July 9-15, 2021, Vol. 14, Issue 28

UNION STATION RISINGA proposed mixed-use development would revitalize the Downtown thoroughfare P. 2

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A rendering shows an aerial view of the proposed Union Station, which would include a hotel, retail building and apartments/condos. (Credit: designshop)

NO QUIT IN HERAmanda Bass, a veteran, overcomes multiple disabilities to launch a business P. 3

WHEN WFH ENDS Some companies are only enocuraging workers to return, while others simply insist. P. 5

GlaxoSmithKline closes Presidents Island site P. 4 The latest health directive makes few changes P. 4

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TOM BAILEYThe West Tennessee News

A mixed-use development called “Union Station” and comprising three parts — a hotel, retail building and apart-ments/condos — is proposed for the city’s closed police precinct property at 1925 Union in Midtown.

The City of Memphis received four proposals, or bids, for the prime real estate of 3.6 acres. The site not only features 100 yards of frontage along busy Union Ave-nue, the property extends back an entire block to Linden in the rear. The site also has a drive to Barksdale on the west side.

After evaluating the bids for the high-est and best use, the administration will recommend that the City Council approve the $3.5 million bid from the Union Sta-tion development team, development team members told The Daily Memphian.

The proposed sale of the property is on the agenda of a City Council commit-tee meeting Tuesday, July 6.

The development partners for the $20 million-plus project are G2 Venture Group led by Sam Patel and Dipesh Patel, and Patton & Taylor Enterprises construc-tion firm led by Lee Patton and Cameron Taylor.

The name “Union Station” was not chosen as an homage to Downtown’s old passenger train terminal that was demol-ished in 1969, but as a straight-forward reference to the site’s police station his-tory and the street it fronts, Dipesh Patel said on Saturday, July 3.

The prominent spot is flanked on Union by a SunTrust branch and Jack Morris Auto Glass, and is across Union from Union Avenue Church of Christ. Flanking the property’s backside on

Linden are Idlewild Elementary School and the Lindenview Apartments building.

Renderings, site plan and develop-ment documents show:

• A four -story hotel of 19,600 square feet and 120 guestrooms. The hotel will have a restaurant and indoor swimming;

• An 8,750-square-foot retail building for six tenant bays. Developers left open the option for a vehicular drive to split the

building. A restaurant’s outdoor dining space fronts the building;

• And in the rear, four, three-story apartment/condo buildings housing a to-tal of 32 units. Designated, covered park-ing is on the ground floors.

The residential units are 950 square feet each. Renderings show what appears to be a detached, metal screen structure lining the upper north and west sides of

the retail building. The design feature is reminiscent of the perforated metal screen around Ballet Memphis in Over-ton Square.

Public art is planned for three places on the site.

“Perhaps the most significant contri-bution to public space and quality of life within Union Station is the activated side-walk and patio space along the (internal) ‘street’ between the hotel and commercial retail center,” a project document states.

“Serving both hotel guests and the public alike, the outdoor spaces provide a setting for social engagement…,” the document states.

The developers’ presentation empha-sizes Union Station’s home-grown roots. Both Patton & Taylor and G2 Venture Group are local, and so is the project’s architecture firm, designshop.

The project will be built to the prin-ciples of the Memphis 3.0 long-term de-velopment plan, and will be committed to spending 30 percent of the project budget with minority and women-owned subcon-tractors and suppliers, the development document states.

While whatever bid price the city can receive for the property is not insignifi-cant, administration officials have said even more important and long-lasting will be the tax revenues.

The development group projects that Union Station will generate $4.25 million in retail sales per year. Since the local sales tax is 9.75 percent, the developers project that Union Station will create more than $4.1 million in sales tax revenue over its first 10 years.

Union Station will generate a com-bined $11 million in sales and hotel taxes over the first 10 years, the developers project.

'Union Station' would bring hotel, retail and residences to Union Ave.

