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  • Music

    2020 Cooper-Young Festival canceled

    Next year’s festival is slated for Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff July 16, 2020
  • Business

    Bluff City Greens addresses food deserts

    New delivery business is set to open its first fully automated grocery fulfillment center next year to serve customers across Memphis.

    By Christin Yates July 16, 2020
  • North Memphis

    Frayser gets $1.3 million grant to build community

    The MassMutual Foundation grant will establish the Frayser Connect resource hub, an initiative that will match every $1 a Frayser family saves with $2, provide grants and loans for small businesses, and support other ideas created by a new resident advisory committee.

    By Tom Bailey July 15, 2020
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    Young pup learns the truth: It’s a zoo out there

    North, a 1-year-old golden retriever, wears a bright yellow cape as he makes the rounds at the Memphis Zoo where curator Courtney Janney is training him to be a Canine Companions assistance dog.

    By Michael Waddell July 13, 2020
  • Business

    Southall Cafe to offer ‘chef driven’ breakfast, lunch in East Memphis

    Owners of the new restaurant at 669 S. Mendenhall anticipate Southall Cafe will open by mid-August. It's part of Boyle Investment Company's newly renovated Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.

    By Tom Bailey July 13, 2020
  • Health Care

    Group aims to stop addictions during pandemic

    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. 

    By Jared Boyd July 12, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Planning board - again - approves Elvis Presley manufacturing site and Cooper-Young four-plex

    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.

    By Tom Bailey July 09, 2020
  • Premium Business

    Exclusive: Corps of Engineers monitoring Tom Lee makeover

    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.

    By Wayne Risher July 06, 2020
  • Premium South Memphis

    Opening brewing for Muggin’ Coffee House in Whitehaven

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

    By Linda A. Moore July 05, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Trick competition convenes skaters, bikers, roller bladers

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

    By Jared Boyd July 14, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Nashville-based Gorney Realty buys 2 more E. Memphis office buildings

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

    By Tom Bailey July 02, 2020
  • Education

    $40 million endowment ‘transformative’ for LeMoyne-Owen

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

    By Linda A. Moore July 05, 2020
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    Rent and concern for refugee families rise in Woodcrest Apartments

    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.

    By Tom Bailey July 01, 2020
  • North Memphis

    Minority communities deal with confusion, mistrust about COVID-19

    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.

    By Omer Yusuf, Linda A. Moore June 29, 2020
  • Millington

    Delta Sigma Theta hosts Millington food drive to encourage COVID-19 screening

    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.

    By Jared Boyd June 27, 2020
  • Business

    The Four Way wins EDGE grant for COVID comeback

    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.

    By Wayne Risher June 26, 2020
  • Shelby County

    Orange Mound Gallery settles in to new home for the next half century

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

    By Linda A. Moore June 24, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Blood plasma donation firm plans facility in Raleigh

    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.

    By Tom Bailey June 24, 2020
  • Business

    Alabama group buying USA Stadium and GameDay in Cordova

    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. 

    By Don Wade June 19, 2020
  • Business

    Binghampton’s first grocery store to close June 30

    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.

    By Omer Yusuf June 19, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Cobblestone landing project will leave 160-year-old stones unturned

    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.

    By Wayne Risher June 18, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Agency makes grants more affordable to South City businesses

    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.

    By Tom Bailey June 17, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Pilgrim, Tiger and Peacock to be part of The Memphian hotel in Overton Square

    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.

    By Tom Bailey June 15, 2020
  • Premium Real Estate

    Behavioral health agency wants to build $9M crisis center on Summer Ave.

    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.

    By Tom Bailey June 15, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Pride Ride shows solidarity for black lives

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

    By Jared Boyd June 13, 2020

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