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Verizon Wireless is spending nearly $3.5 million to update its Memphis-area switching station. -
Business
Lime scooters poised to return Monday
California-based scooter rental company Lime will launch a fleet of 250 scooters throughout Memphis Monday, Dec. 3. -
Business
TVA says Bellefonte purchase misses closing date
Tennessee Valley Authority officials have called off the sale of the Bellefonte Plant in northeastern Alabama at Friday’s deadline for Nuclear Development LLC to close on the purchase. TVA officials confirmed they called off the sale of the mothballed electricity-producing plant because Nuclear Development, owned by Chattanooga developer Franklin Haney, did not have the necessary approval from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to transfer construction permits. -
Real Estate
FedEx Trade Networks backs out of deal for Gibson Guitar space
A deal that would have placed FedEx Trade Networks' headquarters in a prominent Downtown location is dead, FedEx officials confirmed Thursday. -
Transportation & Logistics Airport reports spending 30 percent with disadvantaged businesses
Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority spent $16.5 million or 30 percent on contracts with disadvantaged, minority and women-owned businesses in fiscal 2018, up 3 percent from a year earlier. -
Real Estate
Jobs center moves to Midtown
Workforce Investment Network is moving its central employment center from Downtown to Midtown, at 155 Angelus. -
Business
Two Madison Avenue staples close doors
It’s the end of an era at the corner of Madison and Belvedere. Zinnie’s, called Old Zinnie’s since Zinnie’s East opened a few doors east of the original in the 1980s, has closed. -
Business
Let’s Grow: Keep your business nimble by thinking ‘the Startup Way’
Highlights of a Back End of Innovation Conference keynote by Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” and “The Startup Way.” -
Business
Hutchinson: ‘All natural’ means all natural
Even if you’re not a chemist, you’ll probably surmise that butyloctyl salicylate and polyquaternium-37 are not naturally occurring substances. Yet they and other synthetic ingredients with similarly difficult-to-pronounce names were contained in products marketed as “all natural” or “100 percent natural.” -
Health Care
St. Jude Memphis Marathon fundraising gets boost from corporate teams
A large team from Mitsubishi Electric’s Memphis manufacturing facility will be among the record-setting 26,000 participants, 40,000 spectators and 4,000 volunteers at this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend. -
Business
Rays of Wisdom: Choosing the right life insurance
Ray’s Take: When choosing a life insurance plan that’s right for you, the most important question you need to ask yourself is whether you need the insurance to be temporary or permanent. -
Real Estate
Memphis has big presence at World Architecture Festival
They didn’t win this week, but two of Memphis’ new architectural gems were among 535 “short-listed” projects in the 2018 World Architecture Festival Awards in Amsterdam. -
Health Care
Le Bonheur Children’s begins search for new president, CEO
After 12 years of leading Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, president and CEO Meri Armour plans to retire in 2019. -
Real Estate
City helping Tigers’ tennis teams find a new home
The city of Memphis is helping University of Memphis tennis teams find new home courts to use after The Racquet Club closes next spring. -
Real Estate
Citizens offer more feedback on future of Overton Park buildings
However Overton Park’s two iconic buildings are reused in the future, they should welcome the public with open arms, continue to celebrate art and support artists, and provide continuing education. -
Business
Convention center project clears final hurdle
A long-planned modernization and expansion of the 44-year-old Memphis Cook Convention Center is in the clear after approval of a $163.5 million construction contract Wednesday, Nov. 28. -
Business
Caesars ends gaming operations at Tunica Roadhouse
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is ending gaming operations at Tunica Roadhouse Casino. -
Business
Fred’s reports $68 million payment in deal with Walgreens
Walgreen Co. has paid rival pharmaceutical chain Fred’s Inc. $68 million as part of a larger agreement between the companies, according to a release Wednesday, Nov. 28. -
Business
Bicentennial Memphis makes Frommer’s list of 19 places to visit in 2019
Memphis is one of Frommer’s travel guide’s “Best Places to Go in 2019” on the strength of the city’s 200th anniversary celebration next year, Memphis Tourism announced Wednesday. -
Business
Downtown Memphis ramps up retail recruitment strategy
At a time when brick-and-mortar retailers are competing with e-commerce, Downtown Memphis is trying to figure out if it can support retail at all. -
Real Estate
Century Building would be razed for car wash
A familiar East Memphis office building, with its script “Century Building" sign in front and mechanized, louvered windows on the sides, is proposed to be demolished and replaced with a car wash. -
Real Estate
Wiseacre to double jobs, expand distribution with Downtown brewery
A new, larger Wiseacre brewery Downtown would enable the Memphis company to double its full-time employment and expand distribution of its craft beer initially into all of Alabama as well as Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. “We’re in seven states full-time,’’ co-founder Kellan Bartosch said Friday of Wiseacre Brewing Co.'s current footprint. “And we’ve had conversations with markets all over.’’ -
Real Estate
Retail is part of Madison apartment building
The Madison@McLean apartments under construction in Midtown will include ground-floor retail space, the developers confirmed Monday. -
Business
International Paper donates $1M to U of M collaboration
Memphis-based International Paper Co. has donated $1 million to the River City Partnership, a collaboration between the University of Memphis, Shelby County Schools and the Achievement School District. -
Business
Career Corner: The interview feedback loop
I’ve been talking to a number of job seekers lately about illegal interview questions. They keep coming up, and I keep asking myself why that is. When you’re a job seeker, you may not realize how common illegal questions are because you’re interviewing for only one or two jobs at a time. But, surprisingly, they’re popping up in job interviews quite a bit.
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