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By Jacob Steimer  – Staff Reporter, Memphis Business Journal Dec 6, 2018, 3:33pm EST JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) is growing in Memphis. The global bank recently signed a lease for 2,000 square feet of space on TraVure’s first floor. The buildout of that space … Continued

Contractor Javonte Johnson finishes cutting out door frames as construction continues on a Hilton Garden Inn, part of a dual-hotel complex at the $90 million TraVure mixed-use project in Germantown. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian) After a delay in construction, the ambitious $90 million TraVure mixed-use development … Continued

Developers have chosen a local contractor to continue building hotels at TraVure, a multipurpose development in Germantown’s western gateway. Desai Hotel Group, the developer for the dual-branded Home2 Suites and Hilton Garden Inn, switched from Omni Construction based out of Cleveland to Montgomery … Continued

Sometimes in business timing is everything. And when it comes to the relationship between FirstBank and Gill Properties that’s certainly the case. When Jeff Hudson was hired three years ago, one of his goals was to relocate FirstBank’s commercial offices and regional headquarters into a … Continued

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The first phase of the TraVure development is up and running. We took a tour through the facility. Developer Ray Gill told FOX13 the entire project will cost around $120 million. “I think the most compelling difference is … Continued

“TraVure provides us with a unique opportunity to have a newly constructed campus-like setting with amenities such as covered parking, and soon restaurants, a hotel and a fitness center all within walking distance,” he said.

“Ever since the building’s been up and MAA started moving in, the [leasing] activity has been wonderful,” Bullock said.

“When you think about the entire block – Poplar Avenue to Sanderlin Road and Mendenhall Road to White Station – it’s the most dynamic mixed-use block in all of East Memphis,” said Gill, who cited its two grocery stores, major movie theater, 10 to 15 restaurants, great bars, abundance of office space and residential condos. “It just needs to be more pedestrian friendly.”

“There are no other blocks in East Memphis that has that many uses on it that are walkable.”

Gill Properties Inc. is planning another major development — this one on White Station Road, just north of Poplar Avenue. The one-story project, which is designed to hold 27,000 square feet, will stretch across the five parcels between the Orion Federal Credit … Continued