The Early Word: Local 110-year-old is full of life, but the Landers hotel isn’t
Millington puts the brakes on data centers, yoga pants are coming to Southaven and our food writer makes her own B-Dubs/Dunkin’ combo meal.
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October 2026
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‘Hollow promises’: DeSoto board demands action on stalled Landers hotel
DeSoto County officials banked on the multimillion-dollar Landers Center expansion being completed alongside a new hotel. Whether half the project gets finished in time is now in question.
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Herrington: Notes and predictions on every NBA team
We’re less than a week away from NBA opening night, and while we’re not quite done with the Memphis Grizzlies’ preseason, let’s take a break to gaze across the landscape in which the home team competes.
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Calkins: She’s 110. Yes, 110. And after all those years, she has learned what matters most.
Martha McAnespie just celebrated her 110th birthday. She had some thoughts about manicotti, the president — and what really endures.
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Millington pauses new data center applications for 6 months
Officials say they want zoning rules in place before a large-scale computing facility is proposed.
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On Tapp for the Tigers: What’s been happening to the Memphis edge rusher ‘has been borderline criminal’
Edge rusher J’Mond Tapp has been making his presence known to opponents of the Memphis Tigers.
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SpaceXAI leases large Southaven warehouse
The transaction is the latest in a series of leases that have given DeSoto County, and the overall Memphis industrial market, multiple quarters of positive absorption.
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Marriott extended-stay hotel opens first Memphis-area location
StudioRes by Marriott opens as Memphis sees an influx of both contractors spurred by SpaceXAI’s local growth and law enforcement officials as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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Table Talk: How Dunkin’ and BWW Go go together
Ever since Sophia Surrett first heard that Buffalo Wild Wings Go would share space with Dunkin’ on Poplar Avenue, she’s been intrigued to see how the two concepts work in one building.
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ALO Yoga confirms Southaven fulfillment and distribution center
ALO, a fashion and lifestyle brand, will invest nearly $176 million and create 400 jobs at a national fulfillment and distribution center in Southaven.
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Bartlett names Oct. 13 for ‘Greybeard’ Sanders, advances Innovation Park
The Bartlett Board of Mayor and Aldermen honors 91-year-old Appalachian Trail record holder and approves $131,479 for Innovation Park.
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The Early Word: Early voting opens, and Penny didn’t spend his own coin
MSCS faces a staffing crisis, the vacant Falls Building gets another chance and an inclusive baseball field is coming to Tobey Park.
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Inked: CrossFit Memphis stretching into bigger space
Also, Alterra IOS buys a Southeast Memphis property, and a locally owned business levels up with a larger location.
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Calkins: It was bedlam at City Hall — as Memphis is at the center of a national debate once again
Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle warned his colleagues: “It’s going to get pretty hot down there,” he said. That was before the council voted to postpone the data center moratorium. And then chaos broke out.
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Falls Building gets 20-year tax freeze
New York-based Left Lane Development, operating as Falls Building Property Owner, bought the 156,000-square-foot building in May 2022 for $10 million with plans to convert it from office to residential.
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Tom Bailey unopposed for Collierville school board
Republican Tom Bailey is staying on Collierville’s Board of Education. His four-year term will begin later this year as he is unopposed in the November election.
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Grizzlies coaching preview: Is Memphis ready to turn the ship?
The question is whether that ship is finally headed somewhere.
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‘It’s a new day’: Huff has his eyes on a trophy bigger than Battle for the Bones
“I came here for one trophy,” Memphis coach Charles Huff said. “Until I get it, I’m not touching another trophy.”
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Belle Mont’s second phase gets 10-year PILOT
The $2.7 million second phase will have 14 units arranged around a central courtyard, a mix of triplexes and duplexes. Construction could start by the end of the year and be done late next year.
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John Beifuss wanted to be a zookeeper. As Memphis’ last full-time film critic, he sort of got his wish.
For Memphis’ early 2000s’ film scene, Commercial Appeal writer John Beifuss was perhaps the right person at the right time, benefiting from local activity and helping spur it.
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An obscure board and the clearest evidence yet the Grizzlies plan to stay
New public documents indicate that local government and the Memphis Grizzlies could come to a new lease at FedExForum in the “near future.”
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51 years ago, someone murdered Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr. But no one has ever been charged.
Fifty-one years after the murder of the legendary Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr., new information has surfaced about a killing that remains intertwined with the history of the famed record company, its musicians, and a distant era in Memphis.
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The Early Word: Pat Neely’s new show and Geoff Calkins’ new pod
The data-center debate continues in Shelby County and North Mississippi, and we take a deep dive into a Memphis music murder mystery.
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Herrington: The more Cam Boozer plays, the easier it is for Grizzlies fans to dream big
“Across eight summer league games and three preseason games, fans who tune in for these ramp-up competitions have seen Cam Boozer’s wide, precocious skill set. And they’ve also gotten a glimpse of his steadiness.”
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2 Memphis college programs named to Billboard’s top music-business schools
Billboard magazine has highlighted two college music programs in Memphis, each with its own unique approach to music industry education.
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