Posted on May - 01 - 2010
Coffee Break: Ground Zero opens May 8 on Beale Street
Ground Zero Blues Club is set to reopen Friday at 310 Beale in the former Pat O’Brien’s space.
Beale Street managers said the first public event will be a May 8 screening by On Location Memphis of “Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost,” a documentary on jug band master Gus Cannon.
Admission will be by donation, benefiting On Location Memphis and the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame fund.
The Memphis version of Bill Luckett and Morgan Freeman’s club in Clarksdale, Miss., left its original location at 158 Lt. Lee in February.
Have lunch with Pastner
The Memphis chapter of the Project Management Institute will host a commemoration dinner from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Memphis in recognition of the alliance between the organization’s business leaders and students.
The event, to be held at the Fogelman Executive Center, will feature U of M men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner as keynote speaker.
The program is open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required. Deadline is today and tickets are $25 each.
For more information, go to pmimemphis.org
Its preferred lender
An Idaho-based company has turned to Memphis-based Financial Federal Savings Bank for the second time in eight years to finance a warehouse at 3850 Lamar.
Western Power Sports, which makes outdoor sporting equipment, sought a central location near interstates and FedEx in 2002. It decided to buy the 108,750-square-foot building on Lamar through an affiliated business, Shoemaker Properties.
Financial Federal arranged acquisition financing.
More recently, Western Power Sports again turned to Financial Federal for refinancing on $3 million for the Lamar property.
Tweet this: Brogan’s big
“Powering the Conversation: How Social Media Gives Businesses a Big Voice” will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. May 6 at The Peabody, 149 Union.
Keynote speaker will be Chris Brogan, whose website, ChrisBrogan.com, is ranked in the top 5 of Advertising Age’s “Power150.”
More information is at howell-marketing.com. Tickets are $75.
VA researcher is honored
A Memphis VA Medical Center researcher has earned that agency’s highest honor for clinical research.
Dr. William Cushman received the Department of Veterans Affairs’ John Blair Barnwell Award.
He is chief of preventive medicine at the Memphis VA Medical Center and is a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
His work focuses on hypertension, and his research interests are chiefly in drug treatment and lifestyle changes in the prevention and management of the disease.
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