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Innovation & Job News Volunteers facilitate recycling at the 2017 Orange Mound Parade.

Throwin' down and picking it back up again: the Orange Mound parade goes green

The annual Orange Mound parade is something the community looks forward to all year. This year brought a new attraction: recycling bins. 

Feature Story Elite Starz of Nashville make their way down the parade route.

In photos: A mile-long community at the Orange Mound parade

Doors of churches, businesses and homes are opened to people who want to have a good time while watching the one mile-long stretch of their neighborhood pulse with energy for about three hours the second Saturday of September. The faces and moments along the route help inform a portrait of a community.

Feature Story Listen To America Small

HuffPost, High Ground News & MLK50 to discuss economic inequality in Memphis

Why is it so hard for black and brown businesses to get their share of the green? Join the discussion here. 

Feature Story Rico Fields serves a line of hungry concert-goers during Soul Roll Saturdays at the Hi-Tone Cafe.

Memphis pop-up food vendors fry under the radar

Because pop-up restaurants, from-home restaurants, and food trucks are a fairly recent phenomenon, legislation and regulations haven’t quite been able to match the speed at which the trend evolves, making the business model a sort of Wild West for would-be restaurateurs. They just have to make sure they don’t get nicked by the Sheriff.


Feature Story Melrose Football

Video: Friday night lights at Melrose Stadium

"I know that this stadium has been the focal point of not only football games but entertainment in Orange Mound. And when we have games, you can look for the community to come out in full force," said Shirley Collins, a longtime resident of Orange Mound.

Development News Jeff Tumlin

New public speaker series to address importance of urban planning

A series of events focusing on the creation of the Memphis 3.0 comprehensive plan and featuring national planning and development experts is coming to Memphis thanks to a partnership from the Urban Land Institute and the University of Memphis Design Collaborative.


Development News Crosstown Concourse

Tech startup Greenline Pet signs on with Crosstown Concourse

Greenline Pet software development company is the newest business to sign a lease to move into the newly redeveloped Crosstown Concourse, with plans to move into its 2,500-square-foot space on the fourth floor by the first quarter of next year.


Feature Story Memphis Comic Expo organizer Donnie Juengling holds a Shinobi comic by local creators Martheus and Janet Wade.

For the love of comics: Comic culture grows at 4th annual expo

Comic book fandom and culture has exploded over the past decade with the rise of mainstream Marvel and DC Comics-related movies and television shows, as well as the massive popularity of comic franchises like The Walking Dead. Now in its fourth year, the Memphis Comic Expo celebrates the creators of those properties as well as those of smaller, independent artists and publishers.  

Development News Hanan Hishe Soulsville Market

Dormant South Memphis convenience store to reopen as Soulsville Market

A convenience store serving hot food will be returning to the area near to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music later this month as the Soulsville Market.

Feature Story The demolition of Foote Homes began in July.

South City: Housing a neighborhood in transition

What benefit is a mixed-income housing project to an impoverished community? 

Feature Story Dr. Medhi Sadeghi and hygienist Kathy Davidson, who has worked with him for 19 years.

Iranian immigrant Dr. Sadeghi has spent two decades making Memphians smile

A Memphis entrepreneur reflects on the years spent practicing dentistry in the Bluff City. 

Innovation & Job News Indie Memphis will host the world premiere of Wilson's "Thom Pain."

Indie Memphis Film Festival grows beyond a regional event

Founded in 1998, the Indie Memphis Film Festival has blossomed from a screening for film enthusiasts to an internationally-recognised festival topping over 11,000 attendees for 200 films, panel workshops, live music and parties. It has expanded to a year-round organization with screenings and education for filmmakers and audiences alike.


Development News Baptist Specialty Pharmacy

Baptist expands reach of its new specialty pharmacy

Patients across the Mid-South region with a disease state treated by specialists like oncologists, neurologists, and gastroenterologists now have a new specialty pharmacy to help with their needs. The Baptist Specialty Pharmacy on Baptist Memorial Hospital’s East Memphis campus at 6025 Walnut Grove in the physician office building adjacent to the hospital is the first of its kind for Baptist and serves its entire local footprint of Mississippi and Tennessee.


Development News Orange Mound

New community organization focuses on self-sufficiency in Orange Mound

“We have crime that is tainting the image of our community and we are going to do something about it,” said Britney Thornton, executive director of JUICE Orange Mound.  

Feature Story A game of basketball along Radford Road in Orange Mound.

New leaders bring progress to historic Orange Mound

Both younger and older generations have ideas to improve and preserve and expand the community’s economic, educational, and philanthropic footprint and remain a relevant and vibrant neighborhood in Memphis.


Feature Story Liz Gutierrez, founder and CEO of Enterprising Latinas.

How to create jobs and help neighborhoods prosper? Support local entrepreneurs

Neighborhood entrepreneurs do not share the glamour nor glean even a fraction of the funding their better-known cousins in technology do. Yet leaders of organizations that support neighborhood entrepreneurs can attest to their ability to deliver an oversized impact to form the foundation for turning around troubled neighborhoods. 

Development News Crosstown Concourse construction

More openings on tap at Crosstown Concourse over the next year

The $200 million Crosstown Concourse mixed-use project celebrated its grand opening on August 19, but more work is still underway for new commercial and retail tenants that will move in over the next year.


Innovation & Job News The XQ Super School bus rolled into Memphis to welcome Crosstown High to the family.

XQ Super School Project taps Crosstown High to reinvent what education looks like for the future

Now part of a national partnership to rethink high school, Memphis has a seat at the table to envision new learning models and put them into practice when they open in 2018.


Innovation & Job News The Memphis College of Art will offer a Fashion Design Certificate in the fall.

Memphis College of Art offers new certificate program in fashion design

The MCA Fashion Design Certficate program is an intensive nine-month program to learn the conceptual thinking and technical skills needed to create fashion designs or work in the fashion industry.

Feature Story Ghost Signs

Ghost signs show Memphis commerce of days long gone

Ghost signs hang on to the sides of brick buildings in Memphis. An acute eye can show the changes in manufacturing and retail that read like a map across the façade of Memphis.