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December 25-31, 2015, Vol. 8, Issue 53
BUILDING
BOOM
TWO AT
A TIME
St. Jude, Le Bonheur
and Methodist are
all embarking on
major expansion
projects at their Downtown campuses,
including Methodist's $275 million plans to add
a parking garage and new building. P. 6-7
To combat lot
shortage, local
residential developers
and builders are taking
on small subdivisions
in East Memphis and
Midtown. P. 11
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SHELBY
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FAYETTE
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TIPTON
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»
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MADISON
Midway
Point
After 15 years, Uptown prepares for
another growth spurt P. 16
Henry Turley and Uptown coordinator Tanja Mitchell stroll past houses Turley developed on Mill Avenue.
(Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
THE BUSINESS
OF GIVING
SPORTS
SPENDING
Business community
shows giving is 365
days a year. P. 15
Tiger Bookstore
adapts to changing
landscape. P. 19
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DIGEST: PAGES 2-5
| ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PAGE 8 |
RECAP: PAGE 10
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SPORTS: PAGE 20
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EDITORIAL: PAGE 30
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Developers Buy Land For
Downtown Cambria Hotel
The two Ohio-based development firms
planning to build a Cambria Hotel & Suites
in Downtown Memphis have purchased the
property for the proposed 166-unit hotel.
C&O Memphis LLC, an entity affiliated
with Ceres Enterprises LLC and The Orlean
Co., purchased the 3.2-acre vacant property
on the south side of Union from CCL Label
for $3.5 million, according to a Dec. 17 warranty deed.
The two development companies
floated plans for the hotel this summer,
with renderings showing a four-story brick
and glass building close to the street. The
development received Memphis City Council approval in November.
The land, which is bounded by Union
and Gayoso avenues east of South Fourth
Street and south of AutoZone Park, has
been vacant since the CCL Label facility
was demolished in 2008 – a year after the
Framingham, Mass.-based label and packaging solutions provider relocated its local
operations to Collierville.
The five sold lots bear the addresses
267 Union, 283 Gayoso, 0 Gayoso and two
related parcels at 285 Union.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property
appraised them at a combined $1.7 million
this year.
Maryland-based Choice Hotels International Inc., the parent company of the
Cambria Hotels & Suites brand, is listed as
the lender in a $3 million mortgage related
to the sale.
CBRE represented the buyer in the
transaction. Lewis Miller, with CBRE in
Atlanta, and Brian Whaley and Stephen
Steinbach, CBRE Memphis, represented
the buyer.
The portfolio includes Herff Jones, BSN
Sports and Varsity Spirit.
Varsity Brands is owned by Charlesbank
Capital Partners, a Boston private equity
firm, and Partners Group, a private markets
investment management firm.
– Madeline Faber
– Bill Dries
Varsity Brands Acquires
Texas-Based Company
Airport Passengers Increase
16 Percent in November
Memphis-based Varsity Brands has
acquired Allgoods LLC of Grand Prairie,
Texas, an apparel school fundraising company.
Allgoods operates under various brand
names, the best known being its flagship
Faircloth.
Through customized clothing, Allgoods
has generated $38 million in funds for
athletic and school-based organizations
since 2006.
Allgoods will become a wholly owned
subsidiary of Varsity Brands, according the
Wednesday, Dec. 23, announcement of the
acquisition. The company will maintain
its Grand Prairie headquarters and a set of
satellite facilities, including 200,000 square
feet of distribution and manufacturing
space.
Terms of the transaction were not
disclosed.
Varsity Brands is a set of businesses that
market fundraising programs and products
to schools, including colleges and universities, as well as churches and professional
organizations.
November marked the fifth consecutive
month that the Memphis International
Airport saw increases in origin-and-destination traffic.
There were 167,107 total enplanements,
up 16 percent from 144,507 travelers in
November 2014.
Year-to-date, the airport has seen
833,638 enplanements. In the same period
last year, there were 745,564.
At a Dec. 17 meeting of the MemphisShelby County Airport Authority, CFO
Forrest Artz said that the increased traffic
is attributed to new services, market competition between carriers and the addition
of low-cost carrier Allegiant.
– Madeline Faber
Starry 4K Run/Walk At
Shelby Farms Returns
Shelby Farms Park Conservancy has
announced the return of the Starry 4K
Run/Walk.
The Monday, Dec. 28, race is a way to
experience the park’s new Starry Nights
light show. This event will be the last chance
to experience Orion Starry Nights in 2015.
Pre-registered participants will receive
a long-sleeved glow-in-the-dark t-shirt. The
race is family-friendly and open to all ages.
Online registration fee (includes t-shirt)
is $25, and race day registration is $30. Visit
shelbyfarmspark.org for more information.
All proceeds benefit Shelby Farms Park
Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages and operates Shelby Farms Park and
Greenline.
– Don Wade
Strickland Taps New
Deputy COO
Memphis Mayor-elect Jim Strickland
has appointed Patrice Thomas as the city’s
deputy chief operating officer, effective
Jan. 1.
Thomas comes to the position from
being deputy director of Memphis Public
Works. Before that, she served for a decade
as comptroller for the city of Memphis.
Thomas will report to COO Doug McGowen, whom Strickland appointed earlier
to the newly created position. COO replaces
the position of chief administrative officer
in the new administration.
Strickland’s appointments have continued rolling out over the past few weeks.
They began with the Dec. 8 announcement
that the mayor-elect had appointed six Clevel directors – who all report directly to
him – in a new City Hall structure.
– Bill Dries
Shelby County Real Estate Road Show
Shelby County Government owns thousands of raw land and properties zoned
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL and RESIDENTIAL that it needs to SELL. Come
to the Shelby County Real Estate Road Show co-sponsored by Shelby County
Trustee David Lenoir and Chandler Reports to learn more about the tax sale process,
the Shelby County Land Bank and learn about how to acquire these properties through
our NEW online process. Attorneys will be on-hand to address legal questions.
SPEAKERS:
David C. Lenoir, Shelby County Trustee
Dawn Kinard, Shelby County Land Bank Administrator
Donna Russell, Shelby County Clerk & Master
Space is limited. Refreshments will be provided, compliments of Chandler Reports.
RSVP online at http://rersmemphis2016.eventbrite.com or contact Kesha Whitaker
([email protected]) for more information.
COST: FREE • REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, Jan. 6th
Purchase tax sale properties
from the comfort of your home
or office. REGISTER. BID. BUY.
Sponsored by:
David C. Lenoir
Shelby County Trustee
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Google Honors Memphis
Among US Digital Capitals
Google has named Memphis its 2015
eCity of Tennessee, the search engine announced this week.
The eCity Awards recognize the strongest online business community in each
state as the digital capitals of America.
These cities’ businesses embrace the
web to find new customers, connect with
existing clients and fuel their local economies.
Google worked with independent research firm IPSOS to analyze the online
strength of local small businesses in cities
in all 50 states.
“We’re proud to recognize this growing
entrepreneurial spirit – and the role that it
plays in both creating jobs and sustaining
local economies,” Emily Harris, marketing
manager for Google’s Let’s Put Our Cities
on the Map Program, said in a statement.
Google reports that 4 in 5 consumers
use search engines to find information
about local businesses, but less than half
of U.S. small businesses have a website and
only 37 percent have claimed or updated
their business information on a search
engine.
more than 3,800 medium- and heavy-duty
vehicles worldwide. RNG, also known as
biomethane, can be derived from many
sources, including decomposing organic
waste in landfills, wastewater treatment
and agriculture.
It’s then distributed through the natural
gas pipeline system, making it available for
use as liquefied natural gas or compressed
natural gas.
– Andy Meek
Theological Seminary
Signs $1.7 Million Mortgage
The first wave of Memphis Theological
Seminary’s expansion is coming.
The seminary on Dec. 16 signed a 10year, $1.7 million mortgage with Mississippi-based The People’s Bank.
In October, the Memphis seminary announced a $25 million campaign to support
a new chapel and classroom building, endowments and scholarships and deferred
maintenance on the current campus at 168
East Parkway S.
Memphis Theological Seminary president Daniel Jay Earhart-Brown signed as
grantor on the loan.
– Madeline Faber
– Kate Simone
TN Supreme Court Updates
Rules on Attorney Licensing
Baptist Hits EMR
Adoption Milestone
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society recently recognized Baptist Memorial Health Care for
reaching “Stage 6” status on its Electronic
Medical Record Adoption Model.
The designation is something that only
25 percent of hospitals in the country have
achieved.
All 14 Baptist Memorial hospitals and
120 Baptist Medical Group clinics are using Epic, Baptist’s electronic health record
system that was rolled out in phases beginning in January 2014 and has been branded
as Baptist OneCare.
Baptist joins 26 Tennessee hospitals,
15 Mississippi hospitals and 12 Arkansas
hospitals in reaching Stage 6, the second
highest level possible. Achieving that status
means Baptist, among other things, has
almost fully automated/paperless medical
records when implementing its information
technology applications across most of the
inpatient care settings.
– Andy Meek
UPS to Power Local Alt-Fuel
Fleet With Landfill Gas
UPS says it will supply its fleet in Memphis and in Jackson, Miss., with an estimated 15 million diesel gallon gas equivalents
of renewable natural gas as part of a multiyear agreement with Memphis Light, Gas
& Water and Atmos Energy Marketing LLC.
The deal is part of an initiative UPS announced earlier this year to significantly
expand its use of renewable natural gas in
UPS’ alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.
The company has a goal of driving 1
billion miles with its alternative fuels fleet,
known as the Rolling Laboratory, by the
end of 2017.
The RNG will fuel more than 140 heavyduty trucks in Memphis and Jackson, part
of UPS’ natural gas fleet, which includes
The Tennessee Supreme Court is
changing the state’s rules for licensing attorneys to practice in the state.
The updates announced Monday, Dec.
21, were prompted by a request from the
Tennessee Board of Law Examiners for an
overhaul of the regulations that govern the
licensing process the board administers.
The board cited attorneys’ greater mobility between states.
Among the changes, in-house corporate attorneys who are licensed in another
state can practice in Tennessee once they
register with the board, provided they
work solely as counsel for the company in
Tennessee.
Attorneys in good standing in another
state can practice in Tennessee pending approval of their law license application if they
meet requirements, including associating
with a local attorney.
The rule also now allows for combined
degree programs that grant a law degree
along with an undergraduate degree.
The application process no longer
includes submitting a notice of “intent to
sit for the bar examination,” which adds a
month to the application deadline. But with
that particular change, late applications no
longer will be accepted.
Also, the Board of Law Examiners can
request an applicant take a drug test as part
of the character investigation; refusing to
take the drug test means an applicant can
be denied a law license.
Applicants with a law license in another
country are required to obtain a Master of
Laws postgraduate law degree, commonly
known as an LL.M., from a program sanctioned by the American Bar Association.
And spouses of those in the military
can be granted temporary law licenses in
Tennessee while their spouse is stationed
across the state or at Fort Campbell, Ky.
They must be licensed in another state and
meet other requirements.
– Bill Dries
weekly digest
Google to Locate Data
Center In Middle Tenn.
Olive Garden Changes
Hands for $3.2 Million
Google is buying the former Hemlock
Semiconductor site in Clarksville and plans
to invest $600 million to convert it into its
eighth U.S. data center, Tennessee Gov.
Bill Haslam announced Tuesday, Dec. 22.
Haslam and Tennessee Economic and
Community Development commissioner
Randy Boyd estimated the Google data
center will create 70 new jobs in the Middle
Tennessee town.
Boyd said Google is part of a growing
data processing, hosting and related services industry in Tennessee.
“To have a company like Google choose
our state for its newest data center means a
great deal as it will not only add to Clarksville’s business landscape but it will also
provide new opportunities for our workforce,” Boyd said in a written statement.
Google executives said the existing
infrastructure at the Hemlock plant was a
factor in their decision.
Joe Kava, Google’s vice president for
data center operations, said the company
intends to reuse and recycle that infrastructure.
“At the same time, we have room to innovate and grow both as a data center and
as a member of the Montgomery County
community,” Kava added.
The site is 1,300 acres and Google’s
acquisition comes with an agreement with
the Tennessee Valley Authority to power
all of its footprint with renewable energy.
A Wolfchase Galleria-area Olive Garden
has changed hands for $3.2 million.
Florida-based GMRI Inc. sold the property at 8405 US Highway 64 to Florida-based
FCPT Restaurant Properties LLC, according
to a Nov. 2 warranty deed.
In conjunction with the sale, FCPT Restaurant Properties signed a 13-year lease
with GMRI Inc.
FCPT Restaurant Properties and GMRI
are both fully-owned subsidiaries of
Darden Restaurant Group, which houses
brands like Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Seasons 52 and Bahama Breeze.
According to the Shelby County Assessor of Property, the 8,139-square-foot
restaurant was built in 2001. It is appraised
at $2.5 million.
– Bill Dries
Luttrell Appoints Kneeland
Deputy County Fire Chief
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has
appointed Glen Kneeland as the Shelby
County Fire Department’s deputy fire chief.
Kneeland comes to the No. 2 job to
county fire chief Alvin Benson at county
fire from being a division chief. He has
been a county firefighter since 1988 and is
a founding member of the department’s
special operations rescue team.
Kneeland succeeds deputy chief Dale H.
Burress who retires at the end of this month.
– Madeline Faber
Rhodes Named to Kiplinger’s
Best College Value List
Rhodes has been named to Kiplinger’s
Personal Finance’s list of Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. The list includes private
universities, private liberal arts colleges
and public colleges that combine strong
academics with affordable costs.
Rhodes is ranked No. 55 among liberal
arts colleges and No. 104 among all colleges.
Rhodes has appeared on the list multiple times. Quality measures include
the admission rate, the percentage of
students who return for sophomore year,
the student-faculty ratio and four-year
graduation rate.
Cost criteria include sticker price, financial aid and average debt at graduation.
– Andy Meek
Tennessee Manufacturing
Employment Increases
Three weeks after Congressional leaders in Washington agreed on a five-year
Surface Transportation Program, the city
of Germantown is among local governments moving quickly to identify how they
intend to use the coming infusion of federal
funding.
The projects identified by Germantown
leaders are: Germantown Road/Wolf River
Boulevard intersection improvements;
Poplar Avenue culvert replacements and repairs at various locations, including design
work; Wolf River Boulevard repaving from
Germantown Road to the western city limits, including design work; Winchester Road
repaving from Forest Hill-Irene Road to the
eastern city limits, including design work;
and signal upgrades at various locations.
The city will hold a public meeting on
the 2017-2010 priorities Jan. 12 at 9 a.m. at
the Economic and Community Development Building, 1920 S. Germantown Road.
Tennessee’s manufacturing employment grew for a fourth consecutive year,
according to the 2016 Tennessee Manufacturers Register.
The industrial database and registry
shows the state gained 1,994 industrial jobs
from September 2014 to September 2015.
The state has 6,828 manufacturers, by
the register’s count, that employ 386,185
workers.
Since September 2011, the state has
added 12,637 industrial jobs.
Despite the good news nationwide,
Tennessee’s two largest cities both lost
manufacturing-industry jobs this year.
Manufacturing jobs in Memphis declined
1.8 percent over the year, and fell 1 percent
in Nashville, according to Manufacturers
News Inc., which publishes the Tennessee
Manufacturers Register.
In Knoxville, manufacturing employment rose 2.3 percent.
Transportation equipment is the state’s
largest manufacturing sector by jobs, accounting for 51,001 jobs.
The other leading sectors with growth
in the last year were electronics, rubber/
plastics, lumber and wood and furniture
and fixtures.
Meanwhile, the printing and publishing
sector lost jobs from September to September along with textiles and apparel, primary
metals and food products.
– Bill Dries
– Bill Dries
– Bill Dries
Germantown Names Federal
Transportation Projects
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Lynch Projected As High As
No. 2 Overall in NFL Draft
After University of Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch had tossed seven touchdown passes in the Tigers’ regular-season
ending victory over SMU, the redshirt
junior said he would not decide about his
future until after the team’s bowl game.
Lynch didn’t know then, but that game
will be the Dec. 30 Birmingham Bowl vs.
Auburn. In all probability, it will be Lynch’s
last appearance in a Memphis uniform.
Various Web “experts” have begun rolling out their projections for next spring’s
NFL Draft. At ESPN, Todd McShay’s mock
draft has Lynch going No. 2 overall to the
Cleveland Browns. And yes, that’s where
Johnny Manziel works for the time being.
A Yahoo Sports mock draft predicted
Lynch would be taken at No. 9 and go to
Philadelphia. At CBSSports.com, where
there were two mock drafts, Lynch was
pegged at No. 2 in one and going 10th
overall to the St. Louis Rams in the other.
But don’t get too excited about the idea
of Lynch playing up I-55 in St. Louis. The
Rams are very possibly moving back to Los
Angeles before next season.
Liberty Bowl Stadium, Field Ready for the Big Game
– Don Wade
Turner Construction Tapped
for Methodist Project
The Memphis office of Turner Construction has been tapped to build a $275
million campus expansion project at Methodist University Hospital that will include a
new patient tower and a 700-space parking
garage.
Turner said the new patient tower will
be constructed by means of an overbuild,
meaning it will be built on top of the existing emergency department, which Turner
completed in 2014.
Turner also has to ensure the work does
not interfere with the daily operations of
the facility.
Construction on the Methodist University Hospital campus is slated to begin
toward the beginning of 2016.
Turner will work with HKS Architects
Inc. and Self-Tucker Architects on the
project.
– Andy Meek
St. George’s School
Receives Two Awards
Recognizing its distinctive educational
model and long-standing commitment to
diversity, St. George’s Independent School
has been selected as the 2015 recipient of
the SPARK award for education.
Produced in partnership with WKNOTV, the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club and
the Rotary Club of Memphis, the SPARK
awards celebrate and recognize the efforts
of individuals, nonprofits, corporations,
and schools that are igniting change and
making a positive impact in the Greater
Memphis community.
Student-led service initiatives include:
raising money and granting wishes for the
Make-A-Wish Foundation and collecting
4,500 pairs of shoes to support communities in need.
St. George’s also has been selected as
the 2015 winner of the statewide Good
Sports Always Recycle Sustainability Steward award.
Leslie Mimms paints the AutoZone logo on the 25 yard line in preparation for the upcoming Liberty Bowl. The Saturday,
Jan. 2, game between Kansas State University and the University of Arkansas kicks off at 2:20 p.m. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
Sponsored by Eastman, Food City and
Waste Connections in conjunction with the
University of Tennessee, the award is given
to one Tennessee school each year that
demonstrates outstanding conservation
and recycling efforts.
St. George’s was chosen for its advancements in reducing its overall waste footprint
through energy and water conservation,
recycling programs and the use of green
space.
School representatives were honored
in a special presentation at a University of
Tennessee football game in October and
given a check for $1,500, which will be used
to build a recycling program at another
school in the Memphis area.
– Don Wade
Wolfchase-Area Restaurant
Sold to NYC Property Group
The property housing Romano’s Macaroni Grill at 2859 N. Germantown Parkway
has sold for $2.4 million. Brixmor Wolfcreek
Outparcel Owner LLC purchased the property from husband and wife King Chow and
Jasmine Lin in a Dec. 11 warranty deed.
Dean Bernstein, executive vice president of New York-based Brixmor Property
Group Inc., signed as affiant.
Built in 1998, the 6,564-square-foot
building originally housed a Chili’s restaurant. Chow and Lin purchased the property
from Chili’s Inc. in 2010 for $1.9 million.
The structure is situated on 1.7 acres
on the west side of North Germantown
Parkway south of U.S. 64, and the Shelby
County Assessor of Property’s 2015 appraisal is $2.1 million.
– Madeline Faber
UnitedHealthcare Grants
$55K to Tennessee 4-H
UnitedHealthcare and the University
of Tennessee’s 4-H Youth Development
Program are expanding their partnership
to help fight hunger and food insecurity by
promoting nutrition and budgeting education in underserved communities.
UnitedHealthcare is granting $55,000 to
the University of Tennessee 4-H Extension,
which administers 4-H programs statewide,
to support the “4-H Food Smart Families”
program. The program provides families
with nutrition education and cooking and
food-budgeting skills, and it also connects
families with nutrition assistance through
SNAP benefits.
4-H Food Smart Families is expected to
engage nearly 6,000 Tennesseans, including
nearly 1,700 kids and 4,300 of their family
members that are eligible for or receiving
SNAP benefits.
Goals include educating youth on
the importance of eating more fruits and
vegetables, drinking more water, choosing
healthier snacks and eating breakfast; and
teaching their families how to buy and prepare healthier, affordable foods on a budget
while practicing food-safety principles.
Throughout Tennessee, the 4-H Food
Smart Program will engage 4-H teen leaders
to serve as youth ambassadors and mentors
to teach their peers, families and communities about how to prepare healthy meals
on a budget.
“We are excited to see the 4-H and
UnitedHealthcare partnership grow, and
work to strengthen and empower our future leaders,” said Tennessee 4-H Youth
Development Director Steve Sutton in a
statement. “Through the 4-H Food Smart
Program we are leveraging the proven
influence of young people and helping
them establish sustainable habits for their
families and their communities.”
– Kate Simone
Grizz Push Conley, Gasol For
NBA Fans’ All-Star Votes
The National Basketball Association
and Verizon tipped off NBA All-Star Voting
2016 last week, giving fans around the world
an opportunity to vote for their favorite
players into NBA All-Star 2016 in Toronto.
All Grizzlies players are eligible for AllStar voting, including point guard Mike
Conley and two-time NBA All-Star and last
year’s Western Conference starting center,
Marc Gasol.
New to the voting program this year,
NBA fans are able to cast votes directly
through Google Search on their desktop,
tablet and mobile devices. They also can
vote on nba.com, through the NBA app
(available on Android and iOS), SMS text,
and social media networks including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Fans also can post the official Grizzlies’
All-Star voting graphic and use the hashtag
#NBAVOTE and the players’ first and last
names on their favorite social site or Google
search. All current NBA players are available for selection. Fans can select up to two
guards and three frontcourt players from
each conference when choosing starters
via nba.com or the app.
Voting will conclude on Jan. 18. Other
balloting updates will be shared on Friday,
Dec. 25, as well as Jan. 7 and 14. The 2016
NBA All-Star Game will be played Feb. 14.
– Don Wade
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Whitehaven View
Apartments Sell for $2.7M
A Whitehaven apartment complex has
sold for $2.7 million.
Memphian Steven B. Burrell bought
the property at 1594 E. Holmes Road from
Tennessee-based Saddle Vineyards L.P.,
according to a special warranty deed filed
Dec. 14.
The Class D apartment community
bears 128 units across 96,348 square feet.
Built in 1966, it stands on 6.2 acres on the
north side of East Holmes between Haleville
and Millbranch roads.
Whitehaven View most recently was
appraised at $1.4 million, according to the
Shelby County Assessor of Property.
Saddle Vineyards paid $1.6 million to
purchase the property in 2013.
In conjunction with the sale, Burrell
filed a five-year, $1.7 million mortgage
through Metropolitan Bank.
– Madeline Faber
United Housing Has $2M
Economic Impact for 2015
In fiscal year 2015, affordable housing
agency United Housing Inc. made a direct
economic impact of more than $2 million
in West Tennessee.
Through its homebuyer education and
foreclosure prevention programs, UHI
counseled 836 individuals, helped 368 families purchase a home and saved 124 homes
from foreclosure. In addition, UHI sold 17
homes with a $928,509 impact on the local
real estate economy and invested $988,120
in the community through acquisition and
rehabs.
The nonprofit also invested $154,000 in
down payment assistance.
– Madeline Faber
Slight Decline In Local
Violent Crime Rates
Major violent crime declined in Memphis and Shelby County as a whole through
the end of November compared to the first
11 months of 2014.
The crime statistics from the Memphis
Shelby Crime Commission show major
violent crimes were down 0.6 percent in
Memphis and down 1.5 percent countywide from the same 11-month period a
year ago.
The violent crimes that make up the
broad category include murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery.
Shelby County’s murder rate going
into December was down 10.4 percent
compared to the first 11 months of 2014.
