Students at Idlewild Elementary School were among the winners in a national art contest sponsored by Evergreen Packaging, the Memphis-based paperboard carton manufacturing corporation.

The students’ entry in the Made By Milk Carton Construction Contest showed synchronized swimmers in a pool of milk and was among the entries recognized in the People’s Choice category that included a $2,500 prize.

2. Idlewild Students Honored In Milk Carton Art Contest - Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Students at Idlewild Elementary School were among the winners in a national art contest sponsored by Evergreen Packaging, the Memphis-based paperboard carton manufacturing corporation.

The students’ entry in the Made By Milk Carton Construction Contest showed synchronized swimmers in a pool of milk and was among the entries recognized in the People’s Choice category that included a $2,500 prize.

3. Tobi Merschat Sources Sustainable Corporate Culture - Friday, November 10, 2017

It started with pecan pie. Actually, it started a few steps pre-pie. Growing up in Columbia, South Carolina, the yard of Tobi Merschat’s family home was thick with pecan trees, and in the fall, the whole family would gather pecans, shell them and then bake their shared labor into pie. From hard work emerged delicious reward – a model of sustainability.

4. Iconic E. Memphis Office Building Sells for $19.7M - Monday, November 6, 2017

Nashville-based Magnolia Capital Investments has purchased the Trustmark Centre located at 5350 Poplar Ave. from Israeli investors, Faropoint Ventures. Faropoint intends to reinvest proceeds from the sale to buy other Memphis properties.

5. Trustmark Centre Sells for Nearly $20M - Thursday, November 2, 2017

An iconic East Memphis office building has switched hands for $19.7 million.

Nashville-based Magnolia Capital Investments has purchased the Trustmark Centre located at 5350 Poplar Ave. from Israeli investment group Faropoint Investments.

6. Trustmark Centre Sells for Nearly $20M - Wednesday, November 1, 2017

An iconic East Memphis office building has switched hands for $19.7 million.

In the deal, Nashville-based Magnolia Capital Investments purchased the Trustmark Centre located at 5350 Poplar Ave. from Israeli investors, Farpoint Investments.

7. Trustmark Centre Building Sells for $14.5 Million - Saturday, October 22, 2016

An office building at 5350 Poplar Ave. in the prime East Memphis office submarket has been sold.

The Trustmark Centre building, located between Valleybrook and West Suggs Drive, was purchased by Tennessee and New York investment companies doing business as 5350 Poplar Office Center LLC for $14.47 million.

8. Trustmark Centre Building Sells for $14.5 Million - Friday, October 21, 2016

An office building at 5350 Poplar Ave. in the prime East Memphis office submarket has been sold.

The Trustmark Centre building, located between Valleybrook and West Suggs Drive, was purchased by Tennessee and New York investment companies doing business as 5350 Poplar Office Center LLC for $14.47 million.

9. Trustmark Centre Building Sells for $14.5 Million - Thursday, October 20, 2016

An office building at 5350 Poplar Ave. in the prime East Memphis office submarket has been sold.

The Trustmark Centre building, located between Valleybrook and West Suggs Drive, was purchased by Tennessee and New York investment companies doing business as 5350 Poplar Office Center LLC for $14.47 million.

10. Evergreen Packaging Expands in East Memphis - Saturday, August 27, 2016

Evergreen Packaging has renewed and expanded its lease at the 5350 Poplar Ave. office building in East Memphis.

11. Last Word: The Wiseacre Deal, City Hall Goes To Pot and TEDx Memphis - Wednesday, August 24, 2016

That was quick. Less than a week to come up with lease terms between the city and Wiseacre Brewing for the Mid-South Coliseum including a due diligence period that is the first order of business.

12. Evergreen Packaging Expands in East Memphis - Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Evergreen Packaging has renewed and expanded its lease at the 5350 Poplar Ave. office building in East Memphis. The 40,000-square-foot location will be the global headquarters for Evergreen, a spinoff of International Paper’s paper packaging division located in Memphis since 2007. Evergreen recently merged with Indianapolis-based Closure Systems International and York, Pa.-based Graham Packaging Co., creating a combined company with $5.5 billion in annual revenue.

