Bryant’s plate lunches may even make a comeback after the expansion of the Summer Avenue breakfast spot is complete. 

Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association, the Mid-South’s largest OB-GYN practice, has purchased the iconic Opera Memphis building at 6745 Wolf River Blvd. 

More than a dozen community stakeholders in District 5 gathered at Benjamin Hooks Library Wednesday night to give feedback on issues pinpointed in the Memphis 3.0 plan.

Leigh Mansberg has unleashed her own entrepreneurial bent to reshape the way JA works, digging down to formularize the can-do energy that was the air she breathed growing up.

The $16.5 million Topgolf facility is slated to include 72 hitting bays, a full kitchen and two bars.

“I couldn’t figure out why someone would put that in our neighborhood,” Steve Brown said of racist communcation left at his front door.

After $50 million entertainment hub deal stalls, former movie theater in Hickory Hill has new owners, new vision. 

East Memphis will soon be home to the area’s first AC Hotel by Marriott and a $100 million India Cultural Center expansion is on its way in Eads.

After a scaled-down version of the fest in October 2021, the event is back in full force with a Greek pastry corner; “Greek Boutique,” including Greek-themed apparel and cookbooks; live music; and plenty of Greek cuisine.

Some favorites missing from last fall’s smaller festival — gyros, lamb chops — are back, alongside 28,000 cookies, music, dancing and more. 

Lighthouse Community Ecosystem plans to build a “holistic” community with more than a dozen buildings near the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

Atlanta-based Robinson Weeks plans to build two warehouses in southeast Memphis, and Indianapolis-based Scannell Properties is set to build two warehouses in northeast Memphis. 

The Board of Adjustment approved a variance that would allow for a new TacoNGanas location in East Memphis. 

The restaurant has been at Poplar and Mendenhall since 1983 and will stay where it is despite demolition of the east side of Williamsburg Village.

Plans have been submitted for demolition and new construction for the eastern half of the East Memphis shopping center.

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The Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board unanimously approved a Topgolf off Callis-Cutoff Road near the Memphis-Germantown border Thursday morning.

Load up the car and head to the Malco Summer Drive-In for an all-nighter of classic cinema. Each month features a different subject.

Although the site plan did not violate any rules or codes, Board of Adjustment members were sympathetic to neighbors’ concerns, noting the development was “wrong” and they themselves would not want to live next to the synagogue.

Binghampton Development Corporation and artist Tad Pierson have turned 420 illegally dumped tires into bicycle lane barriers and have begun installing them along Broad Avenue in Binghampton.

The elaborately designed convenience store with gas pumps and retail bays would have been built at 2977 Broad Ave. at Tillman Street and Sam Cooper Boulevard.

The City Council will once again be voting on a special use permit for a proposed gas station on Tillman Street between Sam Cooper Boulevard and Broad Avenue during Tuesday’s 10 a.m. City Council meeting. 

“... With help from the city, we could create something like a Cooper-Young or an Overton Square area,” said John M. Howard Jr., leader of the ownership team that developed the lofts.

John Currence’s signature breakfast restaurant finally got ahead of the supply chain and is open in East Memphis, and serving good food.

The Crescent Center’s new owner said he was impressed by both the building and its East Memphis neighborhood. 

“Alvin Motley had a right to exist, pump gas and play his music because this is America, and nobody has the right to kill a young Black man for playing music,” says civil rights attorney.