Tops Bar-B-Q sells part of its real estate
The owners of Tops Bar-B-Q have sold at least seven of their 15 restaurant buildings to a Phoenix firm that buys the real estate of businesses and leases it back to them.
The owners of Tops Bar-B-Q have sold at least seven of their 15 restaurant buildings to a Phoenix firm that buys the real estate of businesses and leases it back to them.
Veterans Services (USA) plans to transform the East Memphis Crowne Plaza into a mixed-use development marketed to veterans and other seniors. The organization’s goal is to operate such a facility in all 50 states.
A new ownership group has bought Earnestine & Hazel’s for $900,000 and and a nearby warehouse for $200,000. The old bar will reopen soon, and the new owner promises to keep those Soul Burgers sizzling.
The former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home site is considered a prime location in Bartlett due to its high acreage and its proximity to both U.S. Highways 64 and 70.
The applicants argued unsuccessfully to the Board of Adjustment that their flexible-loan business is not as financially punishing to customers as payday or title loan shops.
The new owner of an apartment building near the Highland Strip applied for a variance allowing a dumpster to be placed near Walker Avenue. The retroactive request will require the owner to make significant changes for approval amid significant opposition.
Salad Expressions will be wedged between the new URBN on Union buildings. The restaurant will open at 1308 Union, which formerly housed E’s 24 Hour Café.
The sales director for the Hyatt Centric offered journalists an early, sneak peek of the $75 million, 227-room luxury hotel that is nearly finished at 33 Beale.
Germantown’s Design Review Commission gave favorable reviews to Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken and the addition to Houston Middle School.
The pandemic and dropping sales have challenged downtown’s Peanut Shoppe. But now the colorful shop that has operated in the same place for 72 years faces more adversity. It must move or close at the end of the year.
Band of Jeeps are on the road nearly 24-7, donating time, gas to keep Mid-South health care workers moving in the cold.
The EDGE Board approved an “inducement resolution,” and will later vote to authorize issuance of up to $75 million in Tourism Development Zone bonds to help pay for the $125 million Liberty Park.
The Highland Heights Community Development Corp. will award $1,000 for the best concept to reuse the old church buildings anchoring a corner of Summer at Highland.
Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.
The city would seek proposals from developers, but has no preference whether Memphis’ tallest building is demolished or redeveloped.
A new real estate development company plans to transform a blighted, long-vacant commercial structure into retail space and apartments.
The Land Use Control Board also approved a transitional group home in Binghampton for veterans, an attached-townhouse development on Brookhaven Circle, and plans for a used-car lot in Raleigh. The board rejected plans a 35-lot subdivision of container homes in New Chicago.
The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum will move just two blocks from its long-time headquarters at 158 Madison.
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. approved $28 million in tax breaks Tuesday, Feb. 9, but members were critical of the absence of one of the developers seeking incentives.
The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.
The people designing the changes at Overton Park golf course — and those on the bulldozers — consider the entire landscape as one big sculpture, not nine different holes with spaces in between.
The $10 million project is dependent on obtaining approval for changes to the property’s planned development.
The townhomes would be built to be sold and rise on a vacant lot at the southwest corner of South Main and Carolina.
The average price of houses sold continued to rise also, up nearly 15% compared to a year earlier.
A 21-acre, senior-living community is proposed for a site that was partially occupied by the Coro Lake Elementary School, which was razed four years ago.