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<span data-preserver-spaces="true"><strong>The Downtown Mobility Authority approved a $7 million cleanout request from 100 N. Main Development Partners.</strong></span>&nbsp;(Neil Strebig/Daily Memphian file)Neighborhoods

100 N. Main developers get $7M for cleanup

Downtown Mobility Authority agrees to $7 million cleanout request for 100 N. Main building. 

By Neil Strebig January 26, 2023
City of Memphis

City Council sets up compromise provisions for Memphis in May damage deposit

The council votes on the Memphis in May measure at its first meeting in February. The council delayed several other matters, including a possible new name for Audubon Park and a decision on the Dream Hotel. 

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Memphis facility should reduce cancer-causing emissions, City Council says

By Bill Dries January 24, 2023
Downtown

Developers submit $7M cleanout plan for 100 N. Main

Once redevelopment is complete, 100 N. Main will include a restaurant, condos, 205 apartments, 160-room hotel and offices. 

By Neil Strebig January 23, 2023
Sports

Former Loudon defender joins Memphis 901 FC

Carson Vom Steeg made 21 starts in the USL Championship last season.

By John Varlas January 17, 2023

  • Arts & Culture

    Sports and race intersect at MLK Day forum

    Panelists at the National Civil Rights Museum event included Katrina Merriweather, head coach of the University of Memphis women’s basketball team, Memphis Grizzlies small forward Danny Green and former NBA superstar Grant Hill.

    By Jasmine McCraven January 16, 2023
  • Performing Arts

    Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle coming to Memphis

    Emmy award-winning entertainers Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are set to co-headline their first show at the FedExForum.

    By Jasmine McCraven January 03, 2023
  • Spirit of Memphis

    River skiers open 2023 with charity

    Despite this year’s low water levels, many volunteers and onlookers showed up on Sunday to participate in this year’s Ski Freeze Memphis event — including six-time top fuel champion Clay Millican. 

    By Jasmine McCraven January 06, 2023
  • Spirit of Memphis

    New Year’s Eve event brings hope for the homeless

    “I pray that all of us can live in the moment and that we can get some of the best moments we can out of life” in 2023, host Eric Brinson said.

    By Alicia Davidson December 31, 2022
  • Subscribers only Real Estate

    New Daisy under new management and preparing for 2023 shows

    The Downtown Memphis Commission is working on bringing the historic New Daisy Theatre back online next year after being vacant since 2018. The venue will host its first event on Jan. 12.

    By Neil Strebig December 29, 2022
  • City of Memphis

    $89M renovation of Downtown Sheraton gets boost from City Council

    The 5% surcharge on items bought and rooms rented at the Downtown Sheraton hotel goes to finance a renovation of the existing 600-room hotel by the Renasant Convention Center. 

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    City Council passes Klondike tax vote, but residents’ concerns remain

    By Bill Dries December 21, 2022
  • Downtown

    Residents, leaders frustrated with Downtown crime

    “It is really important for us to take care of our Downtown space,” said Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis. “It is the face of the rest of the city.”

    By Julia Baker December 21, 2022
  • Metro

    Invasive black carp now thriving in the Mississippi River basin

    A new multi-year report from the U.S. Geological Survey found the range of black carp in the Mississippi River basin now includes the entirety of the river, from New Orleans to the southeastern edge of Iowa.

    By Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk December 19, 2022
  • Subscribers only Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Ghost of a river — Part Two

    The island you see across from Greenbelt Park and Harbor Town and Shelby Forest is called the Loosahatchie Bar, and all of it — bigger than all of Mud Island and some of Downtown together — is in Shelby County.

    By Dan Conaway December 16, 2022
  • Downtown

    The Walk pushes back closing date — again

    This is the third time that closing dates for the near $1 billion development, slated for Union Avenue near Danny Thomas, have needed to be restructured.

    By Neil Strebig December 13, 2022
  • Downtown

    City council questions Sheraton tourism surcharge

    The terms of the tax incentive for adding a 300-room tower to the existing Sheraton convention center hotel include keeping the value of the existing hotel at its 1998 assessment for tax purposes. Although they don’t have a vote on the incentive terms, Memphis City Council members say their concerns are linked to their vote on a hotel tourism surcharge.

