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Memphis International Airport key player in China conference
City will host 2011's world summit
The Commercial Appeal | By Wayne Risher

A Memphis delegation will travel to Beijing this week to make sure the Bluff City shines as host of the influential Airport Cities World Conference next year. After this year's conference ends Friday, the Memphians will stick around for a strategy session of branded aerotropolises, convened by FedEx. An aerotropolis is an airport-centered economic development model first described by University of North Carolina professor John Kasarda. Memphis business leaders are pushing to take full advantage of economic strengths associated with Memphis International Airport.

FedEx executives and aerotropolis organizers from Paris, Guangzhou, China, and Memphis will attend a postconference workshop Saturday, said Greater Memphis Chamber chairman Tom Schmitt. "We want to make sure we start building our game plans for those three aerotropolis areas together," said Schmitt, senior vice president of FedEx Solutions.

Organizers have trademarked Memphis as America's Aerotropolis, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport as Aerotropolis Europe, and Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport as Asia's Aerotropolis. "This is all about appealing to businesses in each one of those economic powerhouses: 'If you want to have access to anywhere, this is how you connect to those centers,'" Schmitt added. Paris and Guangzhou are FedEx's key hubs for Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, respectively.

Mayor A C Wharton will arrive in Beijing in time for a ceremony setting up next year's conference April 11-13. He'll also speak at the aerotropolis cities summit. Following in footsteps of host cities Dallas and Athens, Greece, Memphis expects about 500 participants and estimated economic impact of $432,000 from its conference. "We have the singular distinction of being a freight hub as well as a passenger hub," Wharton said. "As we seek to build on that, hopefully with a direct flight into Asia and hopefully Paris, we'll need to have a very high profile among the other airports of the world." Airport Authority board chairman Arnold Perl said, "This is a big deal. This isn't just about the airport. This is about Memphis."

Also attending will be airport president Larry Cox, vice chairman Jim Ethridge, commissioner Herb Hilliard and communications director Janice Young; Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau president Kevin Kane and executive vice president John Oros; Larry Jensen, chairman of the Aerotropolis Corridor Development Group; and Andrew Russell, FedEx Services manager of sales planning.
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Feature of the week: Moving up in Downtown
Goodwyn offers panoramic views of Memphis, river
The Commercial Appeal | By John Wood

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Working your way to the top in Downtown Memphis is considerably easier now that prices for condos at The Goodwyn, 127 Madison at Second, have become so affordable. Hobson Realtors, sales agency for this totally refurbished Downtown landmark structure, reports that sales at The Goodwyn have been brisk, but that a good selection of full- and half-floor units are still available. Due to the design of The Goodwyn, buyers have the opportunity to purchase entire floors of the building from the ninth floor up, which gives them 3,100 square feet of living space, security via the elevator system, 20-foot long balconies on the west side of the building, and an amazing 360-degree view of the city and the Mississippi River, all at a price starting at $399,000. "When you get off the elevator, you walk right into your own entry hall," said Joel Hobson, president of Hobson Realtors. "No one else has access to your floor, no one else lives on that floor, and only you have access to your floor unless you give them permission to come up."

Full-floor units come with a unique floor plan that includes three bedrooms, three full baths, a separate living room and dining room, a wet bar, gas log fireplace, hardwood floors, and 10-foot ceilings. Only two of the popular half-floor units on the second and third floors -- out of the original 14 available -- remain unsold. With prices starting at $175,000, these are two-bedroom, two-bath plans that offer a wide-open kitchen, a large combination living room and dining room, laundry room and nine-foot ceilings.

All of the remodeled units at The Goodwyn come with easy access via new high-speed elevators, energy-saving windows, individual central heat and air-conditioning units, hardwood floors, marble floors in the bathrooms and foyers, and in the kitchen, granite countertops, and G.E. stainless-steel appliances. Buyers of half-floor and full-floor units are provided complete access to common areas at The Goodwyn, including the recently renovated lobby that comes with 20-foot ceilings, a fireplace and bar, a lush, landscaped courtyard with fountain, the attached parking garage, and the building's signature 19th-floor, 3,100-square foot rooftop area that includes a hot tub, an outdoor kitchen with a grill and refrigerator, and a magnificent 360-degree vista of Downtown Memphis.

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"The city views at night are just as spectacular as the views of Riverside Drive and the Mississippi River," Hobson adds. "And considering it's in the middle of Downtown Memphis at Madison and Second Street, living at The Goodwyn puts you within walking distance or a trolley ride of all the major Downtown restaurants and attractions, including AutoZone Park, the Rendezvous, FedExForum, the Orpheum, and Beale Street." Hobson Realtors sales agents will be glad to arrange for your own guided tour. Just give Laurie McBride a call at 312-2962 or Lynda Biggs at 312-2958, or the offices of Hobson Realtors at 761-1622.

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Medical devices drive expansion
Wright Medical among firms seeing growth
Memphis Business Journal - by Michael Sheffield

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On the heels of expansions by medical device companies Onyx Medical Corp. and NuVasive Inc., Wright Medical Technology Inc. is investing $10 million to upgrade its distribution center in Arlington. In an economy where most industries are cutting back on employees and spending, medical device companies in Memphis are continuing to grow and expand operations. That trend, says Leigh Anne Downes, director of life science business development for the Greater Memphis Chamber, has led the Chamber to work with local device companies to help recruit similar businesses to the city. “They know the industry better than I do, so they can pinpoint companies that would make sense to have across the street from them versus across the country,” Downes says.