The murder rate in Memphis declined 8.5
percent from a year ago.
Major property crime rates also declined countywide and in the city. The
countywide major property crime rate
dropped 5.6 percent compared to a year
ago and dropped in the city 5.9 percent
from 2014.
– Bill Dries
Memphis’ Hearn Named
AAC Player of the Week
University of Memphis guard Ariel
Hearn has been named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week, the first
such honor in Hearn’s career.
Hearn helped lead the Tigers to a 2-0
record last week with victories over Central
Michigan and Illinois. In the two contests,
she averaged 23.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.0
assists and 3.5 steals.
Hearn has moved into the Top 10 on the
Tigers’ all-time scoring chart. She is in the
No. 10 spot with 1,664 career points. Hearn’s
six assists give her 352 for her career, which is
good for the No. 8 spot on the Tigers all-time
assists list. Hearn is the only player in Tigers
women’s basketball history with 1,500 points
and 350 assists.
– Don Wade
Sullivan Leaves MHA for
Chattanooga Post
Maura Black Sullivan is leaving as interim director of the Memphis Housing
Authority at the end of December to become
the chief operating officer of Chattanooga
city government.
Chattanooga mayor Andy Berke announced her appointment Dec. 17. Sullivan
was appointed by outgoing Memphis Mayor
A C Wharton as interim head of MHA following Robert Lipscomb's suspension.
She came to the interim assignment
from being deputy chief administrative of-
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ficer for the city.
Lipscomb was director of the city’s
division of Housing and Community Development as well as executive director of
the housing authority. He resigned as HCD
director following allegations of sexual misconduct that Memphis Police continue to
investigate. Lipscomb has not been charged
with any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, the housing authority will
oversee a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods
grant from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development for the demolition and redevelopment of Foote Homes, the
city’s last large public housing development.
– Bill Dries
City Leaders Take Oath
On New Year’s Day
Memphis Mayor-elect Jim Strickland
takes the oath of office Jan. 1.
Strickland will be joined in the oath by
13 Memphis City Council members and new
City Court clerk Kay Robilio.
The noon ceremony at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main St.,
marks the beginning of the four-year term
of office for all 15 elected officials. Among
the city council members, six are starting
their first term on New Year’s Day. The seven
remaining council members are returning
to the body after winning four-year term.
Robilio succeeds outgoing clerk Thomas
Long, who did not seek re-election after 20
years in the clerk’s position.
– Bill Dries
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DECEMBER 25-31, 2015, VOL. 8, NO. 53
H E A LT H CA R E
Hospital Building Boom
In the Works For
Downtown Memphis
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SA N DY YO U NG B LO O D
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in recent days announced both a major donation
from a hedge fund manager and plans for a graduate school on its campus. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
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Andy Meek
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D O N FA NC H E R
Senior Account Executive
From a big donation to significant campus
expansions and investment, the health care
news was popping at a steady clip this week.
Almost as soon as word had spread about
Methodist Healthcare’s plan to invest $275
million into Methodist University Hospital,
the Methodist system’s flagship, came big
announcements from St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children’s
Hospital.
Here’s a recap:
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St. Jude
The charitable foundation of a prominent
hedge fund manager made a big contribution
to St. Jude this week, and the hospital also announced that it’s launching a graduate school
on its campus.
First, the school. The hospital’s unanimous
vote of approval from the Tennessee Higher
Education Commission paves the way for development of the St. Jude Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences, which will welcome its
first students in the fall of 2017. The hospital
says the school, located in a custom space
within The Marlo Thomas Center for Global
Education and Collaboration, will train the
next generation of academic researchers in an
interdisciplinary environment that’s home to
more than 200 basic scientists and clinicians
working across 21 academic departments.
Adding the school to its Downtown campus comes at a time when St. Jude is in the
midst of a multibillion-dollar investment into
its Memphis presence, which includes the
eventual hiring of a few thousand new workers
and major campus additions. St. Jude hasn’t
fully taken the wraps yet off the details and is
so far unveiling new additions at the hospital
incrementally.
Meanwhile, this week also saw the announcement that the philanthropic founda-
tion of hedge fund manager Steven Cohen
and his wife, Alexandra, is committing $20
million to the hospital. The gift, announced by
St. Jude’s fundraising affiliate ALSAC, will help
fund the construction of an inpatient care unit
for children treated at the new Kay Research &
Care Center on the St. Jude campus.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur this week said it plans to apply
for a certificate of need with the state sometime next year to expand the hospital’s campus. The hospital late last week received board
approval to start planning for a cardiovascular
intensive care unit. Details are still being finalized, but the hospital also anticipates asking
through the certificate of need process for an
additional 34 to 36 beds at a projected cost of
around $55 million.
Construction would begin in 2017 for a
two-story facility mostly for cardiovascular
needs and the expanded cardiovascular intensive care unit. It would be built on the Dunlap
Street side of the hospital, between Poplar and
Washington avenues.
Methodist
Methodist’s plans call for the addition
of a 700-space parking garage and a new
440,000-square-foot building at the Methodist
University Hospital campus. Methodist expects to break ground in February on the parking structure. The building will create room
to upgrade services within the hospital and to
provide state-of-the-art medical technology.
Methodist’s board last week approved the
filing of a certificate of need for a master campus plan for Methodist University Hospital
that encompasses the additions, which include
the parking garage that increases campus
parking by more than 100 spaces.
If the state Health Services and Development Agency approves the certificate of need,
construction for the entire campus plan could
start next fall, and Methodist expects it to take
more than three years to finish.
December 25-31, 2015 7
H E A LT H CA R E
Efficiency, Patient Convenience Drive
Local Health Care Projects
Andy Meek
[email protected]
Much of the building boom
Memphis’ health care community
has been responsible for this year
– with more to come in 2016 – is
being driven by the urge to merge.
Hospitals, clinics, cancer centers – examples abound of institutions that are moving to adjust
their local footprints, driven by a
shift toward more efficiency and
a professed interest in improving
the patient experience. And the
motivation is frequently presented within the same context:
It’s often along the lines of
wanting to give patients access to
a range of providers, services and
treatments either all under one
roof or within close proximity to
each other.
Methodist Healthcare represents one of the newest examples.
In recent days it took the wraps
off details of its plan to invest
$275 million into Methodist University Hospital, the Methodist
system’s flagship, with plans
that call for the addition of a
700-space parking garage and a
new 440,000-square-foot building
at the campus.
Methodist senior communications specialist Mary Alice
Taylor told The Daily News this
week that much of the plan “is
about consolidating services together for patient convenience.”
Indeed, the upgrade of services
made possible by one of the new
structures envisioned includes
bringing oncology, transplant and
outpatient programs into a new
centralized area.
“Currently, our outpatient
services are scattered across our
campus, and with the proposed
new building, all of our outpatient services will be localized in
one area to make access more
convenient for patients and families,” Taylor said. “Consolidating
services will also make travel
through the hospital easier and
more efficient for patients and
families to navigate.”
Methodist has big plans for
the project, with Methodist University Hospital CEO Jeff Liebman saying the master plan will
help “push us further along our
journey towards being one of the
Methodist Healthcare’s $275 million investment into Methodist
University Hospital is mostly “about consolidating services together
for patient convenience,” according to Mary Alice Taylor.
top academic hospitals in the
country.”
Convenience and ease of use
is one part of that, something
other institutions also have been
paying more attention to.
Over in Cordova, Campbell
Clinic CEO George Hernandez
gave The Daily News a rundown
of what was new in his clinic’s
new spine center at 8000 Centerview Parkway when it held an
open house in October. One of
the quick takeaways from his impromptu presentation by the elevators on the fifth floor, as guests
spilled out around him to check
out the space: the consolidation
of providers and equipment in
the new center.
The space, he said, was built
with a focus on efficiency and
patient flow in mind. Its staff
includes surgeons, physiatrists,
physical therapists and others. In
addition to the physical therapy
floor, the facility also includes an
X-ray suite and procedure room.
Likewise with West Cancer
Center, which opened a new
oncology care and research facility at 7945 Wolf River Blvd. last
month.
That new center brings different treatment modalities a patient
might need into one place, such
that they won’t have to make
multiple appointments to see
providers like surgeons, medical
oncologists or radiation oncologists in different locations.
“Let’s say you’re a patient
with lung cancer and you’re getting chemotherapy and radiation
at the same time,” Dr. Noam
VanderWalde told The Daily
News. “You can go to the third
floor to get your chemo and then
come downstairs to get radiation
treatment without having to leave
the building. It’s a nice paradigm
shift for most of our patients.”
H E A LT H CA R E
Resurrection Health Planning to Open
Two More Clinic Sites in 2016
Andy Meek
[email protected]
As Resurrection Health, a faithbased, evangelical health service
organization, prepares to celebrate
its first birthday, the enterprise is
already planning to roll out two
more clinic sites in 2016.
And that plan – which includes
Resurrection expanding to its
fourth individual location at the
intersection
of Range Line
Road and Frayser Boulevard,
a location recently vacated
by Regional
One Health –
RICK DONLON
follows what’s
been a busy 2015 for the organization.
Dr. Rick Donlon and Dr. David Pepperman launched Resurrection in December 2014 after
co-founding Christ Community
Health Services in 1995. Their
new venture opened its first permanent health center earlier this
year at 4095 American Way then
expanded to Whitehaven with the
opening of a 3,600-square-foot
health center at 5339 Elvis Presley
Blvd.
Donlon and other Resurrection Health physicians also staff
the emergency room at Delta Medical Center. The organization has
a staff of 20 health care providers.
"2015 was an explosive year
for Resurrection Health,” Donlon
said. “By God's grace we opened
two health centers, established
new hospital partners, launched
our surgical services, and assumed
responsibility for 22 family medicine resident physicians. Early
in 2016 we'll roll out two more
clinic sites, including a large health
center previously operated by
Regional One Health in the heart
of Frayser.”
In mid-November, Resurrection and Alliance Healthcare
Services also announced they’re
teaming up to provide comprehensive mental health and primary
care services to patients through
co-location in Frayser and Whitehaven clinics.
AHS, one of the largest nonprofit mental health centers in
the area, provides mental health
services to about 14,000 clients
across all outpatient services and
locations each year. AHS is now
providing services at Resurrection
Health’s Whitehaven location,
and Resurrection Health now has
physicians seeing patients at AHS’
Frayser location at 2150 Whitney
Ave.
The group plans to expand
co-location to additional clinics
around Memphis and Shelby
County in the coming months.
About the partnership, Donlon
said it’s a natural marriage for two
groups who share a vision for a
total wellness approach.
“More than 200,000 low-income residents of western and
southeastern Shelby County
struggle to find primary care in
their communities,” Donlon said.
“There is overwhelming evidence
that physical health can affect
one’s behavioral health as well.
“While primary care physicians are trained to assist with
prevalent mental health issues like
depression and anxiety, we refer
patients with more complicated
disorders to specialists, like those
at Alliance Healthcare Services.”
Among other Resurrection
developments this year, the organization acquired a nationally
recognized family medicine residency program.
The three-year residency track
is called Resurrection Family
Medicine. It was one of a few programs in the U.S. funded through
Teaching Health Center Graduate
Medical Education, a $230 million,
five-year initiative that’s part of
the Affordable Care Act and was
created to increase the number of
primary care residents trained in
community-based settings.
Looking ahead, Resurrection
says it’s looking to raise $250,000
to speed up its move into Frayser.
8 December 25-31, 2015
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
EPIcenter Launches Work,
Business Space In Germantown
Andy Meek
[email protected]
The EPIcenter entrepreneurship organization has teamed up
with the city of Germantown to
open a collaborative work and
business space in the Carrefour at
Kirby Woods, a shopping center at
the intersection of Poplar Avenue
and Kirby Road.
The resulting 900-square-foot
space at 6645 Poplar Ave., suite
200, includes amenities like furnished cubicles; a common area
that could be adjusted to become
an additional work space; conference room; Wi-Fi and more.
The city of Germantown, EPIcenter and the Memphis Bioworks
Foundation decided to launch the
space – and the programming it
will include – in response to recommendations in Germantown’s
Economic Development Strategic
Plan. Funding for what’s being
called EPIcenter Germantown
also was approved by Germantown’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen in June in the form of a
$20,000 grant.
Likewise, the Delta Regional
Authority's States' Economic
Development Assistance Program
made an investment of more than
$93,000 to fund programming.
EPIcenter president Leslie
Lynn Smith said the new facility is
meant to provide a cost-effective
work environment, along with
programming and support to
encourage the growth of startups and other small enterprises.
Memberships, open to all area
residents, will be available to buy
starting Jan. 6, and an open house
will be held at the space Jan. 12.
The membership pricing
breakdown includes monthly
passes for $125 and daily passes
for $15.
Smith talks about the mission
of EPIcenter Germantown within
the context of a regional approach
to promoting entrepreneurship
resources and neighborhoods:
“This space and its programming
will help participating companies
grow and connect to each other,
to needed expertise and resources
LESLIE LYNN SMITH
and to the broader ecosystem.”
Once EPIcenter Germantown
is up and running, a community
manager will oversee scheduling;
a full calendar of programming
and events will be unveiled in
January. In addition to that programming, networking events and
office hours will put participants
in contact with local experts in
venture capital, finance, accounting, marketing and sales.
From Germantown’s perspective, the project is a natural fit.
The city says it’s awash in intellectual capital, with 98 percent of
its population over 25 years old
holding a high school diploma or
higher and more than half of the
population possessing at least a
bachelor’s degree.
For EPIcenter, word of the
partnership with Germantown
comes as Smith is drawing to the
end of her first year as the organization’s first president and is
thinking about where the organization goes next in 2016.
Among the new things it tried
over the past 12 months, EPIcenter launched a logistics accelerator sponsored by FedEx
that worked with five teams from
Memphis and beyond. And Smith
and EPIcenter are still working toward the charge of helping launch
500 new companies and 1,000 entrepreneurs over the next decade.
Its founding mission was that
EPIcenter would help connect
resources like accelerators, incubators, mentors, investors, networking programs and the higher
education community as well as
technical assistance programs
for entrepreneurs. Its partners
include the Greater Memphis
Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle,
Bioworks, Emerge Memphis and
Start Co., among others.
T E C H N O L O GY
FedEx Institute Of Technology Gears Up
For Event-Filled 2016
Andy Meek
[email protected]
The FedEx Institute of Technology at
the University of Memphis is closing out
the year and looking ahead to 2016 with a
renewed focus on putting itself at the center
of technology innovation in Memphis.
That’s according to Cody Behles, the
institute’s new manager of innovation and
research support who joined earlier this
month and who’ll be at the center of much
of the institute’s research and partnership
activities.
“In my capacity, I help identify emerging technologies and research areas that
are of potential interest to the university,”
Behles said, adding that he also helps with
projects as assigned by the institute’s executive director, Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal. “I also
oversee our Innovation in Action workshop
and talk series.”
Behles’ addition to the staff comes at a
time when the institute is also rolling out a
series of what it’s calling “research clusters”
that are intended to help set the operational
direction for the institute. It’s about more
than research though - the clusters represent topics, like cybersecurity, around
which the institute wants to build research
as well as programming and interest from
outside the institute’s four walls.
The institute unveiled its cybersecurity
research cluster this month. It’s launching
two more in January and hosting events
around them at the institute on the U of M
campus at 365 Innovation Drive.
“What we’re trying to build at the universities is communities around topics,”
Behles said. “The next two we’re launching
in January – one is biologistics, basically the
science of moving biomaterials through
freight. For that, we’re partnering with the
Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute
at the university.”
The third research cluster, one Behles
is helping oversee, is focused on robotics,
autonomous vehicles and drones.
The institute is hosting a kick-off event
for the robotics research cluster Jan. 12, at
which an overview will be presented of each
of the three topics that have been identified so far in addition to networking and a
discussion of robotics. Later in the month,
on Jan. 21, the robotics effort will showcase
talks from a collection of research fellows.
That will be followed on Jan. 22 with a
similar event focused on talks from the 2016
Biologistics Research Fellows.
Behles says more research clusters will
be unveiled as the new year progresses.
They’re identified based on a combination
of the university’s research portfolio, what
faculty can pursue and the interest of corporations that might want to invest in the
institute’s efforts.
The respective clusters also have faculty
members heading them up. The leadership
of the CyberSecurity and Testing Research
Cluster includes Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta
and Dr. Robin Poston; for the Biologistics
Research Cluster, Dr. Stephanie Ivey and
Dr. Mihalis Gkolias; and for the Robotics,
Autonomous Vehicles, and Drones Research Cluster, Dr. Mark Gillenson.
Part of the motivation driving these efforts is to raise the institute’s as well as the
university’s technology-focused profile.
“We have meetings with corporations
and local nonprofits that are dealing with
technology innovation,” Behles said.
“We’re working on revamping our website
and getting ready to go for the upcoming year. We’re also starting to approach
institutions about partnerships that the
university hasn’t partnered with in a research capacity before, as well as engaging
students and coming up with technology
innovation that benefits them as well.
“The institute moves at a fast pace, and
we definitely want to be at the center of
technology innovation in Memphis.”
December 25-31, 2015 9
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
Downtown Agency Looks to Tighten
Up Hotel Tax Breaks
Madeline Faber
[email protected]
To keep tourists flowing to Downtown,
the Center City Revenue Finance Corp.
grants tax breaks, or payment-in-lieu-oftax incentives, for hotel developers. Such
readily available incentives have helped
create a market with 15 hotels and 3,000
rooms in Downtown Memphis.
But with two newly proposed hotels
planned for the same Downtown block
– and 12 hotels in development – the
Downtown Memphis Commission affiliate
board could be putting the brakes on those
incentives.
In January, the Land Use Control Board
will consider special-use permits for two
side-by-side hotels across from AutoZone
Park.
Knoxville-based Beale Street Hotel
Group proposes building a 143-room Hilton Garden Inn. Bearing the address 195
Union Ave., the seven-story building would
stretch across 1.68 acres between Union
and Gayoso Avenue.
Beale Street Hotel Group also submitted a companion application for a
115-room hotel at 235 Union Ave., at the
southwest corner of Front Street. The proposed Holiday Inn Express would occupy
1.28 acres where a commercial parking lot
now stands.
While developer Nitinkumar Patel has
not yet applied for CCRFC incentives, he
could be facing a very different environment in the coming year.
In December, consulting firm Pinkowski & Co. presented recommendations on
how the DMC’s PILOT program and the
Memphis Convention & Vistors Bureau’s
Smart Hotel Growth plan could be better
aligned.
The consulting firm’s most important
criteria ensure that PILOTs are used only
for projects that benefit the public and
would not be possible without public assistance.
“With that in mind, when it comes to
smaller hotels that are limited-service with
ground-up construction, for the most part,
unless there’s something extraordinary,
those projects don’t need PILOTs to go
forward,” said Jaske Goff, vice president
of planning and development at a Dec.
17 meeting of the Downtown Memphis
Commission.
While there’s no easy answer, a close
examination of development costs, financing terms and other components is
necessary. The report also recommends
establishing a standardized method for
analyzing finances that could cut through
varying debt and equity structures as well
as discrepancies in property taxes.
Other factors to consider include: if
the hotel will grow tourism or conventionrelated demand; fill a need for a facility not
already in the Downtown market; bear a
minimum 3 star quality; utilize at least
A developer proposing two hotels side-by-side on a Downtown block could be facing
stricter guidelines in getting tax breaks from the Downtown Memphis Commission. (Submitted)
250 rooms; have equal or better RevPAR
(revenue per available room) than currently
exists in the market; preserve a historic
structure; or allocate a certain percentage
of rooms for city-wide events.
In addition, the firm proposed special
consideration or extra incentives for hotels
that are in a preferred development zone
– such as near a convention center – or
hotels that bear a preferred development
type – such as those that would spur other
development, fill a need for group-meeting
rooms or create a destination.
It also recommended creating an incen-
tive, like a room tax rebate, for projects that
benefit demand.
Goff said that while the recommendations have not been officially adopted, it
could lead to changes in the hotel PILOT
program.
And if the two hotels proposed for the
block facing AutoZone Park make it to the
CCRFC, they could provide a territory for
the board to establish precedents. Both
hotels are small with few amenities, within
walking distance of each other and a good
distance away from the Memphis Cook
Convention Center.
DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS
Nike’s 2015 Global Expansion and Beyond
Bill Dries
[email protected]
Name the earnings conference call this
company CEO quote is from: “The success
you see today and the opportunities ahead
are driven by the strength of our portfolio.”
You could be forgiven
for guessing it came from a
FedEx Corp. call, since Fred
Smith, founder and CEO of
the Memphis-based corporation, frequently speaks of the
FedEx “portfolio.”
In this case, though, the quote came
from Mark Parker during the Tuesday, Dec.
22, earnings call for Nike Inc.
Nike’s global portfolio is athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories
and includes its own brand as well as numerous subsidiary brands, many tied to its
connections to the biggest and most enduring names in sports. It’s also a major force
in promoting and growing professional and
amateur sporting events.
Nike is headquartered in Beaverton,
Oregon. But its largest workforce outside
of Beaverton is in Memphis – 1,850 at last
count, specifically at the North America
Logistics Campus in Frayser, which is Nike’s
largest distribution center in
the world.
When Trevor Edwards,
president of the Nike brand,
talked Tuesday about the
North American outlook for
distribution of its goods and in turn its
brands, he was talking about the cavernous
Memphis center bristling with technology.
“We continue to work to effectively
manage the flow of product in North America and efficiently clear excess inventory,”
Edwards said, adding that the Memphis
center isn’t yet fully online.
In June, Nike formally opened a $301
million Memphis expansion with stagger-
ing dimensions. The 2.8 million-squarefoot facility at New Frayser Boulevard and
New Allen Road is the equivalent of 49 football fields. It has 33 miles of conveyor belts,
96 receiving spurs and 73 outbound doors.
Nike’s definition of what it does is much
different than it was before Air Jordan and
“Bo Knows.” And the difference goes to
Parker’s use of the term “portfolio.”
Parker puts what Nike does on several
fronts, in different countries with different
brands “against the backdrop of a global
movement of fitness and sports.”
“We invent breakthroughs,” Parker told
analysts Tuesday. “Then build a thriving
business around them.”
The orders being filled at the Memphis
center are from digital customers as well
as retailers. The Warehouse Management
System that Nike officials talked guardedly
about in June is used in all of the other Nike
distribution centers around the world.
A combination of barcodes, mobile
computers and radio frequency IDs are
part of a system called “wave picking” that
automatically adjusts the flow to make it
more efficient.
“We expect inventory levels in North
America to normalize over the balance of
the fiscal year as we continue to take the
appropriate actions to maintain a health
pull market for the Nike Brand,” Edwards
said Tuesday.
Memphis is part of a global supply chain
that shipped “roughly” 1.1 billion units last
year, Parker says. The Memphis part of that
number for 2014 was 46 million units. The
expansion, when it is fully online, can handle 271 million units annually, a full quarter
of what Nike currently does globally.
And Nike’s digital strategy figures
prominently in the movement of goods
through Memphis via e-commerce.
In November, Parker set a goal of $7 billion in revenue from e-commerce for Nike
by the end of fiscal year 2020.
10 December 25-31, 2015
R E A L E S TAT E R E C A P
Whitehaven View Apartments
Sell for $2.7 Million
Memphis News staff
Map data ©2015 Google
Whitehaven View Apartments
1594 E. HOLMES ROAD
MEMPHIS, TN 38116
SALE AMOUNT: $2.7 MILLION
SALE DATE: Dec. 14, 2015
BUYER: Steven B. Burrell
SELLER: Saddle Vineyards L.P.
LOAN AMOUNT: $1.7 million
LOAN DATE: Dec. 14, 2015
MATURITY DATE: Dec. 14, 2020
LENDER: Metropolitan Bank
DETAILS: A Whitehaven apartment
complex has sold for $2.7 million.
Memphian Steven B. Burrell bought the
Whitehaven View Apartments, at 1594
E. Holmes Road, from Tennessee-based
Saddle Vineyards L.P., according to a
special warranty deed filed Dec. 14.
