MATA plans to resume trolley service Downtown in the fall with four trolleys, according to the trustee of the city-owned bus system. Plus, an update on the city’s recently revamped Group Violence Intervention Program from City Council coverage.
A new level of exclusivity is coming to Downtown Memphis’ Peabody hotel.
Coffee potheads have a new place to go in Midtown. And so do the matcha lovers in Downtown.
Charles Phillips takes a break at Mud Island Marina from the Huck Finn journey that’s been exciting, enlightening, and on occasion terrifying.
The number of people visiting Downtown is holding at about 85% of pre-COVID numbers, according to the Downtown Memphis Commission.
Renovations have been approved for the “Old” Daisy Theater on Beale Street after a June 2025 electrical fire.
This week on “The Sidebar,” the principal of Constellation Properties, Stuart Harris, and the executive director of HiFi Memphis, Mersadies Burch, join Eric Barnes to talk about the scope and scale of the Downtown project.
Plus, a 14-year-old wing spot has opened its “bigger, better” location in Collierville.
Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Advisors markets historic Front Street building, FI Real Estate Capital Management makes second local purchase and North Carolina investors buy East Memphis Bojangles for $3 million.
The iconic Front Street Deli is among the businesses struggling with the loss of pedestrian traffic as the city closes the street in preparation for the December opening of Memphis Art Museum.
Two Front Street buildings in the Historic Cotton Row District have new owners with plans to restore them after decades of vacancy and neglect.
A vacant hotel Downtown just got one step closer to getting a $63 million makeover.
A long-vacant and overgrown lot near Loflin Yard and an active railroad could be getting new infill development next year.
The Cotton Row Historic District could be getting a glow-up and Downtown a pair of new restaurants.
Walt & Ricky’s Seafood Kitchen could open as soon as September.
The Memphis Redbirds’ current lease, which allows the St. Louis Cardinals’ top-tier farm team to play in the city-owned ballpark, expires in four years.
Developers hope to pump new life into the Downtown DoubleTree hotel with the help of tax incentives.
Soccer fans gathered at AutoZone Park for a free watch party, hoping to witness the United States Men’s National Team advance in the 2026 World Cup. Instead, they watched history repeat itself.
A Downtown Memphis Commission board gave the green light for the new Memphis Art Museum’s signage, including a code deviation.
A luxury hotel Downtown is the first West Tennessee hotel to join an international network of boutique hotels.
Plant Based Heat, Tops Bar-B-Q and La Roche reopen, but a Downtown restaurant and an East Memphis liquor store are closing.
The $30 million Memphis Public Market would turn two buildings into a 24-stall public market with vendor spaces for farmers, grocers, butchers, bakers, prepared-food operators, artisans and specialty retailers.
The property has won several awards, including recognition from the Apartment Association of Greater Memphis for “Best Adapted Reuse Community” over multiple years.
Where the pavement ends on Memphis’ western edge, a police Harbor Patrol Unit navigates the unpredictable Mississippi River as the city’s last line of defense.
The festival included local food from Robinson Smokehouse (a local BBQ food truck), health education from Baptist Health Sciences University, Baptist Memorial Health Care and Vitalant with the Sickle Cell Foundation and live music from local artists like Ekpe and the African Jazz Ensemble.
The Downtown Memphis Commission board talked coffee, new hires and beer at its meeting.
There’s an opening date set for the Memphis Art Museum. And when it opens, it will welcome locals to a bigger gallery space, a sculpture garden, a rooftop walking path and more for free.
The project is an 800-square-foot retail bay between Cocozza American Italian Restaurant and Cordelia’s Market.
In this week’s Ask the Memphian, we look back at the 1980s plan to build a highway on Mud Island, and the efforts of the people who stopped it.