For Wright Medical, one of the keys to its continued growth has been its foot and ankle division, which has experienced quarterly growth of 20% for the last 11 quarters, says Gary Henley, president and CEO of Wright Medical. The company also manufactures joint implants for hips and knees. Henley says Wright exited 2009 at about $200 million in sales from foot and ankle products. Growth in that division, which now has more than 400 devices and procedures available for foot and ankle issues, is directly attributed to an increase in diabetes and obesity-related foot problems. The company has also grown its sales force for that division from one person in 2006 to more than 125 now.

Henley says Wright Medical sustained its 1,000 local employees during the recession by reassigning some to different jobs until its new manufacturing facility was completed last summer. The company’s new 55,000-square-foot distribution facility could be open by late this summer. Henley says the investment will cover renovation of the building as well as new equipment like conveyer systems to make processes more efficient. Once that facility is completed, Wright will continue planning for a new three-story office. A target date has not been set for that project, but Henley says its current office space eventually will be used exclusively for research and development. “It’s an investment we have to make to be competitive long term,” Henley says.

Wright Medical is joined in its local growth by companies like Onyx and NuVasive, both of which have seen business grow to the point of needing expansion. Onyx, which manufactures drill bits, screws and wires for the device industry, is in the process of developing a $4.5 million facility it will own. San Deigo-based NuVasive manufactures and distributes spinal surgery kits that it rents to hospitals and surgery centers across the country. It is investing $1.6 million in an expansion of its local facility. In 2008, Medtronic, which has its spinal and biologics divisions located in Memphis, finished a $90 million expansion of its Memphis facilities.

As the industry thrives, it is bracing for repercussions from the health care reform legislation passed last month. Part of the reform bill creates a 2.2% excise tax on certain medical devices that could impact the industry by $20 billion over 10 years, starting in 2013. In a statement released when the reform bill was passed, Medtronic estimated the tax could have an impact of $150 million to $200 million on the company’s bottom line. While the tax will be deductible, it could impact key areas of device makers’ operations. “A lot of companies would have to cut back on research and development, which cuts back on innovation,” Henley says. “The U.S. has been a leader in medical devices forever. It would be a shame if we lost that position.” Dick Tarr, executive director of InMotion Orthopaedic Research Center, says the tax could also affect how startup companies operate. Larger device companies may be able to deduct or pass on the cost, but smaller companies will see it come directly from sales.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings wins auction for 28-acre Midtown tract
The Commercial Appeal | By Tom Bailey Jr.



Property lender Lehman Brothers Holdings Co. outbid a Nashville-based UP Development Co. this morning to buy a controversial, 28-acre Midtown tract whose redevelopment was derailed by the recession and foreclosure. Lehman Brothers Holdings, itself under bankruptcy protection, foreclosed earlier this year on the property bordered roughly by Poplar, Court, McNeil and Cleveland. An attorney representing Lehman, Hunter Humphreys of Glankler Brown, started the bidding on the Shelby County Courthouse steps at $2 million. Real estate attorney Michael Chance, in cell phone contact with UP Development, countered with $2.1 million.

The bidding continued: Lehman Brothers ($2,150,000); UP Develoment ($3 million); Lehman Brothers ($3,050,000); UP Development ($3,100,000); and finally, Lehman Brothers ($3,150,000). Substitute trustee Stewart Austin, also of Glankler Brown, paused while Chance consulted on his iPhone. “We’re done,” Chance said. Asked if UP Development still might show interest in the property in the future, Chance nodded and said, “We’ll let you know.”

WSG Memphis, a unit of WSG Development of Miami, purchased the property in 2007 for $12 million and obtained a $14 million construction loan from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The mixed-use redevelopment never occurred, and the area is now plagued with squatters, debris, crime and fires. Indicative of just how much of community problem the vacant property has become was the presence at the auction of a Memphis Fire Department official. The department, which has had to deal with fires of vacant buildings there, wanted to know who the new owners would be.
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Even Wamp "Gets it"

Wamp Commits Himself to "Memphis Renaissance" as Governor
Memphis Flyer | Posted by Jackson Baker



Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp came to Memphis on Monday for a round of activities beginning with a tour of the Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar in the company of District Attorney General Bill Gibbons and Sheriff Mark Luttrell. Thereafter he stood on the 3rd St. side of the CJC with Gibbons, and, while he couldn’t at this point claim the endorsement of Gibbons, his former opponent for the GOP nomination, Wamp did what he did to lay the groundwork for such serendipity, including a virtual declaration of honorary home-boy status. “Memphis matters,” Wamp declared. “It matters to the future of Tennessee. Just because I didn’t grow up in Memphis doesn’t mean I won’t be fully committed to Memphis.” The Chattanooga congressman expressed a wish for “a long overdue Memphis Renaissance” and pledged himself to that end. He promised that, if nominated, the first place he would come would be Memphis. Ditto with his initial destination as soon as he got inaugurated as governor. And he vowed, too, that, once installed as governor, he would devote “most of my time” to the concerns of Shelby County. “As Memphis goes, so goes Tennessee,” Wamp said. Asked if an endorsement by Gibbons might be in the cards, Wamp said, “There’s 96 days to go [until the gubernatorial primary], plenty of time for that. I hope that that’s the case later on. It’s for him to consider. I didn’t ask for that yet.” Meanwhile, he praised Gibbons’ now folded campaign as something that had made him “a better candidate” himself and promised to support Gibbons’ goals. He said he considered Operation Safe Community to be a model. “I’ll continue to try to win General Gibbons’ support,” he said.

