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EDGE Newsletter: February 2020

EDGE Aids a Historic South Memphis Neighborhood and Improves Blight on Lamar with Loans Focused on Inner City Development Read the Newsletter  

Addressing Food Deserts in Our Neighborhoods

The new Superlo grocery store at Lamar and Airways opened in December to quite a celebration. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, several local officials, the Grizzlies drumline and Grizz himself were on hand to kick things off. At one point, Mayor Strickland played drums...

EDGE Fiscal Year 2020 First and Second Quarter Report Released

The EDGE Fiscal Year 2020 First and Second Quarter Report has been released. During Q1 and Q2 FY 2020, approved projects committed to: 634 jobs at an average salary of more than $52,000 $443 million in capital investment in Memphis and Shelby County $64.2 million in...

EDGE Helping to Ensure UPS’s Planned Expansion Happens in Memphis

United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is growing its operation and EDGE is working to make sure that expansion is in Memphis. The company currently operates a combination air sort and ground sort hub here that employs more than 1,300 people. That expansion would include a...

Regional Economic Alliance Holds First 2020 Meeting

The Memphis and Shelby County Regional Economic Alliance’s (REA) 2019 outcomes for jobs, investment, and minority/local business spending far exceeded its earlier projections. January 9th was the first quarterly meeting of the year for REA. At that meeting, the group...