“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.

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.