NASHVILLE (AP) – Tennessee's Haslam family is furiously trying to control the damage following a federal investigation into the family business that could threaten to unravel decades of growing wealth and influence that spans business, sports and politics in the state and beyond.

2. Olymbec Files $5.5 Million Mortgage on Brinkley Plaza - Saturday, March 09, 2013

Montreal-based Olymbec USA LLC, an entity of Olymbec Corporate Group, has filed a $5.45 million mortgage on Brinkley Plaza in Downtown Memphis.

3. Olymbec Files $5.5 Million Mortgage on Brinkley Plaza - Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Montreal-based Olymbec USA LLC, an entity of Olymbec Corporate Group, has filed a $5.45 million mortgage on Brinkley Plaza in Downtown Memphis.

4. Filling the Voids - Saturday, February 02, 2013

Last year was a banner year for adaptive reuse projects in Midtown and Downtown.

Developers announced plans for the Sears Crosstown building, Overton Square, Hotel Chisca, James Lee House and old United Warehouse in the South Main Historic Arts District. Construction began on The Pyramid, turning it into a 220,000-square-foot mega-Bass Pro Shop Outdoor World, and Memphis in May moved into its new headquarters at 56 S. Front St., a 14,600-square-foot building that’s on the National Register of Historic Places.

5. EPA Administrator Jackson Announces Resignation - Friday, December 28, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) – EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect the nation's economy and people's health.

6. Ticket Rush: Film Fans Hand Hollywood Record Cash - Thursday, December 27, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. It's the fact that the number of tickets sold went up for the first time in three years.

7. Midtown Momentum - Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Midtown real estate market has long been an anomaly compared to its Bluff City counterparts, with fundamentals as diverse as its demographics.

“The types of real estate that you’ll find in Midtown can be some of the most expensive or some of the most modest when it comes to prices and facility,” said Gary Myers of Gary Myers Co. “Retail in particular.”

8. Green Ballast Installs Lighting for Tenant in Lenox - Saturday, December 08, 2012

Healthcare Trust of America Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Real Estate Investment Trust, has completed a lighting retrofit equipped with Memphis-based Green Ballast Inc.’s patented daylight harvesting fluorescent light ballasts for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical tenant in Lenox Office Park, a seven-building, 72-acre office park in the 385 office submarket.

9. Green Ballast Installs Lighting for Tenant in Lenox Park - Friday, December 07, 2012

Healthcare Trust of America Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Real Estate Investment Trust, has completed a lighting retrofit equipped with Memphis-based Green Ballast Inc.’s patented daylight harvesting fluorescent light ballasts for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical tenant in Lenox Office Park, a seven-building, 72-acre office park in the 385 office submarket.

10. Green Ballast Installs Smart Lighting for Belz - Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Commercial real estate developer Belz Enterprises is installing vapor tight fluorescent fixtures with Green Ballast Inc.’s light ballasts in a structured parking garage facility in Memphis.

11. Woman-Owned Engineering Firm Finds Right Design for Success - Monday, October 08, 2012

Entrepreneurship was never in Nisha Powers’ plans.

Armed with a degree in civil engineering, Powers moved to Memphis in 1997 and followed a traditional post-college path: She sought and landed a job at one of the state’s top firms in her field. But after eight years in one small office, she was ready to explore new territory.

12. 2 Largest Parking Companies in Proposed Merger - Thursday, September 27, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is requiring the two largest parking management companies in the U.S. to sell 107 of their garages and lots in the central business districts of 28 cities in order to proceed with a merger.

13. The State of Green - Monday, July 30, 2012

There are many shades of green.

And the use of the term “green” to describe public policies, business practices and other decisions designed to improve or sustain natural surroundings and our connection with them touches on so many other considerations.

14. Cooper Young Biz Association Helps Mid-South Food Bank - Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Members of the Cooper Young Business Association are working together in a money and food drive for Operation Feed, the Mid-South Food Bank’s largest drive.

