Midtown apartments added to National Register
The apartments, which were located near streetcar lines, retail and restaurants, were designed to attract middle-class workers moving to the city from nearby rural areas.
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The apartments, which were located near streetcar lines, retail and restaurants, were designed to attract middle-class workers moving to the city from nearby rural areas.
The Roto-Sphere has been repaired and reinstalled in front of Joe’s Wines & Liquor in Midtown.
The Memphian in Overton Square has just opened. Inside, the place is as much a lively, luminous art gallery as a hotel.
The Lululemon Pop Up store in Midtown, which opened last year as the pandemic spread, has closed.
For the Levitt Shell, a series of spring and summer fundraising shows — featuring Memphis-area bands — hope to usher free shows in during the fall.
A planned tobacco shop will be allowed to open near Snowden School, but the owner must provide sales documents after the first three months proving that he’s not running a vapor shop, the Board of Adjustment voted.
Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis.
The investors who own the building housing RockHouse Live (formerly Poplar Lounge) have just bought the two ragged, midrise office buildings that flank the bar near Midtown. Immediate plans are to make improvements to woo more tenants back, but long-range plans may include demolition and a new hotel.
Overton Park golf course may be jammed this weekend with golfers playing one last round before the nine-hole track closes until the fall. The course is being redesigned and rebuilt.
So far, $2 million of the $2.5 million goal has been raised to rebuild Overton Park golf course and renovate its Abe Goodman Clubhouse.
The firm’s plans for 2197 Central is just a block east of a much larger mixed-use development that is planned by another developer.
Shoppers grabbed holiday essentials and last-minute items as a Safer at Home order looms.
Jimmy Thomasson led a quiet life in Midtown. When he died, a stunning outpouring of tributes revealed just how many people he touched by being the best neighbor anyone could want.
The co-owners of Sonder Luxury Suites not only liked The Citizen’s location and vibe, they loved the built-in customer base living in its 173 apartments.
Local health officials have been encouraging residents to get flu vaccinations. Next month, a free, drive-thru option is coming to Midtown and Germantown.
The City of Memphis is taking extra time to write a request for proposals for bidders on its 4.5 acres at 1925 Union. City Hall wants not just a high bid, but a “highest and best” use that can be felt from Downtown to the University of Memphis.
Kroger did build a fuel center on the north end of the site, but just sold the other, still-undeveloped 17.3 acres for $2.6 million.
Built 65 years ago for the Baron Hirsch Synagogue and sold 28 years ago to a Church of God in Christ jurisdiction, the historic property at 1740 Vollintine is up for sale for only the second time.
Even though the Cooper Young Festival was canceled this year due to coronavirus restrictions, the annual four-miler race went on.
Until Diana Farr and Barbara Watts were killed in a crash on Interstate 40, it was unclear how big their family really was.
New residents of Midtown's Madison@McLean Apartments are expected to begin moving in by December.
The Kennedy is separated by just one house from The Marilyn on Monroe. It's a developing story.
Developers will have a rare opportunity to buy 4.5 acres with 100 yards of frontage on Union Avenue. But in seeking bids, city officials say they want the "best" use, not simply the highest dollar amount.
The athletic-apparel chain will open its second, Memphis-area store at the southwest corner of Central and Cooper. The 111-year-old building last housed Toad Hall Antiques.
The city and county can loosen restrictions, but a tour of Midtown and Downtown neighborhoods shows businesses and potential customers still have decisions to make.