After a delay in construction, the ambitious $90 million TraVure mixed-use development on Germantown’s western border is moving to completion.  

Just south of the tracks on South Highland Avenue, the new Sam’s Deli restaurant churned out huge sandwiches for a lively Friday lunch crowd. Country music filled the room, as well as the mountings of five deer heads, a big bass and bobcat. A dozen diners, including one accompanied by his dog on the front deck, consumed sandwiches so big that half a ham-and-cheese could not quite fit into a carryout box.

Redevelopment of CarreFour at Kirby Woods near Germantown’s western gateway received its initial blessing from the suburb’s Planning Commission this week, setting in motion a possible new look to the city’s border along Poplar.

 There’s no mystery upstairs. Apartment dwellers will occupy the upper floors of The Citizen, the $35 million, mixed-use development being built at Midtown’s most prominent intersection.

An auto dealer plans to bring to Memphis two luxury/sporty Italian brands: Maserati and Alfa Romeo.

Construction should start the first half of next year on the $51 million apartment-and-retail development fronting Broad Avenue, the developer said this month.

The Tops Bar-B-Q experience with planting palm trees at its restaurants is not ending well.

Indian Pass Raw Bar and Grill closed this weekend, indicating again that being adjacent to the renovated Overton Square entertainment district is no guarantee of a restaurant’s success.

A shopping center in the heart of East Memphis will soon undergo a renovation.

More feet on the street has long been a mantra in the Downtown Memphis Commission’s effort to attract development and improve quality of life Downtown.

A developer proposes to build a new urban-style mix of 25 apartment units and some commercial spaces on five empty Uptown lots that had been developed for single-family houses.

The Memphis area’s third Urban Air, which bills itself as an “indoor adventure park,’’ is coming to Southaven.

With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said.  “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.”

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Work is underway in Collierville on a new Center Connect streetscape project that promises to transform Center Street leading to the historic Town Square, establishing a new gateway to Downtown Collierville.

Onyx Medical this week applied for a building permit to start an $11 million expansion of its medical-device manufacturing facility in northeast Memphis.

Germantown's self-imposed 18-month mixed-use multifamily moratorium just passed its halfway point, and only two of the four projects approved before the action took effect are still alive.

The Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission is working to secure state funds to create a second entrance, or exit, where the road inside the industrial park currently dead ends on the south side.

Crosstown Concourse has made a Southern U-turn at one of its restaurant spaces: Replacing a vegetarian-themed restaurant for one that features chicken dishes, including the fried kind.

Memphis financial and real estate professionals believe there’s plenty of runway left before would-be homebuyers are turned off or shut out by climbing interest rates.