Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

The new initiative will help students move toward reading at grade level.

Crown World this week followed through with its plans for Memphis after receiving a tax incentive in December. The firm has bought the long-empty office building at 2990 Airways and will establish operations there.

The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.

A funeral home on the recently down-zoned section of Lamar wants to add a second cremation furnace, but now must seek a zoning variance to do it.

Protect Our Aquifer and other environmental groups have asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not to fast-track approval for the Byhalia Connection crude oil pipeline.

Homes in the neighborhood have fallen into disrepair, but renovations and new construction are giving the Glenview community new life.

The industrial real estate firm Faropoint had acquired in 2016 five of the buildings it just sold, and bought the other 23 buildings in 2018. Faropoint still owns a substantial amount of industrial space in Memphis.

LeMoyne-Owen College has named Vernell Bennett-Fairs its new president.

The nonprofit’s programs prepare graduates for permanent employment.

The meeting, held at T.O. Fuller State Park, was led by community organizers, neighborhood associations and 38109 ZIP code residents not satisfied with responses to their concerns by those leading the Byhalia Connection project.

Executives with a dental products company say they would open a dental lab near the airport if their company receives a tax incentive.

The Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp. has money available to help Whitehaven small business that have been hurt by the coronavirus.

The new state-of-the-art YMCA bolsters the Y’s ongoing commitment to Whitehaven.

Concerns about the spread of the coronavirus forced organizers to cancel the Whitehaven Christmas Parade and the Memphis Holiday Parade.

This week of events kicks off the holiday season for Whitehaven.

Officials broke ground Wednesday, Nov. 11, on the Early Childhood Academy in Orange Mound, a collaboration of the University of Memphis and Porter-Leath.

Two groups of the historic community’s younger residents hope people have hung on to their property, will hang on a little longer because The Mound is about to be reborn.

Paula and James Campbell know the appraised value of their Orange Mound home is far less than the $300,000 they spent to build it. But that’s OK. They intend to stay.

A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.

Some people have asked but the owners of Piano’s flower shop say there is no reason for them to leave the Whitehaven community.

Facility will serve 200 3-, 4-year-olds in the Melrose High School neighborhood.

Two local higher education institutions are the recipients of surplus lab equipment given in a long-term loan from the Health Department.