Residents point to safety concerns and crime in proposing that a gate be erected across Saint Nick Drive to prevent cut-through traffic from using their street.

Discussion of Shelby County increasing vaccine sites countywide includes a possibility of Frayser. The Health Department already has a first-dose location at the Whitehaven Center of Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Both areas of the city are part of Area E on the city’s solid waste map, an area that has had problems with solid waste service even before the pandemic.

The development of 270 apartments, 17,500 square feet of retail and a 411-space parking structure would replace the existing First Horizon and IberiaBank branches on Union, between Cleveland and Claybrook. 

Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.

There’s nothing common about the new residential development that is to open March 1 in Uptown. The first phase features two rows of rental cottages that face each other across a 30-foot-wide courtyard.

First-dose openings are available at Appling location, too. 

The city auto inspection station on Appling City Cove bustled with volunteers Friday, three days into giving second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Those scheduled for vaccinations were urged to come no more than an hour before their scheduled times. 

When Ben Colar was envisioning his new cocktail bar, what sprung up was the idea of “rest.”

With help and creativity, children as young as 7 can think about adult careers and becoming an entrepreneur.

The location is expected to open late next week.

These days, hotels and department stores are struggling. Which may explain the proposed conversions of a sprawling East Memphis hotel and a former Hickory Ridge Mall Sears building.

With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.

Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.

The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

A development team has purchased three Edge District buildings, plans to renovate them, and already has signed a lease with Sweet Magnolia Gelato Co. to open a shop in one of them. 

The Hyde Family Foundation has purchased 15 vacant acres on the south edge of Binghampton for the Lighthouse Project. The strategy is to provide and integrate a strong school with accessible housing, job development and health care.

The new initiative will help students move toward reading at grade level.

Not a Coffee Shop is open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 6:45 to 11:15 a.m. and serves all of its coffee, including pour overs and espresso shots, black.

Principal’s comments on the power social media and big tech companies have are under scrutiny from Shelby County Schools officials.

The popular restaurant has a ground lease for the 1.25-acre site where the old Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church buildings were razed.

Silo Square is to comprise 13 mixed-use buildings, 305 single-family housing lots, six retail outparcels, a bank outparcel, two hotel sites, three office buildings, a 2.6-acre farmer’s market, 10 acres of apartments, and 64 acres of green space.

The Binghampton Community Land Trust, the first of its kind in Memphis, was created after concerns about rising housing prices spurred by new development in Binghampton. 

A trend of rising housing prices combined with less homes available in Shelby County is reflected in two North Memphis neighborhoods: Frayser and Raleigh, albeit at different rates, according to Memphis Area Association of Relators (MAAR) data.