The new Board of Adjustment applications include a business that wants to produce ice cream in Whitehaven, a 3-acre self-storage business in South City and a 10-acre mixed-use development in the Medical District.
The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is back after sitting out 2020.
Peabody Place will soon be getting a new tenant. But not in the space that ServiceMaster Brands recently announced plans to vacate.
With the economy recovering, local hotels and restaurants are hiring again. But are there enough potential employees to keep up with the increase in demand?
A 36-year-old construction worker fell to his death while helping renovate a building in the Cotton Row National Historic District.
ServiceMaster Brands will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Atlanta. Terminix, the larger of the two companies created in a spinoff last year, has no plans to move its corporate headquarters out of Downtown Memphis.
The developers of the Historic Snuff District plan a second, mixed-use building of six stories, 292 apartments, 420 parking spaces and 10,000 square feet of commercial space. They seek a tax incentive valued at $19 million over 20 years.
The existing PILOT on the center runs through December 2026.
The city plans to offer the property to developers once the sale from THM Properties of New York City closes. Demolition of the part of the city’s skyline is also an option.
There’s a new end of the line for the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s Main Street trolley service.
Salad Expressions will be wedged between the new URBN on Union buildings. The restaurant will open at 1308 Union, which formerly housed E’s 24 Hour Café.
The sales director for the Hyatt Centric offered journalists an early, sneak peek of the $75 million, 227-room luxury hotel that is nearly finished at 33 Beale.
The council votes next week on the further use of a PILOT extension fund already being tapped for $62 million for four Downtown parking garages. Meanwhile, one of the banks involved in financing the garages wants some more loan guarantees, which includes a proposed TIF.
Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members are to review its policies for giving tax incentives. Possible changes may include syncing incentives to existing growth plans, simplifying the policy, and tightening the amount of incentives without slowing development.
The Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum will move just two blocks from its long-time headquarters at 158 Madison.
Developers who plan to raze the historic Nylon Net Building have unveiled renderings for the $52.2 million, mixed-use building that would replace it.
The development of 270 apartments, 17,500 square feet of retail and a 411-space parking structure would replace the existing First Horizon and IberiaBank branches on Union, between Cleveland and Claybrook.
There’s nothing common about the new residential development that is to open March 1 in Uptown. The first phase features two rows of rental cottages that face each other across a 30-foot-wide courtyard.
Should the cans of Tiger Tail — the first official beer of the Memphis Tigers — be blue, black or gray? Fans can vote this month in the taproom of Grind City Brewing.
Plans for a new hotel at the east end of the Beale Street entertainment district show a mostly glass-and-brick building that will house 145 guestrooms. At six stories, the building would tower over the nightclubs and restaurants.
Many of the Snuff District’s office workers and residents may park their vehicles inside what is now a vacant, historic warehouse at 700 N. Front. An added benefit for the mixed-use development: Fewer surface parking lots.
The Buy Nothing Midtown/Downtown Facebook group boasted more than 2,000 members as of Jan. 23. It’s one of several in the Memphis area.
The Downtown Memphis Commission has hired a search committee consultant to help meet its goal of identifying by Feb. 25 the final candidate for the CEO/president position.
The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.
A development team has purchased three Edge District buildings, plans to renovate them, and already has signed a lease with Sweet Magnolia Gelato Co. to open a shop in one of them.