The final worship service for Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church is Sunday. A developer has bought the property that has featured a large, religious mural seen by Summer Avenue travelers for 37 years.

The financing and the land acquisition for Union Row's first phase have been accomplished, the developer says.

Several organizations shared this week the ways they have repurposed vacant land and removed blight in various parts of Memphis, which planners say is one of the city's biggest problems.

The Board of Adjustment has given permanent approval for the shipping-container concession stand at River Garden park.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has chosen Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron to design its $105 million future home overlooking the Mississippi River Downtown.

A building permit application indicates three Tennessee State grads plan to bring one of their gourmet pizza restaurants to the Edge District in Memphis.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's plan to demolish a parking garage to make room for its new riverfront museum has Downtown residents and commuters in a tizzy. 

The Clipper towers will create significant shadows Downtown, but the neighbor with the most sunshine to lose is not concerned.

The Juicy Crab, a Georgia-based seafood chain serving New Orleans-inspired food, will open a restaurant where The Melting Pot once operated at 2828 Wolfcreek Parkway. That's near Wolfchase Galleria.

A railroad products manufacturer may be moving its U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to Memphis after receiving a 15-year property tax incentive on Wednesday.

The Business as Ministry (BAM) Thrift Store at 1340 Madison will add a coffee shop later this year in conjunction with an exterior facelift of the old Stewart Brothers Hardware.

The Corps of Engineers still intends to leave the federal building Downtown, but no move is imminent.

The Census Bureau will oversee the 2020 Census in Shelby and nine other West Tennessee counties from the third floor of the historic Claridge House in Downtown Memphis. 

A Downtown Memphis Commission board was not willing to let the developer of a Beale Street boutique hotel delay paying an increased payment-in-lieu-of-taxes to see if he could negotiate with the partners behind Union Row.  

Railroad track products manufacturer Pandrol USA LP is seeking a PILOT to create 73 jobs, invest $9.3 million and establish its North American headquarters at 611 Winchester Road.

Christie Cut Stone Co. proposes to expand its main location by 7 acres now that the addition of brick sales has boosted the company.

A $75 million, 240-unit senior living community won approval from a planning board Thursday after developers met concerns of the Audubon neighbors.

The planning board grants an exception to allow The Clipper hotel and office towers to be up to 275 feet tall, three times the existing limit near FedExForum and Beale Street.

An aging apartment complex on Peabody Avenue is under contract to be bought, renovated and joined by a 30-unit addition. 

By 2020, University of Memphis students will no longer be able to pay a fee to get out of their student housing contracts.   

Local developers intended to keep the 266 Lofts in Downtown Memphis, but a private equity firm made an aggressive, unsolicited offer.

The builder of Forum Flats apartments says 205 units could still be repaired and completed by the original deadline in August.

The mixed-use development called The Citizen does not yet have a commercial tenant, but its apartment dwellers are a short walk from many Midtown stores and services. 

A passion for Memphis compelled Katie Shotts to return to the city a second time. She is the new chief executive of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors. 

A new residential development company focuses on infill development in the Memphis core and is listing its first two houses for sale, both under $300,000.