Technology & Innovation

Downtown businesses prepare for ServiceMaster employees to land in June

In early June the first employees and tenants will move into the ServiceMaster Innovation Center inside the company’s new downtown headquarters at the former Peabody Place Mall, with construction on the remainder of facility continuing through 2016.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority is adding more solar to its power portfolio with  the construction of a solar facility at the Allen combined cycle gas site in Memphis. The one megawatt  facility will be the largest TVA-owned solar project in its servi
TVA building its largest solar energy facility in Memphis

The Tennessee Valley Authority expands its renewable energy portfolio with a new solar farm at the Allen Combined Cycle Plant on President's Island.

ThinkProxi promotional material and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame app.
ThinkProxi brings museums to life

Memphis-based tech company ThinkProxi uses beacons to help businesses better understand customer trends while providing information that’s pushed to any hand-held device.

Daniel Bastardo Blanco, a researcher at St. Jude, pitches at the Scipreneur Challenge.
New pitch competition marries science and business

Memphis is understood as a hotbed of healthcare innovation with organizations such as Memphis Bioworks and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The Memphis Scipreneuer Challenge pushes scientists to market their breakthroughs to the business community.

Students learn Javascript coding during Tech Equity Week.
Memphis’ first Tech Equity Week targets the digital divide

“I want the rest of the country to know what we’re doing in Memphis, that we are on the front lines of addressing the importance of diversity and inclusion, and it’s important that we are part of the national conversation."

The now vacant spots at 7 and 9 N. Main will be activated with a host of pop-up shops through December.
16 new shops headed to Downtown through pop-up shop initiative

The tenants’ specialties range from handmade refurbished furnishing to locally designed fashion as well as a theater troupe and sewing school.

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A blighted property at 1960 E McLemore Ave.
Memphis receives scholarship assistance to fight blight

A national nonprofit will help Memphis address property vacancy, abandonment and deterioration as well as provide technical assistance assessing local and state legal systems pertaining to receivership and property tax enforcement.  

John Paul Shaffer announces the rebranding of BLDG Memphis.
CD Council and Livable Memphis begin new era as BLDG Memphis

The Community Development Council of Greater Memphis and Livable Memphis have merged and rebranded as BLDG Memphis.

The Madison Avenue pocket park contains greenspace, gallery space, a stage and a screen for projecting films.
Downtown pocket park supports blight eradication in urban core

The Madison Avenue Park, which replaces a blighted Burger King location, joins other incremental developments and placemaking projects in Memphis' core. 

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