Memphis City Council members approved the use of Tourism Development Zone revenues Tuesday, Aug. 28, to finance the construction of a second convention center hotel as they delayed any decisions on long-term crowd control and safety measures in the Beale Street entertainment district.

2. Kimball Cabana Apartments Sold - Monday, August 6, 2018

Lehi, Utah-based Kimball Cabana Apartments LLC sold the Kimball Cabana apartments in Memphis to Kimball LLC for $5.4 million on Aug. 1, according to deeds on file with the Shelby County Register of Deeds.

3. City Council Delays Sale Of Lamar Fire Station - Saturday, July 28, 2018

The Memphis City Council delayed a vote Tuesday, July 24, on the sale of a city fire station at the intersection of Lamar Avenue, Kimball and Pendleton for $307,000 to a developer who wants to build a convenience store-gas station at the site.

4. City Council Holds Off on Sale of Lamar Fire Station - Thursday, July 26, 2018

The Memphis City Council delayed a vote Tuesday, July 24, on the sale of a city fire station at the intersection of Lamar Avenue, Kimball and Pendleton for $307,000 to a developer who wants to build a convenience store-gas station at the site.

5. De-Annexation Plan Encounters Council Resistance - Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Strickland administration’s proposal to de-annex two more parts of the city – Southwind-Windyke and Rocky Point – got bad reviews Tuesday, July 24, in city council committee sessions on their way to the first of three council votes in August.

6. Tax Cut, Bonuses for Workers? Many Businesses Not Sure Yet - Thursday, February 8, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) – Small business owners may want to hand out bonuses and raises now that there's a new tax law, but many don't know if they'll have any wealth to share.

"We didn't base any raises or bonuses on the tax situation because, quite frankly, until it actually happens, no one's sure what's going to happen," says Rod Hughes, a vice president at Kimball Hughes Public Relations in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. The company gave its seven full-time employees year-end bonuses last month.

7. How Betting On the 76ers Paid Off - Tuesday, November 14, 2017

A talk by Rhyan Truett, director of Innovation Lab operations, Philadelphia 76ers. Rhyan Truett is the director of operations at the Sixers Innovation Lab crafted by Kimball. The Sixers Innovation Lab supports rapidly growing, early-stage companies in the consumer product space and provides speed and flexibility; individualized, industry-leading consulting; and investment opportunities to startups with potential.
Alongside managing director Seth Berger, Rhyan manages the day-to-day operations of the Innovation Lab, currently supporting four companies in the esports, digital media, pet care and daily fantasy sports industries.

8. The Buying And Selling Of Memphis - Saturday, May 27, 2017

Even before he went to federal prison for 25 years on a racketeering conviction in 1995, Danny Owens had a real estate portfolio. The strip-club kingpin who defined the industry in Memphis across a 20-year period owned the old Memphian movie theater and made possible its 1986 sale to Playhouse on the Square by donating $160,000 toward its purchase.

9. SCS Launches Effort to Improve Attendance - Saturday, August 29, 2015

Shelby County Schools and the Achievement School District are teaming with the Memphis Grizzlies, Shelby County District Attorney General’s office and the nonprofit group Seeding Success to boost student attendance.

10. SCS Launches Effort To Improve Attendance - Thursday, August 27, 2015

Shelby County Schools and the Achievement School District are teaming with the Memphis Grizzlies, Shelby County District Attorney General’s office and the nonprofit group Seeding Success to boost student attendance.

11. Framing a Future - Monday, May 18, 2015

When a mob of teenagers swept across a parking lot in Poplar Plaza a year ago and set off a difficult civic discussion about crime and race, one of those conversations was in an old fire station in Orange Mound.

12. Burchett’s Mother, Father Helped Shape His Career - Saturday, February 7, 2015

Homegrown Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett espouses the values of many East Tennessee residents: strong family connections, honoring military service and remembering where he comes from.

13. New Jersey Firm Buys Pendleton Place Apartments - Tuesday, October 1, 2013

1780 Pendleton St.
Memphis, TN 38114
Sale Amount: $3.1 million

Sale Date: Sept. 11, 2013
Buyer: Pendleton Apartments LLC
Seller: Pendleton Investors LLC
Details: An affiliate of Teaneck, N.J.-based The Aspen Cos. has paid $3.1 million for the Pendleton Place Apartments at 1780 Pendleton St. in the Defense Depot area.

14. New Jersey Firm Buys Pendleton Place Apartments - Friday, September 27, 2013

An affiliate of Teaneck, N.J.-based The Aspen Cos. has paid $3.1 million for the Pendleton Place Apartments at 1780 Pendleton St. in the Defense Depot area.

15. Dynamic Imaging - Monday, February 18, 2013

MRI Interventions Inc. is intensifying rollout efforts for its cutting-edge ClearPoint Neuro Intervention System imaging system.

