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Crosstown Concourse was loud on Thursday. The City of Memphis and the Collective Blueprint launched NextUp901, a free career program for adults between 18 and 30 who are out of school and out of work, and the room filled with the exact crowd it was built for. The offer is simple enough to say in…

Start with a number worth sitting with: 3 million. That is how many separate donations Chili’s guests made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the past year alone, most of them a dollar handed over at a checkout. Stack 24 years of that together and the total clears $130 million. This week Chili’s set…

Mark Wahlberg spent Tuesday inside a 32 story glass pyramid on the Mississippi River, which is a sentence only one city gets to write. He came to relaunch Wahlburgers Wild at Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid, still the only Wahlburgers on the planet built inside a Bass Pro Shops, and the only one with…

The groundbreaking at 1390 Marechalneil Street looked like every other groundbreaking: hard hats, shiny shovels, a fresh mound of sand. The paperwork underneath it is the part worth talking about. ABODE, the Orange Mound Community Land Trust, is putting up 12 homes built to stay affordable long after the first owner moves in. The model…

Medical devices. Package tracking. Ride services. The through line connecting those Memphis companies is a downtown nonprofit that has spent nearly a decade making the first phone call, writing the first check and sitting in the first pitch meeting. Epicenter, founded in 2017, works as educator, early investor and support system for founders across the…

Memphis football comes home Saturday, Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. against Arkansas State, and the building waiting on the crowd is not the one that closed out last season. Saturday is the first game since the completion of the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium renovation that started in 2024. The most obvious change is the new…

A Memphis headquartered bank is about to show up on the front of Tennessee jerseys. First Horizon has extended its partnership with Tennessee Athletics and will become the program’s first ever jersey patch sponsor, a reported $120 million agreement over 10 years according to the Memphis Business Journal. The patch spans football plus volleyball, soccer,…

Something new is rolling onto the streets of Memphis. The Memphis Area Transit Authority has welcomed a new fleet of buses, 12 to start, the first visible piece of an effort of nearly $50 million to modernize public transportation across the city. Interim CEO Rodrick Holmes says the investment was a long time coming. “We…

Blog 4 Preview – Grizzlies Prep Grizzlies Prep has officially opened the doors on its new campus in South Memphis, giving the growing charter school more room to expand its STEM programming. The school, which carries the Memphis Grizzlies name and mission into the classroom, has built its reputation around pairing rigorous academics with the…