Wamp said he was still committed to full support for the Med, but hedged modestly when asked if he intended to sign a specific pledge sought of all gubernatorial candidates by the Shelby County Commission. The commission wants all candidates to commit themselves to rout all federal funds generated by indigent care at the Med back to the Med itself. “I still haven’t seen it,” Wamp said of the pledge, but indicated he was still committed to sign it. Wamp expressed support of the burgeoning state sovereignty movement but unequivocally distanced himself from the rhetoric of “states’ rights,” which, he said, smacked of “segregation and going backwards.” He said his recent vow to resist federal health-care legislation by meeting the federal government “at the state line” was metaphorical, not literal. “I am a fighter. I’m a nice guy and a compassionate guy, but I also from time to time will stand up and fight,” said Wamp, who characterized the new federal health-care act as a “billion-dollar mandate that we can’t afford” and something that was worth fighting. “Fighting may be in a court of law, fighting may be at the ballot box,” he said.

Wamp is battling Knoxville mayor Bill Haslam and state Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey of Blouneville for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The winner of that contest will oppose Jackson businessman Mike McWherter, a Democrat, in the fall.
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Memphis Mayor A C Wharton joins group pushing for more infrastructure spending
The Commercial Appeal | By Bartholomew Sullivan

WASHINGTON -- Memphis Mayor A C Wharton has joined California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in calling for more federal infrastructure investment. The co-chairmen of Building America's Future announced Wharton's participation on Monday, noting that Memphis received $27.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act transportation spending last year. They also noted that 11.6 percent of the Memphis work force is in transportation, warehousing and utilities, the highest percentage among the nation's largest metropolitan areas.

In a statement, Wharton said: "Given Memphis' unique location, transportation-dependent economy, and geological concerns, few things are more important to me than dealing with our infrastructure needs. "I want to make Memphis a true city of choice for all families and businesses, and that work begins by making sure that high-quality transportation, urban planning and sound environmental policy receive the attention and resources they require."
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Hino expansion in Marion is step closer to truck production
The Commercial Appeal | By Wayne Risher

Kevin Ohneck, manager of Marion's Hino Motors plant, discusses the new truck frame manufacturing line that started Monday.
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The latest expansion of Marion's Hino plant moves the Japanese manufacturer closer to a "Made in USA" goal and Marion closer to a dream of a full-fledged truck assembly plant. Hino Motors Manufacturing USA on Monday unveiled results of a $20 million investment in two new production lines, adding about 25 jobs. Community leaders and business executives tour Hino's Marion plant Monday during ceremonies to mark the start of new production lines there. The Toyota subsidiary opened the new lines about six weeks ago. It is producing frame or chassis rails for commercial truck assembly plants in West Virginia and Canada, and connecting rods for engines made in Japan. The 425-employee plant also makes axles and components of steering and suspension mechanisms for Toyota Tundras and Sequoias.

Hino's expansion comes as Greater Memphis and the Mid-South meet mixed results in luring foreign investment in manufacturing facilities, particularly automotive. Toyota built, then mothballed, a planned Prius plant near Tupelo because of slumping sales during the recession, while German investors have announced plans to build a pipe manufacturing facility in Tunica. Yasuo Tanigawa, president of Hino USA, said, "Since breaking ground on the plant in 2004, Hino has had great partnership and support from the state, Crittenden County and city of Marion. Putting this project here is a demonstration of our commitment to Arkansas."

When Hino built the Marion plant, officials envisioned the possibility of a full-fledged truck assembly plant once Hino's U.S. sales volume was strong enough. Marion Mayor Frank Fogleman said the expansion was movement in that direction. "It's another step in the process of my ultimate goal, and that is seeing trucks assembled here in Marion," he said. "I hope that's sooner rather than later." Hino spokesman Sandy Ring said, "Right now, our commercial truck sales volume does not require that we investigate building a second plant. When that time comes, and we are confident that our sales will continue to increase, we will explore location options. But this investment speaks for itself: Hino is pleased to be in Arkansas and we are committed to a long-term presence." The frame-rail production unit takes pieces of steel up to 32 feet long, bends the edges up to form C-shaped channels and uses lasers to cut holes for various parts to be inserted. The rails are painted, packaged in pairs and shipped to assembly plants. Ken Dean, assistant manager of stamping and roll frame, said the plant is set up to ship 20 sets of rails a day with one shift of workers.

Shinji Fujimoto, Hino Motors Ltd. senior managing director and board member, said the expansion significantly shortens turnaround. It has taken up to three months to ship frame rails from Japan to North America, since the company stopped having the part made at a Long Beach, Calif., plant last year. Chassis components from Marion can be available for final assembly within two weeks. "We are determined to pursue even more localization of parts and capacity so we can respond to our customers' needs even more efficiently," said Fujimoto. Robert McDowell, senior vice president of sales, said Marion's output gives Hino a leg up on meeting increased demand for American-made parts. The company's Williamstown, W.Va., plant is producing trucks with majority made-in-USA components, with engines and cabs imported from Japan, he said. Fujimoto wants to see more Hino-branded trucks on America's highways. During a weekend drive from West Virginia, "I did not see many Hino trucks on the way to Arkansas. I am confident this will improve," he said.
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Memphis Center City Commission narrows presidential candidates to eight
The Commercial Appeal | By Wayne Risher

A committee seeking a new Center City Commission chief today named a short list of eight candidates: four locals who have histories with the CCC and four out-of-town residents. The search committee led by board chairwoman Jennifer Hagerman voted to conduct face-to-face interviews with: (1) Scott Adams, chief urban redevelopment officer for the City of Las Vegas and former CCC assistant executive director in the 1980s. (2) Thomas C. Chatmon Jr., executive director of Orlando's Downtown Development Board/Community Redevelopment Agency. (3) Andy L. Kitsinger, Center City senior vice president, planning and development. (4) Paul L. Krutko Jr., chief development officer, City of San Jose, Calif. since 2002. (5) Myron Lowery, Memphis City Councilman and former CCC board member. (6) Rick Masson, executive director, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, and former Memphis finance director, chief administrative officer and CCC board member. (7) Paul Morris, shareholder with Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston attorneys and immediate past chairman of the CCC. (8) Frank W. Robinson, town manager, Apple Valley, Calif.

