MEMPHIS | Development News

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Blues Foundation Eyes Permanent Digs
TOM WILEMON | The Daily News

The Blues Foundation, the organization that keeps Memphis at the forefront of the music genre, wants a lasting home in the city.

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52583

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Timberlake Celebrates Improved Golf Course
AP

MEMPHIS (AP) – Singer Justin Timberlake is celebrating the reopening of his Memphis golf course.

Mirimichi has been closed since mid-January for improvements. A news release from the course says it now offers a "world class golf experience at a public course without expensive memberships, minimums or monthly dues."

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52613

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Saint Francis Begins Work on Imaging Center
TOM WILEMON | The Daily News

Construction workers on Tuesday began renovating space at Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett for a new outpatient diagnostic imaging center.

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52624

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Architectural Stories
Home and garden tour chronicles Memphis styles
TOM WILEMON | The Daily News

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52621

Photos: Lance Murphey

A home at 1592 Central Ave. is part of the 34th annual Central Gardens home tour, which spans 60 years of architecture from a 1907 limestone mansion to the 1967 house Frank Gassner built for himself.


A home at 1554 Peabody Ave. is part of the 34th annual Central Gardens home and garden tour, which spans 60 years of architecture from a 1907 limestone mansion to the 1967 house Frank Gassner built for himself. This year’s tour will be held on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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IberiaBank moving HQ to Memphis from Germantown
Memphis Business Journal - by Christopher Sheffield

IberiaBank is moving its headquarters into Memphis from Germantown following a recent deal to purchase a 25,000-square-foot vacant bank on Poplar near Mendenhall.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...06/story3.html

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Fan Friendly
Tiger Lane rejuvenates Liberty Bowl’s football festivities
BILL DRIES | The Daily News

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52604

Photos: Lance Murphey

This panoramic image shows construction on Tiger Lane, left, which is west of Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium at the Mid-South Fairgrounds. The $15 million project will create approximately 600 tailgating spaces and new entrance roads onto the property. Fans attending the University of Memphis, Southern Heritage Classic and AutoZone Liberty Bowl football games will have access to Tiger Lane, which is nearly complete.


Antonio Miller, from left, Terance Crawford and Sammy Grigsby of West Memphis Fence & Construction work on a fence surrounding a new fountain area at Tiger Lane.

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New Restaurants Planned for Downtown
ANDY MEEK | The Daily News

Two new eateries will soon be added to Downtown’s restaurant mix: an upscale Irish pub planned for 152 Madison Ave. serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a new restaurant and bakery at 314 S. Main St. that will offer treats like cupcakes, wine and coffee.

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52670


The Brass Door
– Rendering courtesy of Architecture Inc.

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Downtown Hilton to break ground in November

Luxury Hotel Planned for SoFo
ANDY MEEK | The Daily News

An 11-story, 298-room luxury hotel is in the works for a vacant lot across from FedExForum. Plans for the $68.7 million development project that will bring a new Hilton-branded hotel to the corner of Linden Avenue and Fourth Street will go before the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. Tuesday.

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52646

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Bardog's Aldo DeMartino plans Midtown restaurant, The Slider Inn
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby

Local restaurateurs are taking advantage of a down economy to snatch up spaces for expansion.

The latest is Aldo DeMartino, owner of Bardog Tavern at 73 Monroe, who just signed a five-year lease to open The Slider Inn at the former Bluff City Bayou space at 2117 Peabody Ave.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...6/daily21.html


ALAN HOWELL | MBJ
Former Bluff City Bayou restaurant at Cooper and Peabody will become home to The Slider Inn, being developed by restaurateur Aldo DeMartino.

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AIA Memphis is ready for monthlong celebration of architecture
By Tom Bailey Jr.

American Institute of Architects (AIA) Memphis offers tours, lectures, exhibits, films and other events throughout September to celebrate Architecture Month. But one of the highlights might be a place instead of an event. The new headquarters for AIA Memphis opens this month in time to play a role in the activities.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news...t-of-the-city/


Photo by Kyle Kurlick
The opening of the new American Institute of Architects Memphis headquarters on South Main will be one of the main attractions of this year's celebration of Architecture Month.

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Entertainment District Set for North Mississippi
AP

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – The state's second official entertainment district will be in Tupelo. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann joined city leaders to make the announcement on Friday. The site will be located at the Elvis Presley birthplace. Meridian was named Mississippi's first entertainment district in July.

http://memphisdailynews.com/editoria....aspx?id=52724

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20-story Hyatt Summerfield Suites coming to Memphis Medical Center.

