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7/10 CRONE CONSTRUCTION MOVES TO COOPER YOUNG
Earlier this year, with the impending sale and planned demolition of The Century Building, Crone made their move. Crone now operates out of 798 South Cooper Street in Cooper Young. They area a welcome addition to the North end of the District. This Northern area of the business district, is seeing a resurgence of new Tenants.
7/10 SOMOS UN Rekei Massage makes home in COOPER YOUNG
SOMOS UN, a local Reiki massage and meditation studio, has made it’s home at 816 South Cooper Street. This is the former location of Midtown Yoga 2. (MTY2
...read more4/2 New Auto museum EDGE MOTOR MUSEUM to debut during Edge Motor Festival April 27th
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...read more11/14 Apartment Project near Loflin Yard
Developers are planning a mixed-use apartment/commercial building next to Loflin Yard in South Main District of Downtown Memphis. In addition to the original plans, they are adding a warehouse reuse component to the project. In early May, developers Hamilton & Holliman received a 15-year PILOT incentive from Downtown Memphis Commission’s Center City Revenue Finance Corp. The tax break will help finance a six-story apartment building with ground-floor retail on the vacant lot near the intersection
...read more2/26 David Lusk Gallery New Digs
David Lusk gallery has transformed 81 Tillman Street into an incredible Gallery space. The building was formerly home to Thompson engineering for nearly two decades. The property has undergone a tremendous transformation. It is opening to the public on February 26, 2016 at 6 pm. The first show is titled “Opening.” If you see the before and after photos of the space, you will be amazed. Upon your visit or passing by, notice the sculpture
...read more2/9 Developer banks on The Edge District
Development Services Group Inc. (DSG), via PGK Properties LLC, has amassed seven properties — including the former Wonder Bread bakery — in the Edge District with the hope of creating a “live, work, play community.” (As quoted from Memphis Business Journal.) The Edge District lies between the Medical District and Downtown. The parcels of land PGK Properties now has in its’ care include: 435 Madison Ave., 400 Monroe Ave., 421 Monroe Ave., 620 Union Ave.,
...read more12/28 Dexter Muller's next chapter
A longtime senior advisor for the Greater Memphis Chamber’s development department is retiring. Dexter Muller will retire Jan. 15, but says he will remain on retainer with the Chamber for one year. Muller said , He was not headed to the barn quite yet. He was quoted saying, “I tell people I’ve been in the saddle so long I’ve got calluses in all the right places, and I’m not planning on letting them soften.” Along
...read more4/30 Bass Pro Opens Doors To Pyramid
Bass Pro Shops finally opened its superstore inside the Memphis Pyramid. The hype and anticipation has been brewing for 10 years. At 32 stories tall, the landmark structure has been transformed from an empty public relic into an outdoorsman’s “indoor” paradise. In addition to all the products that customers expect from a Bass Pro store, the pyramid superstore includes a man-made cypress swamp with a live alligator, large archery and shooting ranges, a Ducks Unlimited
...read more4/1 New Jobs for Memphis
Thomas & Betts to move Fla. jobs to Memphis taken from Memphis Business Journal Thomas & Betts Corp. will move about 38 jobs from Homac Manufacturing Co. in Ormond Beach, Fla., to Memphis, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Those jobs represent 7.6 percent of the Homac’s workforce at two local plants there. The jobs include customer service and research and development functions which will be brought to Memphis. Layoffs at the Ormond Beach facility
...read more1/28 Rasberry CRE Retools Real Estate Vision
Eric Smith/Memphis Daily News Commercial real estate firm Lewis & Rasberry Realty has reconfigured and rebranded its business by morphing into a new entity called, simply, Rasberry CRE (Commercial Real Estate) for founding partner James Rasberry. The name and organizational changes were made last year when the other founding partner, Jimmy Lewis, announced he would leave the firm and focus on outside projects, namely a Midtown health food store. That decision led Rasberry to forge
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