Tom Bailey

Ford’s plans for a $5.6 billion auto plant campus with 6,000 workers has turned the spotlight on Haywood County property owners.

Stonebridge Golf Course sold only about 20,000 rounds of golf this year. That creates an opportunity to improve the golfing experience and grow the business, the new owners say.

Southwest Tennessee Community College is focusing on rebuilding its enrollment after a 24% drop during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By late February, First Horizon will have closed six Memphis-area Iberiabank branches and rebranded another.

William “Bill” Townsend continues acquiring commercial properties on the west end of Summer, and he’s forming a plan.

Art historian and museum designer Scott Blake is selling 25 vintage, stained-glass windows on behalf of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. The windows will be offered first to any local buyers until Jan. 1, then marketed internationally.

Blue Oval City will measure 3,600 acres and, if all goes to schedule, open in 2025 with about 6,000 workers on the payrolls of Ford Motor Company and its suppliers.

When two couples and loyal guests saw that 173-year-old James Lee House was for sale, they jumped at the chance to become part-owners with J.W. and Kathy Buckman Gibson.

Gates’ new artwork will be installed in the lushly landscaped section of the new park, near where the existing Tom Lee sculpture stands.

The tsunami of electric vehicles will eventually hit. And the effect on Memphis should be substantial. Memphis has a lot of gas stations, 369, according to a study by the Division of Planning and Development.

The Works Community Development Corp. and Neighborhood Preservation Inc. are joining forces. Also working closely with the combined organizations will be Urban Renaissance Partners.

The giant new Tesla Center at 3020 N. Germantown Parkway has been servicing electric cars for a few weeks.

Frank Balton Sign Company mounted the big, red letters outlined in neon – L-U-C-I-A-N-N -- atop the prominent marquee that projects from the old Luciann theater building at 2432 Summer.

Workers restoring the city’s historic cobblestone landing uncovered buried treasure: an extra 5,300 square feet of cobblestones. All cobblestones were set from 1859 to 1880 as a way to pave the river landing.

Paint Memphis will apply an anti-graffiti coating on murals vandalized shortly after last year’s event in Uptown. Meanwhile, Paint Memphis 2021 will carry on in South Memphis with a festival on Oct. 9.

Memphis River Parks Partnership has received 73% of the $1.1 million needed to repair the façade that has been cracking.

The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.

The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.

A state agency also finds that a carpentry subcontractor inappropriately used an automotive winch to lift and lower wood beams, columns, joists and decking from the roof of the historic Butcher Shop Building.

A robot named Stretch and another called Chopsticks are designed to roll into a trailer or shipping container to unload the boxes onto a conveyor belt and into the warehouse.