Gregory Realty has just purchased the Cooper-Young shopping center occupied by local and national tenants. 

Bendy Beast Fitness currently operates in a home studio in Downtown Memphis. 

The Memphis Tigers basketball team along with other U of M athletes gave some local children early Christmas gifts Friday afternoon. The group distributed the toys – collected at a toy drive earlier this year – at Davis Community Center, which is at 3371 Spottswood in the Messick Buntyn area. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland also was among those handing out presents.

The Broad Avenue Arts District and Carpenter Art Garden are holding holiday shopping events during the first weekend of December. 

Momentum of Small Business Saturday continues to grow every year.

Independent, foreign and classic films will have a permanent home at the "Indie Memphis Cinema" space at Malco's Studio on the Square in Midtown.

Arrow, the nonprofit organization that supports artists in multiple ways, has decided to drop its bid for Overton Park's Rust Hall and instead build a permanent, $10 million facility in the Broad Avenue Arts District.

Friends for Life will open The Corner on Nov. 4, providing free testing for sexually transmitted infections. The community space will feature a pharmacy and offer PEP, PrEP, STI testing and education. Local art will be for sale in the space.

North Carolina-based developer requests the Board of Adjustment to review its plan for Broad Avenue Arts District apartments on Nov. 20. 

The city plans to break ground on the development in January 2020, with the sports complex and hotel opening in June 2021 and initial retail opening in November 2021. 

ServiceMaster employees locally and nationally fanned out across their communities Thursday to help various causes as part of the Memphis-based company's "We Care Day 2019."

The city seeks approval from the Land Use Control Board for a new 200,000-square-foot sports and events complex and a 700,000-square-foot mixed-use development of retail, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, commercial office space and multifamily residential. 

Developers of a new mixed-use project in Cooper-Young say they will meet with residents who are concerned the apartment project is not good for the neighborhood.

The long-vacant, long-ignored Barksdale Mounted Police Station still has jail cell bars, horse stable windows and the name of Tennessee’s most infamous politician etched into the ornate front wall. A renovation will soon breathe new life into the city's first “suburban” police station.

By surrounding its 20,000-title DVD collection with screenings, concerts, gaming and more, Memphis video store Black Lodge returns from the dead with an expanded mission. 

Memphis is home to 3,000 Vietnamese immigrants, and many now live around the Madison Heights neighborhood, where Viet Hoa is located.

Family business Crone Construction will open a showroom at 798 S. Cooper St. in the Cooper-Young neighborhood.

The center is located in Madison Heights, which has a high concentration of low-income residents and people experiencing homelessness. Recently the area – surrounded by Crosstown, Midtown and the Medical District – has seen business development, which has the potential to displace vulnerable residents.

This week's demolition of a small shopping center is attributed to the future project to replace the Poplar Viaduct. 

A faith-based, nonprofit residential facility is an alcohol and drug treatment program for men 18 and older, who staff BAM, or Business as Ministry, and a car wash as part of their recovery process.

There are two dedicated gay bars operating in Memphis, both located in Madison Heights. Though gay bars are on the decline across the U.S., Dru's Bar and The Pumping Station are still well-loved spots to socialize and to organize politically. 

The developers of a townhouse project in Cooper-Young presented four different site plans to residents, saying fewer units will mean higher prices. 

A planned, three-story building will house a restaurant or offices on the ground floor and three studio apartments on each of the top two levels.

Two small pads for freestanding buildings will be built where the middle of a 99-year-old strip shopping center is being razed.

Townhouses and a Goodwill retail store/donation center for Midtown are among the requests that the Land Use Control Board will consider in July.