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Business
We can still cross our fingers for more of NBC’s “Bluff City Law,” but should it return to the air, Elijah will need a new office building: Strait & Associates at Front Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard will soon be home to a restaurant, a sandwich shop and up those stairs where a beer or two was consumed on the show, a speakeasy. -
Business
Five agtech companies to showcase innovative technologies at demo day
The participating companies were selected at the Row Crop Challenge at the Farm Journal AgTech Expo and have completed the AgLaunch365 accelerator program.
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Health Care
Dentist to tech stars working for smiles at Church Health
At Church Health, which serves the working poor, dentists see patients with tooth decay and issues that have often been progressing for years. They may be in pain, or too embarrassed to apply for promotions, or haven’t smiled in years.
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Business
Creating immersive musical experiences is Mind Over Data
The Memphis-based software development firm is making its mark in museums and garnering national attention, but also is having success in other sectors such as K-12 education.
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Business
TEDx Memphis connects big ideas with a broad audience
Memphis leaders across various disciplines share their expertise with language intended to inspire the average person, regardless of background or experience.
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Premium Business
Brother Joel, CBHS legend, off for sabbatical, then retirement
Sabbatical program in Chicago is designed to help clergy, others access how to make an impact in what McGraw calls the "final quarter."
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Business
Memphis Heritage names June West’s successor
Meet Holly Jansen Fulkerson, who has taken over the leading role in Memphis for advocates of historic preservation.
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Business
Don’t let a bad vendor ruin your wedding
There’s no second chance with a wedding, so brides and grooms and parents need to do their due diligence in choosing vendors.
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Transportation & Logistics
Airport checkpoint changes will impact spring break travel
As Memphis airport braces for busy spring break season, travelers will find a couple of new wrinkles in security screening procedures and equipment.
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Real Estate
Construction of Fire Station No. 5 will start chain of projects
The Memphis Fire Department has filed for a permit to build a new Fire Station No. 5 at a new location. Moving a mile away to 400 Adams will clear the way for construction of a new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on the Downtown river bluff.
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Health Care UT Trustees cut out-state medical school tuition, hold others flat
Trustees approve large cuts to other graduate programs in strategy to increase enrollment.
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Health Care CBU adds four-year degree program in nursing
Classes begin in the fall; program also designed to accommodate transfer students.
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Real Estate
Memphis history, Sheraton expansion could be on collision course
The Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel's expansion needs could come in conflict with a more than 200-year-old slice of Memphis history.
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Business
Tipping Point: Supporting an oasis in South Memphis
For this New Memphis Fellows Community Action Project, a group helped The Works, Inc. promote their South Memphis Farmers Market.
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Business
Memphis business leaders share advice, challenges for success
Scrutiny and challenges come with being a woman in a leadership role, but should be embraced, three Memphis businesswomen tell a seminar audience.
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Health Care
Troubled PharMEDium laying off 167 employees, closing plant
Memphis plant was the largest of four; sanitary conditions riddled it for more than a decade.
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Real Estate
New hotel to rise on vacant Downtown corner
The $11 million project, which could begin construction this summer, joins a growing list of new and planned Downtown hotels
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Transportation & Logistics
Memphis airport board approves UPS expansion lease
Lease approval accommodates UPS' planned $216 million expansion project, but FedEx will remain the dominant cargo shipper at Memphis International.
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Health Care
CrossRoads adds FDA-approved nitinol staple
The wider staple is an innovation for fractures or arthritis injuries in the mid- to hind foot, where the bones are larger.
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Real Estate
Cigar bar plans two-story humidor, performance area with Downtown loan
Havana Mix will also add a new restaurant into Downtown retail space never before occupied.
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Health Care
Epidemiologist: Why I fear the coronavirus COVID-19
COVID-19 is both highly infectious and mildly to moderately lethal, similar to the 1918 influenza pandemic that infected nearly a quarter of the world population.
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Premium Business
Tom Lee Park design retooled to suit mediation, Corps of Engineers
Designers are revising a proposed revamp of Tom Lee Park according to specifications of a city-ordered mediation agreement and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Business
Distressed, crime-prone motels get new life as affordable housing
A Florida company has come to Memphis to convert distressed, crime-plagued hotels into small, affordable apartments with 24/7 security.
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Health Care
Nurses want to do their jobs without physician oversight
Nurse practitioners and other advanced-practice nurses say mandatory supervision is a way for doctors to keep control. They have taken the battle to work without physician oversight, including prescribing drugs, to the Tennessee Legislature for the fourth time since 2014.
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Movers and Shakers
Movers & Shakers
Dorothy Robinson has joined HealthChoice as a certified medical assistant for the organization’s Population Health Services team.
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