sold its 94-year-old sanctuary building, but will continue worshiping and carrying out its ministries on the opposite corner.

Applications for the March meeting of the Land Use Control Board include the latest phase of the South City mixed-use development, a waste-management company expansion in Whitehaven and the move of a funeral service to Whitehaven.

More housing for the families of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patients could be coming soon to the Pinch District Downtown. 

Bartlett-based business is finding a market for vinyl records.

Swankys Taco Shop is coming Downtown where the now-closed LYFE Kitchen operated in Chisca on Main.

Leading a fundraising campaign requires groundwork that you alone cannot build. Here are 12 things you need to be curious about before you say yes or no.

Wright Cafe will be the newest addition to Victorian Village, where two other businesses also are receiving Memphis Medical District Collaborative grants for property improvements. 

Yet another private dorm with more residents than parking spots may spur the U of M and its neighbors to tackle the automobile congestion.

Crosstown Concourse and LRK Architects have collected more national recognition for the design of the building's renovation. 

Leaders of several Memphis small businesses share how their companies engage in charitable giving in the video highlights from the Small Business Philanthropy seminar presented by The Daily Memphian and sponsored by the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.

Despite plans to shut down in two years, Electrolux scored more than enough points to stay in compliance with terms of its tax abatement agreement with Memphis and Shelby County.

The engineering, architecture and planning firm A2H not only has doubled its number of principals, the firm plans to open a Downtown office, expand its Nashville office and has just enlarged its Lakeland headquarters.