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Health Care
From digital payment transactions to streaming television shows, advances in technology over the past several decades have changed the way the world does business, consumes media and even gives to charity. ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, realizes that to keep up, it too must evolve. -
Transportation & Logistics
Airport braces for parking crunch, longer security lines during holiday peak
Crowded parking decks and longer security lines await Thanksgiving week travelers at Memphis International Airport. -
Real Estate
Grand entrance: $950M Union Row proposed for Downtown
The largest mixed-use development in Memphis history goes public this week, promising to transform a haggard Downtown gateway with apartments, stores, restaurants, a hotel, office towers, parking structures, green spaces, even a half-acre park perched over a roadway like a rooftop. -
Real Estate
Permit sought for $11.3 million brewery in Uptown
There are plans to construct a building for Grind City Brewing Co. in Uptown, according to a building permit application filed this week. -
Business
Southland vs. Tunica: Election heightens the battle for Memphians’ dollars
Tunica is no longer the only nearby destination for casino lovers. In Tuesday’s midterm elections, Arkansans voted to approve licenses for four casinos statewide, including Southland Park Gaming & Racing in West Memphis. -
Health Care
Methodist approved to administer new cancer treatment, first in the region
Methodist Healthcare’s Blood and Marrow Transplant Center has been approved to administer a new type of cancer treatment unique to the Mid-South. -
Business
New Memphis president Nancy Coffee stepping down after 15 years
New Memphis president and CEO Nancy Coffee is transitioning into a new role after 15 years at the organization's helm. -
Business
Rocky Goodwin’s sincerity, authenticity score points with Hotel Napoleon patrons
He’s responsible for handwritten notes and extras that pamper Hotel Napoleon guests: chocolates and champagne, or rose petals scattered on the beds of people celebrating anniversaries. -
Business Let’s Grow: Finding focus in the midst of ambiguity
A Back End of Innovation conference keynote by Jon Kolko, partner, Modernist Studio. Kolko started out by discussing the myth of creativity and how it becomes mystified in the workplace. “Nothing is further than the truth,” he adds. -
Business
Walk this way: Cooper Street gets two new crosswalks near busy intersections
Two new crosswalks on Cooper Street at the corners of Felix and Oliver avenues wrap up the first phase of an effort by area businesses to make the Cooper-Young neighborhood safer for pedestrians. -
Business
Collierville High recognized for design with state award
The new Collierville High School – with its price tag in the neighborhood of $100 million – was recognized Saturday night for its design, crowned “School of the Year” by the Tennessee School Boards Association (TSBA). -
Real Estate
Arlington Tennis Center nears construction
Arlington is moving forward with plans to build six tennis courts with an open lawn and other amenities. -
Business
Advisory board to hold chamber, EDGE accountable
During the spring, controversy sparked a joint meeting of the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners. -
Transportation & Logistics
Operation Warm coat giveaway at local schools warms bodies and hearts
FedEx volunteers and the national nonprofit Operation Warm blanketed two Memphis-area schools with TLC this week, distributing more than 700 winter coats at Hawkins Mill and Hamilton elementary schools. -
Business
Hyde Family Foundation commits $5.2M to riverfront redesign project
The Hyde Family Foundation will donate an additional $5.2 million to further Memphis riverfront redevelopment. -
Real Estate
Board approves Madison Gardens apartments
The Land Use Control Board on Thursday approved a planned development for a three-story, 24-unit apartment building at 1655-1665 Madison in Midtown. -
Business
Tipping Point: Educators of Excellence Honoree Rebecca Bowers
Leading by example is something Rebecca Bowers, third grade teacher at Kingsbury Elementary, lives out not just daily but hour by hour. As she encourages her students to stay curious and ask questions, she, too, endeavors to remain a lifelong learner. -
Business
Rays of Wisdom: Unusual investing
RAY’S TAKE: Back in the 1990s a Pennsylvania man spent $4 at a flea market for a painting that he didn’t even like. He bought the painting because he liked the frame. When he tossed out the painting, he found an envelope with one of the first printings of the Declaration of Independence. Documents like the one he found have sold for up to $8.14 million. -
Real Estate Cottage community slated for Uptown in Memphis
Andre Jones and Curtis Jones, partners in Jones Urban Development Co., are seeking a 15-year PILOT incentive to build Malone Park Commons, a 25-unit, ground-up rental development on 0.8 acres in the Malone Park section of Uptown. -
Real Estate Fogelman Properties buys Jacksonville apartments
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties has joined with a Dallas company to buy a 268-unit apartment complex in Jacksonville, Florida. -
Business
Big River Crossing: No longer a bridge to nowhere
When Big River Crossing initially opened, many wondered if it would be a bridge to nowhere. Over the past two years, that question has been answered. -
Real Estate
Resurgent Crosstown draws CrossFit Hit & Run
CrossFit Hit & Run’s Midtown location will move early next year to Crosstown, directly across Autumn Avenue from Crosstown Concourse. -
Real Estate
Historic Ashlar Hall finally being renovated
The long-suffering Ashlar Hall – the 122-year-old castle-like and historic house – is finally being repaired and restored after years of decay and broken promises. -
Business Leaders propose joint venture for Chamber, EDGE
Local government and business leaders have joined together to propose new changes to the economic development process, which includes a new joint venture to oversee how the Greater Memphis Chamber and the EDGE board recruit new jobs. -
Real Estate
Collierville construction company proposes Nutbush landfill
An area of Nutbush that is often used for illegal dumping could become a full-time landfill operation.
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