The candidates were selected from among 20 applicants deemed best qualified for the position from which CCC president and CEO Jeff Sanford is retiring effective June 30. Sanford's salary is $155,000 a year. Center City oversees planning and development of Downtown and a larger central business improvement district. It's directed by a board appointed by city and county governments. Among those not making the interview cut were insiders Jerome Rubin, a former councilman who is CCC vice president, operations, and Eric Robertson, CCC chief administrative officer; former CCC staffer Lee Warren; and Memphians John Lawrence, a former CCC staff member, and Mason Kauffman. Head-hunting consultant David Smith said two female applicants from out of town weren't deemed sufficiently qualified for the short list. The list includes two African-Americans, Lowery and Chatmon.
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Lucite says it may invest up to $135 million at Woodstock plant
The Commercial Appeal | By Tom Bailey Jr.

An acrylic plastic manufacturer now plans to make an even bigger investment in modernizing its plant in Woodstock, north of Memphis. Lucite International now plans a $90 million upgrade with “the ability to add an additional $45 million in capital investment” during the term of a 15-year tax break called payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT). The firm filed a revised application for what’s called a retention PILOT. The Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board is to vote Wednesday whether to approve the tax break that could save Lucite $6.6 million in taxes. But the investment would help preserve 200 jobs with an average $89,531 wage. And, according to a staff analysis, the project would create a $260 million economic impact for the county. The company would still pay $2.2 million in taxes over the 15 years. The manufacturing facility is at 2665 Fite Road. But Lucite also has its headquarters for the Americas in Cordova. If Lucite does not upgrade the plant, the county could lose both the plant and the headquarters, company officials have said.
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Askew Nixon picked to design $75M casino
Memphis Business Journal - by MIchael Sheffield

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Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects has been selected by Abston-McKay Ventures LLC and Lakes Entertainment Inc. as lead architect for the $75 million Sportsman Casino and Lodge in Tunica. Design on the recently announced project is expected to be complete by October; construction should start late this year. The property could be open by the end of 2011. For Askew Nixon, the project represents one of its largest deals in recent months and may signal a recovery in the architecture industry. “It was pretty grim for the first two and a half months (this year), but we’re starting to see some things come in,” Askew says. “A lot of our big clients like FedEx and the University of Memphis are starting to crank up some things that were on hold.” Askew’s perspective echoes the American Institute of Architects’ Architectural Billings Index, which rose to 44.8 in February, up from 42.5 in January. A score below 50 indicates a decrease in billings. March numbers are due next week.

Oxford, Miss.-based Abston-McKay and Minnetonka, Minn.-based Lakes Entertainment are co-developing the project, which will be located at the site of the former Isle of Capri casino near Sam’s Town Casino and Hotel on Casino Strip. Askew Nixon will redesign the 220-room hotel left by Isle of Capri when it closed in 2002. The casino will be a new building Askew Nixon is designing as part of the project. Lee Askew, a principal with Askew Nixon, says the project represents a return to casino architecture for the firm, which designed Sam’s Town in Tunica in 1993 and has worked on smaller projects at Tunica casino properties. Askew Nixon also has designed casinos in Louisiana and Illinois. Kevin Hunter, CEO of Abston-McKay Ventures, says the company considered firms “inside and outside the city of Memphis” before choosing Askew Nixon. “We went with them because (Askew has) a great vision of this area and world-class credentials in the gaming industry,” Hunter says. “There are a lot of people throwing out ideas on this project and he’s keeping us pulled together to keep the focus on this project.”

Askew says the new casino will include more than 40,000 square feet of gaming space on one level, a 1,200-seat theater and “one of the largest buffets in the area.” Plans are in place for a 5,000-square-foot VIP players lounge, new swimming pools, a poker room and retail space. The number of hotel rooms will increase to 230. The project received site approval from the Mississippi Gaming Commission last month.

Askew Nixon isn’t the only local firm finding business in casino projects. Hnedak Bobo Group Inc. was recently named lead architect on the $500 million West Valley Resort near Glendale, Ariz. “We’re really going to gut it so everything will be brand new, from wall surfaces to fixtures and carpeting,” Askew says. “You won’t even know you’re in an older building.” Lakes is an offshoot of the company that originally developed Grand Casino properties in Tunica, Biloxi and Gulfport in the late 1990s. Lakes sold its Grand properties to Caesars in 1998 and left the Tunica market shortly thereafter. Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. bought the Grand properties (along with Horseshoe) in 2004 and 2005. Ironically, Harrah’s original property in Tunica was located at the old Isle of Capri site until 1999.

Scott Barber, division president of Harrah’s Entertainment, says he doesn’t know enough details to speculate on the possibility of success for Sportsman, which will join nine other casinos currently in operation in Tunica County. “We’re the biggest and baddest and we weren’t successful at that site, so they must know something we don’t,” Barber says. Askew says with architects and engineers combined, the firm will have about 15 people working on design. Salt Lake City-based Okland Construction Co. Inc. will be the general contractor on the project. Subcontractors have not been chosen.

