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.

The N. Bellevue Boulevard development takes its inspiration from Uptown’s Malone Park Commons. 

The project is now expected to cost $38 million more than original estimates, and the Downtown Mobility Authority may commit additional support to ensure the redevelopment moves forward. 

FedEx processes hundreds of millions of returned items a year, a complicated dance, said the director of University of Memphis’ automated identification lab.

He was inducted in the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame in 2023.

Finard Properties is renovating the former Spin Street site into six smaller spaces with an eye on attracting local businesses. That spot, which Finard executives refer to as “the angle,” has sat mostly empty since the music and memorabilia store closed in 2017.

The Commercial Real Estate of Women Network was founded in 1989 to create a networking organization dedicated to women in commercial real estate.

The Semmes Murphey Clinic has diagnosed and treated patients with neurological disorders for more than a century, and once a month it hosts the region’s only multidisciplinary clinic for patients with ALS, aka Lou Gherig’s disease.

The Monroe Avenue location is one of several grant requests on the agenda for the Downtown Memphis Commission Center City Development Corp.

A&W Restaurant is coming to Millington, Elise Desserts is closed, Cordova welcomes Bojangles and Arlington Taziki’s is now open. 

The EEOC lawsuit says FedEx violated the Americans with Disability Act by not providing accommodations for workers loading and unloading freight.

Health officials in Kentucky and Tennessee are working together to evaluate exposures to the measles. 

Plus, more apartments are proposed for the Crosstown area.

Also, a strip shopping center in Germantown has been sold, Cornerstone Caregiving in Cordova leased space on Walnut Bend Road and Delp Distribution Center has another tenant.

Marx-Bensdorf, Polished Consulting LLC, OrthoSouth and A3 Freight Payment announce additions and a promotion. 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the official charitable partner of SpaceX’s Polaris Program, which launched its first commercial spaceflight early on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Memphis will be represented at this week’s 3686 Conference, where people from across the state and country will come together to learn about Tennessee’s startup scene. 

The seminar also featured talks from Monique Williams, and mother and son Beverly and Ryan Robertson.

Joann Massey will lead the economic development efforts for Memphis and Shelby County, spearheading efforts to attract investments, create jobs and help local businesses. 

“We have a community table that’s open whenever the store is open, and people can sit and casually learn from anyone else at the table,” Stitching Supply owner Erica Carpenter said.

A group of investors led by Poag Development Group purchased the East Memphis mall anchor and will lease the 400,000-square-foot space back to Macy’s.

Here’s a roundup of food news from around the Mid-South, including Amelia Gene’s reopening after two-week culinary vacation and a popular taco stand plans to open its ninth location in southeast Memphis.

The project involves renovating the closed Walgreens at 3502 Summer Ave.