Union Station residences will offer covered, ground-floor parking. (Credit: designshop)

An internal driveway would separate the retail Union Station building (left) and hotel. (Credit: designshop)

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CHRIS HERRINGTONThe West Tennessee News

Resurgent soul man Don Bry-ant, honky-tonker Dale Wat-son, adventurous rockers Big Ass Truck, swamp soul queen Marcella Simien and inventive hip-hop/R&B collective Un-apologetic.

Those are five of the 16 acts that will take the stage as the Levitt Shell’s popular free con-cert series returns for its first post-COVID series this fall, with a decidedly Memphis-first bent.

Pre-pandemic, the Shell, an 85-year-old WPA bandshell that hosted Elvis Presley’s first public concert in 1954, hosted two 25-concert series each year, one in summer and one in fall, with shows running Thursday to Sunday in each series.

These series proved a chore for the nonprofit to finance even before COVID took away live music for a year. After a series of six benefit shows this summer, the Shell is returning with a scaled-back fall series that will provide free concerts on Friday and Saturday nights for eight straight weekends in September and October, and that will focus on local and re-gional acts. 

“It had everything to do with wanting to support our local community,” said Levitt Shell executive director Natalie Wil-son. “We could have gotten national touring acts at this point, but we really made a de-cision at the beginning of this year that our local music econ-omy needed us. We wanted to

showcase our incredible local and regional music.” 

Wilson says that while Shell is likely to resume more far-ranging bookings next year, a stronger local focus is likely to carry over beyond this fall’s series.

Adding to the local focus this fall will be new “pre-show”

programming in partnership with the Memphis Black Arts Alliance.

“People tend to come to Shell shows early, to get their spot on the lawn or eat at the food trucks,” said Wilson. “I’ve wanted something to entertain people before the headliner starts.”

Pre-show acts booked by the Black Arts Alliance will range from dance troupes to poetry readings and children’s story-telling to singer-songwriters.

The only concerts without this pre-show programming will be the annual Stone Soul Picnic on Sept. 18, a longtime product of gospel radio station WLOK, and Occupy the Shell on Sept. 4.

Occupy the Shell is a sequel to a one-off event last fall that will showcase a variety of grassroots Memphis hip-hop and R&B acts in an expanded, festival-like time frame, from 4 to 9 p.m.

A free concert with area blues stalwart Blind Missis-sippi Morris on Oct. 8 is being billed as a “Country Blues Fes-tival presents,” and will follow a ticketed “Country Blues Fes-tival” event the night before, with headliners still to be an-nounced. 

The two-night Country Blues Festival event is in partnership with the producers of “Mem-phis ’69,” a recent documentary film about the Shell’s famed Country Blues Festivals of the Sixties, in which the city’s tra-ditional blues and rock-orient-

CHRISTIN YATESThe West Tennessee News

Founding and running a business, espe-cially during a pandemic, is a feat in and of itself. But for Amanda Bass, a disabled vet-eran, operating her business is made even more difficult due to health issues.

“Technically, I am considered bionic,” she said. “My spine, the top part of my legs and abdomen are voltage- and battery-operated. Every night, I have to charge.”

Bass, who receives nutrition through a catheter, was left homebound from a spi-nal cord injury.

“There are little things that I have to account for every day that other people do not,” she said.

However, that did not stop Bass from launching her business in early 2021.

Growing up, her father’s “love lan-guage” was gifting her designer bags from his global travels while an executive for Thyssen Krupp. After he passed in 2019, a series of shipments of handbags began to

arrive, somewhat like in the movie “P.S. I Love You.”

“Each handbag had a handwritten letter that told me about the item, what it means, why it’s there and other things he (my dad) wanted to get off his chest,” Bass said.

Bass developed a strong bond with as-sociates at the luxury brand stores who arranged for the gifts to arrive. Those rela-tionships were the catalyst for Bass to in-vestigate starting a company specializing in one-on-one, curated shopping experi-ences — just like her father provided her.

“In August and September of last year, I went to all of the brands and pitched them the business idea of Got It In The Bag,” Bass said. “We started putting various contracts together with each brand. Finally at the end of September 2020, we got our last and fi-nal contract.”