15. Equipment Shortage Possible by Mid-Summer - Monday, February 13, 2012

Some local construction companies could be scrambling by summertime in search of heavy equipment like cranes, scissor lifts and backhoes for their projects.

With a number of large commercial construction projects ramping up across the city between now and then, equipment is expected to be in short supply and high demand.

16. Shelby Farms Playground Seeks Green Certification - Monday, November 28, 2011

Shelby Farms Park’s Woodland Discovery Playground is in the running to be the first certified Sustainable Sites Initiative project in the world.

17. Lightman Entity Buys Sanderlin Centre - Tuesday, November 08, 2011

5101 Sanderlin Ave.
Memphis, TN 38117
Sale Amount: $5.3 million

Sale Date: Nov. 1, 2011

18. Sanderlin Centre Sells for $5.3M to Lightman Entity - Monday, November 07, 2011

An entity composed of Michael A. Lightman Sr. and family members has bought Sanderlin Centre retail property at 5101 Sanderlin Ave. for $5.3 million.

19. Lightman Entity Buys Sanderlin Centre for $5.3M - Friday, November 04, 2011

An entity composed of Michael A. Lightman Sr. and family members has bought Sanderlin Centre retail property at 5101 Sanderlin Ave. for $5.3 million.

20. $18.8M Loan Filed to Build Robinwood Retirement Community - Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Construction Loan For Robinwood Retirement Community
Loan Amount: $18.8 million

Loan Date: Sept. 27, 2011

Maturity Date: Sept. 30, 2014, with conversion option that would extend maturity to Sept. 30, 2016

21. Memphis Goodwill Finances U.S. 64, Austin Peay Stores - Tuesday, August 23, 2011

6899 U.S. 64
Memphis, TN 38134
Loan Amount: $3.2 million

Loan Date: Aug. 1, 2011

Maturity Date: n/a

Borrower: Memphis Goodwill Inc.

22. Business on the Go - Thursday, June 09, 2011

From mobile pet services to mobile utensil sharpening, Memphis businesses more and more are seeking ways to reduce the hassle of the to-do list and capitalize on consumer needs by making themselves the most convenient option.

23. Cordova’s Parkway Place Hits 100 Pct - Friday, May 27, 2011

Two recent leases at Parkway Place Office have brought the center to 100 percent occupancy. Guardian Community Living LLC signed a 10,500-square-foot lease in the 70,000-square-foot office annex that is situated in Cordova.

24. 'Eat and Enjoy' - Tuesday, November 23, 2010

It’s only a matter of days before Downtowners can start bringing their grocery lists to the corner of Main Street and Union Avenue.

City Market, a boutique grocery that will offer freshly prepared cuisine as well as staples like milk and eggs, is expected to open its doors Nov. 30.

25. Preservationists Strike Up Battle Hymn - Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Memphis City Council’s 10-2 vote Tuesday to approve plans for a CVS drug store on the corner of Union Avenue and Cooper Street seems to mean the demolition of Union Avenue United Methodist Church.

26. Stratford Place Owner Files $1.4 Million Loan - Tuesday, February 16, 2010

1806 and 2098 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
Loan Amount: $1.4 million

Loan Date: Jan. 26, 2010
Maturity Date: N/A
Borrower: Stratford Place LLC
Lender: Union Central Life Insurance Co.

27. Madison Garage Partners Files Permit for Renovation - Thursday, February 11, 2010

Madison Garage Partners applied this month for a $500,000 permit for renovations to its parking facility at 60 Madison Avenue across from The Metro 67 apartment building.

28. Background: Tunica - Monday, December 07, 2009

Before the casinos, when the local economy was cotton and tractors, Tunica County had an unemployment rate as high as 25 percent.

Today’s Tunica bears little resemblance to that place from the mid-1980s.

