Salad Expressions will be wedged between the new URBN on Union buildings. The restaurant will open at 1308 Union, which formerly housed E’s 24 Hour Café.

The sales director for the Hyatt Centric offered journalists an early, sneak peek of the $75 million, 227-room luxury hotel that is nearly finished at 33 Beale.

The council votes next week on the further use of a PILOT extension fund already being tapped for $62 million for four Downtown parking garages. Meanwhile, one of the banks involved in financing the garages wants some more loan guarantees, which includes a proposed TIF.

Opponents of the proposed Byhalia Connection oil pipeline will have to wait a bit longer to see what action the Memphis City Council might take regarding the project. The council’s attorney has requested more time to study the city’s legal options.

The Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association is appealing a decision to allow what it calls a “smoke shop” to open next to Dino’s Grill and near Snowden School. While renovations have been made, the business has not yet opened.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is appealing directly to President Joe Biden to stop the controversial Byhalia Connection oil pipeline project.

Whitehaven’s vaccination site saw an overwhelming response over the weekend. 

Long lines marked most of the eight sites the city operated Sunday, Feb. 21, to give families with no or slow-flowing water a case of bottled water per car. 

The second Unity Walk Against Gun Violence is set for Feb. 27 in Whitehaven. 

People whose appointments were canceled will receive emails to confirm rescheduled times.

As the new board president, Andre Gibson plans to help the Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp. bring more economic development to Whitehaven.

The interim president of the Downtown Memphis Commission addressed “the big thing out there,” the proposed purchase by the Downtown Mobility Authority of the empty 100 North Main office tower, parking and adjacent properties. Ray Brown called 100 North Main “an enormous source of blight.”

The Highland Heights Community Development Corp. will award $1,000 for the best concept to reuse the old church buildings anchoring a corner of Summer at Highland.

The restaurant is leasing 6,500 square feet from the shopping center near the southeast corner of Poplar and Interstate 240.

View the gallery to see how Mid-Southerners experienced the more than 4 inches of snow.

The Raleigh vaccination site will open next week at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen and two City Council members were among those who gathered for the online rally against the proposed pipeline. 

Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.

The Land Use Control Board also approved a transitional group home in Binghampton for veterans, an attached-townhouse development on Brookhaven Circle, and plans for a used-car lot in Raleigh. The board rejected plans a 35-lot subdivision of container homes in New Chicago.

Suga Mama SnoBalls is opening a second location in Southeast Memphis next month.

Opponents of the proposed pipeline believe local governments can stop the project and nine property owners are still refusing to give Plains All American access to their land. 

Each college will receive $1 million, with a portion going towards students, faculty and staff impacted by COVID-19.

The letter to pastors and congregations from seven council members points to a racial disparity in the virus and death rates from the virus as well as testing that is now surfacing in vaccination numbers for the county. 

The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum will move just two blocks from its long-time headquarters at 158 Madison.

The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.