In a message Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce officials sent to its Chairman’s Circle, the situation with President and CEO Ted Townsend was described as a “confidential personnel matter.”

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FedEx and more than 5,000 of its pilots reached a tentative agreement after years of debating pay levels and other benefits.

According to several high-level sources, Ted Townsend has been placed on leave by the Greater Memphis Chamber, but it is unclear why.

More gyros are coming to Collierville, and a second Memphis Raising Cane’s is planning its grand opening party. 

Last month, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board approved an xAI subsidiary’s application to erect 41 natural gas turbines.

The Daily Memphian reported the water recycling facility, a key promise the company made to local leaders and residents, was “on an indefinite pause.” Without it, xAI uses fresh drinking water to cool its Colossus data center.

The Downtown Memphis Commission’s Center City Development Corp. will consider several grants for Downtown projects at its April 15 meeting.

Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate brokerage, announced the sale but would not disclose the buyer or the sales price.

FedEx Freight leadership made their pitch to investors in New York, highlighting their push into new markets, sales team nationwide, new website and technology.

Built in 1875, the building is across the street from the under-construction Memphis Art Museum.

KIPP Memphis Public Schools has plans for an old office building in Cordova, including a “cafetorium.”

Little Diggers is coming to East Memphis and a Cooper Street building sells. 

SweetBio, a Memphis-based startup, has been providing wound care for patients nationwide. In recent weeks, they unveiled Apis — meant to help those with diabetes and those with more serious cases.

“Investors looking at Memphis from a distance will run the numbers, pull the crime stats, look at the demographics and sometimes walk away from deals that don’t fit a national template,” an executive with real estate firm NAI Saig Co. said about the Southeast Memphis shopping center. 

AutoZone is looking at another Collierville location, which could add more activity to an already bustling Houston Levee Road. 

The restaurateurs behind Sam’s Main Street Eatery and La Roche Lebanese Cuisine are opening a bakery. 

Burlington is looking to fill an empty retail space in Germantown. It would be the brand’s sixth store in Shelby County.

Together, the companies are laying off more than 450 workers in North Mississippi. 

While proponents tout the benefits of solar energy, some residents in north Shelby County think those developments are encroaching on their rural lifestyle.

Demand for solar panel storage kept the local industrial market in the black for the year. 

There are many solutions to a statewide physician shortage facing Tennessee in coming years. Local medical leaders said one thing is key — the ability to train people where they might eventually practice. 

Many of those downy little ducklings get to fly before they even sprout feathers — traveling on FedEx jets from the Cordova hatchery to buyers around the country.

The brother-sister duo behind Wang’s is saying goodbye.

A Memphis station is the Academy of Country Music’s Radio Station of the Year.

The new plan is a part of Memphis 3.0, which has received local pushback.