BOYLE NEWS

By Ron Caldwell While the country celebrated Memorial Day, the YMCA at Schilling Farms in Collierville had an important celebration of its own. On Monday, local elected officials and YMCA officials gathered at the center for the grand opening of the second phase of the facility. Since opening on May 29, 1999, the YMCA at […]

By Theresa Berchard – Emphasis: Architects & Engineers – The rustic charm of Schilling Farms and the fresh contemporary appeal of Harbor Town couldn’t be held intact if not for the independent design review boards established for these types of specific planned community developments. Whether working alone or in tandem with other architectural and design consultants, […]

By Terry Holland – The Memphis Business Journal – Memphis-based Helena Chemical Co., Inc., plans to build a four-story, 104,000 square foot headquarters facility at Schilling Farms in Collierville, vacating the 41,000 square feet it occupies in the Crescent Center in East Memphis by 2001. One of the nation’s largest formulators and distributors of agriculture chemicals, […]

By Daisy Fontaine – The Collierville Herald – Harry Smith, president and CEO of Schilling Enterprises and Schilling Motors, told Collierville Chamber of Commerce members and their guests that Collierville residents should pull together. He used the brouhaha over the location of the Town Hall construction as an example. "Collierville is a good town – bigger […]

By Katherine Cromer – The Commercial Appeal – As Collierville’s Schilling Farms continues into its second phase of development, its leaders have come to two realizations. First, what’s good for Collierville is good for Schilling Farms and the entire community. And second, some people around town need an attitude adjustment. Harry Smith, chairman of Schilling Enterprises, […]

– The Memphis Business Journal – Collierville isn’t the rural town it used to be, but it still hasn’t succumbed completely to the almost inevitable urban sprawl that Memphis has left in its wake as growth moved eastward. Congestion along Poplar in areas of Collierville is beginning to resemble Germantown Parkway. Construction of retail and other […]

By Terry Hollerhan – The Memphis Business Journal – When Harry Smith contacted Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. about developing his land in Collierville, he had already spent a lot of time and money designing the 443 acres that would be called Schilling Farms. Russell Bloodworth, executive vice president of Boyle, says after Boyle executives met with […]

By Ron Caldwell – The Collierville Herald – An international company has submitted plans to town planners to locate its corporate headquarters in the 448-acre Schilling Farms development. In a report obtained by The Herald, Helena Chemical Company has asked the town to be put on the May Planning Commission meeting agenda for a 6.3 acre […]

– The Collierville Herald – A 27-acre church site at Schilling Farms in Collierville is closer to being developed because the church is closer to moving from Germantown. Union University received permission from the Germantown Planning Commission to take over the Immanuel Baptist Church property off Hacks Cross Road in Germantown, putting the church closer to […]

By Ron Caldwell – The Collierville Herald – The YMCA at Schilling Farms will offer a wide range of programs to help people keep their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape. "Get Real" is a program about real life weight management by learning the essential elements of achieving and maintaining a healthy weight with a […]

By Terry Hollahan – The Memphis Business Journal – Memphis-based Boyle Investment Company is launching its first office building at Schilling Farms, a 62,000-square-foot office/flex facility that will be expandable to 86,000 square feet. The one-story office complex, called Schilling Farms Business Center, will become a cornerstone in the $350 million, mixed-use Schilling Farms development in […]

By David A. Fox – Business Tennessee – Chief among the Founding Fathers’ justifications for tying property ownership to suffrage was that it ensured voters had a vested interest in seeing their governments well managed and fiscally restrained. Of course, issues of fairness won out, and by 1850 all states had extended the voting franchise to […]