Kemp Conrad is out. Here’s your 10 candidates (so far) for Mayor.
From the Commercial Appeal’s “Eye on City Hall” blog:
First-year City Councilman Kemp Conrad announced in a letter to supporters today that he’s not running for Memphis mayor.
“I made a commitment to serving Memphis on the Council and that is a responsibility I take very seriously,” he wrote…
“I want to thank all of you who have encouraged and advised me over the last few weeks to consider running for Mayor of Memphis in October. Upon deep reflection my family and I have decided not to make the race at this time. I made a commitment to serving Memphis on the Council and that is a responsibility I take very seriously…”
Here’s your updated “In/Out/Unannounced” Scorecard:
In (10)
Charles Carpenter
Carol Chumney
Wanda Halbert
James Harvey
Robert “Prince Mongo” Hodges Read more »
Memphis is America’s 11th sweatiest city. Seriously.
The Memphis Business Journal has a blurb about Memphis being the 11th sweatiest city in the country. You can see the full Top 20 list over here or after the jump. Number One on the list? Phoenix, Arizona.
The list was put together by the people at Old Spice, but their methodology is flawed from the start.
The Sweatiest Cities rankings are based on computer simulations of the amount of sweat a person of average height and weight would produce walking around for an hour in the average temperatures during the summer months, based on historical weather data during June, July and August from 2001-2008 for each city.
I’m not saying Phoenix isn’t hot, but it’s the definition of “dry heat”. Most mornings in August around here I’ll start sweating walking from my front door to my car at 7:00 in the morning.
Memphis: Humidity lives here.
The true story of Joe Biden, Will Hicks, and a spatula.
That’s me and potential Vice President Joe Biden.
About eight years and at least 20 pounds ago Justin Tanner (on the right) and I volunteered in Delaware for a month. Among other races, we worked the Biden/Ray Clatworthy race.
This was before Biden called Barack Obama “articulate and clean“, but after his plagiarism cost him the democratic nomination for President in 1988.
After the race was over and Biden won easily, all of the volunteers from both sides were invited to the big “bury the hatchet” party that Delaware holds at the end of each big election cycle. Read more »
Memphis quick hits for Monday
Bass Pro deal “should be signed soon“. Go ahead and hold your breath. Also, the building has been “picked clean” by local agencies.
Oakland accused of fraud by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Payback for the speed traps, buddy.
Done deals: Valient Express leases 11,250 sf, seven new leases at White Station Tower, and Dr. Artee Nanji hangs his optometrist shingle in Arlington.
More on the growth in downtown.
The girls of the Memphis Roller Derby facing the boot from the fairgrounds.
Shelby County Board of Commisioners vote today on master plan for Shelby Farms.
For today only, we have two ESPN radio affiliates in Memphis. 680-WSMB switches from Fox Sports Radio to ESPN today, 730-ESPN switches from ESPN to Fox Sports Radio tomorrow.
Downtown McAlisters Deli closing. Nope, closed.
Heard of Eccentric Studios? How about the strip dancing workout studio in Bartlett?
Memphis quick hits for Friday
Master Planner of Shelby Farms: “Great park“, compares it to Central Park in NY and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
“FedEx Office” opening in The Peabody. Not FedEx Kinkos, mind you.
Local Office market holds up, CBRE has numbers.
Your Chick-Fil-A in Midtown update: Still coming.
DynaSteel doubles size of its two Mississippi fabricator plants.
15 Past Presidents of Memphis Area Association of Home Builders urge members to “Vote against Marsha Blackburn“
Not Real Estate, but still: 730 ESPN to become Fox Sports Radio on Tuesday.
Psst. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a U.S. Embassy? Take your pick.
The U.S. Government is selling off 29 of my embassies overseas. They didn’t ask my permission, but I would have said ok.
From the Guardian Unlimited (UK):
From Kinshasa to Katmandu, Bangkok to Bogota, U.S. embassies, ambassadorial residences and other diplomatic digs are up for sale as the State Department moves its employees to more secure locations, upgrades facilites and combines operations in multipurpose compounds.
Some 29 properties worth more than $205 million are now on the market in 21 countries, including a huge and historic embassy annex in the heart of London, large chancery buildings in Panama, Nicaragua and Nepal and homes fit for envoys extraordinary in Belize and Venezula.
I was in Moscow, Russia a few years ago Read more »
About Will Hicks
Will Hicks is an affiliate real estate broker licensed in the State of Tennessee. Prior to his career transition into real estate, Hicks was a SCUBA Instructor with the International ALERT Academy of Big Sandy, Texas and the National Academy of Police Diving, based in Miami, Florida.
Hicks says he’s been asked many times about the odd transition from SCUBA Instructor to Real Estate Agent. “Teaching people how to SCUBA dive was the most fun 10 years of my life. But you can’t eat fun.” You can’t pay the rent with it either.
You can reach Will Hicks in Memphis at (901) 758-5670 or (901) 828-9200 or on Twitter at TheWillHicks.
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