Organizations and businesses in several Memphis neighborhoods are employing different tactics to encourage holiday consumers to shop there.

Memphis organizations held youth-focused Global Entrepreneurship Week events. 

Residents of Soulsville in South Memphis will come together Saturday to welcome the holiday season with an event that includes music, hot cocoa and the lighting of a Christmas tree.

An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."

Claudette Boyd, president of the Orange Mound Parade Committee, said the effort will ensure Orange Mound “is not left out of the (holiday) celebration.”

The Works Inc. owns several vacant lots around its South Memphis office in ZIP code 38106.

Porter-Leath opened its first Early Childhood Academy in 2017 in South Memphis. 

With the Orange Mound location, Stepherson Inc. will operate nine grocery stores in the Memphis area, including one in Southaven, Mississippi.

The Shelby County Health Department will operate its Commodity Supplemental Food Program from the warehouse at 1020 S. Bellevue Blvd.

The Superlo loan is identical to one granted by the same body last year for a new Cash Saver in Southgate Shopping Center. 

Orange Mound homeowners saw property values decrease by 26% from 2009-2019.

Construction on the third phase of Foote Park at South City on the west side of Danny Thomas Boulevard is to be completed by June 2021. 

Stepherson Inc. plans to operate a new Superlo Foods grocery store and Constance Cherry wants to open her second Creative Home Academy location in Orange Mound.

Agape is making progress in reducing poverty for families it serves in Frayser, Hickory Hill and Whitehaven, but its CEO says there are still "huge systemic matters to be addressed."

The Shelby County Office of Re-Entry is converting vacant buildings in South Memphis into transitional housing for ex-offenders.

The dorms were created in a recently renovated, former vacant apartment building across from Knowledge Quest’s main campus.

The 60-year-old Allen Fossil plant is scheduled for demolition in 2022, Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Jeff Lyash said Tuesday as leaders got a look at possible future uses for the 500-acre site.

The Tennessee Department of Correction and Shelby County Office of Re-entry will host a health fair Wednesday, Oct. 9.

Festival organizers will retain the influence of those in the neighborhood who are committed to workforce development and how the land is used. 

Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess is hosting an event next week that is billed as an opportunity to collaborate, grow and shape the future of Orange Mound.

Eggxactly Breakfast and Deli in Whitehaven opens Oct. 8 and will serve breakfast, lunch and brunch.

Superlo Foods, a Memphis-based grocery store chain, hopes to open a location in Orange Mound Dec. 1.

The historically black college in South Memphis also plans to increase alumni giving from 8% to 30%.

Mayor Jim Strickland said the chain has signed a letter of intent to open a Whitehaven location.

Two national retailers and three MEMShop locations will add to the retail momentum Whitehaven is seeing, but the community still has property challenges.