Also, a beauty-supply store is coming to Bartlett, and an electrical-supply company signed a lease in East Memphis.

Who is new at Campbell Clinic, WLOK and The Armstrong Company?

The former longtime home of Downtown’s Bluff City Coffee will soon be home to coffee again, but this time, with cocktails, too. 

“... This center sends a powerful message: You are seen, you are valued, and you are never alone,” said a state official about the Alliance Healthcare Services facility. 

“Some sellers still want those 2021 and 2022 prices, but it’s not there. The houses that sell under 30 days, they’re priced just right,” the president of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors said.

The property was used as a hospital and stable by Union troops during the Civil War.

A 2025 study by the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank found that BNPL borrowers are typically female, younger, renters, and less educated; but, surprisingly, have higher household incomes.

Hart Roper will succeed Pete Sanders, who announced in January that he would retire at the end of the 2026-2027 school year.

Habitat for Humanity recently hit a milestone in Uptown: Two homes it finished building in February had their appraisals match their costs, which isn’t a given when talking about affordable housing in Memphis.

UTHSC is in better financial position than in recent years — in June 2023, there was a $55 million structural deficit. By the end of June, a surplus of $35.6 million is expected.

HighTee is leaning into high tea, and Raymah Café opens in a long-vacant former Applebee’s.

Former restaurant and retail spots along Bartlett’s main corridors stand empty.

EpicenterU, a partnership between Epicenter, Arkansas State University and the Delta Regional Authority, will provide about $812,000 in grant funding for student entrepreneurs. 

A newly formed company has taken over a Downtown tech-hub project that would combine computing infrastructure, office and residential space on one campus.

Ducks Unlimited, Financial Federal and Burch, Porter and Johnson make promotions and additions. 

Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity. 

Historically, West Tennessee has been known for commodity crops such as soy, corn and especially cotton. But in recent years, an increasing number of area farmers have started growing specialty crops — like peaches — because they’re more profitable per acre.

Also, the Carolina Watershed property has a new owner, and a Bartlett retail building sells for $1.4 million.

“We’re trying to combat loneliness,” said the operator of Second Helpings Cafe. 

The route starts this summer. 

Since Ted Townsend stepped down last week, the clock has started for the Chamber to find the ideal candidate to replace him by year-end. 

St. Mary’s officially has a replacement for when current head Albert Throckmorton retires. 

FedEx’s stock plummeted Monday, May 4, as Amazon unveiled it was expanding it logistics offerings to “every business.”

After beloved, though gruff, businessman Jerry Gibson was murdered in his record store, his family sealed the place shut, leaving his hundreds of thousands of collectibles untouched for 10 years. Until now.

The state invested more than $300 million for UTHSC. Here’s how it will help bring in “top-notch students” and address the critical nursing and physician shortage in Tennessee.