The Class D apartment community
bears 128 units across 96,348 square
feet. Built in 1966, it stands on 6.2 acres
on the north side of East Holmes between Haleville and Millbranch roads.
Whitehaven View most recently was
appraised at $1.4 million, according to
the Shelby County Assessor of Property.
Saddle Vineyards paid $1.6 million to
purchase the property in 2013.
In conjunction with the sale, Burrell
filed a five-year, $1.7 million mortgage
through Metropolitan Bank.
5885 SHELBY OAKS DRIVE
MEMPHIS, TN 38134
BUYER: DW CL IV LLC
SELLER: ESH TN Properties LLC
LOAN AMOUNT: $2.7 million
LOAN DATE: Dec. 7, 2015
MATURITY DATE: Dec. 7, 2018
BORROWER: DW CL IV LLC and CL
Opco LLC
LENDER: SPT CA Fundings 2 LLC
DETAILS: An Extended Stay America
hotel at 5885 Shelby Oaks Drive has
sold for $3.9 million, according to a
Dec. 8 warranty deed.
ESH TN Properties LLC sold the Sycamore View property to Dallas-based
DW CL IV LLC.
In conjunction with the sale, the partnership of DW CL IV LLC and CL Opco
LLC filed a $2.7 million mortgage loan.
The former organization signed as borrower and the latter signed as borrower
and operating tenant.
Connecticut-based SPT CA Fundings
2 LLC signed as lender. The loan is
set to mature Dec. 7, 2018, but can be
extended up to 2020.
The hotel was built in 1996, is 41,820
square feet and is appraised for $1.9
million, according to the Shelby
County Assessor of Property.
2859 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY
MEMPHIS, TN 38133
BUYER: Brixmor Wolfcreek Outparcel
Owner LLC
SELLER: King Chow and Jasmine Lin
DETAILS: The property housing
Romano’s Macaroni Grill at 2859 N.
Germantown Parkway has sold for $2.4
million. Brixmor Wolfcreek Outparcel
Owner LLC purchased the property
from husband and wife King Chow
and Jasmine Lin in a Dec. 11 warranty
deed.
Dean Bernstein, executive vice president of New York-based Brixmor Property Group Inc., signed as affiant.
Built in 1998, the 6,564-square-foot
building originally housed a Chili’s
restaurant. Chow and Lin purchased
the property from Chili’s Inc. in 2010
for $1.9 million.
The structure is situated on 1.7 acres
on the west side of North Germantown
Parkway south of U.S. 64, and the
Shelby County Assessor of Property’s
2015 appraisal is $2.1 million.
465 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY
4287 SUMMER AVE.
8390 U.S. 51
3874 GOODMAN ROAD
TOTAL SIZE: 5,815 SQUARE FEET
TENANT: Papa Murphy’s
TENANT’S AGENT: Shawn Massey
and Robert Sloan, The Shopping Center Group
DETAILS: Take-and-bake pizza chain
Papa Murphy’s has doubled its presence in the Memphis-area with four
recently inked leases.
It is a new tenant at The Pointe shopping center in Cordova, taking up a
1,600-square-foot space at 465 North
Germantown Parkway.
Papa Murphy’s also signed a
1,315-square-foot lease at 4287
Summer Ave. in Memphis and a
1,500-square-foot lease at 3874 Goodman Road in Olive Branch, Miss.
It also signed a 1,400-square-foot lease
at 8390 Highway 51 North in Millington, Tenn.
The four new stores join Papa Murphy’s locations in Germantown, Lakeland, Olive Branch and Collierville.
Shawn Massey and Robert Sloan with
The Shopping Center Group represented Papa Murphy’s in all four transactions.
December 25-31, 2015 11
CONSTRUCTION
Two at a Time
To combat lot shortage, developers take on small subdivisions
Madeline Faber
[email protected]
With landlocked urban areas
and a dwindling supply of vacant
lots, developers are looking to
increase Memphis’ density one
house at a time with single-family
residential infill projects.
“The problem in Memphis is
that the cost of lots with a house
on it, in the most desirable areas
of Memphis are extremely high,”
said Keith Allen, principal of Keith
Allen Homes and president of the
West Tennessee Home Builders
Association.
To make the prices work, developers are tearing down older,
larger-lot homes and rezoning
the land into micro two-lot subdivisions.
“They’re not making any more
land in Midtown or East Memphis,” said Walker Uhlhorn with
Uhlhorn Brothers Construction
Co. “So if you want to build new,
you’ve got to find an old house
and tear it down.”
Uhlhorn said this type of development is increasingly becoming a mainstay for his company
with projects completed in both
Midtown and East Memphis.
In April, Uhlhorn purchased a
blighted home with fire damage at
1800 Peabody Ave. for $129,000.
After working closely with the
city-county Office of Planning and
Development and the Memphis
Landmarks Commission, he tore
down the 3,500-square-foot house
and built on the same lot two
new houses: A 3,200-square-foot
home at 1800 Peabody priced at
$550,000 and a 4,000-square-foot
home at 1796 Peabody priced at
$600,000.
“So basically we're not looking
at the value of the house,” he said.
“We're only looking at the value of
the land.”
In a tight urban market, land
is extremely valuable.
“It’s pretty tough to go into
East Memphis and pay $400,000
for a lot and then put one house
on it,” Allen said.
Infill development can take
two kinds of structures. A developer can assemble two to five acres
of land in outlying or blighted areas and increase the area’s density
with affordable, new product. Because the houses are built outside
of the urban core, there are fewer
restrictions on architecture and
design. Or, the developer could
purchase a lot with a house already on it and try to build a more
expensive product.
However, there’s generally ob-
Walker Uhlhorn of Uhlhorn Brothers Construction Co., which is taking
on small infill developments in Midtown and East Memphis.
jection if the developer is changing the character of an existing
neighborhood.
Uhlhorn said that he had to
clear several hurdles for approval
to demolish a home in the Central
Gardens Historic District, but
most of the residents were glad to
see an eyesore turned into something better.
“I’m glad it’s difficult because
if it wasn’t everybody would be
doing it,” he added.
According to Josh Whitehead,
planning director for the Memphis & Shelby County Office of
Planning and Development, smart
infill in residential development
has to meet the context of the surrounding lots and land uses. Some
of the context points include similar size of lots, setbacks from the
street and design in line with a historic neighborhood. Infill homes
can also work as a buffer between
lower density single-family uses
on one side and higher density
multifamily or commercial uses
on the other.
When the city’s Unified Development Code went into effect
in 2011, it changed the context
around residential infill. Now,
small residential subdivisons of
four lots or fewer that meet the
surrounding context are classified as minor subdivisons, and
as such, they can be approved by
staff instead of going before the
Land Use Control Board.
“This represents a considerable change from the subdivision
regulations that preceded the
UDC and has resulted in several
small two-, three- and four-lot
minor subdivisions in the heart of
the city,” Whitehead said.
He added that most infill subdivisions in the last five years have
been located in the East Memphis
38111 and 38117 ZIP codes.
Just one street north of the
new Peabody homes, Uhlhorn is
working on an identical project at
1800 Linden Ave. He’s expecting
those homes to go for $450,000
to $500,000 and plans to build
more micro subdivisions in the
coming year.
“There’s a huge rush of people
who moved out east five to 10
years ago are are now moving back
in town,” he said. “There’s just not
enough land.”
R E A L E S TAT E & D E V E L O P M E N T
Homebuilders Hoping for Busier 2016
Madeline Faber
[email protected]
For Memphis-area homebuilders, the market is far from
pre-recession levels, but 2016
could bring more building activity.
“We’re about 30 percent back
to where we were before the recession,” said Keith Allen, principal
of Keith Allen Homes and 2016
president of the West Tennessee
Home Builders Association.
Memphis is on track to file
830 housing permits for 2015,
he added. To keep the market
sustainable for suppliers and subcontractors, the area really needs
to be filing around 3,400 to 3,500
permits per year.
“We're nowhere near where we
need to be, but it's a lot better than
what it was,” he said.
In the coming year, he anticipates housing permits to stay flat
or increase slightly.
Memphis’ slow-to-grow housing market is attributed to both a
lack of demand and a lack of lots,
and factors in both of those areas
could spur some change in 2016.
While permits are down, the
market is burning through existing
inventory.
“For a while there, we could
have 1,000 sales but we’d only
pull 700 permits.” Now, Allen said,
permits are equaling sales.
Prices on existing homes have
risen about 9 percent over last
year, so people who were looking
to sell around the recession are
finally unloading their homes and
moving on to new ones, he added.
“When everything was run-
ning white hot, developers were
adding tons of lots,” he said. In
the housing crash, foreclosed lots
were sold to other developers at a
discounted price, allowing them to
build less-expensive homes. With
dwindling lot supply and housing
inventory, those prices are coming
back up.
At the end of the third quarter of 2015, average new home
prices came in at $298,306, an 11
percent increase compared to the
third quarter of 2014, according
to data from real estate information company Chandler Reports,
chandlerreports.com.
Dwindling lot supply and rising costs of lots are the biggest
hurdles facing Shelby County
builders, Allen said.
Compared to the third quarter
of 2014, lot costs at the end of the
third quarter of 2015 rose 9 percent
with an average lot price coming in
at $49,879, according to Chandler
Reports data. Vacant lot supply
dropped 8 percent in the same
period.
With available space for new
homes tightened, developers are
looking at bringing new lots to the
market for the first time in several
years.
“They’re beginning to branch
out conservatively,” Allen said.
“But we think that's a healthy
indicator of where they feel like,
and where lending institutions
feel like, the future is going to be.”
These new subdivisions are going to be in outlying areas of Shelby County, such as Collierville and
Arlington. Some developments
could house up to 120 lots. Others
could house up to 500 eventually,
but they’re being developed in
phases of 50 to 60 at a time.
Prices for new homes in these
neighborhoods are increasing, according to Chandler Reports. For
year-end 2014, the average price
for a new Arlington home was
$267,621, while a new Collierville
home averaged $393,168. For sales
made in September 2015, the average price for was $292,290 for an
Arlington home and $406,616 for
a Collierville home.
“For a long time there, there
was a reluctance for any developers to bring new lots to market. It
was too risky,” Allen said. “Now
we're starting to see a few developers sticking their toes back in
the water.”
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12 December 25-31, 2015
T E N N E S S E E L E G I S L AT U R E
Norris: Gas Tax Proposal Not
Happening in 2016
Bill Dries
[email protected]
Don’t look for a gas tax hike in the 2016
session of the Tennessee legislature, says
the state Senate majority leader.
“We’re not going to do a gas tax in
2016,” Rep. Mark Norris of Collierville
said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind
The Headlines.” “We are going to have to
address it soon enough and these conversations are very important.”
Norris’ comments confirm a possibility Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam noted in
November, on a statewide tour to talk
about the state’s $6 billion backlog of road
projects.
Haslam said then that he wasn’t sure he
would propose in the coming year a solution to the backlog of unfunded projects.
Haslam has been gauging public opinion,
although not specifically advocating a
hike of the state’s 21.4-cent portion of the
40-cent-a-gallon tax.
Since November, Congress has come
through with a five-year surface transportation act that leaves the federal part of the
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“So we know that that’s off the table,”
Norris said. “It does provide a relief valve
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infrastructure,” Harris
said. “We should also really think hard
about public transit.”
Norris expects the legislature will spend
time discussing what to do with a state
surplus that he estimates will be “north of
half a billion dollars.”
He and Harris said some should go to
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Norris also acknowledged some legislators want to restore $260 million taken
from the gas tax fund during Gov. Phil
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balance the state’s general fund.
“I think to get to a meaningful long-
term solution, at some point we are going
to have to repay some of those funds,”
Norris said. “And I think we’ll begin doing
that in 2016.”
Meanwhile, Harris defended the staterun Achievement School District as necessary after Shelby County Schools board
members passed a resolution last week
urging a moratorium on any further ASD
takeovers of Memphis schools.
The move follows a Vanderbilt University study that showed Innovation Zone
schools run by SCS are posting better
student achievement results than ASD
schools.
“The reality is that we’ve had lots of
schools … that have not produced results,”
Harris said. “We’ve got to have a conversation about how to have high performance.
The ASD, for whatever its warts, has produced a conversation about performance.”
I-Zone schools and the ASD both
get extra state funding as well as greater
autonomy. The ASD also gets the state’s
per-pupil funding with the students that
attend its schools.
Competition from the ASD as well as
charter schools outside the district and
the creation of six suburban public school
districts – all drawing the per-pupil state
funding – has lead SCS leaders to express
concern about their fixed costs, even with
fewer students.
“The lesson is we’ve got to figure out
a way to finance schools a little bit different. The per-pupil model may be a little
outdated and may not be as helpful as we
think it is. … It creates a lot of financial
instability,” Harris said. “Maybe it’s time
to talk about a baseline funding for schools
or public school systems. If they had a
baseline funding that they could guarantee
from year to year, they’d have more stability and be able to program and plan. They
are not there yet.”
Norris said he is “open” to exploring
that option.
He also expects a report to the legislature early in the 2016 session from the
Haslam administration that might recommend changes to the state’s Basic Education Program formula, which determines
the amount of state funding a local school
district gets.
Shelby County Schools is suing the state
for not fully funding the BEP. Several other
school systems across the state have similar
lawsuits pending.
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POLITICS
March 1 Presidential Primary
Begins Complex Process
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Bill Dries
[email protected]
Shelby County’s first election of 2016
seems like a simple affair. The Tennessee
presidential primaries and countywide
primaries for General Sessions Court Clerk
are the only items on the ballot.
But the ballot approved last week by
the Shelby County Election Commission
includes 224 names. Only three of those
names are the contenders in the two primaries for clerk. And another 17 are the
presidential candidates.
The rest are those who want to be
delegates representing Tennessee to the
Republican National Convention July 18-21
in Cleveland, Ohio.
For the state Democratic and Republican parties, the choices voters make March
1 for the Presidential contenders trigger a
more complex process of selecting the delegates to the July conventions that will formally pick each party’s national nominee.
But the two parties use different methods and formulas based on congressional
districts, voter turnout in past presidential
elections and how much of the statewide
primary vote a presidential candidate gets.
Republican presidential primary voters
cast ballots for delegates and candidates
on the March 1. Those participants vote
for 14 committed and uncommitted delegates, who will be part of the Tennessee
delegation to the Republican National
Convention.
And they vote for delegates by the congressional districts they live in, with the 8th
and 9th congressional districts on the ballot
in different parts of Shelby County.
“You’ll be voting for someone local
to be a delegate for that candidate,” said
Mary Wagner, chairwoman of the Shelby
County Republican Party. “You may know
the individual serving as a delegate. It kind
of gives a local aspect to it.”
There are 14 Republican presidential
contenders on the Tennessee primary ballot, including U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
who suspended his campaign Monday,
Dec. 21. But only 10 of the 14 have a slate
of delegates for Republican voters to select
from.
Graham as well as New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie, former Virginia Governor
Jim Gilmore and former New York Gov.
George Pataki have no delegates on the
ballot.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has
the largest selection of delegates statewide
with 28 choices. Businessman Donald
Trump has a slate of 27 choices for pledged
delegates.
“Each of the campaigns are trying to fill
their delegates and some are doing so more
easily than others,” Wagner said. “There’s
a lot of interest. It’s an exciting time to be a
delegate at the national convention.”
Democrats have no delegates statewide
or local on the March 1 ballot, just the three
Democratic presidential contenders.
You may know the individual
serving as a delegate. It kind of
gives a local aspect to it.”
Mary Wagner, Shelby County Republican Party
There are two sets of primaries on the March 1 election ballot, the Tennessee presidential primaries and countywide primaries for General Sessions Court Clerk. But
there are 224 names on the ballot, including delegates to be elected in the Republican
presidential primary. (Memphis News File/Andrew J. Breig)
The process involves the same general
effort toward apportionment by formula
but a different selection method.
“You have to declare for a particular
candidate,” said Randa Spears, chairwoman of the Shelby County Democratic
Party. “You have to declare without knowing who’s won the primary.”
That’s also the case in the Republican
delegate selection. But the two parties differ
on when those who want to be delegates
declare and how they are selected.
“I think it is confusing,” Spears said.
“It seems so simple to me. But when I talk
about it, it sure is complicated.”
Democrats who want to be pledged
delegates to a particular candidate begin
declaring Jan. 4.
While early voting is underway in February, state Democratic party officials will
be submitting a list of unpledged party
leaders and elected officials who will be delegates from Tennessee to the convention.
Those unpledged delegates will include
U.S. Reps. Steve Cohen and Jim Cooper,
the state’s two Democratic congressmen.
The March 1 presidential primary is the
next step in determining who the delegates
will be.
A Democratic candidate has to get at
least 15 percent of the vote in a congressional district to get any delegates from
that district.
For Republicans it’s a 20 percent
threshold “as a basic rule of thumb,” said
Tennessee Republican Party executive
director Brent Leatherwood.
If no candidate gets at least 20 percent
of the vote, there are contingencies in the
GOP rules.
The Saturday after election day, March
5, county Democratic conventions across
the state will be held. That is followed by
Congressional district conventions on
March 19 for those delegates selected at
the March 5 conventions.
“On the 19th is when the delegates will
elect the national delegates to go to the con-
vention,” Spears said, referring to the July
25-28 Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia. “This is a very small number.”
Apportioning delegates by county and
congressional district is done with a formula that balances total population and the
average vote for Democratic candidates in
the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.
The predominantly Memphis 9th Congressional District has the most Democratic
delegates of any of the state’s nine districts,
with eight, followed by the seven in the
Nashville-based 5th Congressional district.
After the March conventions at the
county and congressional district level, the
state Democratic Party selects the state’s
nine pledged party leaders and elected officials as delegates in April.
It is a complexity that politicos who regard being a convention delegate as a high
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E D U C AT I O N
Students Get Help on Path to College
Bill Dries
[email protected]
Torisha Williams was an elementary school educator for six
years.
So when she began her position in August as a counselor at
Sheffield High School, she brought
some grade-school culture to the
job of helping her students find a
way to college.
And she heard some groans
from the teenagers when she
taped a watercolor paper cutout
of a tree to one of her room’s
cinderblock walls. Taped onto the
tree’s branches are paper butterflies, symbolizing students going
to college.
“The students were like, ‘Ms.
Williams, this is not elementary.
Why do we have a tree?’” she said.
“(Now) the kids have bought into
it, and when they come, they rub
on the tree for good luck.”
The tree is part of a path Williams has created for the students
whom she and the College Initiative assist in guiding to college.
Once a week, a counselor from
the College Initiative comes to
Sheffield to work with a set group
of 50 students. It uses a laser-like
focus on specific bureaucratic
obstacles – filling out forms, deadlines and more – as well as offers
general counseling on the college
experience.
College Initiative operates in
a third of Shelby County Schools’
high schools.
Founder and CEO Gabriel
Fotsing said College Initiative
workers typically begin their core
work by asking for a show of hands
Sheffield High School 11th- and 12th-grade guidance counselor Torisha Williams – pictured with her
achievement tree – is helping guide her students to collegiate careers. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
of how many juniors want to go to
college. Typically a lot of hands
are raised.
What follows is a show of
hands for how many know how
to go about getting into college,
and the number of hands raised
is usually much smaller.
“A lot of our students are going to be the first in their families
to go to college. That means that
they don’t understand the differences between the different types
of colleges,” he said. “If you start
thinking about college in your
senior year, sometimes it will be
too late. You may not have put
down the foundational work to
have greater options. …
“We break down all the things
that students need to do and we
stretch that over the course of
two years, and it’s a little more
manageable.”
Fotsing also sees more students taking advanced placement
courses that earn them college
credit in high school.
The AP courses are part of a
steeper ramp to the college experience that Fotsing cautions can
be more difficult than taking the
same course in college.
“The only difference is in college the average students takes
only four classes,” he said. “However in high school, the average
student takes seven classes. So
you have the AP load and you
are taking more classes than you
would normally take in college.”
Fotsing hopes to work more
counseling on AP courses into the
junior year core program.
And then there’s Williams, on
the phone with students by her
side, negotiating the cogs and
wheels of higher education and
student aid when students hit a
bureaucratic wall.
“I haven’t met students who
lack motivation,” she said. “Some
days it feels like that. But there are
expectations in my room. They are
dedicated.”
Kiara Tatum, a Sheffield senior, has applied at a number
of colleges and hopes to attend
Tennessee State University next
summer on her path to becoming
an OB-GYN.
“I just like helping people and
dealing with babies,” Tatum said.
“I want to help people deliver
babies and make sure they are OK
after they are born.”
It’s not the idle daydream of a
teenager. Last summer Tatum was
part of a “foreshadowing” program at Regional One Health, and
she followed as doctors delivered
babies at the hospital.
“They told me how much work
I would have to do and what to do
in order to become a doctor,” Tatum said. “I think it’s going to take
a long time, but it’s something I
really want to do.”
Williams said Tatum is an
intense, focused student who
doesn’t give up easily.
Tatum, however, knows all of
this is about to give way to a new
and unknown world – college.
“It’s different. Now we are in
an environment where we can
have more help,” she said. “We
can go to our teacher and say, ‘I
don’t understand this,’ and they
can break it down. I have friends
who are in college … who say that
you can get help but not as much
in high school.
“It’s a completely different
environment from being in high
school.”
Williams has seen the same
apprehension as the school year
reaches the halfway point for
seniors.
“A lot of them were excited to
be seniors but now there is fear,”
she said. “We also had to talk
about leaving home. I told them
go out there and explore. It’s good
to stay close to home. But you
know what home looks like.
“Go and see what the world
has to offer.”
NONPROFIT SECTOR
Shipping Containers to Shelter LGBTQ Youth
Madeline Faber
[email protected]
Memphis’ homeless shelters aren’t safe
for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer youth, says Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center executive director
Will Batts. He’s seen too many kids kicked
out of their homes only to be assaulted in
shelters or turn to drastic measures.
The MGLCC is taking on the task of
creating a safe space for LGBTQ individuals ages 18-25. Dubbed the Metamorphosis
Project, the Orange Mound center will be
a haven of rehabbed shipping containers.
Each 40-foot shipping container will be
split into two efficiency apartments so that
homeless clients can have their own bed,
desk, closet and small bathroom. Another
cluster of containers will house a classroom,
kitchen, offices and laundry space.
“Let's get them off the street so they can
think, eat and sleep every day and be safe as
they figure out those next steps,” Batts said.
MGLCC started designing the center
in late 2014 when its host family program
dissolved. The five-year-old initiative had
placed homeless LGBTQ youth with families
for up to six months, but when the main host
family dropped out, the organization realized it needed a more sustainable solution.
In 2016, MGLCC will launch a campaign
with a $250,000 ask for the first round of
construction. The funds would clean up the
Orange Mound site and buy containers for
four apartments and an administration area.
“I feel confident we can raise the money
for the first construction, but we’re concerned about ongoing costs,” Batts added.
The center already has purchased the
vacant land from the Shelby County Land
Bank and is seeking to have it rezoned.
When the center is running at full capacity, it could hold 20 young adults. MGLCC
plans to partner with organizations to provide clients with job training, resume building, interview skills and GED education.
While numbers on Memphis’ LGBTQ
homeless population are hard to come by,
the Williams Institute estimates 40 percent
of homeless teens and young adults na-
tionwide identify as LGBTQ. The MGLCC
is working from this figure as it conducts a
survey of Memphis’ homeless youth.
Transgender clients especially need safe
shelter, Batts said, as Tennessee prohibits
people from changing their sex on identification cards such as driver’s licenses. When
seeking traditional shelter, transgender
individuals are placed with the sex listed on
their ID, which can be traumatic.
“Most of the kids we've talked to have
been assaulted in some way, because the
people most likely to assault them are right
in the room with them,” Batts said.
He added that while Memphis’ peer
cities have homeless LGBTQ programs, a
shipping container complex is a standout.
December 25-31, 2015 15
COMMUNITY
Business of Giving
Memphis business community shows giving is 365 days a year
Lance Wiedower
Special to The Memphis News
Parties, family gatherings,
checking off lists, decorations –
the holidays add a whole extra
layer of stress during December.
