Plant Based Heat, Tops Bar-B-Q and La Roche reopen, but a Downtown restaurant and an East Memphis liquor store are closing.

The $30 million Memphis Public Market would turn two buildings into a 24-stall public market with vendor spaces for farmers, grocers, butchers, bakers, prepared-food operators, artisans and specialty retailers.

Mahaffey Tent and Event Rentals is relocating its operations after buying office and warehouse buildings from another company with a long local history.

Where the pavement ends on Memphis’ western edge, a police Harbor Patrol Unit navigates the unpredictable Mississippi River as the city’s last line of defense.

The festival included local food from Robinson Smokehouse (a local BBQ food truck), health education from Baptist Health Sciences University, Baptist Memorial Health Care and Vitalant with the Sickle Cell Foundation and live music from local artists like Ekpe and the African Jazz Ensemble.

DLC Management Corp., in partnership with a fund managed by DRA Advisors, bought six properties in five states, including the shopping center at Winchester Road and Hacks Cross Road.

The Downtown Memphis Commission board talked coffee, new hires and beer at its meeting.

There’s an opening date set for the Memphis Art Museum. And when it opens, it will welcome locals to a bigger gallery space, a sculpture garden, a rooftop walking path and more for free. 

Wendelta, a subsidiary of Carlisle Corp., has acquired four local Wendy’s restaurants and plans “to make sure they’re running really, really well.”

The project is an 800-square-foot retail bay between Cocozza American Italian Restaurant and Cordelia’s Market.

In this week’s Ask the Memphian, we look back at the 1980s plan to build a highway on Mud Island, and the efforts of the people who stopped it. 

“It felt as if someone was whispering good secrets to the rest of the world about my home, and I was the one caught unaware. Sure enough, that’s precisely what has been happening for about a decade now.”

Pay a visit to Midtown Hardware on Summer Avenue, and you’ll enter the only independent hardware store in Shelby County owned and operated by women.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members settled on a name for the district’s new high school in Frayser. Neighborhood charter school Libertas is also set to expand into high school grades.

How a Midtown business creates community and space for gamers of all ages and creeds.

Organizers hope the Step Up Squad Adaptive Camp for children born with limb differences will spur self-confidence, friendship and fun.

The 220-foot-long boardwalk two years in the making offers an elevated view of the Mississippi River just beyond the edge of Tom Lee Park.

The Binghampton cafe that opened with a mission of helping the community is closing its doors after seven years.

Why is it taking nearly two decades to fix Elvis Presley Boulevard? I invited state Senator Raumesh Akbari to join me in my 2015 minivan for a drive-along. Here’s what I learned.

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TDOT Commissioner Will Reid and Mayor Paul Young met twice this week after a stormy public meeting in Whitehaven recently, where those involved in the joint project told residents it wouldn’t be completed until 2031.

Perdomo Worldwide plans to open a developable site in an older industrial submarket that’s seeing a slight resurgence.

The lineup includes celebrations for the Shell, Hattiloo and Opera Memphis; festivals like Gonerfest; and concerts like Drivin N Cryin. 

If approved, these projects could add residential units and commercial property across the city. 

As a gay man operating in a homophobic era, Bayard Rustin was often forced into the background of the Civil Rights Movement, despite his critical role as a trusted adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

Location, location, location: The two buildings that housed the former Outdoors Inc. are near one of the busiest intersections in the city, seeing more than 29,000 vehicles daily.