Got It In The Bag is now an authorized dealer for several luxury brands including Saint Laurent, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Fendi

and Chanel.Bass has some inventory on hand to

sell; however, most of the focus is on per-sonal shopping for clients.

“If we don’t have the item here, we can order whatever it is,” she said. “We stock and carry primarily handbags and wallets, but we can order accessories or clothing or shoes. Whatever the brand carries, we can order.”

Bass and her team take pride in getting to know each customer and their lifestyle needs.

Beth Shindler was Bass’s real estate agent and is now a client of Got It In The Bag.

“I told her that I was looking for a very specific purse that I had been wanting for a really long time,” Shindler said. “She found it for me, and she found it at a discount.”

Shindler said the process only took a few days since she knew exactly what she wanted. However, she noted that the tai-lored shopping experience was much more

personal and enjoyable, compared to shop-ping in a store.

“Depending on what store I go into, I feel like there are two very different reac-tions, depending on what you’re wearing and what you’re carrying already,” Shindler said. “You just don’t know the level of ser-vice you’ll get when you go into a store. With Amanda, every single person who she talks to, she treats the exact same way.”

As if Bass did not have enough hurdles to jump through to start her own business, she was diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease in the fall of 2020, which has left her legally blind. The condition is hereditary, but nei-ther of her parents knowingly had it, al-though she now believes her father had it.

“I operate on a level of legal blindness, which does affect my daily functionality,” she explained. “I have to be in a wheelchair when I leave the house, and I have a lot of things to work through every day in order

Disabled, legally blind veteran turns entrepreneur, now deals luxury goods

Free concerts return to Levitt Shell with scaled back, local fall season

Hard-rocking blues guitarist Tinsley Ellis performs at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park. The Shell’s free concert series returns with a fall season focused on local and regional acts. (Daily Memphian file)

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Manufacturer lays off 156, closes Presidents Island site

JANE ROBERTSThe West Tennessee News

A health care products manufacturing site on Presi-dents Island is closing and eliminating 156 jobs by Sep-tember 1.

GlaxoSmithKline filed notice July 6 with the state De-partment of Labor and Workforce Development, saying it was closing its operations at 2149 Harbor Ave.

The facility is for sale. It includes 293,000 square feet of production, office

and warehouse space on 25 acres.“In 2018, GSK made the difficult decision to cease op-

erations at our site in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time of the announcement, we advised employees that opera-tions would be phased out of Memphis by mid-2021,” GSK said in a statement. 

“Last month we filed official paperwork with the mayor of Memphis as part of our obligation to perma-nently close the site.

“Whenever we identify the need for changes that im-pact the future of any of our sites and employees, we take

great care to communicate these changes thoughtfully and provide support to employees.”

None of the current workers are covered by a collec-tive bargaining agreement.

The Greater Memphis Local Workforce Development team has been notified to help the workers transition to other jobs.

In 2018, the company let 99 workers go from the same plant when a contract expired and was not renewed.

GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health line includes Sen-sodyne, parodontax, Polident, Advil, Voltaren, Panadol,

GlaxoSmithKline is closing its manufacturing site, which is located on Memphis’ Presidents Island, shown here. (Daily Memphian file)

New health directive offers minor changesJANE ROBERTS

The West Tennessee News

The Shelby County Health Depart-ment has issued its latest health directive, which goes into effect Saturday, July 10.

A population besieged with pandemic restrictions has become accustomed to these missives, which in previous months limited businesses, defined when masks were required and outlined rigorous cleaning protocols.

Health Directive includes all the well-known details about hand washing, dis-tancing, masking and provisions business-es need to employ to keep the public safe.

While Plexiglass shields were rec-ommended and not required, the new

directive removes any mention of dividers. Ditto for recommendations on how drink-ing fountains were to be cleaned in the pandemic, eliminating confusion about whether they can be open.

What remains beyond the common-sense measures of protecting oneself or the unvaccinated is the reminder that federal mandates that require masking on public modes of transportation still exist.

