1625 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN 38104 

Sale Amount: $5 million

Sale Date: Dec. 21, 2016

2. Cordova’s Future LA Fitness Site Sells for $2.4M - Monday, December 26, 2016

LA Fitness is one step closer to opening a Cordova location.

Insomnia Inc., the company owned by former topless-club operator Steve Cooper, sold two parcels near its former restaurant/nightclub on Fischer Steel Road to Orlando, Florida-based National Retail Properties Inc. for $2.4 million, according to a Dec. 20 warranty deed. The same day as the sale, Fitness International LLC, an affiliate of L.A. Fitness International LLC, signed a lease with National Retail Properties for the property.

3. Workforce Group Elects Downtown for Office - Friday, April 10, 2015

The Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce has found a headquarters location Downtown, leasing 2,967 square feet at the One Commerce Square office tower.

The alliance aims to produce a united regional workforce development system by generating extensive workforce data, creating a pipeline of ready-to-work employees, crafting career roadmaps for workers and students and helping meet the near-term employment needs of local employers.

4. Grisanti Closes Poplar Locale - Friday, February 17, 2012

Cordova’s culinary gain means a loss for the Chickasaw Gardens area after the longtime Grisanti’s restaurant location at 2855 Poplar Ave. quietly closed its doors.

5. Next Move - Tuesday, July 19, 2011
To say the now-closed restaurant at 7955 Fischer Steel Road has had an unusual history is probably an understatement.

6. New Parking Lot Slated for Cordova’s Stella Marris - Thursday, July 15, 2010

A $25,000 building permit has been filed to add an additional parking lot at 7955 Fischer Steel Road, the address of a controversial Cordova restaurant that opened eight months ago amid fears its owner might furtively transform it into a strip club.

7. Courtroom, Gov’t Meetings Latest Stop for Cooper - Friday, August 21, 2009

Despite the exposed steel joists, wooden support beams and plastic covering on parts of the building at 777 N. White Station Road, signs with large red letters posted around the building read “We Are Open!”

8. Closely Watched Cordova Restaurant To Open Soon - Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Memphis-Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement has issued a certificate of occupancy for an upscale restaurant developed in Cordova by a topless-nightclub businessman.

That approval granted Aug. 7 means city and county officials are satisfied the building is suitable for occupancy, said Assistant County Attorney Carter Gray. And it means Stella Marris, strip club mogul Steve Cooper’s restaurant at 7955 Fischer Steel Road, can open whenever its owner is ready.

9. Topless-Club Owner in Court Over Cordova Restaurant - Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Over the past several months, construction has appeared to progress slowly or not at all at the Cordova property where topless-nightclub businessman Steve Cooper is building what he says will be a restaurant.

10. When it Comes To Cooper’s Proposed Restaurant, Questions Abound - Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Judging by his living circumstances alone, it would be difficult to argue the topless club business has been anything less than wildly profitable for Steven Craig Cooper.

Cooper, reportedly a high school dropout and later a self-made entrepreneur who built a network of successful adult entertainment clubs, splits his time between Phoenix and Memphis. The Bluff City is where he keeps a nine-room stucco home in an upscale neighborhood that currently is appraised at more than $700,000.