Is COVID boosting home sales?
The pandemic, combined with low interest rates, may be fueling home sales. At least among those who have job security.
The pandemic, combined with low interest rates, may be fueling home sales. At least among those who have job security.
Built 65 years ago for the Baron Hirsch Synagogue and sold 28 years ago to a Church of God in Christ jurisdiction, the historic property at 1740 Vollintine is up for sale for only the second time.
Many office moves occurring now were being planned before the pandemic.
A proposal to build a Murphy Express gas station in Raleigh received approval even though it does not follow the city’s long-range concept plan to make key intersections more appealing and pedestrian friendly.
Material Bank plans to lease warehouse space, invest $14.5 million and employ 300 people in Olive Branch.
The transaction shows a typical real estate exchange: $225,000 for a property near Summer Avenue. But the plan for the building may be like nothing Memphis has seen before.
The nonprofit organization that promotes the 169cc SYM Fiddle III motor scooter as an affordable solution for getting Memphians to and from work now plans a new campus on Summer Avenue.
The University of Memphis seeks approval of a planned development to build six buildings for 135 student apartments, or 529 beds, plus a small commercial building. The linear development would stretch along Deloach from Poplar to Central.
A developer has filed for a 31-acre planned development just west of Appling Road along I-40, where a 141,000-square-foot Amazon delivery station would be built.
The nonprofit that provides reproductive health services to women has moved into a new, larger building that can serve four times more women.
The “Open on Main” initiative has won a Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association.
The design by LRK Architects for adaptive reuse of the historic warehouse that once housed Spaghetti Warehouse adds a prominent front porch, monumental glass entry and lots of windows.
Residents propose the Crosstown Historic District as a way to protect the character of the 12-block area.
Carlisle Development had planned to preserve the most ornate part of the historic 7 Vance building as part of a plan to build 200-plus apartments there.
Part of Turner Dairy’s plant site next to Overton Square is not zoned for trailer parking or materials storage. So the dairy is seeking zoning variances from the Board of Adjustment.
The Third Church of Christ, Scientist, which anchors a corner at Central and Highland, has sold its property for $3.3 million.
MIFA has organized a “community conversation” on evictions in Memphis. The organization is encouraging everyone to read “Evicted,” and to register for the Our City, Our Story online event at mifa.org.
Heavy equipment is already in position on Broad to start demolishing an old warehouse next month. The work will clear 8.8 acres so vertical construction can start about April on the first, $50 million phase of the 350-unit Link at Broad Apartments.
The Board of Adjustment denied a variance to allow a convenience store and gas station at site flanked by Sam Cooper Boulevard, Hollywood and Broad Avenue.
Managers of the new, four-story apartment building at 138 Huling are leasing the 68 units in the South Main District.
Dental practice, among the first tenants in Crosstown Concourse, has renamed to avoid geographic confusion. Two dentists will swap weeks at both locations.
The Lake District featured the potential townhomes on Sunday afternoon, an early residential aspect of the 160-acre mixed-use development in Lakeland.
A judge in Washington has dismissed FedEx’s lawsuit challenging enforcement of certain export regulations overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department.
The University of Memphis had claimed it was not bound by local zoning for its plans to partner with a private developer to build student apartment buildings where houses now stand near campus. But the U of M changed its stance.
While some churches nearby shrink or close, St. Michael Church on Summer Avenue will soon start construction on a new, $2 million parish office, has begun building two more soccer fields, and has plans for a new parish hall.