Memphis City Council member Lee Harris will propose Tuesday, May 21, exempting Memphis auto owners for two years from required auto emissions inspections.

2. Legislation Propels Parks Controversy to New Level - Thursday, February 07, 2013

As Shelby County suburban leaders were meeting in Nashville Tuesday, Feb. 5, with Tennessee legislators about possible moves toward some version of suburban school districts, the Memphis City Council was reacting to a pending bill in the state Legislature.

3. Gowen Named Marketing Head at Renshaw Property Management - Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Kellyn Gowen has joined Renshaw Property Management as marketing coordinator. In her new role, Gowen manages social media, marketing and communications for the company’s 800 Mid-South rental properties, serves as a liaison for property owners and real estate agents, and spearheads marketing efforts for vacant properties.

4. Capital Influx - Monday, October 29, 2012

Capital is finally being set free in the Memphis industrial market, with opportunities on both the buy and sale side of investment deals.

Nearly $200 million has been spent since June, as public and private institutional buyers alike make large plays.

5. Commercial Advisors Capital Markets to Zero In on ‘Untapped Segment’ - Friday, October 12, 2012

Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Asset Services LLC has launched a Capital Markets Group, a new service line to complement the firm’s tenant representation and third-party leasing and management businesses.

6. Merchandiser Five Below Signs Lease in Olive Branch - Friday, October 05, 2012

A growing Philadelphia-based value retailer has inked a substantial industrial lease deal in Olive Branch.

Five Below Inc. has leased 605,427 square feet in Hacks Cross Logistics Center Building 1, 9105 Hacks Cross Road.

7. Lease Takes Appling Farms to Capacity - Friday, September 28, 2012

A distributorship of Pella Corp. has inked 11,300 square feet in Appling Farms Corporate Park, 6972 Appling Farms Parkway.

8. Shelby Oaks Red Roof Inn Sells for $1.6 Million - Tuesday, September 25, 2012

6055 Shelby Oaks Drive
Memphis, TN 38134

Sale Amount: $1.6 million

Sale Date: Sept. 19, 2012

9. Courtyard by Marriott Owner Files $15M Loan - Friday, September 21, 2012

The company that developed and owns the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at 75 Jefferson Ave. has filed a $15 million loan on the Downtown property.

10. CCDC Passes Two Downtown Projects - Thursday, September 20, 2012

Two Downtown Memphis projects were propelled Wednesday, Sept. 19, by the Center City Development Corp. while the board was briefed on several of the area’s businesses that are in flux.

11. Raleigh Office Complex Sold To Local Entity - Friday, August 03, 2012

An office complex in Raleigh has traded hands after being under the same family ownership for more than 30 years.

Commercial Real Estate Network LLC, a local investor, has purchased the 40,756-square-foot Raleigh Center Office Complex at 2974 Austin Peay Highway from Charles R. Averwater Living Trust for $299,000.

12. Wharton: ‘Everything is Coming Together’ - Monday, July 09, 2012

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. had to make a decision Monday, July 2: Get up before dawn and catch a flight to Atlanta or stick with a scheduled and extensive bus tour for newspaper editors and others of the three core city neighborhoods he has targeted in a small-business innovation effort.

13. Council Approves Overton Square Land Acquisition - Friday, July 06, 2012

The Memphis City Council has approved the resolution key to the construction of an Overton Square parking garage and a new Hattiloo Theater on what is now an open parking lot for the Midtown entertainment district.

14. Council Tests Auto Inspection Rules - Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Memphis City Council members have approved a financial hardship waiver that allows Memphis motorists who flunk the emissions part of their auto inspection to claim the repairs will cost them too much and get a one-year one-time-only waiver on the inspection.

15. Commercial Advisors Hires, Promotes Associates at Firm - Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Asset Services LLC has promoted Phil Dagastino to senior vice president of office leasing. Dagastino has been with the firm since January 2008.

16. Commercial Advisors Grows CRE Portfolio - Thursday, May 31, 2012

Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Asset Services LLC is on a roll, picking up various leasing and management assignments that have brought its office and industrial involvement to 17.8 million square feet.

17. In-Rel Outsources Office Leasing - Friday, May 25, 2012

In-Rel Properties Inc. has outsourced its Memphis office leasing to Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors LLC, following months of changes up top for the Lake Worth, Fla.-based real estate firm.

18. In-Rel Outsources Office Leasing - Thursday, May 24, 2012

In-Rel Properties Inc. has outsourced its Memphis office leasing to Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors LLC, following months of changes up top for the Lake Worth, Fla.-based real estate firm.

19. Essex Signs Two Leases For Discount Store Locales - Friday, May 11, 2012

A Nashville-based discount retailer has entered the Memphis market in full force, inking two leases totaling 77,301 square feet.

Essex Bargain Hunt has leased 35,767 square feet at 590 N. Germantown Parkway and 41,534 square feet at 5124 Summer Ave. Kemp Conrad and Neely Mallory IV of Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors LLC represented the tenant in both transactions.

20. Prolonged Recession - Monday, December 26, 2011

In the words of Phil Woodard, an owner of multiple residential and commercial properties in Downtown Memphis, breaking even is the new profit.

Or as national real estate expert Jonathan Miller said earlier this month at the Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate Outlook for the Mid-South, “We cannot expect to make money the way we did a few years ago.”

21. Green Light - Thursday, December 22, 2011

It may have been a murky day in Memphis, but neighborhood stakeholders didn’t let the afternoon rain dampen their support of the Overton Square redevelopment project during the Memphis City Council’s final meeting of the year.

22. Council Passes $16M Overton Square Funding - Wednesday, December 21, 2011

It may have been a murky day in Memphis, but neighborhood stakeholders didn’t let the afternoon rain dampen their support of the Overton Square redevelopment project during the Memphis City Council’s final meeting of the year.