16. St. George's to Host Musician Caroline Jones - Friday, November 2, 2012

St. George’s Independent School is hosting Caroline Jones, a New York City-based singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Friday, Nov. 2.

Jones, the daughter of hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and the niece of The Daily News owner Peter Schutt, will spend the day visiting all three St. George’s campuses. She’s the featured artist for a music program in memory of a student, Rebecca Meriwether Cooper Klyce, who died while in the first grade at St. George’s.

17. Hinte Expands Role At Second to Nunn - Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Lowell Hinte has been promoted to account manager and designer at website- and branding-design company Second to Nunn Design. Hinte has served as a designer at S2N since 2009. In his expanded role, Hinte will ensure clients’ expectations are met on key projects regarding strategy, vision, quality and schedule.

18. St. George’s to Host Symposium - Thursday, April 5, 2012

The public is invited to learn about the importance of entrepreneurial citizenship during St. George’s Independent School’s 2012 Educational Symposium, slated for April 14 at Memphis Bioworks Foundation, 20 S. Dudley St.

19. Census: Population Slowing in Large Portions of US - Thursday, December 22, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – Many states that posted big population gains in the 2010 census are now seeing their decade-long growth fizzle, hurt by a prolonged economic slump that is stretching into larger portions of the South and West.

20. St. George's Hosts Six Moon Rocks - Tuesday, December 6, 2011

St. George’s Independent School will feature six samples of moon rocks this week.

The samples, encapsulated in a six-inch clear disk, will be on display Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the school’s Collierville campus, 1880 Wolf River Blvd., from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. as part of Family Science Night.

21. Cross Creek Shopping Ctr. Sells for $12.7 Million - Tuesday, November 22, 2011

3469 Riverdale Road, 3505 Riverdale Road and 3587 Riverdale Road
Memphis, TN 38115
Sale Amount: $12.7 million

22. Bartlett Apartments Financed for $2.6M - Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Reese Road Apartments LLC has filed a $2.6 million mortgage through U.S. Bank NA for Reese Road Apartments at 2403 E. Reese Grove Road after a number of quitclaims transferring the property to the limited liability company.

23. Gift Helps St. George’s Launch Giving Society - Friday, May 20, 2011

Sometimes a phone call out of the blue changes everything for the better. An unexpected six-figure bequest by a virtually unknown donor will provide scholarships for St. George’s Independent School students.

24. Dressing Up Dinner - Friday, May 6, 2011

The emergence of the Broad Avenue Arts District as a hub of arts, culture and community continues to take shape, and the latest focal point is a former abandoned gas station at Broad and Tillman Street.

25. TSA: Some Gov't Officials to Skip Airport Security - Friday, November 26, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) – Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.

26. Yale Historian to Speak at St. George's - Friday, November 12, 2010

David Blight of Yale University, one of the nation’s top experts in African-American history, will speak Monday at St. George’s Independent School.

He will speak at a morning assembly at the Collierville campus. He will also speak to classes at the Collierville and Germantown campuses.

27. Wharton Files Blight Suits - Wednesday, October 27, 2010

For months, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has been standing outside old homes and warning owners of the vacant decaying properties that the city is coming with attorneys and legal papers.

On Tuesday he launched the first wave of lawsuits under the state’s Neighborhood Preservation Act.

28. New Checkers Drive-Thru Opens on Getwell - Thursday, April 8, 2010

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. this week opened a new Checkers drive-thru restaurant at 1341 Getwell Road, just north of Kimball Avenue near Getwell’s interchange with Interstate 240.

29. Memphis’ Story Explodes Onto Broadway Stage - Monday, October 26, 2009

The neon shines down on Beale Street every weekend, but on Oct. 19, Beale Street made its way to Broadway, as a Memphis-themed musical made its debut in New York.

“Memphis,” a highly anticipated, original Broadway musical, exploded on the stage of New York’s Shubert Theatre, highlighting the birth of a musical genre that changed the world.

30. Blacks, Women Strongest Early Voters - Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Early voting in the special election for Memphis mayor cracked the 25,000 mark over the weekend.

The total through Saturday was 6 percent of the 432,770 eligible voters in Memphis as well as those in parts of suburban Shelby County who will be voting in the special election primaries for state Senate District 31.

31. Ride Continues for Whitehaven Complex - Wednesday, December 3, 2008

One chapter in the continuing saga of the New Horizon Park apartments has been closed, but more twists are likely coming for the embroiled property.

The sprawling, 933-unit multifamily complex at 3578 Millbranch Road in Whitehaven was foreclosed and sold for $21.4 million in a Nov. 20 substitute trustee’s sale to Wells Fargo NA. The seller was Spencer Clift, trustee for the Health, Education and Housing Facility Board of the city (HEHFB) of Memphis.

