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Business A new scam is targeting Memphis-area small-business owners and franchisees, with victims in two reported cases losing at least a day’s revenue. -
Business
FedEx funds Tech901 courses for second straight year
Tech901, a local nonprofit specializing in IT training has been awarded a grant from FedEx Corp. to help fund instructional resources, textbooks and vouchers for certifications testing. -
Real Estate
The Flats at Overton Square nears construction
Construction is to start by January on The Flats at Overton Square, part of which will be among the first live/work apartment buildings in Midtown. -
Business Chattanooga CPA firm acquires Memphis company
Memphis-based accounting firm Grisham, Wildman & Work has been acquired by Chattanooga-based HHM CPAs. -
Business
The Daily Traveler: Finding one beach among Antigua’s 365
It’s said that Antigua has 365 beaches, one for every day of the year. -
Business
Guest column: Giving leads to growth
There is no doubt that Memphians are generous. Memphis is a city of fixers, doers and people who see it for what it can be, not for what it currently is. Residents want to leave the Bluff City better than they found it, and it shows. -
Financial Services
Pinnacle Financial approves buyback of up to $100 million in stock
Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has announced authorization of up to $100 million in common stock repurchases by Dec. 31, 2019. -
Real Estate
Memphis starts reacting to Union Row
The proposed $950 million Union Row development will soon start appearing on the agendas of local government boards, which will consider everything from tax incentives to the design of the massive mixed-use project. -
Real Estate
Renewable gas firm files $3.3M permit for facility near Memphis landfill
A company that converts the methane given off by landfills into renewable natural gas apparently has plans for a $3.3 million construction project near the South Shelby Landfill in Memphis, records indicate. -
Real Estate
City files permit for municipal golf course
The Links at Fox Meadows is getting a $1.2 million renovation. -
Business
Downtown master plan kicks off with ‘less vacancy, more retail, dining’
The Downtown Memphis Commission is collecting feedback that will help it shape the next decade of development and initiatives for the Bluff City’s core. -
Business
Skateboarding, coffee, art, music and culture at new Society Memphis
Memphis will soon be home to a unique indoor skatepark, complete with a skate shop and coffee shop. Society Skatepark & Coffee, a 10,000-square-foot facility just off Broad Avenue, should open the weekend of Nov. 17. -
Business
Sears places Southland Mall store on the chopping block
Sears Holdings will shutter the doors of its Southland Mall store, the company announced Thursday, Nov. 8. -
Business Krystal to open ‘prototype’ store in Whitehaven
Atlanta-based late-night dining staple Krystal will construct a new “prototype” location at 4395 Elvis Presley Blvd. -
Real Estate
Mike’s Hard Lemonade maker seeks tax break on Memphis warehouse
The maker of Mike's Hard Lemonade, a major customer of Memphis contract brewery Blues City Brewing, is seeking a tax abatement for a warehouse and distribution center in southeast Memphis. -
Business
Movers & Shakers
The Seam, a Memphis-based provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, has appointed two new staff members. -
Business
Career Corner: What salad dressing best emulates your life philosophy?
When it comes to job interviews, I’ve seen it all. Most interviews come in a fairly straightforward format. You do a phone screen with human resources and then a phone interview with the hiring manager. Afterward, you come in person for meetings with the hiring manager and other folks on the team. -
Business
Guerrilla Marketing: Grow your brand with data-driven design
What if you could redesign your website with proven data? What if – before you ever began designing your new site – you knew the type of content your target audience wanted most, as well as what headlines, navigation menus and even colors would lead them deeper into your site to convert to a specific goal? Even better, what if that type of data were easily at your fingertips? -
Health Care
Golf, military service foster friendship sealed with kidney donation
Loosely holding a rolled-up program in his hand, Dustin Lehmann tapped it on his knee as if playing along with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Veteran’s Day performance Saturday night. -
Real Estate
Uptown brewery would include tap room, plans show
Construction plans indicate a new Uptown brewery project would involve at least some renovation and partial demolition at an old industrial or mill facility. -
Business
COGIC ‘Saints’ return to boost civic pride, hotel occupancy
Memphis’ civic pride was wounded by the homegrown Church of God in Christ’s 2009 decision to move its biggest annual gathering up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. In a changing landscape of church leadership and amid complaints about Memphis’ lack of capacity to host such a large (30,000-plus) gathering, the Memphis-based Pentecostal denomination inked its first three-year deal with St. Louis. -
Real Estate
DMC board questions capacity for apartments Downtown
Several major Downtown Memphis apartment projects received tax breaks Tuesday morning, causing some board members to question just how many apartments are too many? -
Business
COGIC convocation coming home to Memphis in 2021-2023
The Memphis-based Church of God in Christ's annual holy convocation is coming home to Memphis from St. Louis in 2021-2023. Church leaders voted Monday to bring the annual convention back to Memphis for three years starting in 2021. It will continue to be hosted in St. Louis until then. -
Business FUNdraising Good Times: Increase your fundraising success with matching gifts
There’s a public secret that benefits many individuals and nonprofits. It’s called matching gifts. That’s the term for when an employer – or other organization – commits to make a gift to a nonprofit that “matches” the gift made by an employee or other qualified individual. -
Transportation & Logistics
Albert Glenn stood on shoulders of pioneering black pilots at FedEx, then paid it forward
With a hand up from FedEx’s pioneering black aviators, Albert Glenn reached his profession’s pinnacle flying wide-body air freighters around the world.
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