And in county buildings where people are confined against their will, masks are still required.

Other than these changes, the direc-tive reads exactly as the previous version did. A new directive will be issued Aug. 7. The latest health department directive says public water fountains are OK. (Charlie Riedel/

AP file)

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As the nation continues recovering from COVID, businesses are grappling with reopening their offices, prying their employees from the telecommuting habit that became the norm for so many during the pandemic.

The number of people working re-motely in June was 14.4%, down from 16.6% in May, according to the jobs report released by the U.S. Department of Labor last week.

And a quick survey of local businesses shows many are requiring their employees to return to the office by Aug. 1.

As employees push back, some compa-nies are resorting to various measures to force compliance — including employees losing permanent desk space or offices if they do not return by the deadline.

Other companies are taking a more flexible approach. “We are allowing people to self-select themselves back into work when they want,” said Jay Keegan, presi-dent and CEO of Adams Keegan. “Some people never left and didn’t want to leave. Some are adamant they love working from home.” “We’re not pushing anything,” Keegan said.

Many companies are still developing their policies.

“(Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare) continues to evaluate long-term remote work arrangements, including returning to the office, working from home or hy-brid options,” said Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare spokeswoman Sarah Farley.

The approach to getting workers to return is also still evolving for FedEx Corp.

“Where possible, many of our team members are continuing to work remotely at this time,” FedEx said in a statement. “Each FedEx operating company is con-tinually evaluating its specific business needs and the needs of its workforce to determine the best path forward.”

Similarly, International Paper Co. is

developing a plan that would allow more of its employees to return to the office.

“Our Memphis-area offices have re-mained opened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with a majority of our employ-ees still working remotely,” International Paper said in a statement. “Our team members have the option to work from our offices as long as they follow proper safety protocols.”

Colleges and universities are also try-ing to determine the best approach.

“We are looking at having our stu-dents return to campus in the fall,” said University of Memphis chief financial of-ficer Raaj Kurapati. “So, in order for us to be fully prepared to welcome them back to campus, we would need our staff and our employees back in the office and ready to support them and their return.”

Kurapati said he expected most of the university’s staff back by July 1, with a few exceptions.

“Throughout the course of the pan-demic, we had roughly 40 to 50% of our workforce on a rotational schedule work-ing on campus,” Kurapati said. “We moved to about 75% of the workforce, again on a rotational basis, returning to campus on June 1, and then 100% returning to cam-pus beginning July 1.”

Kurapati said the university is mak-ing accommodations for employees with health-related issues that “probably need a little bit more support” before returning full-time. Otherwise, Kurapati said, most employees have been accepting of the university’s decision to have them return.  

Meanwhile, Keegan says that being forced to work remotely has had some benefits.

“We have employees who moved to different cities,” he said. “They love our company, and we love them, but we would have ordinarily saluted and said, ‘good luck.’ Now we keep those employees be-cause they can still work for us. That’s been wonderful for our firm.

Some firms ask workers to return (others insist)

Traffic starts to ease up after rush hour on the south loop of I-240 on June 3, 2019. For many Memphians who have been working from home, returning to the office means returning to long commutes. (Daily Memphian file)

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EZRA WHEELERThe West Tennessee News

Music is everywhere in Memphis. Some say it’s in the soil or the air. But in recorded form, you might be able to find more of it now on the second floor of Mid-town’s Crosstown Concourse than any-where else in a music-rich city.

The Memphis Listening Lab’s grand opening ceremony on Saturday, July 10, will honor the contributions of Ardent Re-cords co-founder John King, whose mas-sive collection of music serves as the foun-dation for opulent new the music library.

Tucked away just off the Concourse’s airy main atrium, the Memphis Listening Lab is a multi-faceted audio library that boasts a collection of 30,000 45 singles, 10,000 LPs, 20,000 CDs and upwards of 1,000 music-related books, the majority of which once belonged to King’s personal collection.

This isn’t just a collection of Mem-phis music, but a wide-ranging survey of post-war pop, with notable sounds re-leased from the 1950s through well into the 2000s.

