For the Levitt Shell, a series of spring and summer fundraising shows — featuring Memphis-area bands — hope to usher free shows in during the fall. 

Shelby County is one of five counties in the eight-state FEMA Region 4 to have received the federal infusion.

City Council also endorsed a general plan for athletic fields by Christian Brothers University on 7 acres at the intersection of Avery Avenue and South Hollywood.

A timetable for the Fairgrounds conversion has the new youth sports complex opening in the fall of 2022.

A planned tobacco shop will be allowed to open near Snowden School, but the owner must provide sales documents after the first three months proving that he’s not running a vapor shop, the Board of Adjustment voted.

The future residence hall will have more than 61,000 square feet, single rooms, suites, common spaces and a lodge for the campus’ cultural organizations.

Peabody Place will soon be getting a new tenant. But not in the space that ServiceMaster Brands recently announced plans to vacate.

The Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association’s effort to become the 17th neighborhood with historic-overlay protections was delayed when an adjoining neighborhood asked to be included. The application now goes back to the Landmarks Commission.

The February freeze has left Mid-South gardeners worried that their plants might not survive.

The convenience store with fuel pumps would be built on the southwest corner of Jackson and Evergreen, requiring the demolition of an 86-year-old commercial structure.

Minglewood Plaza owner Richard Roberts also is looking for someone to manage Minglewood Hall concert venue. Other businesses inside Minglewood Plaza continue to operate.

Kristin Fox-Trautman runs Inspire Community Cafe right next door to her husband’s gym, Stardust Jiu-Jitsu. Both are located in the Binghampton Gateway Center at the intersection of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street. 

Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis. 

The nonprofit organization Arrow Creative will lease 23,000 square feet at 653 Philadelphia, on the northern edge of the Cooper-Young neighborhood.

The people designing the changes at Overton Park golf course — and those on the bulldozers — consider the entire landscape as one big sculpture, not nine different holes with spaces in between.

The Board of Adjustment approved zoning variances for a planned retail center in East Memphis, an expansion of Memphis Country Club, a retail and townhouse development in Cooper-Young, and the expansion of a funeral service on Lamar.

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 investors who own the building housing RockHouse Live (formerly Poplar Lounge) have just bought the two ragged, midrise office buildings that flank the bar near Midtown. Immediate plans are to make improvements to woo more tenants back, but long-range plans may include demolition and a new hotel.

The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board voted 7-0 to approve a 20-year incentive that will save developers of the $77 million Central Yards project $23 million in property taxes.

The Binghampton Community Land Trust, the first of its kind in Memphis, was created after concerns about rising housing prices spurred by new development in Binghampton. 

The firm buys a portfolio of seven retail strip centers, including four in the Memphis area. 

Even with the tax-break incentive, Central Yards would still generate $7.7 million more in local tax revenues over 20 years than the same property would generate without the mixed-use development, according to the Downtown Memphis Commission.

OtherFoods Kitchen now serves 25 small businesses that make everything from take-home meals to bagels to gluten-free dog treats. The shared commercial kitchen rents its facilities by the hour, allowing startup businesses to avoid big overhead costs.

So far, $2 million of the $2.5 million goal has been raised to rebuild Overton Park golf course and renovate its Abe Goodman Clubhouse. 

The firm’s plans for 2197 Central is just a block east of a much larger mixed-use development that is planned by another developer.