But in Memphis, where there
are so many needs that are only
magnified during the holidays, it’s
a time that the business community steps out to help the city’s vast
nonprofit community provide a
little extra Christmas spirit.
Companies big and small
participate in a number of ways,
from coat, food and toy drives to
helping decorate Christmas trees
at Target House to adopting children and seniors in the Salvation
Army’s Angel Tree program.
ANF Architects puts an emphasis on community engagement, encouraging its employees to give time and resources
throughout the year – both as
representatives of the company
and on an individual basis.
This Christmas season, the
company adopted several angels
from the Salvation Army’s Angel
Tree Program. All 23 ANF employees shopped for 16 children, ranging in age from 11 months to 12
years old, and four senior citizens.
Another holiday program
kicked off Nov. 28 when ANF
began a Lego City build for Le
Bonheur Children’s Hospital patients. The ongoing project will be
displayed in Le Bonheur’s lobby.
Lee Askew, partner at ANF
Architects, says that it’s important
for individuals and companies to
find their niche in Memphis and
find ways to give to those causes.
“We’re architects so we like
to build buildings but we like
our community to be strong, the
nonprofits and various civic organizations that help people, we
want them to be strong,” Askew
said. “We want people to find their
niche. For 40 years this is where
we’ve lived and it makes us proud
to work here and be part of it.”
The employees of Orion Federal Credit Union gave throughout
the year in a small but effective
way: Every Friday, employees
could pay $5 to wear jeans to work.
Those $5 denim days provided
money to adopt children in the
Angel Tree program.
One way to bring the giving
spirit to customers was a Coats
for Kids drive. Bins were placed
in every branch, where employees
and credit union members were
encouraged to bring in coats.
“One thing we’ve seen grow
within our credit union is the
more we do in the community
month after month, year after
year, we see our own employees
jump on board,” said Tara Smith,
vice president of retail for Orion.
“It’s more than giving a check
somewhere. We encourage volunteering and allow them to do
so on the clock.”
Many Memphis companies
stepped up this year to assist in
the 14th annual Toy Truck that
benefits the children of PorterLeath. Yuletide Office Solutions
sponsors the drive, and uses its
large delivery truck to pick up
ANF Architects employees have added their personal ornaments to
the office Christmas tree since 1975. The firm is one of many whose
holiday traditions include community support. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
massive boxes of new toys that are
collected across the city.
Many Porter-Leath children
come from low-income households and without the toys that
come through Toy Truck, would
receive few or no Christmas gifts.
The program has seen massive
growth. Two years ago it served 900
children; this year there are 5,800
children across Shelby County,
and the program worked to ensure
each one received a gift to open.
And as that growth continues,
businesses' involvement has been
vital to ensure success. Participating companies had collection boxes for employees to bring in new
toys that Yuletide then would pick
up and deliver to the Toy Truck.
And there also are cash donations, from as little as a few dollars
to as much as several hundred.
Porter-Leath has “secret Santas”
who match those donations, and
the money is used to fill in the gaps.
“We’ve had tremendous
growth, and the community has
responded extremely well,” said
Rob Hughes, development director for Porter-Leath. “The business community’s involvement
is exactly what it takes. Two years
ago and backwards when we only
had 700 children, just dropping off
toys at the Toy Truck was great. But
dropping off a bag of 5,800 toys is
overwhelming.
“Most of these children have
never gotten anything new in their
lives.”
Beyond the holidays
While the community seems
to always respond in droves during the holiday season, the needs
in Memphis are 365 days a year.
Hughes said year-end giving is
greatly appreciated, but it’s also
important to keep the community
engaged throughout the year.
Memphis-based Varsity Spirit,
which runs cheerleading and
dance competitions and camps
across the U.S., encourages employees to give back throughout
the year. The company uses its
camps as opportunities to share
St. Jude's mission with the vast
number of students it reaches.
Varsity brings in the core staff
instructors for the camps every
May, who then spend time at St.
Jude to better understand the
hospital’s message. They share
that message with thousands of
students, encouraging each one to
address a letter sharing the hospital’s mission of fighting childhood
cancer, which is then sent out
seeking donations.
The program has raised more
than $3 million since its start in
2011, and it’s just one way students who participate in Varsity
programs help St. Jude.
And while it raises money for
the hospital, the program also
builds a better understanding of
community needs among tomorrow’s leaders, who will be more
likely to give to causes.
“This is a perfect partnership
for both of us because we’re both
about young people,” said Jackie
Kennedy, director of Varsity.com.
“St. Jude is worldwide. When
we’re at summer camps across
the country talking about St. Jude,
everyone has been touched by
childhood cancer. … These kids
want to do more.”
Christmas Gifts for Your Favorite Nonprofit
Its Christmas time! And soon to be
Kwanzaa. Then New Year’s! It’s time to
celebrate and share gifts. We give to our
families and friends. Many of us have
already made a gift to nonprofits we hold
closest to our hearts. But there’s always
time for more giving.
Here’s a holiday gift idea that can extend into the new year: Give a nonfinancial
gift. Here’s what we mean.
First, let us be clear: Nonprofits cannot
operate without money. That is a fact. But,
we also know there are many other things
nonprofits need, and you just might be
the right person to fill that need. Think
about it this way: Nonprofits are busy
delivering on their mission and vision.
Each also has to raise money, market their
organization and take care of business
MEL & PEARL SHAW
FUNdraising Good Times
operations such as human resources, accounting and facilities. They have a lot to
focus on. Your nonfinancial gift can make
a big difference.
If you are an attorney, you can donate
legal services. If you are an accountant,
you can review your favorite nonprofit’s
bookkeeping processes and help update
if needed. Computer professionals can
conduct a technology assessment, and –
if you want to “double your giving” – you
could invite others to provide some of the
products or services that might be needed
to help the nonprofit increase its efficiency
or, in some cases, get up-to-date.
There’s something for everyone to offer. Basic maintenance, repairs or painting
can make a big difference for a nonprofit
that has been deferring property maintenance. A team of two administrative
specialists could install new office systems
and organize those never-ending piles of
paper in an afternoon or weekend.
Marketing is a need for most nonprofits, and something that few can afford.
If you have marketing-related skills you
could make a meaningful impact on a
nonprofit. If you have a circle of colleagues
that want to work with you, you could help
a nonprofit change its future. Imagine this:
web redesign, setting up a social media
program, creating a marketing plan, crafting standard messages that engage donors
and the community.
Here’s how you could launch your
project. First, reach out to the executive
director at the nonprofit you want to give
to. Let her or him know what you are thinking about and ask if your project could be a
match for what the nonprofit needs. If it’s
a fit, schedule the project for a time that
works for all. Remember, Christmas is
about more than one day. With this type of
gift you can bring joy throughout the year.
Mel and Pearl Shaw, owners of fundraising consultancy firm Saad&Shaw,
can be reached at 901-522-8727 or saadandshaw.com.
16 December 25-31, 2015
Midway
Point
After 15 years, Uptown prepares for
another growth spurt
Madeline Faber
[email protected]
A quality, affordable neighborhood for
low- to moderate-income Memphians.
That’s developer Henry Turley’s ongoing vision for Uptown, a North Memphis
neighborhood benefiting from $150 million
in redevelopment efforts.
Facing each other across the Wolf River
Harbor are Turley’s two biggest developments. Prior to the late 1980s, Harbor Town
was a 132-acre stretch of vacant land on
Mud Island. Now, property taxes from the
high-income neighborhood help to fund
Uptown, the neighborhood across the
harbor.
“Everyone had just neglected this area,”
Turley said.
In Turley’s mind, there’s no reason why
neighborhoods on the fringe of Memphis’
core can’t be clean, well-lit places. Turleybuilt houses in Harbor Town and Uptown
even look similar.
With 15 years under its belt, the Uptown
redevelopment is at its midway point and
is soon to go through another growth spurt
as the neighborhood is now benefiting from
two major developers.
Fifteen years ago, the City of Memphis’
Community Redevelopment Agency drew
a tax-increment financing district was
around the area stretching north-south
from the Wolf River’s terminus to Poplar
Avenue and west-east from Harbor Town
to Ayers Street. The TIF designation allows
property taxes from high-income Harbor
Town to be fed back into a pool of funds
overseen by the CRA to be used by master
developer Lauderdale-Greenlaw LLC, a
joint venture between Downtown stalwarts
Henry Turley Co. and Belz Enterprises.
The district raises about $5 million a
year for Uptown redevelopment efforts,
and the fund will continue to grow until
2030.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis now has access to the CRA pool and is
set to (will) build the neighborhood’s first
subdivision: 22 new homes set to rise next
year on what was an abandoned, crimeridden lot.
The Bearwater Park subdivision will
push development beyond Uptown’s
original target zone, which stretches northsouth from Chelsea Avenue to A.W. Willis
Avenue and west-east from the Mississippi
River to Manassas Street. With the original
target area safe and stable, the developers
plan to give the territory further north and
east the same treatment.
“Going on the other side of the street
over Manassas, it's Uptown 10 years ago,”
said Alex Mobley, vice president of Lauderdale-Greenlaw. “You can really see where
we've worked and where we haven't.”
That means improved infrastructure,
access to quality schools and housing, and
increased police presence in areas of North
Memphis that haven’t yet seen the benefit
of outside investment.
CREATING A COMMUNITY
Uptown’s history and future is invested
in decentralizing poverty through bringing
mixed-income and diverse partners to the
area.
Turley and Belz were first drawn to
Uptown in 1999 as a private partner in the
redevelopment of Hurt Village. The team
partnered with the Memphis Housing
Homes near KIPP Memphis Collegiate Middle will house KIPP families or teachers.
Uptown has reached the halfway point in a 30-year hyper-focused renewal effort through the
Authority to replace the public housing
complex with a new mixed-income community, backed by $35 million in Hope VI
funds from the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
“So the idea is that when you have a
public housing development that puts all of
the people who make no money essentially
in one place, then you're not decentralizing
anything,” said Mobley. “Henry and Jack
Belz said, ‘Why would we stop at the Hurt
Village site and not address the issue on the
other side of the street in every direction?’”
When Lauderdale-Greenlaw first started work in the area, there were more than
600 vacant lots. Now, that number is closer
to 15.
To date, the CRA plan has helped build
549 multifamily apartments and 268 singlefamily homes and perform more than 100
rehabs aimed at creating a neighborhood
that is one-third rental, one-third affordable homes for sale and one-third market
rate.
Similar to the Hope VI effort that
launched the Uptown redevelopment,
Habitat for Humanity is building its Bearwater Park subdivision on the site of the
former Cedar Court apartment complex.
Memphis Habitat for Humanity president and CEO Dwayne Spencer’s plan is to
build a neighborhood from scratch that incorporates mixed incomes with intentional
infrastructure and community development. Currently, the area is an open field
with sparse older development and 10 new
rental homes built by local nonprofit Oasis
of Hope Inc. Crime and blight still linger.
Habitat has had a presence in Uptown
since 2012 building homes and performing rehabs, but the subdivision will be a
unique hyper-focus for the organization.
Overall, Habitat plans to build more than
50 homes and perform 100 critical repairs
in the Uptown neighborhood.
MLB-Uptown, the tax-exempt arm
of Lauderdale-Greenlaw, is working with
Habitat in acquiring the lots and bringing
infrastructure to the area.
“The whole goal of bringing all this attention and focus to this one place is to kind
of bring this positive energy in hopes that
not magically, but through some progressive collaborative steps from the ground up
in collaboration with the CRA and police
departments and other agencies, we will
bounce the negatives out of the neighborhood,” Spencer said.
Habitat’s Uptown initiatives drew the
attention of former President Jimmy Carter,
who selected the Bearwater Park site for
the 2016 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work
Project, the latest in a longtime collaboration between the Carters and Habitat for
Humanity International.
The Tennessee Housing Development
Agency donated a $1 million matching
grant to the effort, bringing Habitat closer
to its $5 million fundraising goal.
In November, Carter and other dignitaries broke ground on Bearwater Park. One of
the first structures to be completed will be
dubbed the President’s House. When Carter
returns next year to swing hammers and
paint fences, the home will be his cadre’s
personal rest area.
After construction on the 21 homes is
finished next December, the President’s
House will become a community center,
housing Uptown coordination and neighborhood association meetings, offices and
police officers.
“It makes a lot of sense to dedicate that
work in a neighborhood that's devoted to
holistic revitalization,” Spencer said. “We're
not a silo anymore because revitalization is
so much more than new house construction. It's got to be all these other things.”
December 25-31, 2015 17
Memphis College Prep founder Michael
Whaley and Henry Turley worked together
to find a location for the school in Uptown.
“It takes a long time for people to truly
believe something has changed,” Mobley
said.
Still, the developers are optimistic.
This year, the Memphis-Shelby County
Economic Development Growth Engine
granted a tax break for the site of the former
Chism Trail Grocery, at 544 Jackson Ave.
With lower operating costs and tax burden,
Turley is hoping for some positive feedback
within the next few months. A $500,000
improvement grant from the CRA also is
available to potential developers.
A grocery would attract additional development to the planned Uptown Center,
a commercial plot ready for a drugstore,
office space and additional small retail.
“When I first started working at Uptown, I got one question. … ‘Is it safe?’”
Mobley reported at a September EDGE
meeting. “That’s all anybody ever wanted
to know. Now, I get two questions: ‘Where
are my kids going to go to school and where
am I going to get my groceries?’”
city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and public-private partnerships.
(Photos: Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
Lauderdale-Greenlaw vice president Alex Mobley and Memphis Habitat CEO Dwayne
Spencer visit a nearly finished Habitat build on Looney Avenue in Uptown.
SCHOOLS HAVE SPROUTED UP …
Uptown’s stakeholders are hyperfocused on the area. Uptown coordinator
Tanja Mitchell hosts monthly public joint
agency meetings where representatives
from the Memphis-Shelby County Office of
Construction Code Enforcement, St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital, the Uptown
police team and citizens rap about issues
in the community.
"We've had a real transformation,”
Turley said. “When we came, there were
no schools that you attended by choice."
Now, he pointed out, the area has three
charter schools, a handful of community
centers and a community police force dedicated to Uptown, in addition to the officers
that are part of the Memphis Police Department’s regular precinct.
Like in the suburbs, people can live in
good houses and send their children to
good schools, Turley added.
Michael Whaley, founder and executive director of Memphis College Prep Elementary School, has clearly felt the area’s
transition.
When Turley first helped Whaley settle
on the location at 278 Greenlaw Ave., they
had to recruit all over the city to fill classrooms. When the school opened in 2010,
5 percent of College Prep students lived in
Uptown. Now, that number is closer to 30
percent.
Looking to accommodate more students, Whaley is shopping for a new
location outside of Uptown to house the
elementary school, but he plans to keep
a presence at Greenlaw with after-school
programming or an early childhood learning center.
“When Henry and I first talked about it,
his idea was, ‘How can we make education
‘WE’RE NOT REALLY THROUGH’
a focus of community development and
growth?’ And here we’re actually seeing it,”
Whaley said.
Surrounding KIPP Memphis Collegiate
Middle at 230 Henry Ave., nonprofit group
Promise Development Corp. is at work on a
10-home development. Six new homes and
four rehabbed homes will be rented out to
KIPP teachers and families to encourage a
wrap-around approach to education and
community growth.
Financing through the Tennessee
Housing Development Agency will keep
rent affordable.
“We're trying to build a community and
give people a sense of neighborhood in
the North Memphis area as well as remove
blight,” said Kim Hill, a board member with
Promise Development Corp.
Mobley emphasized the role of community pride.
“It's not the fact that the building comes
down and it’s fixed,” Mobley said. “You
can't fix a neighborhood. You can't fix
people. But you can do things that make
people realize that they need to have pride
where they live.”
… BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LONGAWAITED GROCER?
Uptown still has its perennial struggles.
Pockets of crime and blight persist, and
commercial development is slow to start.
Lauderdale-Greenlaw has been campaigning for 10 years to recruit a grocery store to
the area.
Alex Turley, vice president of real estate
with Henry Turley Co., said he’s spoken “to
every grocer you could possibly think of.”
Grocers keep echoing the same concerns. The immediate demographics
couldn’t support the necessary sales. Infill
is difficult. They’ve never operated a store
in a transitional neighborhood before.
In Uptown’s backyard is St. Jude, the
area’s biggest economic engine. In November, it was announced that the hospital and
ALSAC, its affiliated fundraising arm, are
on the precipice of a $9 billion expansion.
The area is expected to see $1 billion in
new construction and 2,000 new jobs, with
the surrounding neighborhoods feeling
significant impact.
In anticipation of the St. Jude connection, Lauderdale-Greenlaw is building three
new market-rate homes. They’re the first
spec homes built in Uptown since 2007
and the first ever to be built with a two-car
garage.
“St. Jude likes to have their people
nearby,” Alex Turley said.
The homes will be subsidized through
the CRA’s Affordable Housing Development Initiative, which differs from HOPE
VI developments in that the incentive is
attached to the buyer, not the home. Therefore, higher-income buyers can purchase
the home even if their income deems them
ineligible for a subsidy.
“These homes will be a good indicator
of the market in terms of not only the buyers and the market demand but how the
lending markets have recovered since the
crash,” said Mobley.
If the first three sell quickly, 20 more
AHDI homes are planned for the surrounding block and MLB-Uptown’s inventory
of lots.
Henry Turley hopes that the expansion
will also grow St. Jude’s role with the neighborhood developers. He imagines Uptown
development ending at a point further east.
“I would like to see St. Jude connected
with Le Bonheur through a neighborhood
that we, St. Jude and Le Bonheur all work
together in, and they encourage their employees from low and moderate incomes to
live near work,” he said.
“We’re not really through here.”
18 December 25-31, 2015
RAY & DANA BRANDON
App Explosion Projected for 2016
RAYS OF WISDOM
Protect Your
Retirement
From The
Unexpected
Ray’s take
We plan carefully during our years in the
workforce to create a solid income for our
retirement. But how can we protect that plan
after we retire and have less flexibility and
increased vulnerability to unexpected events?
We want to avoid finding ourselves in the position of having to go back to work.
It’s important to prepare for setbacks and
have contingency plans in place before you
retire. Here are some things to consider.
Rebalance your portfolio. If you haven’t
been an active investor over the years, it’s
time to review where, exactly, your money is
invested. Continuing a higher-risk portfolio
that worked well for you during the accumulation phase could spell disaster in retirement.
We know stock market corrections can and
do happen, which is why you should diversify
away as much of the risk as possible.
Carefully consider your exposure to longterm health risks. This is not the garden variety
health issues that go with every life. We are
talking about if one of you suffers a debilitating
event and you aren’t able to provide care at
home. Many people believe Medicare will save
the day without realizing that there are some
pretty strict limitations involved. The ideal is
to be self-insured, but this may not be realistic
for everyone, and long-term care insurance
should at least be considered. Be sure to pay
special attention to the clauses regarding preexisting conditions; coverage limits, like max
cost per day in a nursing home; and waiting/
elimination periods.
Consider the financial repercussions upon
the death of a spouse. Some retirement assets
pass on to the surviving spouse, but not all.
Traditional pensions may be generous while
the former worker is alive, but that typically
changes or ends when they pass away. The
same is usually true with Social Security. Consider life insurance to cover any gaps.
Meeting with a financial professional can
help you make the best plan for protecting
your retirement.
Dana’s take
In Justin Timberlake’s #1 song “Mirrors,”
he sings to his beloved, “I’m looking right at
the other half of me.” Indeed, a life partner can
seem like half of one’s self. In the event that
that other half unexpectedly dies, the grief can
seem overwhelming.
Transitioning through the loss of a spouse
can require a lot of support. Have you and your
mate discussed supports in the event that one
of you unexpectedly passes away? Have you retained an estate attorney, financial planner or
accountant to help the surviving spouse settle
the estate and sort out life insurance and other
benefits? Do you already have a clergy member
in mind or counselor to help your mate with
emotional struggles?
Ray Brandon, CEO of Brandon Financial
Planning, and his wife, Dana, a licensed
clinical social worker, can be reached at
brandonplanning.com.
This column is the sixth in an 11-part
series on the Top Ten 2016 Marketing
Trends. Check back for the remainder
of the series and a deep dive into each of
these trends.
With our sights set on 2016, it’s
the perfect time for reflection on your
growth strategy. What marketing successes will you carry over from 2015
into the New Year, and which will you
abandon? What marketing trends, anticipated for 2016, are worthy of consideration in your 2016 plan?
One such trend worth investigating
is the veritable app explosion that is
anticipated next year.
ComScore cites that consumers
dedicated 87 percent of their mobile
device time in 2015 to apps versus
browsers. The number of apps with 5
million or more unique visitors grew 29
percent from June 2014 to June 2015. It’s
no longer just the big boys – like Amazon
– driving significant app traffic.
While it can be challenging to build
a large audience on an app, those app
users are a loyal bunch once you get
them – assuming your app offers real
LORI TURNER- WILSON
GUERRILLA SALES &
MARKETING
value. In fact, app users spend more
than three hours per month on the Top
1,000 apps on average – about 18 times
greater than what mobile web visitors
spend on their Top 1,000 sites.
This trend in app growth is no doubt
a result of the ever-growing mobile
Internet audience and the sheer convenience of using apps on mobile devices.
It’s also due, in part, to the way Google
delivers apps in search results. The
search giant has offered app indexing
for some time, but as this functionality
continues to improve, 2016 will be the
year more business owners realize the
online visibility advantages of a dedicated app.
A mobile-optimized site works wonders for appealing to the mobile crowd,
but in the not-so-distant future, apps
will begin to replace them in certain
industries. Apps can do most everything
that websites can, except in a more intuitive, convenient, accessible way for
mobile users.
2016 will no doubt be a pivotal year
in app adoption, though we are still several years away from apps truly replacing the need for websites as a medium.
Even then, the relevancy of apps will
vary widely by industry, as consumers
need a strong “what’s in it for me” to
expend the effort to download the app.
And even then, you must continue delivering value if they are going to keep
your app on the main home screen of
their phone where they are most likely
to engage with it.
While apps aren’t for every business,
if you have added value you could be offering your customers via an app, there
is value in beating your competition to
the punch before they’ve secured app
dominance in your market.
Lori Turner-Wilson, CEO and
founder of RedRover Sales & Marketing
Strategy, can be reached at redrovercompany.com.
Track New Year's Resolutions,
Simplify Plans With the Cloud
PATRICK TAMBURRINO
GUEST COLUMN
With the holiday season in full swing,
most of us could use all the help we can
get to stay organized, from keeping track
of gift wish lists to monitoring spending
habits. Fortunately, cloud computing –
the current Internet technology that lets
you access all your files and important
data from any remote location – is here
to help.
Cloud-based systems let you to keep
your programs and documents on a remote server rather than being confined to
a computer’s hard drive. You can access
your data from any device as long as you
have an Internet connection. Many cloud
services allow you to share and collaborate on files, and it’s also a straightforward
way to transfer large files, like a video of a
loved one opening up a gift.
There are several popular and secure
cloud services to choose from, including
Google Drive, iCloud and Dropbox. You’ll
first need to scan the files or images to
your computer and drag and drop files
to your cloud service of choice. You can
also access files remotely from each service’s mobile app. That way, any edits to
a document are synced across all of your
devices.
If you’re not yet convinced, a few of
the ways the cloud can help keep you on
track this holiday season include:
Go paperless with your holiday
cheer. Consider keeping a contact list
with updated addresses via Google Drive,
and sending electronic greetings or party
invitations through Paperless Post. With
iCloud, you can retrieve photos from
your home computer even while on the
road, and send out-of-town loved ones
or clients an e-card with a personalized
message.
Manage your gift spending and travel budget. Keep track of what everyone on
your list wants and plan a budget with one
of the many templates for money management available in Google Drive. Once
you access the “Drive Template Gallery”
app from the “Create” menu, you can
search money management templates
such as Invoice Tracking, Checkbook
Register, Vacation Budget and Trip Planner, and more.
