We recently approached Jackie Nichols, Executive Director of Playhouse on the Square, Memphis’ professional actors theater based in Overton Square, and asked him to share his “Top 5 Reasons that Overton Square is the Perfect Theater District.”
Here’s what he came up with:
1. Great restaurants in walking distance to the theatre. Park once.
2. Centrally located for those living out east or downtown.
3. Midtown has a great history of new and exciting theatre created of, by, and for Memphians.
4. Other great cultural opportunities surrounding the Theatre District, such as the Brooks, Levitt Shell, the Zoo, Memphis College of Art…
5. Safe, well-lit parking; this will be even better after the new garage is built.
Neil’s Bar is relocating to our Yorkshire Square shopping center at Quince and I-240. After a fire last year destroyed their Midtown home of twenty years, owner Neil Heins decided to relocate further east.
Neil’s new digs will be “exactly like” its previous location, Heins said, with pool tables, a full-service bar and kitchen, and entertainment space. Its square footage is slightly smaller but includes a side room for Neil’s stage area and a large kitchen.
“It was appealing to us, we liked the location and liked that little strip center where it is,” Heins said. “Of course, it’s not far from my house, so that’s a good deal. It also had a lot of stuff in it. A lot of our stuff got burned up, so it was a good deal for us.”
Aaron Petree represented Loeb in the deal. Sarah Baker from the Daily News covered the story here.
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In the weekly Memphis News, Fredric Koeppel explores Zaytoon Mediterranean Cafe (Trinity Commons tenant in Cordova) and discusses the preparation practices prescribed for “halal” meat. Mohammed Halimah owns and operates Smooth Moves Juice Bar at Sean’s Cafe in Midtown and Zaytoon in Cordova.
These rules are designed to make certain that no forbidden meat or carrion is consumed; that compassion, in the name of Allah, is shown to the animal; that the animal receives a swift death; and that no blood taints the meat.
For Halimah, 47, the conjunction of halal with contemporary concerns about healthy eating, vegetarianism and veganism speaks to the way that people live and eat today – and the way he wants to operate his restaurants.
(photo by Lance Murphey)
Read the full article at this link, and find out more about Zaytoon here.
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Also in the Daily News yesterday: a story about independent grocery stores, including tenant Cash Saver Cost Plus at our Cloverleaf Shopping Center (White Station & Summer Avenue).
Burkhead’s Cash Saver is one of just two grocery stores in Memphis operating with the “cost-plus-10” business model.
“I was one of the first few to open and I was able to jump on the bandwagon,” said Burkhead, whose store is licensed and supported by Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers, a retailer-owned cooperative that has more than 1,900 member stores.
Jeff Ireland covered the story here. The Commercial Appeal also ran a story about Cash Saver last year, right after it was rebranded.
