The most notable changes to the tax incentives are the length of the program and a focus on affordable housing.

Members of the reform group Stop Poverty with Policy have been riding MATA bus routes in recent months to understand how transit issues affect passengers’ everyday lives.

Over the past 13 years, PBC has grown from a small startup in Ireland to a company with offices in France and now Memphis, and partners in Germany, Sweden and Japan. 

The dedication was prompted by photos Nichols took in the park, including of sunsets on the river that the canopy overlooks.

A unique world-class park is taking shape on the riverfront. Renowned designers Studio Gang and Scape are taking their inspiration from the river in front of the park and inviting the entire city on the bluff behind it to enjoy it year-round.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s $13 billion campus expansion, the largest in its history, is progressing.

Carlisle Development filed plans to build a temporary surface parking lot at the proposed Grand Hyatt site at One Beale. 

The opening of Conwood Flats and Varsity Spirit’s headquarters marks the halfway point for the historic Snuff District redevelopment. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 

“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.

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.

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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“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.