Within an hour after the launch of a Saturday block party in Frayser, the Street Team for Overdose Prevention had signed up someone in need of rehab, leading one participant to call the event a success. 

After the City Council sent the cases back, the Land Use Control Board for a second time approved two development proposals over the stiff opposition of neighbors.

The Corps of Engineers took a wait-and-see attitude on some questions about how much Tom Lee Park can be changed by new park design, suggesting ongoing dialog ahead.

Muggin' Coffee House owners have plans for themselves and their team.

Artist David Yancy III invited extreme-sports athletes to Raleigh skatepark to encourage camaraderie and sportsmanship during the pandemic.

Gorney Realty Partners just bought the Centrum and Colonnade office buildings in East Memphis from Highwoods Properties.

The endowment from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis is the largest in LeMoyne-Owen College’s history.

Organizations are scrambling to find other housing for refugee families in Woodcrest Apartments. The units are being renovated, but the below-market rent is about to rise substantially.

When public health agencies are not familiar to residents, it’s difficult to penetrate those communities during a crisis. “That’s like not having a military until you get attacked. It’s a bit too late,” says Shelby County Commission member Reginald Milton.

Members of the Shelby County Tennessee Alumnae Chapter of the historically black sorority held the Saturday food drive in the hopes that people in need of food would stick around to receive free testing for the coronavirus.

Nearly $500,000 in emergency economic development grants have been approved for 88 Memphis small businesses struggling to rebound from COVID-19. The Four Way is among latest recipients.

The new gallery opens in a community rich with history and with plans for exhibits and programs.

Octapharma Plasma is seeking a conditional use permit to operate where the Salvation Army closed its Family Store and Donation Center on Austin Peay Highway.

Upper Deck Sports, LLC, out of Huntsville, Alabama, is buying GameDay Baseball in Cordova and USA Stadium in Millington and making a $5 million investment, when including renovations to the facilities. 

Two years after opening the first grocery in Binghampton, the Save-A-Lot at Tillman and Sam Cooper is closing at the end of the month.

The design includes two pedestrian overlooks on the west side of Riverside Drive at Monroe and at Union and a six-foot-wide, wheelchair-accessible walkway on the eastern, upper edge of the landing between Court and Monroe.

South City businesses and nonprofits now need only to make a 10% match – instead of 25% – to receive up to a $50,000 grant to improve the exterior of their buildings.

Developers of the 106-room boutique hotel have just rolled out some of the branding and concepts for the hotel that already towers over Overton Square.

Alliance Healthcare Services will seek the City Council's approval to build in Highland Heights a 40,000-square-foot Crisis Assessment Center, where 150 people will work.

Members of Memphis’ LGBTQ community rode from Midtown to Downtown to express their support for local black activists in a protest against police violence.

Explore Bike Share by the numbers: In two years, Memphis bike-sharing nonprofit logged more than 56,000 rides by 22,000 riders, covering 193,000 miles and lasting for 2.5 million minutes.

Rice hopes the Frayser Exchange Club resumes in-person meetings in the next month or two at Impact Baptist Church and Ministries on Clifton Avenue. That’s almost entirely dependent on how the pandemic’s status locally.

Project plan is to convert upper floors of four, attached buildings into six apartments, and enlarge McEwen's restaurant.

There are thousands of cradles graves at Elmwood. Slowly, in pockets and bunches, they are being planted by a troupe of volunteers finding particular solace tending a cemetery in a pandemic.

The Church of the Holy Communion members have two reasons to celebrate: They finally get to see their renovated worship space, and each other.