The nine-story hotel at 233 S. Front is connected to a sister hotel, the Hyatt Centric, which opened April 15 at Front and Beale.

Longtime Memphis and Nashville developer Kevin Hyneman has died, less than six months after his brother and developer Rusty Hyneman passed away.

A who’s who of the top local commercial real estate professionals gathered Downtown for the 20th annual Memphis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR) Pinnacle Awards. 

A gritty block of Summer Avenue is now the scene for a public art installation that is highly unusual for several reasons.

The EDGE Board on Wednesday, May 19, approved tax incentives for Walgreens’ high-tech distribution center, Ampro’s expansion in Frayser and the renovation of an old shopping center in the Heights.

Chef Sobie Johnson of Flying Sobie’s Gourmet Kitchen will provide the food at the second Ghost River location.

Artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum will turn one of The Ravine’s 60-foot-tall silos into public art. The artist for the linear park’s second silo has not been announced yet.

The Downtown Retailer Rx program will offer expert guidance and $1,000 to $5,000 grants to help Downtown’s businesses rebound from the pandemic.

The adaptive reuse and preservation of two historic, Downtown buildings have received recognition by the Tennessee Historical Commission.

It’s not just the simple lines and large, aluminum-framed windows that make this East Memphis home a midcentury modern jewel.

Among the 18 cases it considered, the Land Use Control Board rejected a plan to gate one end of Saint Nick Drive, dropped long-range plans for a street at the request of a new car dealership, and approved a 156-lot subdivision along Walnut Grove.

The Land Use Control Board will have a few less controversial cases to consider when it convenes Thursday, May 13. Three applicants have withdrawn requests that had faced opposition.

The number of Memphis-area homes sold in April 2021 rose 25.9% compared to April 2020, local Realtors report.

The city’s only Roto-Sphere business sign is in the shop for repairs. But fret not Memphis, says the management of Joe’s Wines & Liquor, “Sputnik” will return.

Any plans Loews still has for a Civic Center convention center hotel have changed. The hotel company won’t be buying the historic police headquarters building on Adams Avenue.

The Memphian in Overton Square has just opened. Inside, the place is as much a lively, luminous art gallery as a hotel.

The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.

Midtown’s hot real estate development may soon stretch south to embrace an entire block of Lamar Avenue, which has experienced disinvestment over the decades.

About $4,000 is the projected, monthly rent for each of the two units. But the apartments – if that’s how a buyer uses them – are more than 3,000 square feet each, have luxury finishes, and are nestled in one of the city’s leafiest neighborhoods.

The council approved the larger Crosstown overlay district without the 9-acre mound Tuesday, May 4, in the first of several votes on the blueprint for control of design standards by the Memphis Landmarks Commission.

Work has begun on the nearly $90 million Opus East Memphis at 1029 Cherry Road, which developer Kevin Adams says will take about two years to complete. The 240-unit facility will offer independent living, assisted living and dementia care.

A $6.5 million project to install along the Highland Strip five crosswalks, medians, better sidewalks, more lighting, lusher landscaping and improved drainage is set to be complete by June 2022.

Since 2003, the Fogelman-DRA partnership has purchased 34 apartment communities totaling more than 11,000 units, with an aggregate value of more than $1.5 billion.

The Board of Adjustment approved zoning exceptions for the nearly 10-acre, mixed-use Orleans Station on the campus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Other cases included the rejection of illegal business signs on Summer and a compromise for a nonconforming hotel sign on Lamar.

The Lululemon Pop Up store in Midtown, which opened last year as the pandemic spread, has closed.