Hunter says even though the development process is “lengthy and involved,” Sportsman is proceeding as planned toward the 2011 opening target. “We want to move as quickly as possible, but we also want to make the right decisions,” Hunter says. “What you don’t want to do is get in a hurry with a project of this magnitude. We want to make sure it’s high quality.”

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Pyramid, Bass Pro Talks Move to Lease Terms
BILL DRIES | The Daily News

City of Memphis leaders and executives from Bass Pro Shops meet Tuesday to begin talking lease terms for The Pyramid. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. included a draft lease in an April 13 letter to Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris and president Jim Hagale.

A city delegation was in Nashville Monday to review the project for the State Building Commission. The commission’s executive committee approved an extension of the use of revenue from the Downtown Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) to include The Pyramid. The resulting tax increment financing will help finance the public infrastructure improvements around the site. Before Monday’s expansion of how the tax money within the zone was used, it could only be used to retire the debt of the Memphis Cook Convention Center over 30 years. The financing is in its eighth year.

Tuesday’s meeting in Memphis will also include representatives of developers Poag & McEwen. The firm is involved, Wharton said, because Bass Pro executives want to see some kind of plans for developing the surrounding Pinch District. The outdoor retailer plans to build a super store within The Pyramid and develop other attractions, including a hotel either inside The Pyramid or attached to the former arena. Other items on the agenda are defining terms in a lease agreement, a list of landlord contributions for the city to accomplish, a task list for Bass Pro Shops, construction standards and timelines for construction as well as the flow of money into the project.

The goal of both sides is to complete the deal and sign a lease in the next month. A signing could come as early as an April 29 meeting in Springfield, Mo., at Bass Pro Shops headquarters. The meeting there is scheduled to “draft the final versions of the lease/development/improvement agreements,” according to the city’s letter.

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Annesdale Mansion Listed for $1.2 Million
TOM WILEMON | The Daily News



Annesdale, commonly referred to as the Snowden Mansion, is on the market for $1.2 million. Ed Beasley of Sowell & Co. Realtors has the listing, which includes the Italianate villa built in 1850 and seven acres of landscaped grounds. The mansion at 1325 Lamar Ave. is across the street from the University Club. Listing the property is a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Beasley. With each showing, he discovers something new. “The other day, I decided I would walk the entire perimeter,” he said. “There was a whole bank of daffodils in bloom two weeks ago. It’s always changing.” The grounds include carefully planted trees, a fountain, an outdoor fireplace, sculptural elements and a reflecting pool.

Annesdale is a rarity in an urban setting. It’s a historic mansion built to a large scale that still has the grounds to go with it. The house encompasses 8,646 square feet, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property. Beasley described Annesdale as a very livable home. “It’s in good solid condition,” he said. “There is an old kitchen. It’s old by our standards. It’s a 1950s St. Charles kitchen that was done literally 50 or 60 years ago. The rest of the house has just been kind of lovingly maintained.” The house has had several showings, he said, including a couple of people who seemed to have serious interest.

The house was built in 1850 by Dr. Samuel Mansfield, a wholesale druggist. In 1869, Robert C. Brinkley bought it as a wedding gift for his daughter, Annie Overton Brinkley, who married Col. Robert Bogardus Snowden. Three nearby neighborhoods, Annesdale Snowden, Annesdale Park and Rozelle Annesdale get their names from the property. Today, the house is owned by the estates of a brother and sister, Robert G. Snowden and May Snowden Todd. Robert Snowden and Todd both died in 2006. But Todd’s husband, Thomas Hardy Todd Jr., continued to live in the house until his death last June.

One of Annesdale’s unique features is a lookout tower. Inside, it has marble and hardwood floors, handsome paneling, a curving staircase, elaborately painted ceilings, ornate plaster and the original light fixtures and mantles. The old craftsmanship even extends to the bricks, which were handmade from clay excavated in digging the basement. “There’s a black-and-white marble floor in the entrance hall,” Beasley said. “One of the things that amazes me is there are no cracks in that marble floor.”

Pictures of the house, the curved staircase and other details can be viewed at www.sowellandco.com. Annesdale is one of two Midtown residential listings Sowell has on its website that are priced in excess of $1 million. The other property is 1554 Peabody Ave., listed at just over $1 million. Annesdale has 13 rooms, including five bedrooms, four full baths and one half-bath. There are a total of nine fireplaces. The house also has a working elevator. Originally, the rear of the house was designated for staff, but the Todd family converted those areas fur use as a laundry room, butler’s pantry and dark room, Beasley said. Furnishings from the house were sold at an estate sale in October. They included century-old antiques too large to fit into most modern homes.

Robert C. Brinkley built the original Peabody hotel in 1869, the same year he bought Annesdale for his daughter. Brinkley also donated the land for Saint Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral. His other business interests included banking and a railroad.
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Business headline with a nice pic of one of the Shady Grove buildings in East Memphis. Plans for a 4th one are currently in the works.

Stone Point, Hellman & Friedman buying Sedgwick CMS for $1.1 billion
Memphis Business Journal

Sedgwick CMS' Memphis headquarters at 1100 Ridgeway Loop Road


Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. is changing ownership in a $1.1 billion private equity deal. Greenwich, Conn.-based Stone Point Capital LLC and San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman LLC are buying Memphis-based Sedgwick, according to a news release. Members of the company’s management team also will have an ownership position, but the company did not name management owners or break down ownership percentages. An agreement to acquire 100 percent ownership was signed with the current group of owners that include Fidelity National Financial Inc., Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, Evercore Capital Partners and other minority shareholders. The deal is expected to close sometime in the second quarter subject to regulatory approvals.

