As is the case throughout Collierville, home sales within the Villages at Porter Farms planned development have been on fire for the past several years, with builders taking advantage of one of the hottest homebuilding markets in the Mid-South.

As 167 health care providers, researchers and foundation executives from 52 different countries made their way into the Marlo Thomas Center for Global Education and Collaboration auditorium, a slideshow depicted photos from their journey. One group was spotted at B.B. King’s Blues Club the night before, others took pictures upon their arrival at Memphis International Airport, and many took pictures at their final destination, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

A substantial development emerged Friday for Summer Avenue and the Highland Heights neighborhood with confirmation that a charter school plans to renovate and move into a large, vacant building on the commercial corridor.

With 15 restaurants under its belt and two more on the way, one local franchise has its eyes set eastward for future expansion possibilities.

An industrial real estate investment and operating company based in Dallas wanted another Memphis property so badly that it made an offer for a building that had not been on the market and bought it.

Hollywood Feed expands into the Sunshine State with a store opening Saturday, Dec. 8, in Tallahassee.

FedEx Express gets a new chief Jan. 1, with a rising star in FedEx leadership taking over for a long-tenured executive who embodies the company’s wealth of home-grown talent.

If you buy a tub of whipped topping, a plastic toy, fried pork rinds or gift wrap at Walmart, you may be contributing to a paycheck for a Memphis-area worker.

After the Bluff City’s political and business dignitaries filled the Grand Ballroom at The Peabody, the music died down and the mood became slightly somber, as attendees knew the Greater Memphis Chamber’s president and CEO would not be there.

In this final installment of my three-part intestacy series, I highlight two of the most overlooked asset-transferring mechanisms that can be used to bypass both the need to execute a will and the maze of intestate succession: beneficiary and joint ownership designations.

Ray’s Take: Divorce rates peaked in the 1980s, with over 50 percent of American couples splitting up. Since that time, divorce rates have been steadily declining. In 2015, the divorce rate in America reached an all-time low.

Apartment construction in Memphis has been on a tear in recent years, with new units springing up across the city.

The riverfront One Beale development should soon become a reality; a building permit application for the first phase was filed this week.

Wiseacre Brewing Co.’s new Downtown Memphis brewery will carry a price tag of more than $9 million, according to new documents made public Thursday, Dec. 6.

The location of Union Row, a $950 million mixed-use project spanning 29 acres of Downtown Memphis, is not happenstance. It's an opportunity. 

FedEx and Walgreens said Thursday they’re doubling down on their alliance by offering next-day prescription deliveries in selected U.S. markets.

Gov. Bill Haslam appointed a five-member advisory board for Memphis-based University of Tennessee Health Science Center, including U.S. District Court Judge Mark Norris and Michael Ugwueke, president and CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, according to the governor’s office.

An office building largely leased by FedEx has sold for $11.1 million.

This isn’t one of those “best gifts for travelers” lists found on every travel site this time of year. In fact, I find little use for those lists, in part because I’m a simple traveler.

JASCO Realtors, a Memphis-grown agency, is merging into Keller Williams Realty Memphis to create a Mid-South office with more than 300 agents, the companies announced Wednesday.

Louisiana-based Acadian Ambulance Service will take on the workforce and 30-plus ambulances of Emergency Mobile Health Care LLC Feb. 1 as Acadian completes acquisition of the homegrown Memphis company.

FedEx is holding a job fair Saturday, Dec. 8, to fill 500 permanent part-time jobs at the FedEx Express world hub at Memphis International Airport.

With a photo of a vehicle-filled surface parking lot projected on the screen, Carol Coletta asked Downtown Memphis Commission board members to look at the current condition of Wagner Place.

A developer proposes to demolish Poplar-fronting buildings being sold by the Memphis College of Art and erect a six-story, 120-unit apartment building there.

Agricenter International and University of Tennessee Extension have announced two additions to their joint education partnership. Laura Robertson and Michael Owen have joined the staff as Shelby County extension agents focusing on 4-H and youth education.