This week’s Inked includes updates on BluffCakes new Germantown location and a second Scooter’s Coffee site. 

The film, which is about as Memphis as a movie can get, chronicles The Rendezvous’ rise to a world-renowned restaurant.

The council approved the original deal of what amounted to a $10 million advance on the city’s lease of convention meeting space in the Grand Hyatt — the third of three hotels at One Beale — in September on a 10-0 vote.

The Downtown Memphis Sheraton Hotel will be getting a significant makeover soon. 

During the first week of October, the river hit historic lows in Memphis, where it hovered just a few feet higher than the lowest recorded river level. 

Sip & Serve begins with cleaning trash off streets and ends with a happy hour for participants age 21 and older.

A $4 million restoration project has transformed the old the National Rose Spring and Mattress Co. building into a mixed-use development Downtown at 80 W. Virginia Ave.

The staple Soul Burger at Earnestine & Hazel’s is a stack of no-frills comfort, and a late night steal of a $10 Deal.

Memphis is awash in dramatic examples of adaptive reuse, from a Downtown shopping mall turned corporate headquarters to a Sears warehouse building turned “vertical urban village” to even a Pyramid-shaped arena turned world’s biggest bait shop. But Mud Island and the Mid-South Coliseum have proved trickier for rebirth. 

The owner of Paula & Raiford’s Disco in Downtown Memphis was charged with misdemeanor assault Thursday, Sept. 15, according to Shelby County Criminal Justice records.

Hulsey Britt and Frankey Anderson approached Kenneth Wayne Alexander with a proposition: to curate a combined art space, restaurant, and entertainment venue dedicated to Black culture and Black excellence.

Developers Joseph Lewis and Tony Kuhn plan to begin $3.2 million restoration this fall. 

The Carlisle name follows a $1.5 million donation by the developers to the $62 million Tom Lee Park redesign. It honors the late Gene Carlisle, the family patriarch who called the One Beale real estate “the best piece of dirt in Memphis.”

Uptown’s Malone Park Commons sought the special grant after rising construction costs increased the budget, according to staff reports.

Two Memphis natives are partnering with 2 Chainz and serial entrepreneur Mychel “Snoop” Dillard to open an Esco location off of Beale Street. 

It all started with a waiter who saw the fence around the restaurant’s North Main Street patio as a place to display his art.

A special development grant for Malone Park Commons in Uptown is on the upcoming Sept. 14 Center City Development Corp. agenda. 

The existing restaurants and bars will be converted into an upscale Memphis-themed sports bar. Additionally, an event deck will be built on the second floor, according to the application.

The special meeting is the second in a week for the council. The compromise involving $10 million was announced by Mayor Jim Strickland before the Labor Day weekend.

The agreement announced Thursday, Sept. 1, bypasses a city backstop of a reserve fund Carlisle Corp. had sought. Instead, the city puts up $10 million to be repaid by the One Beale developers in 10 years.

Reggae at The Shed brings island sounds, along with food, drinks and local vendors to the Carolina Watershed, 141 E Carolina Ave. 

Memphis in May is eager to return to Tom Lee Park but cites issues with a lease and damage deposit lead to ‘uncertainty’ at its annual meeting.

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Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says the city’s population grew by more than 15,000 people between 2010 and 2020 instead of a loss of 13,000 reflected in the most recent U.S. Census.

Community leaders and patrons of the Fogelman Downtown YMCA praised updates to the facility Thursday, Aug. 18, as a recent $2 million renovation was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon.