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Feature Story Dust to Dawn’s motto is “Do it right the first time.” Her goal is to simplify the lives of busy clients through dependable service.

Dust to Dawn entrepreneur uses success, lessons to empower local women

Aisling MakiWednesday, August 9, 2017

Sarah Opara-Nadi made the leap to self-employment in 2011, founding Dust to Dawn, which provides professional services to residential and commercial clients in Fayette and Shelby Counties and North Mississippi.

Development News DSG EDGE rendering

DSG plans to transform Edge District with live-work-play concept

Michael WaddellMonday, August 7, 2017

New life is on the way for 10 acres within the Edge District, as Development Services Group (DSG) has announced plans for $73 million in redevelopment along Madison and Monroe Avenues, that will include historic properties like the former Wonder Bread factory.

Development News Buff City Soap

Rapid expansion underway for Buff City Soap

Michael WaddellFriday, August 4, 2017

When former Memphis firefighter Brad Kellum turned 40 four years ago, he decided to make a career change. He and his girlfriend Jennifer Ziemianin began experimenting with different ways to make soap from plant oils in their garage in Bartlett.

Innovation & Job News A Healthier Tennessee Neighborhoods focus group hosted by VECA earlier in July, featured representatives from the Crosstown and Klondike Smokey City CDCs.

Healthier Tennessee Neighborhoods taps Memphis for new health and wellness pilot program

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, August 2, 2017
With public health issues, like Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure on the rise in Tennessee, the Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness launches new urban health program, Healthier Tennessee Neighborhoods, with Memphis as the pilot city.
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

Community LIFT launches new Empowerment Fund, a small grant endowment designed to assist residents and grassroots organizations with funding for community improvement work.

Feature Story Sarah Baumann launched Sealed Signet on Etsy in 2015, featuring original illustrations of cities and their special places.

Signet Sealed delivers colorful city prints with a personal touch

Rachel WarrenWednesday, August 2, 2017

Sarah Baumann illustrates the special pieces of a city in 8x10 or 11x14 prints, including those places that locals call their favorite part of their city.

Feature Story The Universal Life building at the corner of Danny Thomas and Martin Luther King Blvd.

Long-stalled development projects moving forward across the Memphis area

Michael WaddellWednesday, August 2, 2017

Projects include restoration of the Universal Life Building downtown, plans for multifamily units in Midtown, a new pedestrian bridge in the Pinch District, a Trader Joe’s in Germantown and the former Justine’s restaurant building in South Memphis.

Feature Story Binghampton Gateway retail center is under construction at Sam Cooper and Tillman. Eonomic Development

Binghampton, Frayser Gateway Centers and proposed TIF plan model on how to revitalize communities

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, August 2, 2017

Two high-need areas in Memphis, Binghampton and Frayser, are ramping up investment in their communities with incoming Gateway retail centers and a proposed neighborhood tax-increment financing plan.

Development News MEMFix

BLDG Memphis spearheads city’s MEMFix efforts

Michael WaddellTuesday, August 1, 2017
The benefits of the local MEMFix program, which helps to reinvigorate underutilized areas around the city by redesigning and temporarily activating specific city blocks, have been multifaceted over the past five years.
Development News Memphis Riverfront development concept

City unveils early plans for riverfront redevelopment

Michael WaddellMonday, July 31, 2017

Ideas for possible future redevelopment of the Memphis riverfront were on display recently as the City of Memphis and Chicago-based architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang presented concepts that would transform six miles along the Mississippi River.

Feature Story Over 100 people gathered at Martyr Park and marched down Riverside Drive to Beale Street in order to create visibility around the impact the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have had on the Latin American immigrant population in Memphis.

ICE Storm: Immigration officers target Latino families; worry Shelby County Schools

J. Dylan SandiferSaturday, July 29, 2017
The flurry of arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the past week drew the attention of Shelby County Schools, which worries that undocumented parents will not enroll their children in the next school year out of fear of deportation. 
Development News The Truffle Pig Germantwn

The Truffle Pig unearths treasures with new store in Germantown

Michael WaddellFriday, July 28, 2017
Entrepreneurs Tara Gorman and Tricia Atkins opened The Truffle Pig in Germantown because they wanted to do their own thing after operating online and trekking regularly to Oxford, Miss., to antique stores to sell their wares.
Innovation & Job News To cool the Allen Plant, the energy provider will drill wells 650 feet deep and pump 3.5 million gallons of water from the Memphis Sand aquifer per day.

Clean water matters to new activist group formed to educate the public issues related to H2O

Kim and Jim ColemanWednesday, July 26, 2017
Since the beginning of the year, Clean Water Memphis has been meeting weekly to discuss the issues that compromise the integrity of what's considered some of the purest drinking water in the country.
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
On July 12, the City of Memphis joined What Works Cities, a philanthropic organization tasked with improving local government by enhancing the use of data. The cohort is now 85 cities strong in 37 states.
Feature Story Brother Phap Nang and Sister Khai Nghiem with a practitioner at the Rhodes Day of Mindfulness.

Rhodes College initiative seeks to foster compassionate students

Lesley YoungWednesday, July 26, 2017
Launched in 2015, the Rhodes Compassionate Campus Initiative encourages inclusive dialogue and mindfulness both in and outside of the classroom.
Feature Story Local leaders from the Muslim community assist at the Thistle & Bee farm.

Sound & Color: MLGW hoax, 1968 sanitation workers speak out

Molly MulroyWednesday, July 26, 2017
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Feature Story The boarded up storefront on Vance Avenue near Danny Thomas Boulevard most recently served as a corner store.

Unbanked: The high cost of doing business in ZIP 38126

J. Dylan SandiferWednesday, July 26, 2017
If I drive in South Memphis, or North Memphis or Frayser, I see more pawn shops, more payday loans than anything. If I drive in Germantown, if I drive in Cordova, you have to have a magnifying glass to see one. They flash across the TV screens here. It's more in our neighborhood than other neighborhoods.
Feature Story Cinthya Bolanos, a rising sophomore at Rhodes College, spent the summer break at Regional One Health Care’s Innovation Center, where she worked to create a culture of innovation in the hospital.

LITE Memphis connects budding entrepreneurs to network through internships

Aisling MakiWednesday, July 26, 2017
LITE Memphis is using its system of local businesses to connect young people to the right network through a new internship program called City of Tomorrow. The nonprofit is placing students in intern positions that will help them garner skills, knowledge and social connections.
Development News Memphis Fire House #3

Former Downtown fire station to ignite musical creativity

Michael WaddellTuesday, July 25, 2017
Downtown's historic former Memphis Fire Station No. 3, which dates back to the early 1900s when firefighters used horse-drawn carriages, will see new life as renovation work is underway for its new tenant, the Memphis Music Initiative.
Development News French Truck Crosstown

French Truck Coffee cafe and roastery opens at Crosstown

Michael WaddellMonday, July 24, 2017
With an intense dedication to respecting the flavor of its high quality coffee beans, French Truck Coffee has opened its second location in Memphis, moving into a 3,500-square-foot space at the newly redeveloped Crosstown Concourse
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