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Innovation & Job News Students at Kingsbury Middle School are greeted on the first day of school by community members showing support after weeks of ICE raids on the Latino community.

Immigrant families get rock star treatment on the first day back to school in Memphis

Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat TennesseeWednesday, August 23, 2017
Innovation & Job News Dr. Chandra Sledge Mathias moved to Memphis from North Carolina last month to begin her work as the Principal of Crosstown High.

Crosstown High School driving to be a 21st century model

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, August 9, 2017
Innovation & Job News A pocket park recently built across from the Greater White Stone Baptist Church is one example of the type of project the Empowerment Fund would support.

A new Community LIFT Empowerment Fund looks to lift up small, neighborhood projects

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, August 2, 2017
Innovation & Job News Works Cities will help the city of Memphis develop a comprehensive open data policy with the goal of making the city's data more usable and accessible to citizens.

Memphis picked for Bloomberg's What Works Cities Initiative in a 'partnership to expertise'

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, July 26, 2017
Innovation & Job News Thomas & Betts is looking to invest $20.7 million and add 75 employees when they transfer to ServiceMaster’s former headquarters at 860 Ridge Lake Blvd. in East Memphis.

Thomas & Betts planned expansion into East Memphis to add 75 jobs and over $20M in investment

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, July 19, 2017
Innovation & Job News The new TAG Truck Center will have full-service body shop, retail store and distribution center along with a technician training facility.

New TAG Truck Center and training facility on pace for revitalization of the former Mall of Memphis

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, July 12, 2017
Innovation & Job News The city targeted Peabody Place for the project due to its excess capacity. For two blocks, a lane of traffic was removed but it’s still similar to what was there before – parking on both sides of the street, one lane eastbound, one lane westbound. T

Great Streets pilot project reshapes vision for Memphis roadways

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, June 28, 2017
Innovation & Job News A local vigil at the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center for the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

New timeline catalogs Memphis' LGBTQ history

J. Dylan SandiferWednesday, June 21, 2017
Innovation & Job News The FrontDoor team are proud of their new offices at The Ground Floor in the ServiceMaster innovation center. From left, Cathi Ladd, Jessica Buffington, Kelly Schricker and Leah Long.

Real estate startup FrontDoor is the first tenant in ServiceMaster innovation center

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, June 21, 2017
Innovation & Job News Tami Sawyer, NAACP political action chair, speaks at a recent protest in favor of federal oversight of Memphis' juvenile court.

Opponents push back against Shelby County’s move to end federal oversight of local juvenile court

J. Dylan SandiferWednesday, June 21, 2017
Innovation & Job News Explore Bike Share will introduce the industry’s first and largest BCycle Dash system to Memphis by the spring of 2018, with 60 stations and 600 bikes with a planned 30-station and 300-bike expansion in 2019.

Bike share program will connect South Memphis, Orange Mound & Binghampton with core city

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, June 14, 2017
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