Private equity firms Stone Point Capital and Hellman & Friedman have experience investing in the insurance, financial services, health care and employee benefits industries. Hellman & Friedman was founded in 1984 and has raised more than $25 billion of committed capital, according to a release. Stone Point was founded in 1985 and has raised more than $10 billion in committed capital. Sedgwick CMS is an insurance claims administrator and program administrator that has 150 offices in the U.S. and Canada.
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Thompson & Co. looks to relocate Downtown office
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby

The Center City Commission’s financial incentives seem to be drawing interest from a mix of property owners, schools and businesses, if the agenda for the Center City Development Corp. board of directors meeting Wednesday is any indication. Trezevant Realty Corp., operating as Union Main Holdings LLC, has submitted a development loan application to renovate its 17,000-square-foot building at the southwest corner of Union and Main. Thompson & Co. also is applying for a CCDC office grant to relocate to the building, at 85 Union. Union Main Holdings plans to spend $1.6 million on the three-story building, with construction scheduled to begin in May and be completed by October. The CCC’s Design Review Board approved design plans earlier this month. Union Main Holdings is a seeking a $200,000 development loan to complement a $1.2 million financing commitment from Metropolitan Bank. The financing is dependent on the $200,000 loan and the CCC staff is recommending approval. If approved, the building at 85 Union — which formerly housed a Smooth Moves location — already has a potential tenant in Thompson & Co. The advertising and marketing firm, whose 15-year lease at 50 Peabody Place is expiring in December 2010, is considering a 12-year, 10,406-square-foot lease at 85 Union. The CCC staff recommends approval of the $15,000 office grant, which would be used for tenant improvements.

Also at the meeting, the Memphis College Preparatory Elementary is seeking a development loan to open a charter school at 278 Greenlaw Ave. The nonprofit plans to spend $607,500 renovating the building, with construction planned for May to July. The CCC staff is recommending a development loan for $32,000, which is what the project grades out for, but also recommends the CCDC consider the school’s request for a $80,000 development grant.

Also, Powers Hill Design LLC, a civil engineering design firm, is applying for an office grant. It could sign a five-year, 1,800-square-foot lease at Brinkley Plaza at 80 Monroe. The CCC staff is recommending a $7,500 grant.

Finally, a designer apparel store operator, Eric Evans, is applying for incentives to open Sache Design in the South Main Historic Arts District. Evans is planning to sign a five-year lease for 1,747 square feet at 525 S. Main. The CCC staff is recommending approval of a $40,000 retail forgivable loan and a $7,350 facade improvement grant.

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Le Bonheur tweaks its name and image
The Commercial Appeal | By Toby Sells



By now it's no secret that Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center is building a new $340 million facility on Poplar. But it is in that spirit of "new" that the hospital now has a new logo, a new vision and a new name. Le Bonheur dropped "medical center" from its name and is now, simply, "Le Bonheur Children's Hospital." "Le Bonheur is known in the community just as Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, and very few people knew particularly that it was 'medical center,' " said Jennilyn Utkov, the hospital's director of marketing and communications. "We know that Le Bonheur is a very different word and we wanted to simplify our name as much as we could." The name is one project in a two-year endeavor to update the hospital's brand in the run-up to the new facility's grand opening event June 15.

Gone, too, is the hospital's old logo, with the curved "Le" followed by the pregnant-looking "B" in the shape of a heart. A heart remains, though, in the new logo, a stitched red heart that stands in the for "o" in Le Bonheur. A 28-foot version of the stitched heart will be hoisted across Poplar on Sunday by a helicopter. It will be affixed just under the curved roof of the new hospital facing Poplar. The stitching is a reminder of the hospital's 1952 founding by the Le Bonheur Club, a group of women who originally gathered to sew clothes for orphans.

"(Le Bonheur CEO Meri Armour) has a new vision for the hospital, and we felt like a change in the brand identity would reflect the evolution of the Le Bonheur brand," Utkov said. Armour has said she wants Le Bonheur to continue to be the primary children's hospital for those in the Mid-South, but she also wants to make it one of the premier children's hospitals in the country, with nationally recognized medical programs. The hospital's marketing team spent two years thinking, surveying focus groups and laying the foundation of a coming print and television ad campaign. Actor Morgan Freeman once again donated his much-sought-after voice-over talents to the hospital's television spots. "In our research, we also talked to other children's hospitals across the country, and those who have built new facilities or changed their vision have gone under some kind of name or brand change," said Le Bonheur senior marketing specialist Julie Ashby.

PHOTO BY TOM WILEMON

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital:
New hospital: 610,000 square feet, $340 million
Service area: 95 counties in six states
Beds: 225
ER visits per year: 65,500
Online: lebonheur.org

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Methodist Le Bonheur Women’s & Children’s Pavilion, Germantown, Tenn.



Located in a Memphis suburb, this $80.5 million hospital expansion will add 100 beds to the 209-bed facility as the building team works to make it environmentally friendly. They are seeking LEED Silver certification, still a relatively new practice in health care building and presenting the job’s biggest challenge, says Danny Moeschle, senior project manager.

The four-story project includes the 220,000-sq-ft expansion for women’s and children’s services, a 637-space parking deck and renovations to the existing hospital. The expansion will add 70 general medical/surgical beds, 16 critical care beds, six pediatric beds and eight NICU beds. All patient rooms will be private.