29. CVS Ventures Into Local, Walgreens-Dominated Market - Thursday, October 22, 2009

CVS is already bringing one pharmacy to U.S. 64 and Houston Levee Road in Cordova, and the company last week secured the land where it will build its second Memphis store.

Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS, the retail division of CVS Caremark, paid $1.4 million for the 7,344-square-foot retail store at 5055 Stage Road, on the southwest corner of Stage and Covington Pike in Raleigh. The building, which formerly housed a Hollywood Video store, sits on 1.1 acres near the Memphis-Bartlett border.

30. Conrad: ‘Continuous Improvement’ Needed Near E. Memphis Malco - Monday, September 14, 2009

The last weekend in August, Memphis police had to be called to restore order in the parking lot of the Malco Paradiso movie theater.

The problems stemmed from hundreds of teenagers who showed up in response to an independent promoter’s flyers about two new horror movies. The movies are rated R and the ticket takers and sellers turned away underage teenagers who then congregated in the parking lot, where several fights broke out. Malco did not hire the independent promoter.

31. Goddard School Planned For Winchester Road in Collierville - Tuesday, February 24, 2009

2.5 Acres
Collierville, TN 38017
Loan Amount: $1.3 Million

Loan Date: Feb. 13, 2009
Maturity Date: N/A
Borrower: R.S. Harris LLC
Lender: First Citizens National Bank

32. Newspapers to Sell Buildings, But Who's Buying? - Wednesday, December 24, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) - With revenue plunging as readers and advertisers flee to the Web, many newspaper companies have turned to selling off their buildings to raise money or save on costs. But now that option may be drying up too, as frozen credit markets make commercial real estate deals scarce.

33. Germantown Leaders Position Town For Smarter Growth - Tuesday, August 07, 2007

If you can't grow outward, grow upward.That's the tack Germantown has chosen for "Vision 2020," an ambitious redevelopment initiative centered on Smart Growth, a movement designed to transform the city's commercial core and put the "urban back into suburban."

34. Spinal Business Moves to Spine of Cordova - Friday, June 15, 2007

In about a week, when the doctors of Spinal Health Care Associates PC move to their new $2 million Cordova home, they won't be very far physically from their old locale - less than a mile, in fact.

35. Berclair Animal Hospital Continues Renovations to New Downtown Facility - Thursday, May 31, 2007

For the past five months, the racket at 668 S. Main St. has been made by construction crews renovating the historic building.

Soon, the whirring of drills will be replaced by the woofing of dogs as the building's new owner, Berclair Animal Hospital, prepares to open the doors to its new veterinary clinic, dubbed Berclair Downtown Animal Hospital

36. Redline Unlimited Helps Racing Enthusiasts Realize Ultimate Horsepower Dreams - Monday, April 30, 2007

J. Robert Towery is just as comfortable driving on the track at Memphis Motorsports Park as he is driving along Interstate 240.

Once a professional race car driver, Towery retired after winning the 1998 International Motorsports Association's North American Sports Car Team Championship as a part of SpeedSource Race Engineering, a team he founded along with Sylvain Tremblay.

37. New Boutique Hotels Piggyback on Condo Craze - Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Memphis rarely is described as a chic city, but upscale hotel projects in Midtown and Harbor Town could work toward changing that.

The 28-room River Inn of Harbor Town is being built at 50 and 51 Harbor Town Square for around $9.3 million, and the America's Best Inn & Suites at 1837 Union Ave. is being renovated to become The Artisan Hotel, Memphis, for around $1.5 million. Together, these projects will bring two boutique hotels to the Bluff City. Boutique hotels tend to be smaller, but offer amenities similar to larger facilities.

38. Archived Article: Real Focus - Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Community, contractor unite on Keathley plan

Community, contractor unite on Keathley plan

By STACEY WIEDOWER

The Daily News

Though it means a historic Midtown structure soon will get a visit from a wrecking ball, nearby residents and bus...

