BOYLE NEWS

By Katherine Cromer – The Commercial Appeal – Helena Chemical Co., received an offer it couldn’t refuse. In an attempt to lure Helena Chemical to Schilling Farms, Collierville’s Industrial Development Board voted last week to offer the company a 10-year million-dollar tax break. By a vote of 6-1, with board member Ed Green dissenting, the board […]

By Jerome Obermark – The Commercial Appeal – Helena Chemical Co. will move its corporate headquarters from an East Memphis office building to a new four-story office building with104,000 square feet in Schilling Farms. Boyle Development Co. is the developer. Boyle is a partner in 443-acre Schilling Farms, a mixed-use, master-planned community about one mile east […]

By Daisy Fontaine – The Collierville Herald – The 15,000 square-foot new headquarters of BankTennessee, located on Poplar at Schilling Farms, is open to customers, even though the interior is not quite completed. Wright Cox, vice president of the bank, said, "We want this building to feel like a home. We want a real homey feel, […]

By Mary Dando – The Daily News – What a long, strange year it’s been. It was a phenomenal year for home sales, according to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors. Though sales were down compared to 1999 figures, they were "still great," said Lee Ann Williams-Maley of MAAR. "In the past three years, the Memphis […]

– The Collierville Herald – Two office buildings in the Schilling Farms area are scheduled to receive their first tenants this year, increasing the business presence of the multi-use planned development. Thyssen Systems, Inc. and Physiotherapy Associates are both leasing space in the Schilling Farms Business Center at 1125 Schilling Blvd. East and are expected to […]

By Andrew Harlow – The Colliervile Herald – As the only community bank whose charter is based in Collierville, BankTennessee is a bank that caters to the individual citizens needs. When it opened in 1992, BankTennessee was known as First Federal Bank. After converting to a state bank in 1997, the name was changed and BankTennessee […]

A small grocery store, more restaurants and more activities are all options in expanding Collierville’s Town Square and redeveloping the area around it, according to a study by the Collierville Chamber of Commerce. The study envisions expanding the Square’s retail selling to main Street, Washington Street and areas southeast where industrial properties may be redeveloped. […]

By Tony Marks – The Collierville Herald – Boyle Investment Co. has answered the challenge of developer David Halle and now two donated sites are dueling to be the new home of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce. Schilling Farms representatives on Monday offered a one-acre site that would give the chamber space to build a 5,000 […]

By Mary Dando – The Daily News – Opera Memphis operations are currently scattered throughout the Memphis area, but that will soon change. Following approval by the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board Thursday of plans to build a practice hall and general offices, the company will be able to consolidate at one location. […]

By Sue Pease – The Daily News – With plans for the widening of Walnut Grove Road in the works, some area businesses will have to make room for wider streets. One such operation is Fire Station No. 44 at Walnut Grove and Humphreys Boulevard, which will be moved further north. “(The new station) replaces the […]

By Tony Marks – The Collierville Herald – As the one-acre site for a new Collierville Chamber of Commerce changes hands from Schilling Enterprises to the chamber, how the building will be designed is getting under way. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved accepting the land donation from Schilling Enterprises and then giving it by […]

By Jody Callahan – The Commercial Appeal – Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis administrative employees are moving into their new offices in a five-story East Memphis office building. The move, which began in mid-March and should be complete by late April, signals a further withdrawal from Baptist’s longtime home in the Medical Center area. The new $24 million […]