Stay on top of end-of-the-year doctor’s appointments. DropBox can help
you scan and store immunization and
medical records, insurance information,
consent-to-treat forms, as well as keep a
running tab of current medications and
allergies. Some documents will need to
stay offline though. Birth certificates,
Social Security cards and a copy of your
will should remain in a locked safe and
not filed electronically.
Make and track your New Year’s
resolutions. Try shareware like Basecamp and online calendars to document
your goals, set quarterly reminders and
track your progress. Go an extra step in
holding yourself accountable by sharing
your resolutions with friends and family.
Patrick Tamburrino, president of
tamburrino inc., can be reached at [email protected].
December 25-31, 2015 19
SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Tiger Bookstore Adapts To
Changing Landscape
Lance Wiedower
Special to The Memphis News
Business at Tiger Bookstore can’t always be like the 2008 run to the Final Four.
That magical basketball season saw
University of Memphis fans gather at the
store on Walker Avenue adjacent to the
campus to buy memorabilia marking
the occasion.
Tigers supporters keep business
healthy, but it’s those special moments
that create an extra buzz.
Kristy Jeffords, chief operations officer, said business has been good leading
up to the Tigers’ upcoming Birmingham
Bowl appearance against Auburn University. And as a new shipment of bowl shirts
came in for the Christmas week rush, Jeffords couldn’t help but think back to 2008.
“That was a once-in-a-lifetime event
that you can’t understand until you experience it,” she said. “It was amazing
and exhausting and exhilarating and
nerve-racking and every emotion you can
have. That’s just the business, not even
counting being a fan. But the thing that
excited me was the fans flooding into the
store, not just to buy things but the way
you saw people come together and talk.
“It was the most exciting time I think,
in my history of the story, at least.”
Yes, her history, because Jeffords
wasn’t really paying attention to the business landscape at Tiger Bookstore during
the runs to the 1973 and 1985 Final Fours.
Her parents were, of course. In fact, the
story of Tiger Bookstore is a family one.
Jeffords’ father, John Williams,
opened the store in 1964. One of his first
employees quickly became his wife, and
Jeffords and her two siblings were born
into the business.
John and Shirley Williams continue
ownership and are there to listen to
Jeffords, who has run the business for
the past 10 years. She is the only family
MICHAEL GRABER
LET’S GROW
Q&A With
Seth Godin
Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. His
blog is one of the most popular in the world.
After a keynote about the Connection
Economy at The Market Research Event,
Godin made time for a Q&A for 50 people.
At the foundation of the Connection
Economy lies weirdness and art, an authentic humanness.
Q: Companies are risk averse and market researchers are even more risk averse.
What is your advice?
A: Reframe the questions. See how
people respond. Companies aren’t conservative; they are afraid. They all want
someone to stand up and shed light. They
mistake their purpose as making the stock
rise, instead of making something meaningful. Take actions on small things, build
courage, take responsibility, give credit.
Things will change.
Tiger Bookstore employee Rachel Henderson folds T-shirts commemorating
the upcoming Birmingham Bowl between Memphis and Auburn. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
member actively involved in the business
that employs about 20.
“I’ve been in charge since, or it’s been
in charge of me, one of the two,” Jeffords
said. “It’s been a lifelong process.”
The business has been in its own life
process, too. It is called a bookstore and
remains as such. But the days of students
flooding the store at the start of the
semester to buy a cart full of hard-back
textbooks is a thing of the past.
Yes, students still visit for their classroom needs but the Internet has given
them more options.
“There was a lot of talk for a while
about textbooks going digital,” Jeffords
said. “It never happened in full but it’s
not the reason textbooks changed so
much. The selling strategy has changed.
Students had to go to a bookstore and get
a certain book. Now teachers don’t use
books all the time.”
Jeffords estimates the number of
books sold has gone down 20 to 30
percent over the past 10 years. Students
have been less inclined to buy books, and
rentals have become part of the textbook
strategy over the past five years.
But Jeffords’ team has just adapted
to that strategy, taking advantage of the
book-rental market instead of letting it
hinder business. The store rents books
that are later sold online. And the store
has a website, so students can buy books
there, too.
“Our Web sales have increased, not
as much as our sales have decreased, but
it’s a really competitively priced world,”
Jeffords said. “It used to be a standard
markup for a book, you make 20 to 25 percent on that book. Now you’re competing
for small margins on textbooks. Most
students think we’re making a killing on
books when in actuality we’re not.
“If only selling books, you’d have to
run on a skeleton crew to stay open.”
And that’s why such a strong focus has
been on apparel and gifts. In addition to
all the University of Memphis apparel,
keepsakes, hats, glassware and the like,
Tiger Bookstore opened Tiger Promotions
a few years ago.
tiger bookstore continued on P29
Happy
Holidays
Q: What your view of where marketing
will be in five years?
A: This is the next big thing – market to
the edges, the freaks, forget mass – market
to individuals. The meta trend is the smartphone. Most teenagers would rather give up
their car than their cellphone – amazing.
Q: Can you talk about scarcity verses
abundance?
A: The source of the scarcity mindset is
two-fold: 1. Evolution (not enough food for
1 million years), and 2. Limited shelf space.
Zero-sum game … the shift is that attention
is the scarcest resource. How do you get
more attention? Ideas are abundant. You
need to build trust.
Q: What is your view on Twitter?
A: The two stupid things Twitter can do
is go public and sell ads – I wrote this in a
post before Twitter went public. Instead,
they should offer a tiered platform with
power users who don’t see ads. Twitter will
be less fun to use.
Q: You mentioned about The Weird.
Please explain.
A: People move away from the center
when given a choice. Look at people’s
browser histories. This was inconceivable
50 years ago when we had three TV channels to choose from. Now, it is fragmented
beyond conception.
Q: When you look at market research,
you think about the push tactics you don’t
want. So, what can market research do?
A: Start with reframing the questions,
make sense of trends, not history, but pattern matching. You are charged with taste,
not data.
from
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Q: Discuss the art and humanity a little
more.
A: Understand patterns. As soon as
someone creates an algorithm, humanity
changes, outmodes it. It’s the quality of the
experience of living, of life, of work.
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20 December 25-31, 2015
sports
NBA
The Pressure of Parity: There’s
Golden State … And Everybody Else
Don Wade
[email protected]
San Antonio had just handed the Grizzlies a 20-point home loss. Someone asked
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich what his team
could take from the game.
His answer: Even the Spurs were a work
in progress, continuing to chase the shadows of perfection. Which, on Dec. 3, was
personified in the still-undefeated Golden
State Warriors.
“I don’t think anybody in our league,
other than Golden State… The rest of us
don’t play well for 48 minutes,” Popovich
said.
So take heart, Grizzlies fans, for by that
measure the local pro basketball franchise
and its issues – shifting lineups, Grit and
Grind giving way to a smaller and faster
style of play – are not that different from
the rest of the NBA.
“Everybody’s gonna deal with something,” said Grizzlies veteran Vince Carter,
who has pretty much seen it all.
Consider the Houston Rockets. They
were down 3-1 in a playoff series last season
and rallied to beat the Los Angeles Clippers
for a spot in the Western Conference Finals.
They came into this season believing – valid
or not – they could go farther. So, expectations were high.
But after a 4-7 start, the Rockets fired
coach Kevin McHale.
“The team was not responding to Kevin,” Rockets general manager Daryl Morey
said then. “There is no time in the West.”
Every team is working with the real
calendar of the present 82-game season.
But there is also each team’s own timetable. And the greater the expectations, the
While Grizzlies center Marc Gasol and power forward Zach Randolph can still ground-and-pound, Memphis is moving toward
playing more small ball and that change now has Randolph playing off the bench and fewer minutes. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
tighter the noose is around the concept of
patience.
The Grizzlies, of course, have experienced this because even before the season
tipped off there was the narrative that time
was now against them. The core of Marc
Gasol, Mike Conley, Zach Randolph and
Tony Allen was aging and this might be the
last go-round
The first third of the season has only
The Chicago Bulls, with a new coach in Fred Hoiberg, are undergoing some changes.
But they're still trying to keep pace with the league's elite, which includes the San
Antonio Spurs. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)
confirmed that idea, and the introduction
of a new style of play has thrown a new challenge into the mix. The Grizzlies clearly are
in transition. But again, they aren’t alone.
The Chicago Bulls changed coaches before the season. Defensive-minded Thom
Thibodeau gave way to rookie NBA coach
Fred Hoiberg. The Bulls still play a brand
of stingy defense that would make Thibs
proud, but they continue to search for an
offensive identity.
Hoiberg has tried to integrate a faster,
pass-oriented style of play on offense and
some players have had trouble adjusting.
To the point, some of Thibodeau’s old sets
were put back in. Hmm, sounds like Memphis two years ago, doesn’t it?
Bulls veteran Joakim Noah recently told
espn.com that he “didn’t want to paint a
gloomy picture,” but said the Bulls had “issues,” adding, “We are still trying to figure
out who we are.”
Even the Oklahoma City Thunder, with
two resident superstars, have had to adjust
to first-year coach Billy Donovan.
Not that Gasol cares about any of it.
“It doesn’t matter what other teams are
going through,” he said. “What matters is
what we’re going through.”
Through 30 games, the Grizzlies were on
the high side of the roller coaster at 16-14.
Other teams are trying to grasp with the
reality of struggling to reach .500.
This was supposed to be a breakthrough
year for New Orleans, which snagged the
No. 8 seed in the West last season, but instead the Pelicans were 8-19 through their
first 27 games.
The Washington Wizards, 46-36 a year
ago, didn’t expect to break slow from the
gate, but they did and were 12-14 through
their first 26 games.
After the Grizzlies routed Washington
112-95 on Dec. 14 at FedExForum, Wizards
center Marcin Gortat tried – tried – to explain their inconsistency.
“I have no idea,” Gortat said. “It’s not
like we come out here and we don’t want
to play basketball.”
Yes, a struggling team is often a mystified team.
And the league, once you get past the
Warriors – 26-1 through their first 27, and
maybe the Spurs, 24-5 through their first
29 – is closely bunched. Sure, Philadelphia
started with one victory in its first 30 games
and the Los Angeles Lakers – the one team
they beat – are horrible.
But after that, there’s enough parity to
put a smile on Roger Goddell’s face.
“You gotta play every night,” Memphis
coach Dave Joerger said. “There’s so much
parity, and so much competition, everybody’s in.
“You have a game where your energy
level is not where it needs to be, you can
lose to anybody. That’s what’s going around
the league.”
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sports
Birmingham Offers More Than Bowl Game
University of Memphis football fans
will head to Birmingham, Ala., next week
to celebrate a bowl game appearance that
could see the team finish with 10 wins for
a second straight season.
It’s been a historical run, and the
Birmingham Bowl appearance will give
the Tigers a rare chance to play against
Auburn University. The game’s 11 a.m.
kickoff makes it a plausible day trip, but
then Birmingham has plenty to offer anyone thinking of spending a night or two.
Maybe as a Memphis fan you’ve already spent time in Birmingham during
the old days of Conference USA road
trips against UAB. You’ve likely stopped
over for a lunch of Dreamland Barbecue
on the way to the Gulf Coast for summer
vacation.
Birmingham is more than a road stop
for barbecue, though. Like Memphis,
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THE DAILY TRAVELER
the city has a rich civil rights heritage.
The Birmingham Civil Rights District is
a six-block area of Downtown that includes several important landmarks in
the struggle.
At the heart of the neighborhood is the
16th Street Baptist Church, where four
African-American girls were killed during
a 1963 bombing. It sits near the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum that
opened in 1993 and tells the powerful
story of the movement, particularly in
Birmingham, and the violence that rocked
the community in the 1950s and ’60s.
Among the district’s other attractions
is the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame at the
Carver Theatre, where jazz greats with a
connection to the state are immortalized.
The museum honors the accomplishments of the likes of Nat King Cole, Duke
Ellington and Lionel Hampton.
You don’t have to celebrate Auburn
sports greats to still appreciate the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Yes, Bo Jackson
and Charles Barkley are among the former
Auburn greats honored here. But the great
Paul “Bear” Bryant, who coached his last
game for Alabama in the Liberty Bowl
game in Memphis is honored at the Hall
of Fame, as are the likes of Hank Aaron,
Jesse Owens and Willie Mays.
For a view from above the city, check
out the world’s largest cast-iron statue at
Vulcan Park. The Vulcan statute is made
of 100,000 pounds of iron and sits 56 feet
tall, providing pretty great vistas of the
city of Birmingham and beyond from the
top of Red Mountain.
If you decide to just visit Birmingham
for the day, Vulcan is a great spot, considering the observation tower is open until
10 p.m. So if there’s a victory to celebrate,
do so while watching the sun set over
Birmingham before heading back home.
But if you prefer to celebrate with a
little nightlife, head over to the Five Points
South neighborhood, where there are
loads of restaurants and bars. For the beer
lovers, check out the local brewery scene
at Avondale, Good People, TrimTab and
Cahaba, which all have taprooms.
Lance Wiedower can be reached at
tripsbylance.com.
Walking On in Memphis is a Big Part
Of Tigers’ Football Turnaround
THE PRESS BOX
DON WADE
yards. Sophomore Phil Mayhue (Atco,
N.J.) was second with 47 catches for 644
yards, sophomore Anthony Miller (CBHS)
was third with 44 receptions for 684 yards,
Cross caught 24 passes for 229 yards, and
senior Tevin Jones (League City, Texas) had
19 catches for 300 yards.
Combined, those five walk-ons reeled
in 17 touchdown passes.
“It’s been a huge key to this program’s
turnaround,” said interim coach Darrell
Dickey, who will coach the Tigers in the
bowl game while new head coach Mike
Norvell keeps his focus on recruiting.
“Without those guys, we wouldn’t be where
we are today.”
That matters going forward, too. At
programs such as this, walk-ons who blossom into scholarship players, who ascend
to becoming unforgettable players, are
essential.
For they provide a clear message to
future walk-ons: You will get your shot.
“Nothing else matters if you can play,”
said sophomore punter Spencer Smith
(Newnan, Ga.).
“It all goes back to coaching,” Mayhue
said. “They’re gonna play who’s worthy of
playing, who knows the plays, who they
can trust.”
Coaches know something else, too: The
walk-ons arrive with their motivation in
overdrive. Mayhue was 9 years old when coach and Cross says both have pledged
he watched his first college football game. to help with contacts.
It’s a long journey, as Norvell and
Yeah, he admits with a laugh, the original
Fuente both know. You start at the bottom
goal was to play for Texas.
“This is just like a dream come true, to of the coaching ladder and grind your way
up one rung at a time, perhaps moving all
play Division 1 ball,” Mayhue said.
Frazier and Cross, of course, are down over the country, and guaranteed nothing.
Sort of like being a walk-on.
to the last game. Going forward, they speak
“I’ve done it before,” Cross said with a
of taking aim at the NFL. It might work out,
it might not. This side of Paxton Lynch, the grin. “I’ll do it again.”
future is far less certain.
“I’ll remember everything – the hardT:3.75” Don Wade’s column appears weekly
in The Daily News and The Memphis
times, the good times,” Frazier said.
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They come from near and far, from
Christian Brothers, Millington and Whitehaven high schools. From Atco, N.J., League
City, Texas, and Newnan, Ga.
Walk-ons not aiming to get on the field
for a just a play at a turn-it-into-a-movie
school like Notre Dame (no Rudys in this
group), but real football players. And determined to prove they can play.
Senior Alan Cross, the pass-catching
and head-butting tight end from Millington, arrived as a long snapper back in the
Larry Porter era.
In University of Memphis football lore,
that’s B.J.F.: Before Justin Fuente.
Said Cross: “I feel as old as crap, man.”
And yet the time has passed quickly.
“I’m looking up and I only got one
game left,” said senior wide receiver Mose
Frazier, who had a short trip to the U of M
campus from Whitehaven. “I want to go
out with a win.”
As they all do. After going 10-3 last season and winning the Miami Beach Bowl
over BYU, they are 9-3 and will play Auburn
on Dec. 30 in the Birmingham Bowl.
“Back-to-back 10-win years – it’s never
been done before in the history of Memphis,” Cross said.
About the Tigers’ recent history: It’s different without the walk-ons. Quarterback
Paxton Lynch will be forever remembered
as the superstar of this bunch and deservedly so.
Fuente will be recalled as the mastermind who changed everything and then
smartly used it as a platform to jump to a
Power Five job at Virginia Tech.
But look at who was catching all those
passes from Lynch this season: Frazier
led the team with 66 receptions for 750
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College Football Notebook: Nkemdiche’s
Long Fall, Vegas’ Top College Bets
Don Wade
[email protected]
Some things don’t change no matter what. And Robert Nkemdiche is still
a 6-foot-3, 296-pound defensive tackle
that a lot of NFL teams still believe looks
pretty good in pursuit of somebody else’s
quarterback.
Nkemdiche’s career at Ole Miss is over
as coach Huge Freeze has suspended him
from the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl. But the junior
was going to declare for the NFL Draft after
this game anyway.
The question is, when he fell off that
15-foot wall outside an Atlanta hotel earlier
this month did his draft stock fall with him?
The precise details of what happened,
how it happened, and all the circumstances
around Nkemdiche and the event are – as
usual when drugs are alleged to be involved
– hazy.
Early reports pinned Nkemdiche’s fall
on use of synthetic marijuana, which is a
few degrees in severity beyond the natural stuff that lends itself to jokes, massive
quantities of Doritos and increasing legalization. But he was charged with possession and the legal trouble is not so funny.
An Atlanta police report stated that
“approximately seven rolled marijuana
cigarettes” were in a room at the Grand
Hyatt that was connected to Nkemdiche in
some way. But as soon as the story broke,
social media and sports talk radio were
ablaze with unsettling, if unsubstantiated,
theories about just how far off the rails
Nkemdiche lives his life.
At NLFdraftscout.com, Nkemdiche is
the No. 1-rated prospect at his position.
He could still go in the Top 15 of the draft.
But NFL general managers at least
have to think about it more, do even more
research into his background to calibrate
the risk vs. the reward.
Ole Miss defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche is still projected to be a first-round NFL Draft pick after an incident at an Atlanta
hotel that included him falling from a 15-foot wall and alleged drug use. (Cal Sport Media via AP Images)
“He’s a wild card,” one NFL scout told
NFLdraftscout.com.
“Boom or bust guy,” another scout told
the website. “He’ll need a strong locker
room and position coach.”
As for Freeze, who has had more than a
couple of players find trouble off the field,
suspending Nkemdiche in what is essentially a no-count game makes him look
tougher on misbehaving players without
having to risk a loss in SEC play.
That’s a nice glass of lemonade the
coach just made himself.
A gambler’s favorite college football
teams
Talk about know your target audience.
The Las Vegas Sun came up with College
Football’s Gamblers’ Awards. We won’t
list them all, but here are a few that caught
our fancy:
Team of the Year (team with best record
against the spread): Bowling Green State.
The Falcons went 10-3. They are 7.5-point
favorites over Georgia Southern in the Dec.
23 GoDaddy Bowl.
Covering Streak of Excellence: Virginia.
U of M Athletes Again Average 3.0 GPA
Don Wade
[email protected]
For the 10th consecutive semester, student-athletes at the University of Memphis
posted a departmental GPA of at least 3.0,
finishing the fall of 2015 with a 3.00 GPA.
Fifteen of the program’s 17 teams
posted a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. The
Tiger men’s tennis team led all men’s sports
with a 3.5 GPA, while women’s soccer led
the women’s teams with a 3.74 GPA.
U of M director of athletics Tom Bowen
said in a statement: “Our goals are still not
fully attained, but this demonstrates that
our student-athletes know our standards
and expectations and that they share in our
desire to be the best.”
First-year Tigers also had a strong
showing in the classroom. Sixty-six of the
Tigers’ 100 freshmen student-athletes
posted a GPA of 3.0 or higher and 41 of them
also earned a spot on the Dean’s List with
a GPA of 3.5 or higher. The freshman class
posted a cumulative 3.14 GPA for the fall
semester. Across all sports, 207 out of the
program’s 366 student-athletes finished
with a 3.0 or higher GPA (56 percent), while
118 (or 32 percent) finished the fall as a
Dean’s List member with a cumulative GPA
of 3.5 or higher. Twenty-eight Tigers posted
a perfect 4.0 GPA this fall.
Academic success was not the only
highlight for Memphis student-athletes. It
was also announced that Memphis finished
in the top 25 in the country in the NCAA
Team Works Competition. Memphis finished 23rd overall in the competition and
18th against other NCAA Division I institutions. In all, Tigers’ student-athletes logged
over 1,200 hours of community service in
the past four months, including visits to
the Ronald McDonald House and St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital, participating
in events with the Special Olympics and the
Down Syndrome Association of Memphis &
The Mid-South, and groups like Memphis
Athletic Ministries, the City of Memphis
Athletic Department, Habitat for Humanity, various churches and local elementary,
middle and high schools.
Not to be confused with football excellence, because coach Mike London’s Virginia squad went 4-8 and he was fired. But
against the spread, Virginia had a six-game
winning streak and finished 8-3-1. The
Cavaliers should be in the Slot Machine
Bowl or something.
Bettors’ Choice: The Oklahoma Sooners,
who are in the College Football Playoff vs.
Clemson, made the most money for gamblers in point-spread victories. The Sooners
are 3.5-point favorites and were 9-3 against
the spread this season.
Quote, unquote
“People may look at it like we’re going
to the Birmingham Bowl, so we should be
sad about it. But it’s an opportunity for
us to go against a Top-5 draft pick for our
defense. That motivates me enough to go
out there and go hard every day.” – Auburn
linebacker Justin Garrett on facing University of Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch
“Scoring points would be nice.” – New
South Carolina coach Will Muschamp on
his offensive philosophy
“If he’s giving just two yards a carry,
they’re going to keep giving it to him. By
the third or fourth quarter, they’re just
beating you down. Those two-yard gains
turn into six, seven yards.” –Michigan State
linebacker Riley Bullough talking about
the challenge that is Alabama running
back and Heisman Trophy winner Derrick
Henry, who figures to get around 40 carries in the teams’ College Football Playoff
semifinal on New Year’s Eve
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ANGELA COPELAND
CAREER CORNER
Delavega Promoted at Hooks Institute
Kate Simone
[email protected]
DR. ELENA DELAVEGA, assistant professor in the University of Memphis’
Department of Social Work, has been named associate director of the Benjamin
L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the U of M. A former policy fellow
at the institute, Delavega specializes in the study of poverty and economic
development.
Hometown: My hometown
is Memphis. I have fallen in
love with this city and I am
committed to working to improve Memphis and the lives
of all Memphians. Sadly, I was
not born here. I was born and
raised in Mexico City, Mexico,
and lived in Houston, Texas,
for almost 20 years. I received
all my degrees in Houston.
Experience: Since 2011, I am
an assistant professor of social work at the University of
Memphis, where I teach social welfare policy, advanced
community practice, and
poverty in the Master of Social
Work program. I have been
a policy fellow of the Hooks
Institute for Social Change
and co-director of the Mid-
South Family and Community Empowerment Institute
since 2014.
Family: I have been married
to my high school sweetheart
for over 30 years. We have a
daughter who just turned 18
years old. She was very proud
to vote in the local elections
the week after her 18th birthday. She is a smart and beautiful young woman, and gives
me hope for the future.
What talent do you wish you
had? I wish I could multiply
myself to complete multiple
tasks effectively at once.
Favorite quote: "Do not go
gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying
of the light." – Dylan Thomas
What do you consider your
greatest accomplishment?
My articles and publications
are very important, but I think
the Memphis Poverty Fact
Sheet is the best of all because
it serves the entire Memphis
community and beyond. I
love to do work that is truly
useful. But other things matter too. Recently, a student
asked me to be his mentor.
That was the proudest moment of my life.
The sports team(s) you root
for: The Memphis Tigers in
any sport. Go Tigers!
What do you most enjoy
about your work? The ability
to think, reflect, create, and
Dr. Milton Moreland has been named
vice president for
academic affairs and
dean of the faculty
at Rhodes College. A
professor of religious
studies, Moreland
MORELAND
has worked at Rhodes
since 2003 and served as chair of the
archaeology program, director of the
Memphis Center and coordinator of the
Institute for Regional Studies at Rhodes.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for
ELENA DELAVEGA
share knowledge. Teaching
and helping the next generation achieve great things is
the best thing I can do. I particularly care for the young
men in the Hooks African
American Male Initiative and
hope to see every one of them
succeed as professionals and
human beings.