39. Archived Article: Law Focus - Thursday, January 16, 2003
IRS treats volunteers with kindness they deserve

IRS treats volunteers with kindness they deserve

By STEVEN H. LEIB

Special to The Daily News

People who do work for a charitable organizations and have out-of-pocket expenses as a result m...

40. Archived Article: Central (lead) - Tuesday, March 27, 2001
By SUE PEASE Developer gets approval for Central Garden plan By SUE PEASE The Daily News With the Land Use Control Board giving a nod to the development, plans are underway to build a gated community in Central Gardens called Roland Place. Earlier t...

41. Archived Article: Redbirds (lead) - Thursday, March 30, 2000
Parking Redbird fans will find ample nesting places By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News Baseball fans concerned about parking for this years Redbirds season opener Downtown neednt worry a comprehensive parking and transportation plan has been designed ...

42. Archived Article: Gov't (opd) - Monday, August 30, 1999
OPD rejects LUCB rejects proposed construction landfill By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News Two public hearings are set in the coming 14 days to consider a proposal to build a construction landfill on Getwell Road, south of Shelby Drive. Shelby County c...

43. Archived Article: Real Focus - Tuesday, August 24, 1999
By LAURIE JOHNSON Garden living on Goodman Paxton Enterprises new Swinnea Ridge development is a garden-style community designed for people who want all the amenities of a larger home without the upkeep of an estate-size lot By LAURIE JOHNSON The Da...

44. Archived Article: Planned Dvlp (bott) - Tuesday, June 01, 1999
By STACEY PETSCHAUER Mixed uses planned for 20 acres near Wolfchase By STACEY PETSCHAUER The Daily News A proposed planned development that will add to the buzz of commercial and residential activity near Wolfchase Galleria will go before Memphis Ci...

45. Archived Article: Comm Briefs - Friday, April 30, 1999
The Memphis Humane Society will hold its 199 Tuscany Research Institute has awarded Ducks Unlimited $1 million to expand scientific research of North American pintail migrations in relation to nesting patterns, responses to changes in habitat and av...

46. Archived Article: Gov't (bott) - Friday, April 23, 1999
The Center City Development Corp Kinks exposed in new CCDC loan standards By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News The Center City Development Corp. took its new development loan evaluation standards for a test drive and discovered a few knocks under the hoo...

47. Archived Article: Gov't (ccrfc) - Thursday, April 08, 1999
Changes to PILOT Changes to tax abatement program move forward By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News Several proposed changes to a key Center City Revenue Finance Committee tax abatement program will be considered by the full board at a meeting Tuesday. A...

48. Archived Article: Gov't (drb) - Thursday, February 04, 1999
DRB considers plan Parking deck planned near AutoZone Park By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News A plan to build a multi-level parking deck near the site of the proposed AutoZone Park will be considered by the Design Review Board at its meeting at 4:30 p....

49. Archived Article: Lichter. Conserv - Tuesday, May 26, 1998
By LAURIE JOHNSON Public meeting to address Lichterman construction plans By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News A proposed visitors center at the Lichterman Nature Center has raised concerns about the effect the project will have on the centers ecosystem...

50. Archived Article: Ameriserve - Monday, May 11, 1998
Ameriserve Food Distribution Dallas food distribution company buys vacant land in Memphis By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News Dallas-based AmeriServe Food Distribution Inc. has purchased vacant land in Memphis on Shelby View Drive near Raleigh-LaGra...

51. Archived Article: Real Analys - Tuesday, May 28, 1996
Architectural review committees must act reasonably Architectural review committees must act reasonably In Indian Hills Club Homeowners Association vs. Cooper, 21 TAM 4-5 (Tenn. App., Dec. 29, 1995), the Court of Appeals adopted the "majority&q...

52. Archived Article: Inv Analys - Monday, April 08, 1996
04-08 Inv analys The cost of getting from here to there By SANFORD J. BLOCKMAN Travel, entertainment, business autos and employee business expenses: these have undergone many changes in the last decade and seem to affect almost everyone. Gone are th...