32. Stallworth Named Board President At Association of Fundraising Professionals - Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Virginia Stallworth is the new president of the board of directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Stallworth has served on the board since 2005. She is the associate director at the Memphis Child Advocacy Center, where she has worked for nine years. Stallworth also serves on the board of directors for the Memphis Area Women's Council.

33. Levy Receives Ruby R. Wharton Award - Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Dr. Marian Levy, associate professor and director of the Master of Public Health program at the University of Memphis, has received the Ruby R. Wharton Outstanding Woman Award in the area of race relations.

34. California Company Buys Pendleton Place Apartments - Tuesday, January 8, 2008

1780 Pendleton St.
Memphis, TN 38114
Sale Amount: $2.7 million

Sale Date: Dec. 14, 2007

Buyer: Pendleton Investors LLC

35. Hard-Hat Area - Monday, December 10, 2007

GROUNDBREAKING ANTICIPATION: Students at St. George’s Memphis, 3749 Kimball Ave., eagerly await Friday’s groundbreaking for a $4 million expansion of the campus. It will provide new classrooms, offices, storage, a gymnasium and a dining area. The Memphis campus, which serves students in prekindergarten through fourth grade, was founded in 2001 and opened as part of a capital campaign to expand the mission of St. George’s Independent School. St. George’s has campuses in Memphis, Germantown and Collierville.

36. NY Company Brings Brisk Pace To Whitehaven Developments - Friday, July 6, 2007

Monday morning was a whirlwind for New York developer George Fakiris.

Though Fakiris wasn't in town, his company Apollon Group LLC within a short span opened the sales office for one of its Whitehaven apartment-turned-condominimum properties and began construction on another.

37. Whitehaven Apartments Slated For Renovation, Condo Conversion - Tuesday, May 29, 2007

2115 Oxford Square Court
Memphis, TN 38116
Loan Amount: $5.3 million

Loan Date: May 11, 2007

Maturity Date: n/a

38. Miami-Based Group Invests More in Memphis - Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Geographically and culturally, South Beach is a long way from Beale Street, but that hasn't stopped a group of Miami investors from plunging into the Memphis multifamily market.

Miami-based Alterra Capital Group - whose principals are Matt Papunen, Adam Singer and Matthew Wanderer - recently bought a fourth apartment complex in Memphis, beefing up its local portfolio to $41 million.

39. Archived Article - Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Six acres north of
Lowrance Road

Loan Amount: $6.5 million

Loan Date: March 30, 2007

40. Pastor, Others Seek Ways to Reduce Local Crime - Thursday, March 29, 2007
     Crime is a serious and sometimes overwhelming problem in Memphis.
     No one could argue with that when looking at the number of criminal offenses that have been reported so far this year.

41. Alterra Pays $6.6 MillionFor Third Memphis Complex - Wednesday, January 17, 2007
     Miami-based Alterra Capital Group has bought its third apartment complex in Memphis after announcing in November plans to invest in six in the Memphis area.
     Alterra-affiliated 4616 Scot

42. Give 'Em Credit: Teachers' Credit Union Official Says New Branches Will Keep It Competitive - Tuesday, December 19, 2006

New MATCU Branches on
Union Avenue and White Station Road
Project Cost: Not released

Permit Date: Dec. 4, 2006

43. HEHFB PILOTs Often Fly Under Radar Of Public Perception - Tuesday, December 19, 2006

In Memphis, a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) freeze typically is associated with a large corporation opening an office or plant.

While the Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board (IDB) is in charge of issuing such tax breaks, the Center City Commission also grants PILOTs for commercial real estate development Downtown.

44. PILOT Apartment ComplexesChange Hands, Financed - Friday, December 15, 2006
     Two apartment complexes under 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreements have been transferred to new investors and financed for more than $36 million.
     Kimball Cabana Apartments

45. Florida Company Moves in on Rental Market via Distressed Properties - Tuesday, December 5, 2006

If Eleanor Perry knew exactly what was in store for her when she moved into the Oakview Apartments at Lamar and Kimball avenues in mid-September, she might have looked elsewhere.

"This is the worst place I have ever lived in my life," she said.

46. Alterra Capital Plans OverhaulOf Six Apartment Complexes - Friday, November 10, 2006
     Six Memphis apartment complexes are scheduled for a high-dollar overhaul soon, as Alterra Capital Group plans sweeping changes to local distressed properties.
     Alterra last week closed on

47. Events - Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Memphis Regional Chamber offers "Preparing Your Business for the Unthinkable" today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 22 N. Front St., Ste. 200. Mark Giannini, co-founder of Service Assurance Corp., is the guest speaker. Call Tunga Lee at 543-3571 or e-mail tlee@memphischamber.com for more information.