    By Bill Dries December 06, 2022
  • Criminal Justice

    Suspect in Trenary slaying gets independent attorney

    Judge Chris Craft set up one of the suspects in the 2018 slaying of Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary with an independent attorney after he was informed of the potential conflict of interest concerning his former defense lawyer becoming an employee of the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. 

    By Julia Baker December 05, 2022
  • Subscribers only Neighborhoods

    In the Pinch: Developer maps out long-awaited plans

    “We’re thinking about a Jewish deli and an Irish pub. And what if we could get a really nice Lebanese place that would be a nod to St. Jude. We’d like to honor the history of this being an immigrant neighborhood.” 

    By Jane Roberts December 05, 2022
  • Subscribers only Real Estate

    Interest rates smothering developer’s $1B Pinch plans

    The sentiment among almost anyone who can read a balance sheet is developments that couldn’t get off the ground in the past three years are going to need a lot more than luck in the inflation the Federal Reserve is trying to control with interest rates.

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    Local architect has liens against New York developer totaling $525k

    By Jane Roberts December 02, 2022
  • Spirit of Memphis

    St. Jude patient art unveiled at convention center

    St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend kicked off Thursday, Dec. 1, with the unveiling of a St. Jude patient art display at the Renasant Convention Center where it completely covers two walls on the center’s second floor.

    By Alicia Davidson December 01, 2022
  • Subscribers only Food

    Bogie’s Deli Downtown reopens after two months

    Bogie’s was forced to close after a water main burst flooding the basement of its building. In a way that’s been worse for business than even the pandemic was, and they are celebrating their re-opening with 2000-era prices. 

    By Jennifer Biggs December 11, 2022
  • Subscribers only Downtown

    From cart to sweet shop: Quintessential opens Downtown

    Nine years ago, a pair of high school sweethearts quit their jobs in corporate America and struck out on their own with Quintessential Sweets.

    By Christin Yates November 28, 2022
  • Neighborhoods

    Westy’s feeds Thanksgiving dinner to 1,450 Memphians in need

    “This time of the year, I feel so good inside knowing I’ll get some clothes and something to eat, and I’ll leave full.”

    By Aisling Mäki November 24, 2022
  • South Memphis

    Louise Patterson, wife of former COGIC presiding bishop, set the standard

    “She had a very unique way of connecting with women of all ages, concerning real-life issues. She would often share her personal testimony and human experiences about life.” — Bishop Brandon Porter

    By Jane Roberts November 21, 2022
  • Downtown

    Mississippi River basin’s record-breaking drought beginning to ease

    This fall’s drought could be a harbinger of challenges ahead for the Mississippi River shipping industry.

    By Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk December 16, 2022
  • Subscribers only Neighborhoods

    Number of Downtown office workers may have decreased by 40%

    In 2019, before the pandemic began, Memphis had an adult, daytime worker population of 47,337 people.

    By Jane Roberts November 29, 2022
  • Subscribers only Real Estate

    Blue Suede Vintage offers eco conscious clothing

    The store gives Casey O’Rourke space to hang decades of her fashion finds — from 1930s to early 2000s — and a place that will be ground zero for her gospel of reuse over support of the fast-fashion industry, which is responsible, by some counts, for up to 10% of global carbon emissions.

    By Jane Roberts November 17, 2022
  • Real Estate

    100 N. Main redevelopment slated to begin in 2024

    On Wednesday, Nov. 16, the developers of 100 N. Main shared an updated timeline for the renovation of Downtown Memphis’ tallest building. 

    By Neil Strebig November 17, 2022
  • Downtown

    Harry Zepatos, third-generation owner of The Arcade, dies after long illness

    “Harry treated the celebrities just like he treated everyone else, or I guess he treated everyone else like he treated the celebrities. Customers would go to his office to find him to say hello. Everyone loved him.”

    By Jennifer Biggs November 17, 2022
  • Downtown

    Silky O’Sullivan’s sold to longtime manager

    Historic Downtown bar and grill Silky O’ Sullivan’s will soon be under new ownership. 

    By Jasmine McCraven November 16, 2022

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