Keel Avenue runs west through Uptown, crosses what will be the future Snuff District mixed-use development and dead ends at a floodgate immediately west of where Keel goes under a small CN Railroad bridge.

A sprawling, blighted building in the heart of the Edge District has been purchased by some of the same people who have improved other properties in the neighborhood.

Memphis Chess Club has transformed itself into a business, and is changing the shopfront space of a Downtown building into a café/coffee shop and its new home.

Memphis National Cemetery may be surrounded by obstacles that could keep visitors away, but the park-like burial grounds are undergoing a $10 million upgrade to make it easier to celebrate and pay respects to the heroes buried there.

Valvoline Instant Oil Change seeks two zoning variances so it can build on Union in Midtown.

Methodist Healthcare has purchased the Midtown building it has been leasing for minor med and diagnostic centers.

A partnership of professionals is using social media to promote their loosely defined proposal for reusing Rust Hall and Brooks art museum buildings at Overton Park. 

UPS plans to build a 268,000-square-foot expansion at its logistics facility at Memphis International Airport. The project will create 25 more jobs there.

Medtronic has sold its Memphis office campus to a Chicago real estate firm, and leased back just more than half the space. The rest will be marketed to other office tenants. 

A New York developer plans to convert one of the South Main District's brick, two-story buildings into 18 short-term rental apartments and three ground-floor retail bays. 

Google has been looking for a site in Southaven for its operations center, according to sources not directly involved in the company's search.

A Nashville-based real estate firm led a group of Memphis and Nashville investors in buying two of the 15 buildings that Highwoods Properties is selling off in Memphis.

The Snuff District developers have just purchased an adjacent, old cement plant and its tall silos. Instead of tearing them down, the developers of apartment, office and retail space may may preserve the silos as a landmark.

Michael and Mallory Seeker have uncovered a regal home on Stonewall. They plan to take all the time they need to restore its luster.

The first two mixed-use buildings are well under construction at Silo Square, the 228-acre, $220 million development in Southaven designed as a place to live, work and play.

The Binghampton Community Land Trust has taken possession of a house that has essentially turned into a "treehouse" and plans to demolish and rebuild it for a future homeowner. 

More Memphis office properties could change hands by mid-2020 before Highwoods eventually exits the Memphis market altogether.

The 134 cases heard by the Board of Adjustment this year were the most since 1989, states a year-end report.

Calvin Lacy applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness for his project in the Rozelle-Annesdale Historic District on Lamar Avenue. 

Nearly 50 people submitted opposition letters to the proposed crematorium and more than 50 showed up in opposition at the meeting Dec. 18. 

The EDGE Board on Wednesday approved $13.1 million worth of new tax incentives for two companies that plan to make $141 million in capital investments and add at least 159 jobs.

Boyle Investment Co. applies for two construction permits totaling $1.5 million to renovate and rebuild the Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.

The goal of the program is to increase the number of minority and women developers locally. 

Plans for a five-story, 98-room Residence Inn by Marriott still need approval from the Memphis City Council.

Plans for the $89.3 million Reserve at Oaksedge, near Dixon Gallery & Gardens, may take "a different direction."