The Renasant Convention Center’s general manager said the convention center would be “like a racecar without wheels” without the hotel. 

Southwest Airlines plans for flight service to begin in the spring.

Also a home-theater store opens in East Memphis, a Southeast Memphis warehouse has been bought and Amazing Lash Studio is moving to Poplar Commons Shopping Mall.

Memphis native Cathryn Stout is among 205 leaders selected to join the Obama Foundation Leaders program.

The Memphis-based automotive parts retailer reported a higher net income compared to the same period last year, and earnings per share rose 11%.

Teamsters sought reporting on what FedEx is doing to protect jobs as it moves away from reliance on fossil fuels; United Church Funds wanted the company to align lobbying with climate goals; both failed. 

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., a global brokerage and investment bank, first moved into Tennessee in 2022, when it opened a Nashville office. 

Alannah Williams, 17, has moved her baking business from South Korea, to Germany, to Japan and now to Memphis. 

“He would be so overjoyed today. I feel his presence now,” Dr. Carol Loree Champion said of her late father, Dr. Charles Champion, who opened his pharmacy and herb store in South Memphis in 1981. 

A hospital team arrived at the Memphis Zoo with a full-size ultrasound machine to perform and interpret EKGs for two of the great apes, an endangered species.

The Wolfchase Galleria store focuses on selling memorable moments. It’s a different emphasis from traditional shopping, where peddling products is primary.

“With high groceries, rent, gas, everything is expensive,” said Ashley McCray, who’s in the program. “This will be very good for me, so I’m excited about it.”

Cxffeeblack is now serving its coffee at the Hyatt Centric on Beale, Salata Salad Kitchen looks at Memphis for expansion and Uncle Goyo’s reopens. 

The little good news was that cost-cutting measures FedEx has achieved helped offset the revenue and expense pressure.

The airport also plans to bid out work that would mark every open parking space with a green light. 

A new store in Wolfchase Galleria features 60 claw machines that each offer chances to win things like Asian pop-culture cats, monsters and avocado plushies.

An update to the EDGE board Wednesday suggested collective wages from companies with PILOTs is around $6 million annually. 

Also: Coworking space for lawyers is coming to Downtown. 

The hotel selection and design have pushed the project timeline back from the end of 2027 to early 2028.

The former Murdock Printing building at 430 Monroe Ave. is one of four projects tapped for local grants. 

In 2015, Fayette County’s only hospital closed after averaging one inpatient a day. Baptist is counting on a population boom due to BlueOval City. 

Also, an industrial outdoor storage lot has been leased.

Rhodes College, West Tennessee Legal Services and Saint Francis Medical Partners announce a promotion and additions.

The Memphis location is the 98th Fisher House built by The Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit that builds the homes at military and VA medical centers around the world.

Black men are 70% more likely to develop cancer of the prostate and twice as likely to die from it compared to their white counterparts.