An amended site plan was filed for the East Memphis mall site as part of the investors’ efforts to rezone the 31-acre property.

A vacant, 6,700-square-foot medical office building in Midtown will also go to auction in June. 

The data center is expected to create more than 250 direct and indirect jobs in the Memphis area, with an investment of more than $500 million.

Belly Acres will open in Collierville on Saturday, May 3; Bluff City Coffee closed its Downtown location, and Highland Strip has added an Indian cuisine option. 

Plus, Midtown apartments sell for $3.1 million, and an urgent care clinic for pets is coming to the Bartlett area. 

The company behind Petals of a Peony will open a new concept in a month, Ryu Sushi is in the process of transferring ownership, and Rise Southern Biscuits and Righteous Chicken will open in East Memphis this summer in the former City Silo in Sanderlin Center. 

Also, a Houston Levee Road church expands, there’s a new car dealership near Covington Pike and an extended-stay hotel opens in Cordova.

Harold Moss reigned as chairman of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council Make-A-Wish Golf Tournament for 15 years — since its inception.

A new Sichuan restaurant should open by the year’s end in East Memphis, Wings House expanded from Southaven and A1 Wings & Things opened its first location in Cordova. 

The company expects to invest nearly $21 million in the project with more than $3.1 million for renovations and site improvements and $18 million in equipment and personal property.

Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time received two grants Wednesday, April 16, to help build the immersive adventure museum at the former Mississippi River Museum on Mud Island.

The 2019 loan was secured by a deed of trust on the Lenox Office Park, which became collateral after the lending moved into “advanced foreclosure stage,” JLL’s listing said.

While the chain has offerings throughout the suburb, the Exeter Village store will be Germantown’s first standalone Starbucks with a drive-thru.

March home sales bounced back from February’s icy days as the spring market begins to flower. 

Hosted by the Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council, the Pinnacle Awards honor the top commercial real estate professionals and projects each year.

The Gourmet Gallery owners will open a new soul food restaurant at 629 Chelsea Ave., the former Ms. Girlee’s Soul Food. Also, a new burger restaurant is coming to Arlington.

In other news, apartments, offices and retail are planned for the former TV station at 2701 Union Ave. Extended. 

MidtownMemphis.org is encouraging residents to speak out against Memphis 3.0’s future land use map, but other residents say the city’s zoning plan will be beneficial.

“There’s nothing sad about any of this,” Falling Into Place owner Mary Claire White said. “I feel really, really good about what I’ve done for 10 years. I’m excited to focus on the next thing.”

“It’s just a super exciting time to be in real estate as our economy is going through this transformation,” said Kemp Conrad of Cushman & Wakefield.

The Texas-based wholesale egg distributor plans to operate near the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. 

XAI’s first Memphis data center Colossus dwells in a former Electrolux plant in Southwest Memphis. It is arguably one of the most valuable machines in the world controlled by someone with unrivaled wealth and galactic ambitions.

The latest from the no-frills national grocery chain will be located at 785 Union Ave., in a building that once housed an Office Depot. 

 Malco says it will only sell if it’s “the right thing to do.”

The summit discussed affordable housing in Memphis as the summit theme centered around creating generational wealth in Black communities where systemic inequities halt homeownership.