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. 

The 220-foot-long boardwalk two years in the making offers an elevated view of the Mississippi River just beyond the edge of Tom Lee Park.

As a gay man operating in a homophobic era, Bayard Rustin was often forced into the background of the Civil Rights Movement, despite his critical role as a trusted adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

Pride weekend kicks off and we all scream for the Memphis Ice Cream Festival. Bianca Phillips comes on The AM/DM to talk things to do this weekend in Memphis.

A Memphis native has returned home to take the Orpheum stage — and help his castmates find a good place to eat. Plus, the Peabody ducks are keeping time with the help of a new clock.

Owner Chris Moore said they weren’t planning to open the Downtown location of Chef Flavas until mid-June, but now they are offering to-go orders from the new restaurant.

The U of M’s law school used to be located in a run-down building with unreliable air conditioning and a flooding problem. Now, it’s Downtown home is “a huge selling point.” Here’s how the move came to be. 

In another first, it will partner with another festival for the first weekend.

Just in time for summer break, Memphis River Parks Partnership and Literacy Mid-South officially unveiled the city’s first free public storybook trail.

Two longtime Memphis events return this weekend, right in time for Memorial Day. 

It’s another weekend to hit the great outdoors. 

“Really, Beale became redundant,” said Ghost River owner Bob Keskey after the company made a number of improvements at its original location. 

A near-perfect night in Downtown Memphis started with the fried chicken sandwich from South of Beale Downtown. 

A newly formed company has taken over a Downtown tech-hub project that would combine computing infrastructure, office and residential space on one campus.

Ghost River Brewery & Taproom opened on Beale Street in 2021. The company will focus on its newly-expanded South Main location.

Riverbeat came back to Tom Lee Park on Friday, May 1, for the first day of the annual music festival, with Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage, Lord Huron, Salt-N-Pepa and headliner The Red Clay Strays. 

The immersive experience “Baron Von Opperbean and The River of Time” opens Friday, May 1, in the old River Museum at Mud Island River Park. 

Grind City Amp opened a new outdoor music venue in April, marked by a free festival on Saturday, April 25, featuring a vintage sale, food trucks and a live music lineup with headliner MonoNeon.