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Health Care
A large team from Mitsubishi Electric’s Memphis manufacturing facility will be among the record-setting 26,000 participants, 40,000 spectators and 4,000 volunteers at this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend. -
Business
Downtown Memphis ramps up retail recruitment strategy
At a time when brick-and-mortar retailers are competing with e-commerce, Downtown Memphis is trying to figure out if it can support retail at all. -
Real Estate
Century Building would be razed for car wash
A familiar East Memphis office building, with its script “Century Building" sign in front and mechanized, louvered windows on the sides, is proposed to be demolished and replaced with a car wash. -
Real Estate
Wiseacre to double jobs, expand distribution with Downtown brewery
A new, larger Wiseacre brewery Downtown would enable the Memphis company to double its full-time employment and expand distribution of its craft beer initially into all of Alabama as well as Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. “We’re in seven states full-time,’’ co-founder Kellan Bartosch said Friday of Wiseacre Brewing Co.'s current footprint. “And we’ve had conversations with markets all over.’’ -
City of Memphis
Riverfront strategy moves to connect best-known features
For all of the planning and man-made features that went into the new Mississippi River Park and its River Garden, including people-sized bird nests, there is another new feature that park planners didn’t anticipate. -
North Memphis
State approves TDZ for Fairgrounds redevelopment
A state panel approved Memphis’ request Monday for a Fairgrounds Tourism Development Zone to help fund an estimated $150 million project complete with a youth sports and events complex that will depend on construction of a privately developed hotel. -
Real Estate
Memphis to take bids for Fairgrounds hotel-retail site and Mid-South Coliseum
Buoyed by a state-approved tourism development zone, the city of Memphis will take bids for a hotel-retail developer on the Fairgrounds site as part of a $161 million public-private project and go after a private operator as well to repurpose the Mid-South Coliseum. -
Business
The Citizen edges Union toward safer avenues
The Citizen is still being built but the $35 million development already has made the corner of Union and McLean more urban. -
Real Estate
Patrons may drink in the views at Grind City Brewing
A father and son planning an $11.3 million craft beer brewery and taproom are intentional about the business engaging with and helping to lift its neighborhood, a long-distressed part of North Memphis. -
High School Sports High school results for Monday, November 19
Here are Monday's reported high school sports results, along with reported games from the weekend. For corrections, updates or to send in your team's results, please e-mail jvarlas@dailymemphian.com -
Business
Downtown master plan kicks off with ‘less vacancy, more retail, dining’
The Downtown Memphis Commission is collecting feedback that will help it shape the next decade of development and initiatives for the Bluff City’s core. -
Business
Skateboarding, coffee, art, music and culture at new Society Memphis
Memphis will soon be home to a unique indoor skatepark, complete with a skate shop and coffee shop. Society Skatepark & Coffee, a 10,000-square-foot facility just off Broad Avenue, should open the weekend of Nov. 17. -
Business
Sears places Southland Mall store on the chopping block
Sears Holdings will shutter the doors of its Southland Mall store, the company announced Thursday, Nov. 8. -
Business Krystal to open ‘prototype’ store in Whitehaven
Atlanta-based late-night dining staple Krystal will construct a new “prototype” location at 4395 Elvis Presley Blvd. -
Real Estate
Mike’s Hard Lemonade maker seeks tax break on Memphis warehouse
The maker of Mike's Hard Lemonade, a major customer of Memphis contract brewery Blues City Brewing, is seeking a tax abatement for a warehouse and distribution center in southeast Memphis. -
Visual Arts
Meet some of the artists who live and work in South Main Artspace
More than 60 Memphis artists call South Main Artspace Lofts home. -
Business
Walk this way: Cooper Street gets two new crosswalks near busy intersections
Two new crosswalks on Cooper Street at the corners of Felix and Oliver avenues wrap up the first phase of an effort by area businesses to make the Cooper-Young neighborhood safer for pedestrians. -
South Memphis
South Memphis is an incubator for pedestrian improvements under national initiative
Much of the conversation about improvements in South Memphis centers on building better spaces for residents to learn, work and play. -
East Memphis
Summer Avenue to re-brand as an international district
Summer Avenue has had many names over the years – Hwy 78, The Bristol Highway, The Broadway of America – and now it's adding international district to the list. -
Performing Arts
‘Insecure’ showrunner Prentice Penny’s ‘Uncorked’ filming in Memphis, Paris for Netflix
Netflix has released details about the feature directorial debut of "Insecure" showrunner Prentice Penny, "Uncorked." -
Real Estate Cottage community slated for Uptown in Memphis
Andre Jones and Curtis Jones, partners in Jones Urban Development Co., are seeking a 15-year PILOT incentive to build Malone Park Commons, a 25-unit, ground-up rental development on 0.8 acres in the Malone Park section of Uptown. -
Real Estate
Historic Ashlar Hall finally being renovated
The long-suffering Ashlar Hall – the 122-year-old castle-like and historic house – is finally being repaired and restored after years of decay and broken promises. -
Real Estate
Collierville construction company proposes Nutbush landfill
An area of Nutbush that is often used for illegal dumping could become a full-time landfill operation. -
Real Estate
Target notifies state of Cordova closure, 173 workers affected
The closure of Target’s Cordova store could affect up to 173 employees, according to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act notice filed with the state of Tennessee. -
Education
Students walk out of Memphis school demanding to know why principal and teacher were fired
About 30 students walked out of Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6, three months after school administrators fired the principal, and days after firing a beloved teacher.
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