The city would buy the 16.9 acre Coke bottling plant at Southern and Hollywood under a tentative letter of intent council members were briefed on Tuesday, May 18. 

It’s Texas meets Memphis on a Midtown corner wedged between Sam Cooper Boulevard and Broad. And Bain BBQ has plans for a permanent establishment.

The council will hear, in committees, about the idea of “potential acquisition and adaptive reuse” of a bottling company plant at Southern and Hollywood. On the council agenda is a vote urging Gov. Bill Lee to veto a bill that bans teaching critical race theory.

The Memphian in Overton Square has just opened. Inside, the place is as much a lively, luminous art gallery as a hotel.

Council unanimously approves a resolution opposing the proposed configuration that would eliminate Scott Street’s southern connection to Poplar Avenue.

The annual Juneteenth celebration is moving from Robert R. Church Park to Health Sciences Park, held on the grounds where Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue once stood.

After thousands of people signed a petition opposing a plan to cut Scott Street off from Poplar Avenue, members of the Memphis City Council recently held a meeting in the community. 

The Lululemon Pop Up store in Midtown, which opened last year as the pandemic spread, has closed.

While the city and TDOT’s recommendation to close the Scott-Poplar intersection came in June 2018, many neighborhood residents and property owners did not find out until late 2020. It’s left many eager to fight the closure.

Neighborhood leaders thought the tree-lined streets, where almost every home has a veranda, would be ideal for outdoor mini-concerts.

What do you get when you mix bulldozers with acreage that has been populated for generations? “The opportunity of a lifetime,” says one hobbyist who spent 10 weeks hovering his metal detector over the Overton Park Golf Course.

A developer has unusually elaborate plans for a convenience store with gas at the long-vacant corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street. 

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.