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Real Estate
Shab Chic Marketplace, a set of gussied-up shipping containers housing retail, was originally supposed to open in November 2017. It is located in the parking lot next to the former Kudzu’s Bar & Grill, which had an address of 603 Monroe Ave. Across the street is High Cotton Brewing and Edge Alley, the latter of which also houses micro-retailers. -
Real Estate
Memphis to take bids for Fairgrounds hotel-retail site and Mid-South Coliseum
Buoyed by a state-approved tourism development zone, the city of Memphis will take bids for a hotel-retail developer on the Fairgrounds site as part of a $161 million public-private project and go after a private operator as well to repurpose the Mid-South Coliseum. -
Business Shelby County unemployment rates tick upward in October
Shelby County’s unemployment rate rose slightly for the month of October, according to the most recent statistics released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. -
Business
State negotiating incentives for latest Memphis HQ
Memphis has landed another corporate headquarters with Mimeo agreeing to relocate its executives from New York City to the Bluff City. -
Business
Rays of Wisdom: Choosing an executor
Ray’s Take: The longest known will filed in probate court was in 1925. It was 1,066 pages long and belonged to Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook. Her will was bound into four leather books and detailed what should happen to every single item she possessed. It also included specific requests such as not putting her age on her tombstone. Can you imagine being the executor of her will? -
Business
Guest column: Goodwill Excel Center shifts model to benefit adult students
There really is no such thing as “one size fits all,” especially when it comes to education. The needs and life circumstance vary from student to student. For adults who dropped out of high school for whatever reason and want to earn a high school diploma, Goodwill Excel Center and Shelby County Schools have worked the past few years to determine the exact fit for those students. -
Real Estate
City Council reacts positively to first official Union Row presentation
Union Row, Memphis’ new nearly billion-dollar planned development, received a warm reception from members of the Memphis City Council Tuesday, Nov. 20, during the body’s Economic Development & Tourism Committee. -
Business
The Citizen edges Union toward safer avenues
The Citizen is still being built but the $35 million development already has made the corner of Union and McLean more urban. -
Real Estate
Patrons may drink in the views at Grind City Brewing
A father and son planning an $11.3 million craft beer brewery and taproom are intentional about the business engaging with and helping to lift its neighborhood, a long-distressed part of North Memphis. -
Business
Career Corner: Interviewing is not hazing
When I was in college, I never joined a sorority. But, like you, I’ve heard some of the horror stories about what it can sometimes be like to become part of Greek life. -
Business
Movers & Shakers
The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee has elected Rev. Phoebe Roaf as its fourth bishop. Roaf, who will be installed in a consecration service May 4, is rector at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest African-American church in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, where she has served as the parish leader since 2011. Before St. Philip’s, she was associate rector for three years at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. Roaf, who earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and clerked two years for Judge James L. Dennis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, worked in commercial real estate before pursuing a call to serve the Episcopal Church as clergy. -
Business
HarborChase developers to break ground on second area project
The developers of a Germantown-area retirement community are ready to begin round two. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx adds 1,000 electric vehicles to operate in California
FedEx has announced a deal to significantly expand its electric vehicle fleet by adding 1,000 Chinese-made Chanje V8100 vehicles. -
Business
Guerrilla Sales & Marketing: The speed of trust is an undeniable advantage
I find myself inspired today by a book called “The Speed of Trust,” by Stephen M.R. Covey. You’re probably familiar with Covey’s father, who wrote “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” -
Business
FUNdraising Good Times: Nonprofits can’t rely on Saint Nick for a windfall
Nonprofits who conduct year-end campaigns may unconsciously believe in Santa Claus. Some – though by no means all – are looking for a year-end windfall gift to appear between now and Dec. 31. -
Real Estate
Memphis attracts corporate HQ, ‘family-waged’ jobs
Mimeo.com, a cloud-based content distribution and printing company, is changing the area code of its corporate headquarters from New York City to 901. -
Health Care
Shelby County offering free flu shot clinic Dec. 5
The Shelby County Health Department is offering free flu shots Wednesday, Dec. 5, as part of a statewide vaccination event. -
Financial Services
Juggling adult children’s needs and your own
Parents spend $500 billion annually on their adult children, but they’re only putting $250 billion away per year toward their own retirement, according to a new study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave. -
Health Care
Medtronic’s alternative to opioids for back pain? Balloons, cement
One morning, Caroline Harris, 70, woke up with severe pain in her lower back. Was it the exercise she did? Picking up that heavy object? Climbing a flight of stairs? -
Business
POWER BROKER
As Franklin Haney tells it, his trouble started when President Donald Trump passed him a business tip. It came on an otherwise delightful night last spring as they dined at adjacent tables in Florida’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Breaking News Business
Gov. Haslam to announce corporate HQ move to Memphis
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced New York-based Mimeo.com, a cloud-based content distribution and printing company, is relocating its headquarters to Memphis. -
Transportation & Logistics
Lamar Avenue overhaul set for spring launch
The first phase of Lamar Avenue’s long-awaited overhaul is expected to begin next spring and be completed by November 2021. -
Health Care
Pioneering St. Jude researcher Dr. Brian Sorrentino dies
Dr. Brian Sorrentino, a longtime researcher and director of experimental hematology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has died. -
Transportation & Logistics Family of deceased FedEx hub worker sues equipment suppliers for $3 million
Two suppliers of cargo handling equipment at the FedEx world hub face a $3 million lawsuit over the Nov. 22, 2017, death of material handler Ellen Gladney, 60. -
Business
McEwen’s on Monroe planning expansion, renovation
One of Memphis’ long-standing Downtown restaurants will soon expand to accommodate demand.
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