If you could give one piece of
advice to young people, what
would it be? Do not listen to
the voices that tell you that
you are “less than.” You are
wonderful, precious, smart
and beautiful.
Social Change at the University of Memphis has added Oneka Y. Richardson and
Ragan Oglesby-Phillips to the Hooks
Institute Advisory Board. In addition,
Rorie Trammel has been appointed assistant director, and Joy Sutherland has
been named administrative coordinator.
Will Love has joined the institute and the
UofM Libraries to digitize portions of the
Benjamin Lawson Hooks Papers.
Advocates, a national
association of trial
lawyers and judges
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the civil jury
trial right provided by
the Seventh AmendSTEINBERG
ment. Steinberg concentrates her practice in litigation.
Jill M. Steinberg, a shareholder in
Baker Donelson’s Memphis office, has
been elected a member of the Tennessee
Chapter of the American Board of Trial
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named director of marketing at Mont-
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All I Want For
Christmas is A
New Job
I hope this holiday season has been
a great one. If you’re like many people, a
new job may be on your Christmas list.
Whether you’re looking for a better work
environment, more money or something
else, December brings up thoughts of something new.
It would be great if a new career would
come in a package wrapped up with a beautiful bow under the Christmas tree. Unfortunately, when it comes to landing a job, Santa
is probably not going to come through.
Typically, a new job is a gift you must
give yourself. Don’t get me wrong, recruiters
and family friends can make things happen
from time to time. But, it’s just not a guarantee. Don’t rely on this method alone, or you
may find yourself in a job you don’t really
care for – or without a job at all.
What you can count on is your own hard
work. As they say, getting a job is a job.
Once the holiday parties and family
gatherings begin to taper down, set aside the
extra time you’ll get back to work on your
new job search. Start by creating attainable
goals. A great goal is to spend 30 minutes to
one hour each day working on your search.
Then, start to think of what you will
do with the time you’ve allocated. One of
the best ways to find a new job is actually
through networking. It’s more effective than
any other search method, including applying online. Begin to think of all of the ways
you already network today. Do you have a
social group you enjoy? Are you a nonprofit
volunteer? Do you love fundraisers? Whatever your niche is, look for ways to plug in
and get involved.
If you are looking to grow your existing
network, the Internet has made it easier
than ever to do. Networking events are listed
online, and websites like LinkedIn.com have
made reaching out to new people simple.
Don’t be afraid to make new friends – you’ll
be surprised at just how many people will
want to help you.
You will also want to add revising both
your resume and LinkedIn profile to your
job search strategy. Your resume provides
context on your background and is easy
to forward to colleagues using email. And,
LinkedIn is the place a future employer will
go to check out your background before
they meet you. Don’t be fooled, they really
do this. They’ll wonder why your profile is
bare if you don’t keep it up to date. Spend
the time necessary to beef up your LinkedIn
profile and to connect with your network.
I hope your holidays are restful and fun.
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public notices
Foreclosure Notices
Fayette County
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on
January 12, 2016 at 10:00AM local time, at the south door, Fayette
County Courthouse, 16755 Highway
64, Somerville, Tennessee, pursuant
to Deed of Trust executed by Catherine
Newell and Wayne Newell, to Equity Title
& Escrow, Trustee, on August 27, 2004
at Book D747, Page 605, Instrument No.
04008839; all of record in the Fayette
County Register’s Office.
Party entitled to enforce security
interest: Green Tree Servicing LLC, its
successors and assigns
The following real estate located in
Fayette County, Tennessee, will be sold
to the highest call bidder subject to all
unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
Described property located in Fayette
County, Tennessee, to wit:
Lot 2, The Cove at Lou Monta, as
recorded in Plat Book 7, Page 200, in
the Register’s Office of Fayette County
Tennessee, to which plat reference
is hereby made for a more particular
description of said property.
Being the same property conveyed
to grantor, Lou Manta Development
Company, Inc., herein by Warranty
Deed of record at Book Number 718,
Page 915, dated March 24, 2004,
filed March 24, 2004, in the Register’s
Office of Fayette County Tennessee.
Also being the property conveyed to
Grantor by Warranty Deed of record being recorded simultaneously herewith
in said Register’s Office.
Parcel Number: 009-011.02
Current Owner(s) of Property: Wayne
Newell and wife, Catherine Newell
Other interested parties: Timbuktu,
Inc., Green Tree Servicing, LLC, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc., The Bank of New York Mellon FKA
The Bank of New York, as successor
trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.,
as trustee for the Certificateholders
of the Home Equity Mortgage Trust,
Home Equity Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2005-1
Street Address: 4510 McFadden Road,
Oakland, Tennessee 38060
Any property address provided is
not part of the legal description of the
property sold herein and in the event of
any discrepancy, the legal description
referenced herein shall control.
SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S)
RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.
All right of equity of redemption,
statutory and otherwise, and homestead
are expressly waived in said Deed of
Trust, and the title is believed to be
good, but the undersigned will sell and
convey only as Substitute Trustee.
If you purchase a property at the
foreclosure sale, the entire purchase
price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of
a certified/bank check made payable
to or endorsed to Shapiro & Ingle, LLP.
No personal checks will be accepted.
To this end, you must bring sufficient
funds to outbid the lender and any other
bidders. Insufficient funds will not be
accepted. Amounts received in excess
of the winning bid will be refunded to
the successful purchaser at the time
the foreclosure deed is delivered.
This property is being sold with the
express reservation that the sale is
subject to confirmation by the lender
or trustee. This sale may be rescinded
at any time.
Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a Tennessee
limited liability partnership Substitute
Trustee
Law Office of Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a
Tennessee limited liability partnership
10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
www.shapiro-ingle.com
File No. 12-038451
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
Fkn12644
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, default has occurred in the
performance of the covenants, terms, and
conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated
September 25, 2014, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded October 9, 2014, Document
No. 14005386, in Office of the Register
of Deeds for Fayette County, Tennessee,
executed by Earma Lee Neal, conveying
certain property therein described to FNC
Title Services, LLC as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc., as nominee for American Advisors
Group, its successors and assigns; and
the undersigned, Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by American Advisors
Group.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby
given that the entire indebtedness has
been declared due and payable; and
that an agent of Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue
of the power, duty, and authority vested
in and imposed upon said Successor
Trustee, by American Advisors Group,
will, on March 7, 2016 on or about 10:00
AM, at the Fayette County Courthouse,
Somerville, Tennessee, offer for sale
certain property hereinafter described to
the highest bidder FOR certified funds
paid at the conclusion of the sale, or
credit bid from a bank or other lending
entity pre-approved by the successor
trustee. The sale is free from all exemptions, which are expressly waived in
the Deed of Trust, said property being
real estate situated in Fayette County,
Tennessee, and being more particularly
described as follows:
ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
REAL ESTATE, SITUATE AND BEING
IN CIVIL DISTRICT NO. 1, COUNTY
OF FAYETTE, STATE OF TENNESSEE:
BEGINNING AT A STAKE IN NORTH
MARGIN OF RIGHT-OF-WAY OF OLD
SOMERVILLE JACKSON ROAD, THIS
POINT BEING LOCATED FROM A
SPIKE AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE
EAST LINE OF RAYMOND HOBSON
LAND WITH CENTERLINE OF SAID
OLD SOMERVILLE-JACKSON ROAD IN
THE FOLLOWING MANNER: SOUTH 54
DEGREES 45 MINUTES WEST 300.0
FEET; SOUTH 53 DEGREES 45 MINUTES WEST 300.0 FEET; SOUTH 59
DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST 79.7
FEET AND NORTH 33 DEGREES 15
MINUTES WEST 25.0 FEET, FROM
SAID POINT OF BEGINNING SOUTH
63 DEGREES 15 MINUTES WEST,
ALONG NORTH MARGIN OF RIGHTOF-WAY OF SAID OLD SOMERVILLEJACKSON ROAD, 220.0 FEET TO A
STAKE; THENCE NORTH 33 DEGREES
15 MINUTES WEST 198.5 FEET TO A
POINT IN POND; THENCE NORTH 63
DEGREES 15 MINUTES EAST 220.0
FEET TO A STAKE, AN INTERNAL
CORNER OF REMAINDER OF LAND
OWNED BY RAYMOND HOBSON;
THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 15
MINUTES EAST 198.5 FEET TO THE
BEGINNING AND CONTAINING 1.0
ACRE, MORE OR LESS. Being the
same property conveyed to William
Neal (deceased) and wife, Earma
Lee Neal, tenants by the entirety in
Warranty Deed, as filed at Book 174,
Page 296 in the Register’s Office of
Fayette County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 3295 Old Jackson
Road, Somerville, TN 38068
This sale is subject to all matters
shown on any applicable recorded plat;
any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines
that may be applicable; any statutory
rights of redemption of any governmental
agency, state or federal; any prior liens
or encumbrances as well as any priority
created by a fixture filing; and to any
matter that an accurate survey of the
premises might disclose. In addition, the
following parties may claim an interest
in the above-referenced property:
EARMA LEE NEAL
ESTATE OF EARMA LEE NEAL
HEIR(S) OF EARMA LEE NEAL
FIDELITY HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATES,
LLC
SECRETARY OF HOuSING AND uRBAN
DEvELOPMENT
The sale held pursuant to this Notice
may be rescinded at the Successor
Trustee’s option at any time. The right
is reserved to adjourn the day of the
sale to another day, time, and place
certain without further publication, upon
announcement at the time and place
for the sale set forth above. W&A No.
309492
DATED December 9, 2015
WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,
Successor Trustee
FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.
MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC.
COM
Dec. 18, 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016
Fkn12656
January 21, 2016 at 11:00 am local time, at the south door, Fayette
64, Somerville, Tennessee pursuant
to Deed of Trust executed by Ashley R
Flemmons and Jeremy Flemmons, to
Arnold M. Weiss, Trustee, as trustee
for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. on August
5, 2009 at Instrument No. 09005607;
conducted by Shapiro & Ingle, LLP, a
having been appointed Substitute or
Successor Trustee, all of record in the
Fayette County Register’s Office. Default
has occurred in the performance of
the covenants, terms, and conditions
of said Deed of Trust and the entire
indebtedness has been declared due
and payable.
Party Entitled to Enforce the Debt:
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, its successors
and assigns
to the highest call bidder:
Described property located at Fayette
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
LOTS, TRACTS OR PARCELS OF LAND
LYING, BEING AND SITuATE IN THE
COuNTY OF FAYETTE AND STATE OF
TENNESSEE MORE PARTICuLARLY
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
LOT 26, SECTION A, OAKLAND MEADOWS SuBDIvISION, AS SHOWN ON
PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 7,
PAGE 154, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF FAYETTE COuNTY, TENNESSEE, TO WHICH PLAT REFERENCE
IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICuLAR DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONvEYED TO ASHLEY R. FLEMMONS
BY DEED FROM TOMMIE JOHNSON
D/B/A T & A CONTRACTORS & DEvELOPERS RECORDED 03/29/2004
IN DEED BOOK D719 PAGE 526, IN
THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF FAYETTE
COuNTY, TENNESSEE.
Street Address: 155 Green valley Dr,
Parcel Number: 087J A 011.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Ashley
R. Flemmons and Jeremy Flemmons,
wife and husband
Other interested parties: Bancorpsouth Bank
The street address of the above
described property is believed to be
155 Green valley Dr, Oakland, Tennessee 38060, but such address is
herein shall control.
shown on any applicable recorded plat
any unpaid taxes; and any restrictive
covenants, easements, or setback lines
right of redemption of any governmental
Bancorpsouth Bank
The right is reserved to adjourn the
day of the sale to another day, time, and
place certain without further publication,
upon announcement at the time and
place for the sale set forth above. If you
purchase a property at the foreclosure
sale, the entire purchase price is due
and payable at the conclusion of the
auction in the form of a certified/bank
check made payable to or endorsed
to Shapiro & Ingle, LLP. No personal
checks will be accepted. To this end,
you must bring sufficient funds to outbid the lender and any other bidders.
Insufficient funds will not be accepted.
Amounts received in excess of the
winning bid will be refunded to the
successful purchaser at the time the
foreclosure deed is delivered.
subject to confirmation by the lender or
trustee. This sale may be rescinded by
the Substitute Trustee at any time.
This office may be a debt collector.
This may be an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained may be
used for that purpose.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104207
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
Fkn12657
January 21, 2016 at 11:00 am local time, at the south door, Fayette
64, Somerville, Tennessee, pursuant
to Deed of Trust executed by Clinton
Andrew May and Elizabeth Ann May, to
Lender’s Title & Escrow, LLC, Trustee,
on July 21, 2008 at Instrument No.
interest: Nationstar Mortgage LLC, its
Lot 86, Section B, village of Oakland
Subdivision, as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 7, Page 70, in the
Register’s Office of Fayette County,
description of said lot.
This being the same property conveyed
to the grantor(s) herein by Warranty
Deed being simultaneously recorded
herewith.
Parcel Number: 087P C 031.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Clinton
Andrew May and wife, Elizabeth Ann
May
Other interested parties: Secretary
of Housing and urban Development,
Tennessee Housing Development
Agency, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
Street Address: 300 village Dr South,
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-102289
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12661
January 21, 2016 at 11:00 am local
time, at the south door, Fayette County
Courthouse, 16755 Highway 64, Somerville, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of
Trust executed by Cynthia R. Glaze, to R.
Spears, Trustee, on October 10, 2005
at Book D801, Page 570, Instrument No.
interest: CitiFinancial Servicing, LLC,
its successors and assigns
ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND
IN FAYETTE COuNTY, STATE OF TN,
AS MORE FuLLY DESCRIBED IN OR
BOOK D612 PAGE 686 ID#086M-C087P-035.00, BEING KNOWN AND
DESIGNATED AS LOT 82, SECTION B,
vILLAGE OF OAKLAND SuBDIvISION,
FILED IN PLAT BOOK 7 AT PAGE 70.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONvEYED BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM
OAKLAND HOMES LLC. TO CYNTHIA
R GLAZE, AN uNMARRIED PERSON,
DATED 0113112002 RECORDED ON
0212112004 IN OR BOOK D612,
PAGE 686 IN FAYETTE COuNTY RECORDS, STATE OF TN
Parcel Number: 087P C 035.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Cynthia
R. Glaze, an unmarried person
Street Address: 50 Greer Ln, Oakland,
Tennessee 38060
Secondary Property Address: Oakland
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-103955
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12662
Foreclosure Notices
Madison County
January 8, 2016 at 1:00PM local time,
at the north door, Madison County
Courthouse, 100 East Main Street,
Jackson, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed
of Trust executed by Penny James and
Jeffrey James, to Charles R. Pettigrew,
Trustee, on May 5, 2006 at Book T1757,
Page 1984, Instrument No. 06008524;
all of record in the Madison County
Register’s Office.
interest: Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New
Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2006-2,
January
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Madison County, Tennessee, will be
sold to the highest call bidder subject
to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
BEGINNING at an iron pin at the northwest corner of Lot No. 61 in Section I
of the Timbers Development, a plat of
which appears of record in Plat Book
3, at page 146 through 149, in the
Register’s Office of Madison County,
Tennessee, said pin also being at the
northeast corner of Lot 64 in Section
11 of the Timbers Development, said
point also being at the southwest corner of the J. S. Matthews, Jr. property;
runs thence north 1 degree 53 minutes
east with. the west line of the J. S.
Matthews, Jr. property a distance of
856.2 feet, to an iron pin in the south
margin of the Bascomb Road., said
pin being30 feet at right angles from
the center line of said road, said pin
also being at the northwest corner of
the lot heretofore conveyed to I. S.
Matthews, III; runs thence with the
south margin of the Bascomb Road as
follows: north 88 degrees 58 minutes
west a distance of 237.77 feet to a
point; thence north 88 degrees 17
minutes west a distance of 52.23
feet to an iron pin, said pin being
at the northeast corner of a tract to
be known as tract “13” of the Royal
Hickey property; runs thence south 1
degree 53 minutes west a distance of
600 feet to an iron pin; runs thence
south 7 degrees 07 minutes east a
distance of200 feet, to an iron pin
in the center line of Fountain Place,
said pin being at the most northern
terminus of Fountain Place as shown
on a plat of Section II of the Timbers
Development, said pin being the south
88 degrees 34 minutes east a distance
of 25 feet from the northeast corner of
Lot No. 100 as shown on said Section
II of the Timbers Development; runs
thence south 88 degrees 34 minutes
east with the northern terminus of
Fountain Place a distance of 25 feet
to an iron pin; runs thence south 1
degree 26 minutes west with the east
margin of Fountain Place a distance
of 50 feet to an iron pin at the northwest corner of said Lot No. 64 of the
Timbers Development; runs thence
south 88 degrees 34 minutes east
with the north line of said Lot No. 64
a distance of220 feet to the point of
beginning, containing5.51 acres as
surveyed by F. R. Dike & Associates,
Inc., Civil Engineers on October 22,
1980. (Legal description taken from
prior deed.)
INCLuDED IN THE ABOvE DESCRIPTION BuT EXPRESSLY EXCLuDED
PROM THIS CONvEYANCE IS THE
FOLLOWING TRACT:
BEGINNING at an iron pin at the
northwest corner of Lot 61, Section
I, Timbers development as recorded
in Plat Book 3 at page 146 in the
Tennessee, said pin also being at
the northeast corner of Lot 64, said
point also being at the southwest
corner of a tract owned by Matthews;
thence with the north line of Lot 64
North 88 degrees 07 minutes West a
distance of 220 feet to a point on the
east margin of Fountain Place; thence
with the east margin of Fountain Place
North 1 degree 53 minutes East a
distance of 50 feet to an iron pin;
thence North 88 degrees 07 minutes
West a distance of 25 feet to an iron
pin at the southeast corner of a tract
owned by Nathan Frazier; thence with
Nathan Frazier’s east line North 8
degrees 30 minutes West a distance
of202.24 feet to an iron pin; thence
North 1 degree 04 minutes East a
distance of 238.30 feet to an iron pin
at the southwest corner of Tract II and
being on the east line of Nathan Frazier;
thence with the south line of Tract II
South 88 degrees 07 minutes East a
distance of 284.86 feet to an iron pin
oh the west line of a tract owned by
Matthews; thence with Matthews’ west
line South 1 degree 53 minutes West a
distance of 487.21 feet to the point of
beginning, Containing 3 acres. (Legal
description taken from prior deed.)
Being the same real estate conveyed
to Penny james and husband, Jeffrey
James by deed of record in Deed Book
681, Page 264, in the Register’s Office
of Madison County, Tennessee.
Current Owner(s) of Property: Penny
James AKA Penny Threet James
Other interested parties: New Century
Mortgage Corporation, HSBC Bank
uSA NA as trustee in trust for the
Registered Holders of Ace Securities
Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust, Series
2006-NC2 Asset Backed Pass-Through
Certificates
Street Address: 99 Bascom Rd, Jackson, Tennessee 38305
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-103903
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
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performance of the covenants, terms,
and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note
dated October 21, 2011, and the Deed
of Trust of even date securing the same,
recorded October 25, 2011, in Book No.
T1914, at Page 259 and re-recorded on
November 14, 2011, in Book No. T1915,
at Page 765, in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee,
executed by Delana Sheree Bratcher,
conveying certain property therein
described to John Clark as Trustee for
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for First State
Bank, its successors and assigns; and
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association.
Trustee, by JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association, will, on February
11, 2016 on or about 11:00 AM, at
the Madison County Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
property hereinafter described to the
highest bidder FOR certified funds paid
at the conclusion of the sale, or credit
bid from a bank or other lending entity
pre-approved by the successor trustee.
The sale is free from all exemptions,
which are expressly waived in the Deed
of Trust, said property being real estate
situated in Madison County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin on the
East margin of Pinacle Cove at the
Northwest corner of Lot 19, Section
II, Meadow Green Subdivision as
recorded in Plat Book 6, Page 36
in the Register’s Office of Madison
County, Tennessee; thence with the
east margin of Pinacle Cove following
a curve (radius of 50 feet) to the left
a distance of 21.48 feet to a point
at the beginning of another curve;
thence with said curve (radius of
25 feet) to the right a distance of
21.03 feet to a point; thence North 0
degrees 56 minutes 37 seconds East
a distance of 74.10 feet to an iron
pin at the Southwest corner of Lot
17; thence with the South line of Lot
17 South 89 degree 03 minutes 23
seconds East a distance of 200 feet
to an iron pin on the West line of Lot
4, Deerfield Subdivision; thence South
0 degrees 56 minutes 37 seconds
West a distance of 110 feet to an
iron pin at the Northeast corner of Lot
19; thence with the North line of Lot
19 North 89 degrees 03 minutes 23
seconds West a distance of 179.17
feet to the point of beginning. Being
Lot 18, Section II, Meadow Green
Subdivision platted as aforesaid, as
surveyed by David Hall Land Surveying
Company, R.L.S. #943, on November
10, 1994.
NOTE: Legal description has been
revised in accordance with the Attorney’s Affidavit recorded November 23,
2015 in Book T2011 at Page 531.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 42 Pinacle Cove,
Humboldt, TN 38343
DELANA SHEREE BRATCHER
KEENAN BRATCHER
300161
Successor Trustee
COM
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
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MARGIN OF BRANSON PLACE AT THE
NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT NO.
158 IN SECTION II OF BELLE MEADE
ESTATES SUBDIVISION, A PLAT OF
WHlCH APPEARS OF RECORD IN
PLAT BOOK 2, PAGE 228 IN THE
REGISTER’S OFFICE OF MADISON
COUNTY, TENNESSEE, RUNS THENCE
SOUTH 44 DEGREES 30 MINUTES
WEST WITH THE NORTH LINE OF SAID
LOT NO. 158 A DISTANCE OF 178.2
FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE NORTH
60 DEGREES 35 MINUTES WEST A
DISTANCE OF 98 FEET TO A STAKE;
THENCE NORTH 29 DEGREES 25
MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 175
FEET TO A STAKE IN THE SOUTH OR
EASTERLY MARGIN OF BRANSON
PLACE; THENCE IN A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION WITH THE MARGIN OF
BRANSON PLACE AND FOLLOWING
THE CURVE THEREOF A DISTANCE OF
146.5 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING LOT NO. 157 IN SECTION
II OF BELLE MEADE ESTATES, PLATTED AS AFORESAID.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 20 Branson Place,
Jackson, TN 38305-1711
JAMES T KING, III
SECRETARY OF HOuSING AND uRBAN
DEvELOPMENT
305380
Successor Trustee
COM
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
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dated August 1, 2011, and the Deed of
recorded August 17, 2011, in Book No.
T1909, at Page 1856, in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Madison County,
Tennessee, executed by James T King,
III, conveying certain property therein
described to Alan E. South, Attorney at
Law, South & Associates, PC as Trustee
for Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems Inc., as a nominee for First
National Bank of Layton, its successors and assigns; and the undersigned,
Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having
been appointed Successor Trustee by
urban Financial of America, LLC, formerly
known as urban Financial Group, Inc..
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by
virtue of the power, duty, and authority
vested in and imposed upon said Successor Trustee, by urban Financial of
America, LLC, formerly known as urban
Financial Group, Inc., will, on February
11, 2016 on or about 11:00 AM, at
as follows:
SITUATED IN THE THIRD CIVIL DISTRICT OF MADISON COUNTY, STATE
OF TENNESSEE: BEGINNING AT A
STAKE IN THE SOUTH OR WESTERLY
at the north door, Madison County
Jackson, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed
of Trust executed by Tamara L Sorman
and Bradley S. Sorman, to Robert M.
Wilson, Jr., Trustee, on April 15, 2005
at Book T1664, Page 637, Instrument No.