Sustainable features include highly insulated walls, solar reflective roof, low-E glass, a high-efficiency HVAC system, low volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in paints, coating, sealants and composite wood products, drought-resistant plantings and a drip irrigation system. The pavilion is a concrete building with an auger cast pile foundation. The exterior will be brick, EIFS and curtain wall.
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Lucite gets 15-year tax abatement
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby Staff writer

The Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board (IDB) awarded a 15-year retention PILOT to Lucite International Inc., which is considering up to $135 million in improvements to its Memphis facilities. The company, which designs, develops and manufactures acrylic items, is planning to invest $90 million modernizing its manufacturing facility at 2665 Fite Road and improving its North American headquarters at 7275 Goodlett Farms Parkway. The company also could invest an additional $45 million in capital improvements over a five-year period.

The PILOT will save the company $6.6 million in taxes. The company will still pay $2.2 million in taxes not covered under the PILOT over the next 15 years. Lucite International would have to keep 200 jobs under the PILOT. The company’s annual wages are $89,531 without benefits, $129,463 with benefits. The IDB determined this investment would have a 15-year economic impact of $260.5 million in employment payroll, employee wage taxes, property taxes received and construction taxes.

The IDB also made an initial approval of Christ Community Health Services Inc.’s industrial revenue bond for its 16,600-square-foot administration building at 2595 Central. The organization will appear before the board next month for final approval. The organization would use savings from the bond to help fund future expansions and improvements to existing facilities. The company is considering expansions in North Memphis and South Memphis.

The board also made its PILOT application shorter and easier for companies. Sharon Younger, president of economic development consulting firm Younger Associates LLC, made the recommendations, which included removing questions no longer relevant to the program and redundancies.
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BNSF dedicates new intermodal facility, calls it world's most modern
The Commercial Appeal | By Wayne Risher

The northward view from atop one of the 90-foot-high cranes shows part of BNSF's sprawling new intermodal yard. It has been in operation since late last year and has three times the lift capacity of the old site.
Photo by Dave Darnell

BNSF Railway on Wednesday dedicated a $200 million intermodal facility that is expected to drive profits for Warren Buffett's railroad and generate income for Memphians for decades to come. Cranes run on electricity instead of diesel, making the new BNSF yard a cleaner place. Heavy use of technology moves cargo faster than at any other such facility. Railroad, government and economic-development officials celebrated completion of a seven-year effort leading to what BNSF says is the most modern facility of its kind in the world. The intermodal hub at 4814 Lamar is BNSF's supersized replacement for the old Tennessee Yards off Shelby Drive and Harvard Yards in Marion, Ark. Sprawling along Lamar from South Perkins to Shelby Drive with 90-foot-tall cranes forming a new skyline, the facility handles cargo containers that move by rail, road and ocean. Wal-Mart is the biggest single customer of goods shipped in the containers, while trucking company J.B. Hunt is the single biggest over-the-road mover. The facility has been fully operational since late last year, shortly after Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway group bought the country's second-largest railroad for $34 billion. The Memphis yard represents BNSF's largest single capital investment in at least five years and one of the city's largest private investments in recent years, said Vann Cunningham, BNSF assistant vice president of economic development. It tripled the site's capacity, to more than 600,000 container movements a year, and could push it past 1 million lifts with some tweaking. That is enough to serve BNSF's needs for decades, Cunningham said.

It is heavy on technology, such as biometric thumbprint readers to identify truck drivers, cameras and scanners to identify incoming trucks, and a GPS system that tracks every rail car, truck and container on the yard. That adds up to faster processing of cargo in less space than any other intermodal facility in the world, at least until the next one opens. "What we're doing on 185 acres would take roughly twice as much acreage under the old ways of doing intermodal," said John Lanigan, BNSF executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Vaughn Short, vice president of intermodal operations and network management for J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., said the facility is greener and more trucker-friendly. Trucks can come and go in about 25 minutes, compared to an hour at older facilities. "It's all about velocity in the trucking business," Short said. Lanigan invited the dedication crowd to "notice how clear the air is" over the facility. The cranes are powered by electricity, rather than diesel, and the site is optimized to reduce internal movement of containers and pollution-causing idling by backed-up trucks.

Mike Wilmoth's company wouldn't be in Memphis without it. Wilmoth is terminal manager for CMI Freight-Trans Inc. and Steel Wheel Transfer Inc., a Chicago-based intermodal shipper for the metals industry. "CMI/Steel Wheel basically relocated its operation to Memphis because of this facility being expanded to the point it is," Wilmoth said. "We are moving our freight through here faster because of the state-of-the-art facility." Dexter Muller, senior vice president, community development for the Greater Memphis Chamber, said the facility is an economic development official's dream. "Some guys are mesmerized looking at a Monet or a Van Gogh," Muller said. "Economic development guys like looking at big orange cranes." "We intend to take advantage of it, and we look forward to working with you to make it an enormous success for the railroad and the city," Muller added.
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CCC: Downtown Memphis condo sales rebound in first quarter
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby



The Center City Commission’s Downtown Condo Report shows there were 40 condominiums sold in Downtown Memphis in first quarter 2010, almost double last year’s opening quarter. There were 149 units sold for full-year 2009, starting with 22 units in the first quarter. “I would like to think it represents some stabilization in pricing and signs, however small, of an economic upturn,” Jeff Sanford, president of the Center City Commission said. “We’ve seen some price fluctuations over the past year and a half, but now prices are settling down and becoming more realistic for this time and place in the economy.” For the first two quarters of 2009, there were 45 condos sold, which the report attributes to a range of economic factors, including financial market instability and a decrease in credit and financing options. The third and fourth quarter 2009 netted 104 condo sales. The report states this spike was fueled by real estate auction sales.

