Comeback Coffee and the adjacent Greenhaus were small businesses, but they represented a vision for what may be the “last frontier of Downtown Memphis.” 

North Memphis residents met Tuesday night to hear the latest on the long-delayed plan for a pedestrian and bike pathway stretching from Chelsea and Evergreen to Washington Park. 

Satellite Music Hall, slated to open in fall 2026, will host concerts, comedy shows, community gatherings and more.

Two men shot at each other at Raleigh Walmart, but they both missed. One of the men, however, shot himself in the leg and is in critical condition. Police have detained the other man, with charges likely.

In addition to competing, barbecue teams will have the opportunity to sell select menu items to attendees. 

Shelly Rice invited Mike Ellis, senior pastor of Frayser’s Impact Baptist Church, to helm the weekly Thursday meetings that have become the envy of other Memphis neighborhoods who crave consistent community engagement.

Leadership Memphis hosted the MLK Health and Wellness Day event as part of its volunteer efforts around the city tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. 

“We hear a lot about restaurants closing here in Memphis, and they just leave, but this is one that we should say, ‘Thank you for all the things you have done for us. After 40 years, this family deserves all the flowers.”

The funds would have to be allocated at the Shelby County Commission’s meetings on Dec. 11 and Dec. 16, the last two before the end of the year. 

With a steady hand and a needle and thread, Rose Wheeler taught herself patience again. 

“We would like to have to be first choice for the new chemical engineers, data scientists, chemists that are coming out of the local universities,” said the company’s CEO. “We also hope to attract talent from around the country and perhaps even around the world to come to Memphis.”

At Hawkins Mill Elementary, chronic absenteeism plummeted. And at Trezevant High, graduation rates climbed closer to the district average. Both had been among Tennessee’s bottom 5% for over a decade.

“The new venue will be a unique addition to the city and bring even more exciting shows to Memphis,” said Grant Lyman, president of Live Nation Southeast. 

Up to 400 families received canned goods, electrolyte mixes, games, books, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, makeup and other toiletry items Thursday, Nov. 7.

Command staff, recruits, officers and their friends and community partners will paint, put in siding and install doors and windows as part of a Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis project at Imperial Avenue and Pearce Street. 

The $81 million, 270,000-square-foot Northside Square development is partnered with the work of restored and new affordable housing under the banner of “Moving Klondike Forward.”

The Wraparound District 6 strategy, which received an initial $600,000 investment that will be managed by the School Seed Foundation, will address public safety, public health and public education in north Shelby County.

The project leaders of the redevelopment of the former Northside High School in Memphis’ oldest Black community announced on Thursday, Oct. 17, that the residential financials have closed. 

An alumnus donated 50 pairs of Nike Dunk sneakers — free for each of Delano Elementary’s kindergarten students.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young and members of the Blight Zero team filed into a bus and rode to the sites of several active or recent demolitions on Friday, Sept. 20.

After closing school on Tuesday, students at Cornerstone Prep Denver returned to class Wednesday with the support of counselors. 

Police say the carjacking suspect fired shots at officers during a foot pursuit. TBI is reviewing the shooting.

Working for 15 years to reduce recidivism in Memphis, Lifeline to Success has helped some 2,271 former inmates navigate life after incarceration.

Southwest sold its Gill Center to education neighbors Libertas, who plan to renovate the building for a middle school expansion, the organizations announced Wednesday.

MSCS Superintendent Marie Feagins says Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School, shuttered last week by its state-takeover operators, will stay open this fall and expand to take on students from Humes Middle School. MSCS closed Humes earlier this spring.