The $2 million multipurpose room at the Whitehaven Community Center will feature a banquet hall, catering kitchen, parking lot and public entrance. 

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools district will host three events this weekend to kick off the 2022-2023 school year that starts Aug. 8.

The arts organization will host a dozen performances in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts and Crosstown
Theater, in August.

Juice Orange Mound and Rhodes College students unveiled the Mound Up! Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, culminating a two-year process.

The organizers of the Ed Murphey Classic got a burst of inspiration this year. How about bringing the pole vaulting competition to the people? It made for a wildly entertaining Saturday night on Beale Street. 

“In that wonderful Memphis sort of way of zero degrees of separation from anybody and anything in the rest of the world, I’m related to Teddy Roosevelt.”

Plans include affordable housing, office and retail tenants, and a Northside High Hall of Fame.

Cooper-Young residents and other Memphians swapped freshly cut houseplants, herbs and flowers for their first in-person “plant swap” since 2019.

In partnership with the Community Redevelopment Agency, Hattiloo will renovate a church building with a storied Civil War-era history. 

Even as housing prices are rising substantially in some parts of the area, the value of housing in other areas has been stagnant or even falling. 

Some City Council members think the city could take on more risk with One Beale’s Grand Hyatt, while some say other projects come first.

Stax Music Academy’s executive director and a longtime local arts advocate is set to head the Memphis music foundation beginning in August. 

The banner read, “Thou shall aid & abet abortion,” was placed on the tower by art collective organization, Indecline. 

Interim Director of Construction for Memphis Habitat Alan Massing noted with more than 20 houses projected to be completed by the end of 2022, things will get bigger for Habitat Memphis in 2023.

Artist and fashion designer Ramona Sonin’s “Flowerful: Fashioning the Armored Feminine,” went on display at Dixon Gallery July 17 and will run through Oct. 23.

Memphis Parks’ Family Fun Fridays are headed to Frayser’s newly-renovated Ed Rice Community Center for a second time Friday evening, July 22.

The death of a Cooper-Young resident is drawing international attention after a Memphis man is accused of murdering his wife on their honeymoon in Fiji.

The Memphis and Shelby County Economic Development and Growth Engine is looking to buy four parcels near the old Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in North Memphis.

Bryant’s plate lunches may even make a comeback after the expansion of the Summer Avenue breakfast spot is complete. 

The Hospitality Hub is ready to debut its new campus at 590 Washington Ave., featuring expanded emergency housing and case management services, three green spaces, a family room, a children’s play area and more.

The break-ins follow a larger pattern seen in the city, according to Memphis police. 

The $44 million Uptown redevelopment project is expected to begin later this summer. But the original office of Dixie Greyhound chairman James Frederick Smith — his title still on the door — will be kept much as it is today. 

The Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center includes state-of-the-art classrooms, rehearsal spaces and a performance hall that can accommodate nearly 1,000 people.

“We want to be a real partner in the community,” said Steve Swain, senior vice president and community lending manager for Pinnacle. “That includes creating a safe space, another resource where people can meet and bring in members of the underserved community.”