05007329; all of record in the Madison
interest: Ditech Financial LLC, its successors and assigns
BEING Lot No. Nine (9) of Section I
of Lynnwood Estates, a plat of which
appears of record in Plat Book 3, page
331, in the Register’s Office of Madison County, Tennessee, reference to
which plat is hereby made for a more
particular description of said lot showing its location and the length and
direction of its boundary lines.
BEING the same real property conveyed to Bradley S. Sorman and wife,
Tamara L. Sorman by deed of record
in Deed Book 624, page 73, in the
Tennessee.
Parcel Number: 065H A 001.06
Current Owner(s) of Property: Tamara
L Sorman
Street Address: 61 Talls Oaks Dr,
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104095
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016
Fkn12654
dated June 17, 2003, and the Deed of
Trust of even date securing the same, recorded July 9, 2003, in Book No. T1496,
at Page 126, in Office of the Register
of Deeds for Madison County, Tennessee, executed by Harry L. Dixon and
Sylvia Dixon, conveying certain property
therein described to Transcontinental
Title Company as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for Watermark Financial
Partners, Inc., its successors and assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee by Wells
Fargo Bank, NA.
Trustee, by Wells Fargo Bank, NA, will,
on February 18, 2016 on or about
10:00 AM, at the Madison County
Courthouse,100 East Main Street,
Jackson, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
as follows:
THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF
REAL ESTATE LYING AND BEING IN
THE 5 TH CIVIL DISTRICT, OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, AND
MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
AS FOLLOWS: BEING LOT NO 706,
SECTION VII OF LAUREL CREEK SUBDIVISION A PLAT OF WHICH APPEARS
OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 8, PAGE
215 IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF
MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND
TO WHICH REFERENCE IS HEREBY
MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR
DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT. Being the
same property conveyed to Harry L.
Dixon and wife, Sylvia Dixon in Warranty Deed, as filed at Book D616,
Madison County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 72 Berkshire Drive,
Jackson, TN 38305-6471
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Continued from Page 25
HARRY L. DIXON
SYLvIA DIXON
CITIFINANCIAL, INC
LvNv FuNDING, LLC
307199
Successor Trustee
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WHEREAS, default having been made in
the payment of the debts and obligations
secured by a Deed of Trust executed
on 09/19/06, by Terry H Freeman,
an unmarried man to Arnold M Weiss,
Trustee, for the benefit of Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as
nominee for Countrywide Home Loans
Inc. its successors and assigns and
appearing of record in Register’s Office
of Madison County, Tennessee, in Book
T1773, Page 1339, and WHEREAS, the
beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust
was last transferred and assigned to
The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The
Bank of New York, as Trustee for the
certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc.,
ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES
2006-15 and WHEREAS, The Bank of
New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New
York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., ASSET-BACKED
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-15, as
the holder of the Note for which debt is
owed, (“Note Holder”), appointed the
undersigned, Priority Trustee Services
of TN, LLC, as Substitute Trustee by
instrument filed or to be filed for record
in the Register’s Office of Madison
County, Tennessee, with all the rights,
powers and privileges of the original
Trustee named in said Deed of Trust;
and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby
been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Note
Holder, and that the undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of TN, LLC, Substitute
Trustee, or its duly appointed attorneys
or agents, by virtue of the power and
authority vested in it, will on Thursday,
January 21, 2016, commencing at 1:00
PM at the Main entrance (North Door) of
the Madison County Courthouse location
in Tennessee, proceed to sell at public
outcry to the highest and best bidder for
cash or certified check only. The wiring of
funds will not be accepted. The following
described property situated in Madison
County, Tennessee, to wit: Beginning
at an iron pin on the west margin of
Gooden Cove at the southeast corner of
Lot 68, Section III, Northmeade Woods
Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book
4, page 328 in the Register’s Office of
Madison County, Tennessee; thence
with the west margin of Gooden Cove
following a curve (radius of 47 feet) to
the left a distance of 48.50 feet to an
iron pin at the northwest corner of Lot
70; thence with the west line of Lot 70
south 31 degrees 55 minutes west a
distance of 214.34 feet to an iron pin;
thence south 89 degrees 43 minutes
05 seconds west a distance of 40 feet
to a point in the centerline of a ditch at
the southeast corner of Lot 52, Section
Iv; thence with said ditch the following
calls; north 2 degrees 52 minutes east
a distance of 99.65 feet to a point;
thence north 8 degrees 24 minutes west
a distance of 102.87 feet to a point;
thence north 2 degrees 52 minutes west
a distance of 24.21 feet to a point at
the southwest corner of Lot 68; thence
with the south line of Lot 68 south 88
degrees 57 minutes 22 seconds east
a distance of 142.46 feet to the point
of beginning. Being Lot 69, Section III,
Northmeade Woods Subdivision platted
as aforesaid, as surveyed by David Hall
Land Surveying Company, RLS No. 943,
on June 5, 1995. {Legal description
taken from prior deed.} Being the same
property conveyed to Terry H. Freeman
by Warranty Deed of record in Deed
Book 683, page 1068 in the Register’s
Office of Madison County, Tennessee.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 81 GOODEN
Cv, JACKSON, TN 38305 CURRENT
OWNER(S): Terry H. Freeman The sale
of the above-described property shall
be subject to all matters shown on any
recorded plan; any unpaid taxes; any
restrictive covenants, easements or
set-back lines that may be applicable;
any prior liens or encumbrances as well
as any priority created by a fixture filing;
and any matter that an accurate survey of
the premises might disclose. Substitute
Trustee will only convey any interest he/
she may have in the property at the time
of sale. Property is sold “as is, where
is.” For every lien or claim of lien of the
state identified above, please be advised
notice required by § 67-1-1433 (b)(1)
was timely given and that any sale of the
property herein referenced will be subject
to the right of the state to redeem the
land as provided for in § 67-1-1433(c)
(1). All right and equity of redemption,
statutory or otherwise, homestead, and
dower are expressly waived in said Deed
of Trust, and the title is believed to be
convey only as Substitute Trustee. The
right is reserved to adjourn the day of
the sale to another day, time, and place
for the sale set forth above. PRIORITY
TRuSTEE SERvICES OF TN, LLC 2970
Clairmont Road NE, Suite 780, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329 770-234-9181 Web Site:
www.rcolegal.com TS#: 7835.20792
FEI # 2013.03806
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January 21, 2016 at 10:00AM local
time, at the north door, Madison County
Jackson, Tennessee pursuant to Deed
of Trust executed by Nicolle Kinnon, to
Nations Title Agency of Tenness Inc.
and/or Nations Lending, Trustee, as
trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee
for Decision One Mortgage Company,
LLC on July 8, 2005 at Book T1687,
Madison County Register’s Office. Default has occurred in the performance
of the covenants, terms, and conditions
and payable.
u.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston
Mortgage Securities Corp., Home Equity
Asset Trust 2005-8, Home Equity PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-8, its
Madison County, Tennessee, will be sold
Described property located at Madison
Lying and being in the Fourth Ward of the
City of Jackson of Madison County, Tennessee, and more particularly bounded
and described as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING on a stake in the north
margin of Westwood (formerly Stevens
Street) at a point 108 feet east of the
northeast intersection of Prospect and
Westwood, and runs thence north and
parallel with and within three feet of
the east line of Lot No. 2, 150 feet
to a ten foot alley; thence east with
said alley 50 feet to the northwest
corner of Lot No. 4; thence south
with the west line of Lot No. 4, 150
feet to the north margin of Westwood;
thence west with the north margin of
Westwood 50 feet to the point of beginning. Same being a portion of Lot No.
3 in Block No. 2 of the Walnut Grove
Subdivision of the Highland Park Addition to the City of Jackson, Tennessee.
Being the same property conveyed to
Nicolle Kinnon, unmarried, by Warranty
Deed from Patricia Ruth Rowlett Craig
as devisee of the Last Will and Testa-
ment of Richard Glenn Rowlett, dated
August 10, 1994, of record in Book
670, page 81, Register’s Office for
Madison County, Tennessee.
Street Address: 215 Westwood Ave,
Jackson, Tennessee 38301
Parcel Number: 78A-C-6.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Nicolle
Kinnon
Other interested parties: Decision One
Mortgage Company, LLC, Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
described property is believed to be 215
Westwood Ave, Jackson, Tennessee
38301, but such address is not part
of the legal description of the property
sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein
shall control.
Decision One Mortgage Company,
LLC, Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc.
This office may be a debt collector.
This may be an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained may be
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104280
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January 21, 2016 at 10:00AM local time, at the north door, Madison
County Courthouse, 100 East Main
Street, Jackson, Tennessee, pursuant
to Deed of Trust executed by Linda Kay
McElroy, to Bradley Owens, Trustee, on
November 16, 2005 at Book t1719,
all of record in the Madison County
interest: Nationstar Mortgage LLC, its
Beginning at a point in the west margin
of Eagle Ridge Drive, said point being
the northeast corner of Lot No. 57 in
Section v-B of Eagle Point Subdivision,
a plat of which appears of record in
Plat Book 8, Page 34 in the Register’s
Office of Madison County, Tennessee;
runs thence South 88 degrees 03
minutes 04 seconds West, with the
north line of Lot No. 57, 417.80 feet
to a point; thence North 22 degrees 53
minutes 33 seconds West 130.00 feet
to the southwest corner of Lot No. 37;
thence South 89 degrees 07 minutes
43 seconds East, with the south line
of Lot No. 37. 486.50 feet to the west
margin of Eagle Ridge Drive; thence
in a southerly direction with the west
margin of Eagle Ridge Drive and the
curve thereof a distance of 100.02
feet to the point of beginning. Being
Lot No. 58 in section v-B of Eagle Point
Subdivision as surveyed by Jim Akin &
Associates on July 8, 1999.
Danny D. McElroy and wife Linda Kay
McElroy by Warranty Deed of record
in Deed Book 674, page 881 in the
Tennessee.
Parcel Number: 025J A 050.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Linda
Kay McElroy
Other interested parties: First Auto,
Inc., as assignee of Carlock Nissan
of Jackson c/o William D. Bowen, Attorney, First Tennessee Bank National
Association
Street Address: 151 Eagle Ridge Dr,
Oakfield, Tennessee 38362
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104078
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dated May 29, 2009, and the Deed of
recorded June 3, 2009, in Book No.
T1860, at Page 281, in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Madison County,
Tennessee, executed by Dennis R.
Yelverton and Ida Yelverton, conveying
certain property therein described to
Kathy Winstead as Trustee for JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A.; and the undersigned,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.
National Association, will, on January
14, 2016 on or about 11:00 AM, at
as follows:
BEING Lot Number Four Hundred
Fourteen (414), Section IV, Cotton
Ridge Subdivision, a plat of which
appears of record in Plat Book 9 at
page 102 in the Register’s Office of
Madison County, Tennessee.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 148 Oxford Drive,
Jackson, TN 38305
DENNIS R. YELvERTON
IDA YELvERTON
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Successor Trustee
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Foreclosure Notices
Tipton County
at the north door, Tipton County Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington,
Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust
executed by Robin Yarbro Wilson and
Randall Wilson, to Larry N. Westbrook,
Esq., Trustee, on October 24, 2008 at
Record Book 1417, Page 378, Instrument
No. 122705; all of record in the Tipton
interest: PHH Mortgage Corporation, its
Tipton County, Tennessee, will be sold
Description of Lot 31 of Squire’s Grove
Subdivision, Section B, as recorded at
Plat Cabinet D, Slide 28, said property
being situated in the Seventh Civil District of Tipton County, Tennessee and
located on the West side of a cul-de-sac
for Oxford Drive and Windsor Lane.
Beginning at a found rebar at a iron
post in the West Right of Way line of a
cul-de-sac for Oxford Drive and Windsor
Lane, being the Southeast corner of
Lot 31 of Squire’s Grove Subdivision,
as recorded at Plat Cabinet D, Slide
28, also being the Northeast corner of
Lot 30 of said subdivision; thence in
Southwestwardly direction, along the
South line of Lot 31 and the North
line of Lot 30, South 87 degrees 33
minutes 55 seconds West, a distance
of 185.00 feet to a found rebar at a
iron post, being the Southwest corner
of Lot 31 and Northwest corner of
Lot 30; thence in a Northwestwardly
direction, along the West line of Lot
31, North 02 degrees 26 minutes 05
seconds West, a distance of 129.84
feet to a found rebar at a iron post,
being the Northwest corner of Lot 31,
also being the Southwest corner of
Lot 32 of said subdivision; thence in
a Southeastwardly direction, along the
North line of Lot 31 and the South line
of Lot 32, South 85 degrees 15 minutes 19 seconds East, a distance of
161.66 feet to a found rebar at a iron
post in the West Right of Way line of a
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cul-de-sac for Oxford Drive and Windsor
Lane, being the Northeast corner of
Lot 31, and the Southeast corner of
Lot 32; thence is a Southeastwardly
direction, along the West Right of Way
line of said cul-de-sac and the East
line of Lot 31, along a curve to the left
having a radius of 50.00 feet, a delta
angle of 55 degrees 22 minutes 09
seconds, a tangent length of 26.23
feet, an arc length of 48.32 feet, a
chord bearing of South 22 degrees
56 minutes 23 seconds East, and a
chord length of 46.46 feet to a point
of reverse curvature; thence continuing
in a Southeastwardly direction, along
said Right of Way line along a curve
to the right having a radius of 25.00
feet, a delta angle of 48 degrees 11
minutes 23 seconds, a tangent length
of 11.18 feet, an arc length of 21.03
feet, a chord bearing of South 26 degrees 31 minutes 46 seconds East,
and a chord length of 20.41 feet to a
point of tangency in said line; thence
continuing in a Southeastwardly direction, along said Right of Way line, South
02 degrees 26 minutes 05 seconds
East, a distance of 47.48 feet to the
Point of Beginning and containing 0.48
acres, more or less.
Borrowers herein by Quit Claim Deed
of even date recorded simultaneously
herewith in said Register’s Office.
Tax Parcel ID No. 07-142AD-031.00
Parcel Number: 142A-D-031.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Robin
Yarbro Wilson and husband, Randall
Wilson
Other interested parties: Town of Atoka
c/o City Attorney
Street Address: 271 Oxford Drive,
Atoka, Tennessee 38004
All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are
expressly waived in said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed to be good, but
the undersigned will sell and convey only
as Substitute Trustee.
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 09-022962
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dated February 27, 2004, and the Deed
recorded March 3, 2004, in Book No.
1124, at Page 819, and modified on
September 11, 2014, In Book No. 1634,
At Page 333 in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Tipton County, Tennessee,
executed by Margaret J. Raines, conveying certain property therein described to
Jeanine B. Saylor as Trustee for 1st Trust
Bank for Savings; and the undersigned,
Wells Fargo Bank, NA.
been declared due and payable; and that
an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C.,
as Successor Trustee, by virtue of the
power, duty, and authority vested in and
imposed upon said Successor Trustee, by
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, will, on February
18, 2016 on or about 10:00 AM, at the
Tipton County Courthouse, 1801 South
College Street, Covington, Tennessee,
offer for sale certain property hereinafter
described to the highest bidder FOR certified funds paid at the conclusion of the
sale, or credit bid from a bank or other
lending entity pre-approved by the successor trustee. The sale is free from all
exemptions, which are expressly waived
in the Deed of Trust, said property being
real estate situated in Tipton County,
Lot 36, McLister Place Subdivision,
as recorded at Plat Cabinet G, Slide
72, in the Register’s Office of Tipton
County, Tennessee to which plat
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said lot.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 152 Royal Oaks
Drive, Brighton, TN 38011
MARGARET J. RAINES
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Successor Trustee
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WHEREAS, default has occurred
in the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust
Note dated September 3, 2003, and
the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded September 8,
2003, in Book No. 1092, at Page 628,
in Office of the Register of Deeds for
Tipton County, Tennessee, executed by
Brenda F. Whitehead and Ricki Dean
Whitehead, conveying certain property
therein described to Katie Winchester as
Trustee for First Citizens National Bank;
and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed
Successor Trustee by JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association.
13, 2016 on or about 10:00 AM, at
the Tipton County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
situated in Tipton County, Tennessee,
as follows:
Beginning at a point in the center of
Glen Springs Road (being a public
right-of-way) being the most western
corner of this described property and
the most southern corner of Mervin
Bridges Jr. (Deed Book 582 Page 407)
and being located S 37°55’24” E a
distance of 51.50’ from the point of
intersection of the centerlines of Glen
Springs Road and Turner Lane; thence
leaving Glen Springs Road and going
with the Bridges property N 53°27’29”
E a distance of 160.00’ to a 1/2”
iron rod (old); thence S 36°32’31” E
a distance of 51.00’ to a 1/2” iron
rod (old); thence N 62°27’29” E a
distance of 245.00’ to a ½” iron rod
(old) in the southern line of Sherry
and Jeffrey Bennard Etal (Record
Book 1428 Page 5) being the most
eastern corner of Bridges; thence
leaving Bridges and going with the
Bennard Etal property S 89°32’31” E a
distance of 107.00’ to a 1/2” iron rod
(old) being the most eastern corner of
this described property and the northwest corner of Wesley Yates Cramer
(Deed Book 691 Page 567); thence
leaving Bennard Etal and going with
the Cramer property S 52°27’29” W a
distance of 478.81’ to a point in the
center of Glen Springs Road being the
most southern corner of this described
property and the most western corner
of Cramer; thence leaving Cramer and
going with the center of Glen Springs
Road N 39°36’48” W a distance of
162.31’ to the point of beginning,
having an area of 1.12 acres, more or
less, as surveyed by Brian McMeans
R.L.S. #2645 of Global Surveying, LLC
on August 17, 2015.
NOTE: Legal description has been
revised in accordance with the
Attorney’s Affidavit recorded September 28, 2015 in Book 1665 at
Page 1045.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 1242 Glen Springs
Road, Drummonds, TN 38023
This sale is subject to all matters shown
on any applicable recorded plat; any
unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants,
easements, or setback lines that may be
applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or
federal; any prior liens or encumbrances
as well as any priority created by a fixture
filing; and to any matter that an accurate
survey of the premises might disclose.
In addition, the following parties may
claim an interest in the above-referenced
property:
BRENDA F. WHITEHEAD
RICKI DEAN WHITEHEAD
TIMBS BuILDER
CITIFINANCIAL, INC.
MRC RECEIvABLES CORP. ASSIGNEE
OF HOuSEHOLD/ARBOR
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performance of the covenants, terms, and
conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated
July 22, 2011, and the Deed of Trust of
even date securing the same, recorded
July 25, 2011, in Book No. 1520, at Page
341, and modified on March 17, 2014, In
Book No. 1617, At Page 869 in Office of
the Register of Deeds for Tipton County,
Tennessee, executed by Carol Denise
Sigler, conveying certain property therein
described to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq. as
Trustee for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; and
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., will, on February
Lot 24, Walker Lake Subdivision,
Section A, as shown on plat of record
in Plat Cabinet F, Slide 61, in the
Register’s Office of Tipton County,
description of said lot.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 193 Walker Lake
Road, Atoka, TN 38004
This sale is subject to all matters shown
on any applicable recorded plat; any
unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants,
easements, or setback lines that may be
applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or
federal; any prior liens or encumbrances
as well as any priority created by a fixture
filing; and to any matter that an accurate
survey of the premises might disclose.
In addition, the following parties may
claim an interest in the above-referenced
property:
CAROL DENISE SIGLER
SECRETARY OF HOuSING & uRBAN
DEvELOPMENT
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dated May 30, 2008, and the Deed of
recorded June 5, 2008, in Book No.
1398, at Page 497, in Office of the
Register of Deeds for Tipton County,
Tennessee, executed by Demario Avery
and Yolanda Stocklin, conveying certain
property therein described to John Clark
as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for
First State Bank, its successors and
assigns.; and the undersigned, Wilson
appointed Successor Trustee by Branch
Banking & Trust Company.
Trustee, by Branch Banking & Trust
Company, will, on February 10, 2016
on or about 10:00 AM, at the Tipton
County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property
hereinafter described to the highest
bidder FOR certified funds paid at the
conclusion of the sale, or credit bid
from a bank or other lending entity preapproved by the successor trustee. The
sale is free from all exemptions, which
are expressly waived in the Deed of
Trust, said property being real estate
as follows:
Lot 13, Section A, Pickard Subdivision, as shown on plat of record in Plat
Cabinet F, Slide 72, of the Register’s
Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, to
which plat reference is hereby made
for a more particular description of
said property.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 297 Fulcher Road,
Millington, TN 38053
DEMARIO AvERY
YOLANDA STOCKLIN
310129
Successor Trustee
COM
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dated November 5, 2004, and the Deed
recorded November 19, 2004, in Book
No. 1174, at Page 852, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Frederick L.
Rankins and Eugenia M. Rankins, conveying certain property therein described
to Arnold Weiss as Trustee for Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
as nominee for Pulaski Mortgage Company, its successors and assigns; and
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by Wells Fargo Bank, NA.
Trustee, by Wells Fargo Bank, NA, will,
on February 3, 2016 on or about 10:00
AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse,
Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
as follows:
Lot 116, GREEN PASTURES SUBDIVISION, Section E, as shown on plat of
record in Plat Cabinet G, Slide 105,
in Register’s Office of Tipton County,
ALSO KNOWN AS: 292 Azalea Drive,
Atoka, TN 38004-2775
FREDERICK L. RANKINS
EuGENIA M. RANKINS
LvNv FuNDING LLC
310651
Successor Trustee
COM
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dated April 17, 2008, and the Deed of
recorded April 23, 2008, in Book No.
1392, at Page 771, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Hattie Hall and
Chattis Hall, conveying certain property
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therein described to Leonard E. van
Eaton as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee
for Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage
Corp., its successors and assigns; and
P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by Selene Finance, LP.
Trustee, by Selene Finance, LP, will, on
January 28, 2016 on or about 10:00
AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse,
Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
as follows:
A certain tract or parcel of land located in Tipton County, Tennessee,
described as follows to-wit:
Beginning at a point in the center of
the Tabernacle to Mason gravel road,
said point being south 4-1/2 degrees
east 1343 feet from the northeast corner of the Ora Teamer tract, of which
this survey is a part; runs thence with
the center of the road, south 4-1/2
degrees east 100 feet to a point in
the center of the road; thence south
87-3/4 degrees west’300 feet to a
stake; thence north 4-1/2 degrees
west 100 feet to a stake; thence
north 87-3/4 degrees east 300 feet
to the beginning and containing 0.69
of an acre, more or less.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 1217 Tabernacle
Road, Covington, TN 38019
HATTIE HALL
CHATTIS HALL
307420
Successor Trustee
COM
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executed by Paul D. Hines, to Alice L.
Gallaher Atty, Trustee, on December
22, 2005 at Record Book 1251, Page
666; all of record in the Tipton County
Party entitled to enforce security interest: PNC Bank, National Association,
Beginning at a stake on the north
bank of the Old Holly Grove of Liberty
Dirt Road, the same being north 88
degrees East 278 feet south 621
feet from the northwest corner of the
Henry Dickey 85 acre tract of which
this is a part; thence south 23 3/4
degrees East 114 feet to a 60 penny
nail in the center of the Holly Grove to
Liberty blacktop road; thence north 66
degrees east 200 feet with said road
to a 60 penny nail in the center of said
road; thence north 23 3/4 degrees
west 114 feet to a stake on the north
bank of the old dirt road; thence south
66 1/4 degrees west 200 feet to the
point of beginning.
Current Owner(s) of Property: Paul
D.Hines, unmarried
Other interested parties: Tipton County
Planning Department
Street Address: 4174 Holly Grove
Road, Covington, Tennessee 38019
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 14-055715
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016 Fkn12659
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 12:00
noon at the North entrance of the Tipton
Co. Courthouse, Covington, TN pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Syed
Hassan Shirazee to Charles M. Ennis,
Trustee, recorded at Book 1352, Page
9, modified in Book 1529, Page 333,
and conducted by Clifton E. Darnell,
Substitute Trustee, all of record in the
Tipton Co. Register’s Office.