13. Last Word: ServiceMaster's Choice, Democrats Regroup, Oprah Goes To Church - Friday, June 3, 2016

The ServiceMaster headquarters search is over and the pick is a real surprise as office spaces goes – Peabody Place – not the office building but the shuttered mall south of the Peabody hotel.

14. Last Word: As The Wheel Tax Turns, New Zoo Poll and Once Every Dozen Years - Wednesday, June 1, 2016

When the school year ends, that’s not necessarily when leaders of school systems can take it easy.

That’s because the business of school systems is about looking months if not years ahead on your mental calendar.

15. MAA Still Entertaining Headquarters Options - Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Memphis-based MAA is a year into its search for a new headquarters, and the company is moving closer to plans for a newly constructed building.

The real estate investment trust, which focuses on multifamily properties, first announced the move last summer. MAA is currently housed in nearly 43,000 square feet at 6584 Poplar Ave. in East Memphis. It is looking for an 80,000-square-foot space, with room to grow, to house its 200 local employees.

16. Available Class-A Office Space Scarce in Memphis - Saturday, May 28, 2016

ServiceMaster is looking to relocate its headquarters into a Class A office building, and Memphis just doesn’t have room.

“For the past two years, we’ve been using those phrases,” said Ron Kastner, senior vice president with CBRE.

17. Last Word: Behind Grit N Grind, Brooks at 100 and Massacre - Monday, May 9, 2016

This is a 12-month-a-year basketball town. There’s the season, possibly a post season, which by NBA standards is a second season. (Yep, they are still playing.) And then there is the rest of the year when whatever has been about to boil over behind the façade of sports clichés finally begins to spill out into the open.

18. $5.5 Billion Company Stakes Headquarters in Memphis - Friday, May 6, 2016

Three packaging companies are combining to create a $5.5 billion conglomerate that will locate its headquarters in Memphis.

Evergreen Packaging's consolidated global headquarters will create 70 jobs with an average salary of $176,283 and nearly $1 million in capital investment.

19. Last Word: Monday Vote, Beale's Search and Longview Heights - Friday, March 18, 2016

Look for the state Senate to vote on the deannexation bill Monday in Nashville. At least that’s the date on the Senate calendar.

That could change as a member of the Shelby County legislative delegation has at last asked the Tennessee Attorney General for a legal opinion on the proposal. But it’s not a straight-up question about whether the proposal is constitutional. It’s a question about the specific characterization of past Memphis annexations as “egregious” – what has come to be the key legal term in this considerable political controversy.

20. Evergreen Packaging, Hollywood Feed Make Big HQ Moves - Friday, March 18, 2016

At its March 16 meeting, the Memphis-Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine Board approved tax incentives for two companies, creating 101 jobs and $8.1 million in local tax revenue.

A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes incentive went to Evergreen Packaging Inc., making Memphis the site of a global headquarters for a company with $5 billion in annual revenue.

21. Ball to Lead New Division at Evolve Bank - Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Thomas Ball has joined Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust as president of the newly formed Equipment Finance Division. In this role, Ball will create and grow a product line focused on equipment loans and leases to businesses across the U.S.

22. Archer-Malmo Grows Again With Lease Expansion - Friday, February 1, 2013

Archer-malmo has inked an additional 3,000 square feet in the Cotton Exchange Building, bringing its total footprint in the historic 12-story Downtown tower to 41,277 square feet across six floors.

23. Mallory Alexander Debuts New Space - Tuesday, October 23, 2012

When Mallory Alexander International Logistics moved into what had been the Freightliner warehouse in the Delp Distribution Center in early 2011, there was much to do.

So much that Mallory didn’t get around to marking the move until last week with an open house for customers and others in the business.

24. Oden Celebrates 40 Years in 40 Days - Monday, November 14, 2011

In 1971, when gas was 40 cents a gallon and a postage stamp sold for 8 cents, Dale Oden founded a one-man design shop in Memphis.

25. Blue Ridge PaperMoves HQ to Memphis - Wednesday, August 29, 2007
     Blue Ridge Paper Products plans to move its North Carolina headquarters to Memphis, according to a Tuesday story in the Asheville Citizen-Times.
     The company also plans to merge Blue Ridg