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East Memphis
It’s lunchtime at Treadwell Elementary and the school’s new optional program coordinator, Darlene May, is heading to the cafeteria. Along the way, she’s met by a dozen students shouting, “Hola!” through beaming smiles. -
Business
Hotel Napoleon celebrates two successful years in iconic Downtown building
With a vision to repurpose an older building into a boutique hotel, Jay Kumar and Snay Patel immediately fell in love with the charm of the former Press-Scimitar building, located at the corner of Madison Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard. -
Health Care
New Midtown clinic takes preventive-care approach
Instead of waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment until a health concern comes along, a new clinic in Midtown is taking a more proactive approach to health care. -
Real Estate
ErinWay Shopping Center to undergo renovation
A shopping center in the heart of East Memphis will soon undergo a renovation. -
Real Estate
Downtown sensors keeping tabs on feet on the street
More feet on the street has long been a mantra in the Downtown Memphis Commission’s effort to attract development and improve quality of life Downtown. -
Education 17 schools in Tennessee’s turnaround district remain priority schools six years after first takeovers
Most of the schools that were taken over by Tennessee’s turnaround district remain on the state’s priority list six years after the intervention efforts began. -
Health Care
Bereaved parents help pediatric hospitals, medical professionals deliver bad news
When 9-year-old Sydney Ives attended her first piano lesson, she put her hands on the keys and when she attempted to play a note, her right hand fell flat to her side, as if she’d had a stroke. -
Business
Fashion entrepreneur Ashley Dean-Parson’s ‘glamtique’ offers one-stop shopping
With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said. “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.” -
Midtown
MIFA celebrates jubilee year
Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline. -
North Memphis
City-wide diaper drive to support Memphis families in poverty
“I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies. -
Reviews
Pete & Sam’s still serves up the favorites, but it does it better
Pete & Sam’s celebrates its 70th anniversary this year in a spiffed up restaurant, thanks to the Bomarito brothers taking on local investor partners and a late 2017 fire that caused the place to close for almost five months for cleaning and updating. -
South Memphis
Bike and community projects proposed for South Memphis inspired by the Netherlands
One by one, each Big Jump Project advisory committee member explained the project they want to pursue in South Memphis, based on inspiration from a week spent in the Netherlands in June. -
Real Estate
More employees fuel need for second industrial entrance
The Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission is working to secure state funds to create a second entrance, or exit, where the road inside the industrial park currently dead ends on the south side. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx earnings surge, but fall short of expectations
FedEx earnings rose nearly 38 percent in the June-August quarter from a year ago, but fell short of analysts’ expectations. -
Transportation & Logistics
Memphis sees potential in river shipment of cargo containers
Memphis doesn’t want to miss the boat if and when container ships start plying the Mississippi River on a regular basis.
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