The Consignment Music Store at 4040 Park Ave. will close on Dec. 17 after nearly three decades of providing local musicians with instruments or cash.

Just over a year after plans for the billion-dollar Union Row project was announced to Memphis, old buildings are being removed to make space for new apartments, hotel, retail, offices and green spaces.

How do you jump-start nearly $1.4 billion worth of new apartments, stores and offices? A Downtown board answers that by approving $306 million worth of tax incentives, with $143 million more to come from other sources, for two large developments. 

Local planning boards are sometimes criticized for giving rules exceptions to developers at the expense of residents and neighborhoods. But this month even St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - arguably the most popular and influential "developer" in town - did not get its way.

A 120-room, boutique hotel has been added to plans for the One Beale mixed-use development. 

Two apartment developments totaling 487 units and more than $73 million in construction costs are about to rise next to a well-known Midtown bar and the city's 4,500-acre park.

Cargill Cotton is now headquartered in a woodsy, spacious office setting surrounded by easy, suburban parking. But the firm is moving to a Downtown office tower where the views are panoramic and sidewalks are vibrant.   

An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."

Historic preservation advocates cast a wary eye toward a developer's $1.1 billion plan to transform the Pinch historic district into 2.8 million square feet of apartments, hotels, offices and retail.

Three substantial developments have been proposed for the north edge of Shelby Farms Park, and it appears the 267-unit Velo at Shelby Farms may be the first to be built.

Carvana opens an eight-story, glass-encased “car vending machine” along Interstate 40 just southwest of Germantown Parkway.

Delayed four months by a fire, construction of Forum Flats apartments has resumed and the first units should become available soon.

How should historic Midtown respond to modern architecture as infill development occurs?

Developers of OaksEdge in East Memphis seek a residential PILOT to build an $89 million, 240-unit senior living campus near Dixon Gallery & Gardens.

With Memphis continuing to attract commercial real estate investments, the city is poised to build on its successes for years to come, local experts say. 

The agency that has educated more than 10,000 people on buying their first home or avoiding foreclosure will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a fundraiser at Crosstown Brewing Co.

A revised, larger site plan for the Loews convention center hotel shows that the back of the historic Central Police Station would be replaced or retrofitted to support the 500-room hotel. Memphis Heritage opposes any demolition there "at this time."

A new request for a special use permit has been submitted for approval now that Loews Hotel & Co. has added the historic police station property to its site plan. 

The artist-support organization is not saying, but a rendering may provide clues for where in the Broad Avenue Arts District that Arrow plans to put its "forever home." 

A prominent commercial real estate firm makes Greg Spillyards its chief executive, doubling down on helping under-served neighborhoods in Memphis.

The Crosstown area of Madison Avenue will have a different, more pedestrian-friendly feel and look now that a four-story, mixed-use development has been approved to rise on what is now a surface parking lot.

North Carolina-based developer requests the Board of Adjustment to review its plan for Broad Avenue Arts District apartments on Nov. 20. 

Property owner Loeb Properties has gone back to the drawing board with a new developer, new architects and a new design for proposed apartment development under the Broad Avenue water tower.

The Downtown Memphis Commission voted 6-3 Friday, Oct. 18, to uphold its Design Review Board's approval of the design of Peabody Falls apartments in Midtown.

The financial services company would vacate the office tower on Front Street Downtown that bears its name.