Tipton Co., TN will be sold to the highest cash bidder subject to all unpaid
taxes, prior liens and encumbrances
of record:
Lot 6, Capital Way Center Subdivision, as shown on plat of record in Plat
Cabinet H, Slide 546, in the Register’s
Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, to
which plat reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of said lot.
Also known as 0 Capital Way, Atoka,
TN (Tax Parcel ID: 07-11C-D-006.00)
Owner of Debt: Patriot Bank
Owner(s) of Properties: Syed Hassan
Shirazee
Other Interested Parties: LJLD Development
All right and equity of redemption,
statutory and otherwise, homestead and
good, but the undersigned, will sell and
This is an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained will be
Clifton E. Darnell, Substitute Trustee
8602 Farmington Blvd., Suite 4, Germantown, TN 38139
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016 Fkn12664
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 12:00
noon at the North entrance of the Tipton
Co. Courthouse, Covington, TN pursuant
to Deed of Trust executed by Cheryl
S. Stringfellow to T. Harris Collier, III,
Trustee, recorded at Book 1428, Page
97 and conducted by Clifton E. Darnell,
Substitute Trustee, all of record in the
Tipton Co. Register’s Office.
Tipton Co., TN will be sold to the highest cash bidder subject to all unpaid
taxes, prior liens and encumbrances
of record:
Description of a 0.88 acre partition
of the William W. Scott property as
recorded at Deed Book 473, Page 17,
said property being situated in the 6th
Civil District of Tipton County, Tennessee, and located south of Campground
Road and west of Highway 51. For the
complete metes & bounds legal description of this parcel please refer to the
subject deed of trust. Also known as
14319 Hwy 51 S, Atoka, TN (tax parcel
ID#: 127-055.03)
Owner of Debt: Trustmark National
Bank
Owner(s) of Property: Cheryl S. Stringfellow
Other Interested Parties: Internal Revenue Service, TN Dept. of Revenue
All right and equity of redemption,
statutory and otherwise, homestead and
good, but the undersigned, will sell and
This sale is subject to the right of redemption by the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the u. S. Treasury, pursuant
to 26 u.S.C. 7425(d) (1) by reason of
the following tax lien(s) of record: Lien
Book 18, Page 3. Notice of the sale has
been given to the IRS in accordance with
26 u.S.C. 7425(b).
This sale is also subject to the right
of redemption by the Tennessee Department of Revenue pursuant to T.C.A. §671-1433(c)(1) by reason of the following
tax lien(s) of record: Lien Book 19, Page
39. Notice of this sale has been given
to the department in accordance with
T.C.A. §67-1-1433(b)(1).
This is an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained will be
Clifton E. Darnell, Substitute Trustee
8602 Farmington Blvd., Suite 4, Germantown, TN 38139
Dec. 18, 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 2016 Fkn12665
January 21, 2016 at 10:00AM local
time, at the north door, Tipton County
Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of
Trust executed by Ronnye D. Griffith, to
John B. Philip, Esq., Trustee, as trustee
for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), solely as nominee
for First Choice Loan Services, Inc. on
October 10, 2012 at Record Book 1569,
Tipton County Register’s Office. Default
has occurred in the performance of
the covenants, terms, and conditions
and payable.
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, its successors
and assigns
Described property located at Tipton
The following described tract
or parcel of land located in Tipton County, Tennessee, to wit:
SITuATED IN THE SEvENTH CIvIL DISTRICT OF TIPTON COuNTY, TENNESSEE, AND BEING MORE PARTICuLARLY
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING LOT
NO. 188, WILLIAMSBuRG ESTATES,
SECTION H, AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF
RECORD IN PLAT CABINET F, SLIDE 60,
IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF TIPTON
COuNTY, TENNESSEE, TO WHICH
PLAT REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE
FOR A MORE PARTICuLAR DESCRIPTION. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
CONvEYED TO DARRYL L. SMITH AND
WIFE, BERNICE SMITH BY WARRANTY
DEED FROM MuNFORD DEvELOPMENT COMPANY, DATED 5-24-00
AND RECORDED 5-26-00 IN BOOK
902, PAGE 592, REGISTER’S OFFICE
FOR TIPTON COuNTY, TENNESSEE.
SuBJECT TO ALL MATTERS SHOWN ON
PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT CABINET F,
SLIDE 60, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE
OF TIPTON COuNTY, TENNESSEE.
Street Address: 51 Walker Parkway,
Atoka, Tennessee 38004
Parcel Number: 128E A 019.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Ronnye
D. Griffith
described property is believed to be
51 Walker Parkway, Atoka, Tennessee
38004, but such address is not part
of the legal description of the property
sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein
shall control.
premises might disclose.
This office may be a debt
collector. This may be an attempt to
collect a debt and any information
obtained may be used for that
purpose.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 14-061112
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12666
dated July 26, 2010, and the Deed of
recorded August 6, 2010, in Book No.
1484, at Page 53, and modified on May
18, 2015, In Book No. 1654, At Page
533 in Office of the Register of Deeds for
Tipton County, Tennessee, executed by
virginia C. Wooten and Hardy C. Wooten,
Jr., conveying certain property therein
described to Kerry Webb as Trustee
for Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc., as nominee for Acopia,
LLC., A Corporation, its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
appointed Successor Trustee by Wells
Fargo Bank, NA.
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, will, on February
The following described real estate,
situated and being in the County of
Tipton, State of Tennessee, to wit:
Lot 85, Faulkner Heights Subdivision,
Section J, as shown on plat of record
in Plat Cabinet C, Slide 93, of the
Register’s Office of Tipton County,
description of said property. Being the
same property conveyed to Hardy C.
Wooten, Jr. and Virginia C. Wooten,
husband and wife in Warranty Deed,
as filed at Book 923, Page 115 in the
Register’s Office of Tipton County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 440 Faulkner
Heights Drive, Atoka, TN 380045803
vIRGINIA C. WOOTEN
HARDY C. WOOTEN, JR.
uNKNOWN HEIRS OF HARDY C. WOOTEN, JR.
ESTATE OF HARDY C. WOOTEN, JR.
310839
Successor Trustee
COM
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12668
executed by Anna Connell and Monte
S. Connell, Jr., to Monte S. Connell,
Trustee, on August 28, 2007 at Record
Book 1363, Page 340, Instrument No.
interest: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, its successors and
assigns
Lot 36, Section B, Squires Grove
Subdivision, as shown on plat of
record in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 28, in
the Register’s Office of Tipton County,
the above named Grantor by Warranty
Deed being recorded simultaneously
herewith the aforesaid Register’s Office.
Parcel Number: 142A D 03600
Current Owner(s) of Property: Anna
Connell and spouse, Monte Stanton
Connell JR.
Street Address: 64 Windsor Ln, Atoka,
Tennessee 38004
January
30-February
5, 2015 29
December
25-31,
December 25 - 31, 2015 2 9
public notices
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104269
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12670
executed by Charles C. Cummings and
Tiffany M. Cummings, to David R. Wilson,
Trustee, on January 15, 2004 at Record
Book 1118, Page 155, Instrument No.
interest: Carrington Mortgage Services,
LLC, its successors and assigns
Being Lot No. 16 of Campground
Acres, Section B, as recorded in Plat
Cabinet E, slide 73 in the Register’s
Office of Tipton County, Tennessee,
to which reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of said
property. And being the same property
conveyed to us by deed of record in
Book 1118, Page 153 in the said
Subject to subdivision restrictions,
setback requirements and easements
as recorded in Plat Cabinet E, slide
73 and Book 826, page 499 in the
aforesaid Register’s Office.
Parcel Number: 094N A 016.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: Charles
C. Cummings and wife, Tiffany M.
Cummings
Other interested parties: Finance State
Finance-Brownsville
Street Address: 4785 Campground
Rd, Atoka, Tennessee 38004
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-104264
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12671
January 15, 2016 at 1:30PM local
time, at the north door, Tipton County
Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Covington, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of
Trust executed by Jerry R. Balzell and
Mary-Kathryn Balzell, to David W. Gober,
Trustee, on July 25, 2005 at Record
Book 1223, Page 116; all of record in
the Tipton County Register’s Office.
interest: u.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Bear Stearns Asset
Backed Securities I Trust 2006-AC1,
Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006AC1, its successors and assigns
tiger bookstore continued from P19
The division offers promotional products for anyone. Think less U of M-branded
merchandise and more specialized T-shirts,
cups, pencils, pens, balloons and koozies for
a range of customers, from Greek organizations and churches to nonprofits, university
departments and events.
“We saw books were changing and we
need to do something to take its place,”
Jeffords said. “We can’t depend on teams
to win every year. Sales in clothing and gifts
are directly related to when a team is winning. When they’re winning, you better eat
it up. The past couple of years with football
it’s been awesome. Basketball has always
been good.
“We wanted to find a division that would
be relevant to a wider range of people, and
since we deal in those goods, it made sense
to move in that direction.”
Tiger Bookstore doesn’t typically make
design decisions, although a special Memphis State shirt showing a Tiger with a football came based off a design passed along on
Being all of the John Richard Kelley and
wife, Charlotte C. Kelley 2.00 acre tract
recorded in Deed Book 430, Page 116,
and a part of the Richard Kelley and
wife, Charlotte C. Kelley tract recorded
in Deed Book 770, Page 101, in the
Register’s Office, lying on the south
side of Garland-Detroit Road, in the
Third Civil District of Tipton County,
Tennessee, being more particularly
Beginning at the northwest corner of
the John Richard Kelley and wife, Charlotte C. Kelley 2.00 acre tract recorded
in Deed Book 430, Page 116, said
point being a north interior corner of
the Richard Kelley and wife, Charlotte
C. Kelley tract recorded in Deed Book
770, Page 101, of which the partition
is a part, said point also being in the
centerline of Garland-Detroit Road
(60’ right-of-way), then along the said
centerline the following two courses:
South 57° 15’ 00” East, 250.00 feet
to the northeast corner of the said
2.00 acre tract; then South 56° 45’
47” East, 202.83 feet to the northeast
corner of the partition; then leaving the
road and running along the east line of
the partition the following two courses:
South 72° 59’ 47” West, passing an
iron pin set at 39.02, but continuing
for a total distance of 240.38 feet to
an iron pin set; then South 46° 33’
40” West, 199.06 feet to an iron pin
set at the southeast corner of Kelley’s
2.00 acre tract; then North 57° 15’ 00”
West, 250.00 feet along the south line
of the said 2.00 acre tract to an iron
pin set; thence North 32° 45’ 00” East
along the west line of the said 2.00
acre tract, passing an iron pin set at
348.50 feet, but continuing for a total
distance of 378.50 feet to the Point of
Beginning, encompassing 2.80 acre
of land, more or less, by calculation.
The above described property is
subject to the right-of-way of GarlandDetroit Road, leaving a net of 2.50
acres of land, more or less, and is
subject to unnoted easements of
record or not of record.
There is a pole and wire line crossing
the property as shown on plat of survey.
The above described tract is improved
by a single story, one family residence
known as 1461 Garland-Detroit
Road, Burlison, TN 38015, and other
Improvements as shown on plat of
survey.
Mary-Kathryn Balzell, spouse of Jerry
R. Balzell, joins in the execution of
this instrument for the sole purpose
of perfecting the lien.
Being the same property conveyed
to Grantors by Warranty Deed recorded simultaneously herewith in
the Register’s Office of Tipton County,
Tennessee.
Parcel Number: 015 034.01
a message board. The store sought approval
for that one.
And fans have reacted to the MSU apparel well since the university decided to
open the vault of old designs in 2015. Fans
love the nostalgia, Jeffords said.
But it’s not always about turning back
the clock. Jeffords said if the day ever comes
that the football Tigers make the college
playoff, well, that 2008 Final Four will be a
thing of the past.
“If we had managed to get into the playoff, it would’ve been bigger than the Final
Four ever was,” she said. “Fans are just so
much more football-oriented. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened.
“It would be like the Final Four on steroids. I would love to do that business.”
let's grow continued from P19
Q: Thank you for using words like generosity or art in the realm of marketing.
Can you help bring value?
Current Owner(s) of Property: Jerry R.
Balzell and Mary Kathryn Balzell
Other interested parties: New South
Federal Savings Bank, Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
fka WAMu
Street Address: 1461 Garland Detroit
Rd, Burlison, Tennessee 38015
at any time.
Trustee
Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: (704) 333-8107
Fax: (704) 333-8156
File No. 15-101645
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12674
dated August 31, 2011, and the Deed
recorded September 1, 2011, in Book
No. 1524, at Page 683, in Office of the
Tennessee, executed by Greg A. Archer
and Cody D. Archer, conveying certain
property therein described to Charles M.
Ennis as Trustee for Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee
for Patriot Bank, its successors and
assigns; and the undersigned, Wilson
& Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association.
A: I would say you wouldn’t say it yet.
But I see it at many companies. Look at
Spotify – the CEO knows that if he hires
humans at their edge, it will bring the
company more value. When I say generosity, it doesn’t mean give it away; it means
recognize the humanity of the market.
Q: How do you take it personally when
you’re told not to take it personally?
A: They don’t have to like it, but I made
it and I am proud of it. You can say, “I
made it.”
Q: Turning strangers into friends – can
you explain?
A: My book “Permission Marketing”
is about this topic. Marketing you want
to get works better than spam. Would the
consumer miss you if you were gone? Do
you have permission? The challenge is how
you build a brand where people want to
here from you. It requires humility. Find
products for customers, instead of customers for products. Earn that asset first, and
the other stuff falls into place.
20, 2016 on or about 10:00 AM, at
the Tipton County Courthouse, Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale certain
as follows:
Lot 7 of the Franklin Estates Subdivision of record in Plat Cabinet C, Slide
167 in the Register’s Office of Tipton
County, Tennessee to which reference
description of said lot. Subject to subdivision restrictions, building lines and
easements of record at Plat Cabinet C,
Slide 167 and Southwest Tennessee
Easement at Book 731, Page 798 of
the said Register’s Office. Being the
same property conveyed to Greg A.
Archer and Cody D. Archer, husband
and wife, tenants by the entireties in
Warranty Deed, as filed at Book 1524,
Tipton County.
ALSO KNOWN AS: 410 Jim Mckenzie
Road, Brighton, TN 38011
GREG A. ARCHER
CODY D. ARCHER
310949
Successor Trustee
FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT
WWW.MYFIR.COM and WWW.REALTYTRAC.COM
Dec. 25, 2015 Jan. 1, 8, 2016
Fkn12673
newsmakers continued from P23
gomery Martin Contractors, where he will
oversee day-to-day marketing and communications responsibilities and assist
in ongoing business development efforts.
Herrington previously served as director of
development for LifeLinc Corp.
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Mark
Norris has received the Distinguished Service to the States medal from The Council of
State Governments. The medal is the highest
honor awarded by CSG for outstanding and
sustained leadership on behalf of the states.
The University of Memphis delegation to the Tennessee Intercollegiate State
Legislature earned five awards at the recent
forum. The UofM awards included: Outstanding Delegation (runner-up for best in
House of Representatives); Charles Uffelman, Best Lobbyist; David Carlyle, Best
Senator and winner of the race to be next
year’s lieutenant governor; and Zachary
Crawford, Carlisle Award for Best Speaker.
30 December 25-31, 2015
opinion
Uptown Revival Requires
An Eye Toward the Past
M
emphis decays in the
most spellbinding way
for those of us who have
watched a city resistant
to change nevertheless
become a different place several times
over.
Places that once thrived stand long
after many of us cease to depend on them.
“For lease” signs become part of the
detritus, sitting askew against shattered
windows and blotched inner walls in the
darkness beyond eternal streetlights and
wayward headlights.
Storefront churches, boarding houses
– all fall to kudzu and time. Their concrete
paths shattered by the roots of dying trees
that are the last to fall in our measured
indifference.
These places become talismans of
memories and values that we still hold
important.
If we put all of those important memories together, we would know they are a
timeline – not a specific time.
Such memories also hold value in that
they become part of our expectations for
the kind of community that can be created
in today’s Memphis using the best traditions and intentions of what came before.
The neighborhood some of us call
Uptown, and others call North Memphis,
Bearwater, New Chicago or Scutterfield, is
ready to be built anew on and around what
came before.
As neighborhoods are revived, the
map where we choose to live changes.
However, those revitalized – and, dare
we say, newly “trendy” – neighborhoods
cannot be rebuilt at the expense of their
current residents and sense of community,
however fragile.
Community revitalization should come
with affordable housing to own and to rent.
And affordable housing shouldn’t be code
for “we’ll stop worrying about maintaining
it once the new house smell wears off.”
The physical part of this transformation, which already is underway, is linked
to memories of a community that thrived
with a graceful modesty and humility when
North Memphis was an industrial center
of the city.
It thrived despite racial segregation
by law and all of the institutions that enforced that segregation. Challenges to such
discrimination pushed our city forward
against all odds and the prevailing institutions of those earlier times.
To be sure, it was a struggle. And that
struggle is mirrored today in our ongoing discussion about minority-business
growth in a city that is predominantly
African-American. The legacy of those
early basic struggles can be found in our
concerns and discussions about gentrification and what change means in an area
where blight and void have taken a toll by
gradual absence.
Those struggles and more are worth it
because of the truth that can be found in
the timeline of our memories of this area
under its many names.
Truth and memory aren’t always the
same thing in their most literal form. But
memories of how these places made us feel
and how they influenced our values get
us to the true attributes of communities
within the walls and places that will rise
and fall and rise again.
THE MEMPHIS NEWS | almanac
December 25-31
This week in Memphis history:
2010: One Commerce
Square officially changes
hands to local ownership
in the biggest Downtown
office deal in a decade.
The owners buy the tower
from U.S. Bank for $7.6
million and pour another
$20 million into renovations. The sale comes
Pinnacle Airlines celebrates One Commerce
less than two weeks after lease (October 2010).
Pinnacle Airlines signs a
13-year lease for up to 13 of the tower’s 29 floors.
1969: The Daily News runs a public hearing notice on an urban renewal
plan that includes Beale Street between Danny Thomas Boulevard and
Orleans Street. The area includes the Hunt-Phelan Home – the last mansion left on Beale – as well as the Universal Life Insurance building further
south at Danny Thomas and Linden Avenue. The purpose of the hearing is
to come up with a plan to “acquire the land in the project area, to demolish
or remove buildings.”
Three other notices in the same edition advertise public hearings on similar
urban renewal areas in two parts of the Medical Center district as well as
the Kansas Street area of South Memphis.
New privilege licenses include one for Tim McCarver’s Inc., a restaurant
at 1489 Airways Blvd. near Lamar Avenue. The Memphis-born baseball
player had been traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia
Phillies in October after being part of a legendary championship Cardinals team. The restaurant later became better known as Grisanti’s,
owned by John Grisanti.
Christmas Coming Home
CHRISTMAS TIME.
Every Christmas I tell this story, and
in the telling Christmas comes home.
It was my first time to England and
overseas, and prime time for The Beatles,
The Rolling Stones and Soho.
It was time to discover pubs, and
Scottish eggs, bubble & squeak and
spotted dick. Time to discover that bitter, served warm, is twice as strong as
our brew, that a British pint holds 20 oz.
instead of our 16, and all of that explains
why your knees don’t work after three
of them.
It was time to learn about language
barriers, say, American vs. English. Ask to
see some pants, as I did at Harrods, and
a prig in a morning suit will show you a
table full of underwear. “Oh, you must
mean trousers,” he sardonically oozed.
It was time to learn about time. Walking by six churches 300 years old to visit
MEMPHASIS
DAN CONAWAY
one 900 years old.
Visiting Shakespeare at Stratford and
Henry at Hampton. Standing on stone
steps at Oxford with Dad, and putting
our feet where so many have gone before
that they weren’t so much steps anymore
but troughs, worn down by their witness
to centuries.
It was Christmas time.
It was the last Christmas all three sons
would share with our parents, although
none of us knew that at the time, and the
last Christmas I would be single, and I
guarantee neither Nora nor I knew that
at the time. Both brothers were living in
greater London, Jim in Kensington and
Frank in Barnes, a town on the Thames
not far from the city.
It was time to come home.
In Barnes, I was introduced to a tiny,
ancient pub not even on a road, accessible only by footpath between houses.
Throwing darts, it was my turn to buy.
After working my way to the crowded bar
and leaning in to order my pints, I heard
someone say, “Danny?”
In a small town outside of London,
in a pub known only to locals, I found
myself standing next to someone I was
in the third grade with at Memphis State
Training School and hadn’t seen since
he’d moved away in the middle of that
school year.
A lifetime ago, across oceans and
centuries, my family and I shared a
Christmas I will never forget. Tied to a
larger world. Still tied to each other. Still
tied to home.
Whatever your faith, whether you
believe this is a time of anticipation and
arrival, or of reflection or celebration,
or of renewal or recognition – or all of
those – I believe it’s a time to look inside
to places only you can visit, to look at
the paths traveled and at those who’ve
shared the journey then and now, and
to know, truly know, you are not alone.
There, at Christmas time, I can find love.
And peace. And hope.
I'm a Memphian, and I wish for you
and yours all that you wish for yourselves
this Christmas and in the coming year.
Dan Conaway, a communication
strategist and author of “I’m a Memphian,” can be reached at [email protected].
December 25-31, 2015 31
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EDITED BY MARGIE E. BURKE
»
happenings
Hard Rock Cafe Memphis will ring in the new year with the 2016 Hard Rock Guitar Drop on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. at 126 Beale St. The evening
will include live entertainment, drink specials and more. General admission is $25;
VIP tickets are $150 per person or $250 per couple. Visit hardrock.com/cafes/
memphis for details and tickets.
Overton Square New Year’s Eve Bash
will be held Thursday, Dec. 31, from 2 p.m.
to 2 a.m. at Overton Square businesses.
Check out the inside scene at Lafayette’s
Music Room (details below), and enjoy
outside entertainment, beer vendors and
more leading up to a special surprise at
midnight. Madison Avenue will be closed
between Cooper and Diana streets from 9
p.m. to 2 a.m. Visit overtonsquare.com for
details and specials.
Lafayette’s Music Room will hold its
New Year’s Eve party Thursday, Dec. 31,
from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. at 2119 Madison Ave.
Enjoy live music from Davis Coen (6:30
p.m.) and American Fiction (10:30), plus
three options for dinner and drinks. Visit
lafayettes.com/memphis for details and
tickets.
The Yard will recycle Christmas trees
free of charge Monday, Jan. 4, through
Jan. 29 at its recycling and composting
facility, 1735 Thomas Road. If you mention
Memphis Botanic Garden when dropping
off a tree, The Yard will donate $5 to the
garden. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com
for details.
Memphis Botanic Garden will host a
brown bag lunch titled “Seed Starting for
the Edible Garden” Tuesday, Jan. 5, from
noon to 1 p.m. at MBG, 750 Cherry Road.
Senior manager of gardens Chris Cosby
will lead this crash course on starting
seeds. Free with garden admission; no
registration needed. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com. Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art will
accept entries for its 12th annual Chinese
New Year student art competition through
Friday, Jan. 8, at 119 S. Main St. The theme
is “Swing Into Adventure – Monkey.” Each
entry should represent a portrait of a
monkey as the New Year mascot, as well
as Chinese symbolism. Visit belzmuseum.
org or call 901-523-ARTS for details.
Memphis International Auto Show
cruises into the Memphis Cook Convention Center Friday through Sunday, Jan.
8-10, at 255 N. Main St. Experience the
latest in-car technology, research your
next vehicle and test drive more than 20
vehicles on site. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9
p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Sunday. Buy advanced tickets at
memphisautoshow.com.
The Whitehaven Partnership Committee will meet Friday, Jan. 8, from 2:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. at the Whitehaven branch
library, 4120 Millbranch Road. The organization seeks to clean up Whitehaven and
address community concerns. Contact
Calvin Burton at cburton615@hotmail.
com or 901-412-2757 for details.
Sudoku
EDITED BY MARGIE E. BURKE
HOW TO PLAY
Each row must contain the
numbers 1 to 9; each column
must contain the numbers 1
to 9; and each set of 3 by 3
boxes must contain the
numbers 1 to 9.
32 December 25-31, 2015
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2016 July Newsletter

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