Opening move: Memphis Chess Club builds business for food, coffee, play
Workers including Bernardo Medina prepare for the opening of the Memphis Chess Club, the first-floor storefront of the former S. C. Toof Building at 195 Madison Ave. The upper floors house the Pressbox Lofts apartments. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Memphis Chess Club has transformed itself into a business, and is changing the shopfront space of a Downtown building into a café/coffee shop and its new home.
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Downtown development New restaurants chess Commercial Real Estate Memphis Chess ClubTom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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