Sanford thinks this solid first quarter of condo sales is a good sign, not only for Downtown but for the overall Memphis economy. “I think Downtown condo sales will be a bellwether for local economic improvement because I hold fast to the idea that interest in living Downtown has never abated, only the financing to make it possible has evaporated during the recession,” Sanford says. There are currently 178 condos actively listed in the 38103 ZIP code for an average price of $252,503 according to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors’ Multiple Listing Service. There are three condos listed for more than $1 million. The next highest condo is listed for $575,000. Without those three $1 million-plus listings, the average condo on the market is priced at $231,409.
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Incentives await new development
$2 million available for Downtown revitalization
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby

ALAN HOWELL | LEE SWETS | MBJ

The Center City Development Corp., a division of the Center City Commission, has awarded $473,208 through retail and office tenant incentives since beginning the programs in late 2008. It currently has $2 million still available for these programs, which many believe are necessary to spark Downtown commercial revitalization efforts. So far there have been six new retail forgivable loans worth $212,460, eight existing retail forgivable loans worth $188,305, four office occupancy grants for $37,500 and three facade improvement grants for $34,943. Art Under A Hot Tin Roof at 117 S. Main was awarded the first incentives, a $35,000 retail forgivable loan and $5,800 facade grant, in February 2009.

A forgivable loan is a 0% interest loan that a business pays back in monthly installments. At the end of each year, the money is refunded back to the business. “It is to help influence someone to open up their business Downtown instead of out East,” says Lisa Brumleve, manager of business recruitment and retention for the Center City Commission. “Downtown is more challenging to open a business in and the retail forgivable loan is set up to make it easier.”

The CCDC is a non-profit entity with nine-member volunteer board that promotes development Downtown. It draw funds for these incentives from the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., which is funded primarily from fees related to payment-in-lieu-of-taxes abatements. When the organization gives tax abatements, the beneficiary pays a fee, which is 1% of the project cost. A tenant must have a five-year lease to be eligible for incentives and the loan total is capped at $40,000. “At the end of five years, it basically turns into a grant because you’re done paying in and we’ve given it all back to you,” Brumleve says. Jim Street, the Center City Commission’s chief financial officer, says business owners give a personal guarantee for these loans in case the business fails. “If they default on the loan, we’ll call the loan and get a judgment against them for the unpaid balance,” Street says.

The personal guarantee allows the organization to get money not just from the business, but from the business owner or any guarantor who vouched for them to get the loan. The CCDC hasn’t had a company fail on these loans yet. Although CCDC doesn’t dictate what the loan is used for, the business owner has to let the organization know how the money will be used. The loan application does require a detailed business plan, as well as a five-year pro forma financial plan. “People can’t just come in with a two-page business plan which says what their dream business is,” Brumleve says. “We have to see how they plan to maintain their business. It needs to be a very well thought-out dream.”

The CCDC started the forgivable loan program for existing businesses because of the economy’s downturn. It was also meant to offset the tightening credit markets. An existing business owner is required to show how the funds will improve the health of their business. Also, Memphis-based business consulting firm alt.Consulting monitors their business for six months. The existing retail loan program covers the whole Central Business Improvement District. Initially, the new retail forgivable loan program was solely focused on Main Street. In March, the program was expanded to include Front Street, Second and Madison up to the Edge District.

Adam Slovis, managing broker with Slovis & Associates, is representing Thompson & Co. while it considers a new office space at 85 Union. The marketing and advertising firm was awarded a $15,000 office occupancy grant on April 21. Its potential lease was helped along when the building’s owner, Union Main Holdings LLC, was awarded a $200,000 development loan by the CCDC board the same morning. These incentives aren’t just important — they’re critical and necessary when working with redeveloping older spaces, according to Slovis. “The construction and redevelopment costs are out of line with the rental rates tenants will pay and for what the banks will loan,” he says. “Downtown has mostly older buildings and they cost more to redevelop.” Rental rates Downtown have dropped over the years, which impacts redevelopment.

The average office lease rate was $14.93 per square foot at year-end 2009, down from $15.27 per square foot at year-end 2008, according to CoStar Group Inc. reports. Similarly, the average retail lease rate was $10.83 per square foot at year-end 2009, down from $11.79 at year-end 2008. “When a tenant can’t pay a market rate compared to what it costs to redevelop a property, these incentive programs are essential in filling the gap and getting these deals done,” Slovis says.

Midge McCauley is president of Downtown Works, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that focuses on Downtown retail recruitment across the country. She says Memphis has more and better incentive programs for its Downtown than most cities in the U.S. “We often use Memphis as a model,” McCauley says. “They’re becoming more common because cities are realizing they have to take a more active role in their retail scene.” McCauley says new retailers are influenced by sales and other retailers operating in the same area. “If you don’t have co-tenancy and sales, then for someone to take the risk to come there often requires incentives,” she says. Incentives aren’t needed forever, McCauley says, but are used to get the redevelopment process started. She points to St. Louis, which had two rounds of forgivable loans for its downtown area and then stopped the program. However, that city is considering another round of incentives due to the recession, according to McCauley.

Although McCauley says Downtown Memphis is ahead of the national curve on retail incentives, there is one issue she thinks could help even more: opening Main Street to traffic. She says only a few cities, like Santa Monica, Calif., and Burlington, Vt., have been successful closing main retail streets to vehicles, but Memphis isn’t one of them. “The incentive program is going to be helpful, but what would be more helpful would be to re-open Main Street to vehicular traffic,” she says. “They’re going to hobble the growth of retail as long as they keep it closed.”
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