48. Shelby Farms Ad Hoc Committee to Meet - Monday, October 30, 2006

Oct. 31

The Shelby County Board of Commissioners Ad Hoc Committee on Shelby Farms meets at 2 p.m. in the Commission's 4th floor committee room at the Shelby County Administration Building, 160 N. Main St. Call Steve Summerall at 545-4301 for more information.

49. Vontoo Hits the Local Entrepreneurial Scene With Celebrity Voicemail Marketing - Tuesday, June 20, 2006

It's game day, and University of Memphis Tigers basketball fans get a phone call from coach John Calipari thanking them - via a recorded message - for their loyal attendance and then sharing his thoughts about the evening's game.

50. Developments Along Lamar Avenue Could Become Big 'Wow' - Monday, February 27, 2006

When it comes to new development, Lamar Avenue might not be the first place that springs to mind.

Running from the intersection of Perkins and Raines roads to Interstate 240, this South Memphis corridor doesn't have the retail glamour of Cordova's Germantown Parkway or DeSoto County's Goodman Road.

51. Private Schools Step Up Expansion Efforts - Friday, August 19, 2005

Memphis-area private schools have been experiencing a period of rapid growth. St. Benedict at Auburndale High School, for example, completed a 184,000-square-foot campus last year in Cordova. That move followed the opening in recent years of Briarcrest Christian School's new campus just north of Collierville.

52. Lamar Project Aims to Jump-Start Change - Wednesday, August 17, 2005

The stretch of Lamar Avenue that runs near American Way is very much a neighborhood in transition. With the closing of the Mall of Memphis in December 2003, the area lost a major shopping venue, and in recent years, it has been overrun by crime and blight.

53. Archived Article: This Week - Monday, June 27, 2005
SBA Presents Community Express Loan Workshops

SBA Offers Community Express Loan Workshops

June 27

The U.S. Small Business Administration and Service Corps of Retired Executives, or SCORE, present Community Express Loan Workshops at 10:30 a....

54. Archived Article: Real Recap - Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Addresses on Union Avenue

Circuit Playhouse Buys Property for Theater, Offices

Addresses on Union Avenue

and South Cooper Street

Cost: $1.1 million

Buyer: Circuit Playhouse Inc.

Seller: Union Catfish Co. Ltd.

Property: Property ...

55. Archived Article: This Week - Monday, July 26, 2004
Grant Writing Workshop Held at the Radisson

Grant Writing Workshop Held at the Radisson

July 26

The Memphis chapter of the Certified Commercial Investment Members presents Continuing Ed-Advanced Studies in Market Analysis from 8 a.m. to 5 p...

56. Archived Article: Ozburn-hessey P.2 - Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Ozburn-Hessey merges with ProChannel Ozburn-Hessey merges with ProChannel Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, a logistics-management company that operates 27 warehouse and distribution facilities in the Southeast, will merge with ProChannel Distribution Partne...

57. Archived Article: Pilot (lead) - Friday, February 11, 2000
By SUZANNE THOMPSON Ozburn-Hessey plans to add 52 new jobs By SUZANNE THOMPSON The Daily News The Industrial Development Board will consider two applications for payments-in-lieu-of-taxes, for Mercury Printing Inc. and Ozburn-Hessey Logistics Inc., ...

58. Archived Article: Gov't-bott - Tuesday, April 6, 1999
Daycare expansion Day care expansion draws opposition By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News Dwight and Zina Walker have run a day care in the middle of a quiet neighborhood for nearly three years. When the opportunity arose to purchase the property and ex...

59. Archived Article: Ozburn-hessey Lj - Thursday, October 30, 1997
By LAURIE JOHNSON Construction starts on Ozburn-Hessey warehouse By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News Groundwork has started for Ozburn-Hesseys first company-owned warehouse at 5510 E. Holmes Road in Southeast Memphis. The building is the first of three...

60. Archived Article: Ozburn-hessey Chg - Tuesday, January 14, 1997
Ozburn-Hessey to build two more warehouses on Shelby Drive Ozburn-Hessey to build two warehouses on Shelby Drive By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, which has been in the Memphis market for four years, is expanding its wareh...

61. Archived Article: Ozburn-hessey Chg - Tuesday, January 14, 1997
Ozburn-Hessey to build two more warehouses on Shelby Drive Ozburn-Hessey to build two warehouses on Shelby Drive JAN. 14, 1997 -- Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, which has been in the Memphis market for four years, is expanding its warehouse space in the a...

62. Archived Article: Memorial Mg - Friday, April 26, 1996
04-26 Memorial MG Memorial service honors attorneys, judges Special to The Daily News As part of Law Week, a memorial service will be held on Monday at noon to honor attorneys and judges who have passed away during the past year. The keynote speaker...