One closing is in Cleveland, Tennessee, part of what a Truist Securities analyst calls a process of “strategic, commercial and cultural reset.”

George Nixon begins work next week, charged with finding new sources of revenue and fostering community ownership of a charity that feeds the poor, houses the homeless and serves in disaster. 

The Church Health Scholars program bridges the gap between undergraduate education and medical school for high-performing college graduates with fewer resources and connections.

Arlington is also growing with a long-anticipated new mega Kroger opening later this month and a new Staks Pancake Kitchen that should open in the coming months.

Developer Vibrant Hotels Inc., led by Vince Vaghela, renovated the former Tenoke Building built in 1911 into the three-star Aloft hotel.

The Ford Community Center, a public-private partnership, will be housed at the historic Stanton School located just minutes down the road from Ford’s new plant in BlueOval City.

The ruling also outlined specific pregnancy-related conditions that would now qualify as “medical necessity exceptions” under the ban, which currently does not include exceptions for fetal anomalies or for victims of rape or incest.

JoJo’s Espresso will open its second location in a former gift shop. 

With HIV cases spiking in the area, Mayor Lee Harris and his team took the opportunity to advertise the Shelby County Health Department’s free, confidential walk-in testing.

“This year we want people to join us in walking to create a world without suicide,” said Robert Gebbia, CEO of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

“Our results reflect the strength of our diversified business model and our continued focus on growing and deepening client relationships,” FHN President Bryan Jordan said.

The affiliate will be tax-exempt and have no legal or financial liability in the city’s transaction. 

The company plans to create more than 200 new jobs in engineering, administrative and production, enabling it to support its client base in the Southeast.

In all, the company is cutting 650 jobs, 400 of them in Memphis, its headquarters.

St. Louis-based Best Wash Laundromats expands presence in Memphis, Frager Law Firm signs a lease in East Memphis Crye Leike building, and a new tenant in The Shops at Rock Creek in Cordova. 

Baptist Health Sciences University and RISE Memphis announce additions. 

On Monday, Oct. 14, IMC employees packed grills, charcoal, diapers, formula, tents, sleeping bags, baby medications and generators into a 20-foot shipping container. 

The $13.4 billion merger between TD Bank Group and First Horizon National Corp. was scrapped last year following months of delays as the financial institutions tried to overcome regulatory oversight of their deal. 

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 15, free flu shots will be available at three Memphis sites, including one drive-thru location. 

In April, International Paper said it had reached an agreement to acquire DS Smith and expected to close the deal by the fourth quarter. 

Donte Johnson, 23, of Memphis, no longer lives with chronic pain caused by sickle cell disease, thanks to the gene therapy he received as clinical trial participant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

“We are proud and honored to receive this funding, which we hope will be instrumental in retaining newly graduated nurses in areas with nursing and health care gaps,” the dean of UTHSC’s College of Nursing said.

Every ticket sold to Memphis’ Oct. 19 home football game against North Texas will result in a $5 donation to purchase mammograms for Memphis residents.

Anuja Ghorpade, who comes to Memphis from the Albany College of Pharmacy, is a cell and molecular biologist by training. She has helped secure more than $13 million in research funding.