Residents had mixed feelings about both selling their home to SpaceXAI and the noise its power plant creates.

Assessor Javier Bailey Sr. says empty Downtown office towers and lost tourism spending are shrinking the county’s tax base. He is planning a November summit to build a five-year strategy.

The building, owned by the same family since 1918, will have three boxcar-style kitchens, a bar, a stage and a planned video game room.

Two women are teaming up on an affordable-housing development in North Memphis, another move in the momentum to bring more new homes to the city.

“Because of the energy infrastructure that (Elon Musk is) getting, not just from Tennessee but also from Mississippi, you could see the greatest boom since FedEx in this town. You need to double down here.”

A new Academy Sports in Millington is part of a stream of businesses coming to the North Shelby County suburb.

The second oldest church in Memphis, First Presbyterian Church has been at the corner of Poplar Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard since 1832. After 194 years, its flock is searching for a new home. 

“I would say that the repurposing of former retail spaces to owner-occupants or local investors has kind of been our sweet spot,” said one of the brokers in this week’s transactions. 

Jerry and Diane Coletta sold the 8,800-square-foot building on Monday, Sept. 21, to Dulce Lucero Mejia and Humberto Camarena Padilla, the owners of a nearby Casa Mexicana location. 

At the corner of Second and Madison, four stories of an 116-year-old building have remained vacant. A local investment team plans to open it up to residents and business once more.

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Meritage Hospitality Group vows uninterrupted operations for employees and suppliers while Carlisle Corp. positions for additional acquisitions.

Build-out and activity is bustling at SpaceXAI’s DeSoto County operation, less than a mile from Memphis and unperturbed by the political winds blowing to the north. 

The Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis and Shelby County increased its funding for the development that includes single family homes near Colonial Country Club.

The 112‑room Hilton Tapestry will feature meeting space, a restaurant, lobby bar and a 114‑seat rooftop bar.

A Pennsylvania-based company adds a Cordova apartment complex to its local portfolio.

Also in this edition of Inked: A new Academy Sports + Outdoors is opening in Millington, and a South Memphis shopping center has sold.

The new owner hopes to bring the Belmont Grill concept back to the space. 

With more staff, new equipment and expanded outreach, the Downtown Memphis Commission reports record levels of cleanup and maintenance, thanks in part to a bike-mounted street sweeper named after a blues legend.

The Lobbyist is advancing to the next phase of a more than $200,000 renovation.

A local private investment company bought Sycamore View Plaza, a retail center on Summer Avenue for more than $3 million.

Also in this edition of Inked: August homes sales go down while prices go up, Los Angeles firm buys in Southeast Memphis and Litchfield buys on Senator Street.

Interior designers Cameron Howell and Greg Baudoin are turning a Racine Street building into showroom, with plans to develop it into a resource center for the city’s design community.

The Downtown Memphis Commission Design Review Board will review three projects at its Sept. 9 meeting.

With one location in the works, the California-based fast-food chain may have found a second spot in the Memphis area.

The main building includes a 200-seat performance hall and office space. The other part is a studio-apartment building.