Memphis Bioworks hotel gets $2M boost from federal grant
Memphis Business Journal - by Michael Sheffield

The City of Memphis and Memphis Bioworks Foundation have received a $2 million grant that will be applied toward development of a a 167-room hotel at 969 Madison.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...6/daily23.html


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Rendering of proposed hotel at 969 Madison

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Jackson chamber nabs $500K grant to market West TN Megasite
Memphis Business Journal

Haywood County — located northeast of Memphis — also is the site of the West Tennessee Solar Farm, where construction is expected to begin next month.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...l?surround=lfn

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Health Care Realty seeks PILOT for new Southeast Memphis hospital
Memphis Business Journal - by Christopher Sheffield

Health Care Realty of Memphis LLC is seeking a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes incentive for a long-term acute care hospital and outpatient facility in Southeast Memphis’ Kirby Gate development in Southeast Memphis.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...l?surround=lfn

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TDOT to install roundabout at I-55/Crump intersection
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby

TDOT pic
http://news.tennesseeanytime.org/sys...0Alt%20Z-1.PDF

The new design, labeled “alternate Z-1,” was picked to relieve congestion at the high-traffic interchange and to avoid impact to the nearby French Fort neighborhood. The roundabout will allow universal access for all north, south, east and westbound local traffic. I-55 will go just west of the roundabout, allowing truck traffic to bypass it.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...l?surround=lfn

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Midtown Memphis runs on Dunkin'

Dunkin Donuts plans Union Avenue location in Midtown
Memphis Business Journal - by Andy Ashby

Dunkin Donuts should fill a vacancy on Union Avenue by Christmas with an adaptive redesign of an existing retail property.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...l?surround=lfn


Photo Credit : COURTESY LEININGER MCCULLOUGH ARCHITECTURE LLC

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Southwest, Fayette County partner to build new, $3M education facility
Memphis Business Journal

Southwest Tennessee Community College is partnering with community leaders in Fayette County to develop the Fayete County Higher Education Center, a 26,000-square-foot, $3 million educational facility. The building will sit on 10 acres on Highway 64 in Somerville, Tenn. When completed, Southwest will manage it and be the primary educational tenant, but it will have adjunct space for the University of Memphis, the University of Tennessee-Martin and the Tennessee Technology Center at Whiteville.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memph...l?surround=lfn

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By the numbers: Bartlett unveils ambitious plan to capitalize on its growing technology industries
The Commercial Appeal
By Toby Sells

$2 billion in new capital investments. 50,000 new jobs. $2.5 billion in total income. 30 percent population growth. 10 years. These are the numbers driving Bartlett's new economic development plan: "Vision 20/20." The Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce introduced the push to local business leaders last week. It is expected to give ammunition to the chamber to help draw the eyes of business executives looking to start a business in the Bartlett area or move or consolidate their current operations there.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news...y-the-numbers/

Photos by Michael McMullan/ The Commercial Appeal

Joseph M. DeVivo, president of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, in front of the company's new corporate headquarters on Goodlett Farms Parkway which it hopes to move into in early 2011.


David Drewery and Hector Perez install a Smith & Nephew sign at the entrance to the company's new corporate headquarters on Goodlett Farms Parkway. The two work for Williams Sign Company.


Lush landscaped gardens surround the future corporate headquarters of Smith & Nephew on Goodlett Farms Road, left from when the land was home to Harrah's corporate offices.


Michael McMullan / The Commercial Appeal
Cedric Wallace chisels tile inside the former Harrah's corporate headquarters where workers were busy transforming it into the new home of Smith & Nephew on Goodlett Farms Parkway. Wallace was working for GrinderTaber Grinder contractors.

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Open road: Bicyclists already trying out Shelby Farms Greenline
The Commercial Appeal
By Tom Charlier

6.5-mile pedestrian and biking trail between Tillman and Shelby Farms is usable following the completion of paving work earlier this week. The completion comes about seven months after ground was broken in February. The official ribbon-cutting won't occur until Oct. 5, with formal dedication ceremonies planned four days after that.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news...artner=popular


Photo by Mark Weber
Bicyclists -- including hands-free BMX rider Eric "Memphis Treeman" Moreland -- have discovered the newly paved Shelby Farms Greenline near Holmes, which won't open until next month.