23. ULI 2012 Outlook: CRE Industry Slightly Better - Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Next year will be slightly better for commercial real estate, but it’ll come at the cost of a shrunken industry.

That was the message an at-capacity room of bankers, investors and real estate professionals heard Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate Outlook for the Mid-South, where attendees learned about facing a “long grind,” compared with last year’s theme, “an era of less.”

24. ULI 2012 Outlook: CRE Industry Slightly Better - Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Next year will be slightly better for commercial real estate, but it’ll come at the cost of a shrunken industry.

That was the message an at-capacity room of bankers, investors and real estate professionals heard Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate Outlook for the Mid-South, where attendees learned about facing a “long grind,” compared with last year’s theme, “an era of less.”

25. Pinnacle Awards Honor City’s Best Brokers - Monday, April 11, 2011

As emcee Dan Conaway noted in his opening address Thursday night at the 10th annual Pinnacle Awards, “OK is the new great.”

26. Pinnacle Awards Honor City's Best Brokers - Friday, April 08, 2011

As emcee Dan Conaway noted in his opening address Thursday night at the 10th annual Pinnacle Awards, “OK is the new great.”

27. Moving Forward - Monday, December 27, 2010

As the commercial real estate market remained soft in 2010, a handful of major deals – including some to close the year – indicated light at the end of the tunnel.

The year ended with the top retail investment sale of the year when Loeb Properties Inc. bought Park Place Centre from Belz Enterprises Inc. for $10.3 million.

28. Home Construction Sinks to Lowest Level Since Oct. - Wednesday, July 21, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) – Home construction plunged last month to the lowest level since October as the economy remained weak and demand for housing plummeted.

But driving the June decline was a more than 20 percent drop in condominium and apartment construction, which makes up a small but volatile portion of the housing market. Construction of single-family homes, the largest part of the market, was down slightly. It dropped 0.7 percent.

29. Last Straw? - Tuesday, June 08, 2010

News last week that the law firm Glankler Brown PLLC will vacate 39,000 square feet in One Commerce Square signaled another blow to the embattled 31-story tower, a fixture on the Memphis skyline for the past four decades.

30. Recent Malco Dustup Leads To E. Memphis Alliance - Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Crowd control problems at the Malco Paradiso movie theater have led to a broader discussion about development in East Memphis, including the theater and a number of thriving businesses.

The locally owned movie theater chain Friday began implementing new policies essentially banning children at the Paradiso after 6 p.m. because of a mob of unruly teenagers in the parking lot the previous weekend. And Memphis police had a more visible presence around the theater during the Labor Day holiday.

31. Q2 Foreclosures Down in Home Sector, But Up Overall - Thursday, July 16, 2009

The foreclosure of major properties that dot the Memphis skyline in the second quarter capped a mixed three-month period for local real estate, when the economic slump dragged many properties to the edge.

32. Ritz Laments Pressure on County Government - Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Shelby County Board of Commissioners member Mike Ritz – a licensed real estate broker and former head of the Memphis and Shelby County planning office – was not happy.

Seated a few feet away from him was Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton Jr., who at the commission’s meeting last week had just laid out a few reasons he favors a temporary bonus for county employees. With one eye toward the sea of red ink that appears certain to drench the county’s balance sheet this year and next, commissioners chose instead to revisit the issue of bonuses in early 2009.

33. Parkway Picks Commercial Alliance - Monday, April 23, 2007

Memphis-based Commercial Alliance Management LLC has been tapped to handle all new leases for a Downtown office portfolio that includes the Morgan Keegan Tower, Falls Building and Toyota Center.

Those buildings are owned by Jackson, Miss.-based Parkway Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT) that had contracted last fall with Trammell Crow Co. to lease the properties.

34. Best and Brightest - Monday, July 10, 2006

Computerworld Magazine has named three companies with significant information techonology (IT) operations in the Memphis area as some of the 100 "Best Places to Work in IT."

FedEx Corp earned the No. 12 spot, Hilton Hotels Corp. placed at No. 16 and Harrah's Entertainment Inc. was No. 22.

35. Archived Article: Real Focus - Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Piperton Studies Decentralized Sewer Options

Piperton Studies Decentralized Sewer Options

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

When a community faces the prospect of rapid growth, it can do one of two things: watch it happen and hope it works out ...

36. Archived Article: Office (lead) - Thursday, May 20, 2004
Office market a step behind retail activity

Office Real Estate Market Still Sluggish

Sector lagging behind growth in retail, commercial markets

ANDREW BELL

The Daily News

J. Everett Pidgeon said it doesnt bode well for Memphis office ...

37. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, May 21, 2003
James Pascover was appointed Better Business of the Mid-South director of marketing and communications

James Pascover was appointed Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South director of marketing and communications. Pascover brings more than 20 yea...

38. Archived Article: Real Review - Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Hampton Inn introduces Hampton Inn introduces new design for small towns Hampton, the national brand of mid-priced Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn & Suites hotels, has introduced a new smaller-hotel concept designed to provide travelers with the sam...

39. Archived Article: Hampton P. 2 - Friday, October 13, 2000
Hampton opens eight hotels during September Hilton Hotels Corp. opens eight Hamptons in northeast U.S. Hilton Hotels Corp. officials said six Hampton Inn hotels and two Hampton Inn and Suites hotels opened during the month of September, bringing the...

40. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, March 17, 1999
Vastera Adds Dennis Jones, FDX CIO, Dennis H. Jones, executive vice president of information technology and chief information officer for FDX Corp., has been appointed to the board of directors for Vastera Inc. Ernst & Young announced the follow...