Logistics has been making a comeback recently after some have questioned whether the mainstay of the Memphis economy needs incentives or extra attention in the city’s ongoing bid to create good-paying jobs.

FedEx views its newly introduced FedEx SameDay Bot as a potential game-changer that will help grow market share among current shippers and open new avenues for local deliveries.

Lenders have foreclosed on Clark Tower, saying the owner defaulted on a $60.75 million loan. But the building owner claims the lender is reneging on a refinancing agreement and filed suit in August. 

FedEx on Wednesday announced details of its FedEx SameDay Bot, an autonomous delivery vehicle that is slated to navigate sidewalks of Memphis and other cities this summer in initial testing.

Memphis-based FedEx introduced a driverless package delivery robot called the FedEx SameDay Bot on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Tuesday night.

Musician Dale Watson has purchased the historic Hernando's Hideaway and has plans to reopen it in late March as a venue for local and touring roots musicians.

With public input in hand, Downtown officials will host sessions this week with experts who will engage the public on issues of importance as part of a Downtown master plan process that began last year. 

Memphis-based ServiceMaster saw revenue at its Terminix pest-control division grow in 2018 while also feeling the effects of its American Home Shield spinoff.

David Waters is joining the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting as assistant director. The Daily Memphian is exclusive publisher of the institute's reporting.

The American Institute of Architects elects Memphis architect Jimmie Tucker to its class of 2019 College of Fellows.

Capt. Alonza “Al” Ross has been installed as commanding officer of Naval Support Activity (NSA) Mid-South in Millington, replacing Capt. Michael S. Wathen, who is leaving for a post in Rhode Island.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee made his second trip to the city in as many weeks to announce Tuesday JNJ Logistics will move its headquarters and expand in Parkway Village at the site of the old Delta Square shopping center.

West Cancer Center's split with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare comes with the purchase of its center on Wolf River Boulevard from Methodist for $51 million. 

Brendan McDonough, the firefighter who survived the 2013 Yarnell, Arizona, wildfire that killed 19 of his fellow firefighters, is in Memphis Tuesday to talk about the importance of mental health for first responders. 

Nashville-based Anchor Investments has bought another Memphis-area property, adding the Millington Plaza shopping center to its local portfolio. 

XPO Logistics Inc. said Monday it's guaranteeing jobs at other XPO warehouses for all workers being displaced by the scheduled April 15 closing of a Memphis facility operated for Verizon.

JNJ Logistics will break ground on a new headquarters and employ more than 500 near the old Mall of Memphis, but the headcount will eventually exceed 1,000, a consultant says.

Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins on Monday dismissed the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel's petition that sought to block a City Council action favoring public incentives for a Loews hotel.

Construction on a new recreation center at the University of Memphis that will join the Larry O. Finch Center should get underway in June.

The Kroger Co. recently promoted Victor Smith, former vice president of merchandising for the Ralphs Division, to president of the Memphis-based Delta Division, which extends to Jackson, Mississippi, and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Lodging industry consultant Chuck Pinkowski's forecast calls for occupancy and room revenue to fall at Memphis area hotels in 2019 as room supply increases and the convention center is modernized. 

Raymond James & Associates emailed Memphis employees Friday to inform them of plans to move from Downtown to East Memphis, sources say.

Despite past years of racial discrimination, the children's research hospital that treats patients regardless of race, religion or ability to pay, honored the city of Memphis' 200-year milestone. 

A Memphis auction firm has hired a bilingual auctioneer for times when the chanted numbers need to be translated from English.

As the country looks back on the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a year ago, local counselors report an increasing number of calls to a youth crisis/suicide hotline.