In addition to its vast collection of music, the Listening Lab also features several listening stations, a podcast/ed-iting studio and an event space that can host roughly 60 visitors. All of these ame-nities will be free and open to the public.

“There are certainly music libraries and listening rooms and places dedi-cated to music programming already in existence, but I think incorporating all of those components into one space may be a first,” says Jim Cole, the Memphis Listening Lab’s librarian and archivist. 

Visitors can select items to play on

one of 10 listening stations. There is also a sound room designed by Jim Thompson of EgglestonWorks, a Memphis-based maker of high-end speakers, similar to another EgglestonWorks listening room off the Central Station hotel’s bar/lounge. The Listening Lab’s programming is ex-pected to include record releases, book signings and lecture series.

While the idea for a music library within the Concourse had been percolat-ing for a while, it was King’s generosity that made the concept a reality. 

“There had been discussions about doing something like this, but it took

(Shangri-La Records founder) Sherman Willmott bringing John into the fold for everything to fall into place,” said Cole. “It was a little slow getting everything off the ground, especially with the pan-demic. But here we are now. Needless to say, this wouldn’t have been possible without John.”

King, now 77, is perhaps best known as one of the original founders of Ardent Records. He first began collecting records as a teenager, a hobby that has continued throughout his life. 

“Along with Fred Smith and John Fry, John King helped to launch Ardent back

in 1959 when they were still high school students,” Cole said.

“He went on to work in radio for years and accumulated a ton of promos that would get sent to him. Around 1970, he became the head of promotions at Ardent and was instrumental in the whole Big Star thing and everything that followed. Our collection includes records that he bought back in the ’50s and spans to the modern era.”

The Memphis Listening Lab is the lat-est music-focused entity to call the Cross-town Concourse home, joining commu-nity radio station WYXR, the Crosstown Arts’ Green Room and the forthcoming Southern Grooves recording studio. The collection will also likely be a resource that bolsters programming at neighbor-ing WYXR.

Although the Memphis Listening Lab has been welcoming visitors for the past two weeks, Saturday’s event will serve as its grand opening and an opportunity to formally recognize King’s contributions to the project. 

The event, which is free and open to the public, will kick off at 1 p.m. and is set to include the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to King.

Big Star drummer and Ardent main-stay Jody Stephens will preside over open-ing ceremonies. The event also promises to include appearances from a number of Memphis music stalwarts, including King himself. 

The Memphis Listening Lab is open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. You can learn more by visiting their web site at memphislisteninglab.org.

TOM BAILEYThe West Tennessee News

The planning board on Thursday, July 8, unanimously endorsed zoning changes and plans for a $100 million development near the University of Memphis that com-prises a seven-story hotel and six-story apartment/office building atop struc-tured parking.

The Land Use Control Board approved plans for transforming 3535 Central Ave., which anchors the southeast corner of Highland Street at Central and is just a few hundred yards west of the U of M campus.

The board voted unanimously on three related, consolidated cases despite opposition from nearby residents who expressed concerns about the impact on traffic, noise and quality of residential life.

The 2.4-acre site is where Church of Christ, Scientist worshipped for decades. The church sold the property to Mem-phis businessman Bob Berry and plans to build a smaller building a block away at

Highland and Cowden Avenue.Berry, owner of the furniture busi-

ness Worlds Away, said construction could start as early as next March if the project continues on a smooth path that would include the City Council’s required approval.

Berry lives near the same neighbor-hood and said he had noticed the church attendance had become “smaller and smaller. “Something needed to be done there,” he said after the planning board’s votes. “And the place had been on the market a long time and we finally made a deal.”

“With everything that’s happening on Highland Row, all the development going on there,  it was exciting to see… It’s got a new spark of life there. And what’s going on the other side of Poplar… It’s a good corridor,” Berry said, referring to the north side of Poplar a few blocks away.

The mixed-use development features a seven-story hotel at the corner of Central

and Highland. The 115-guest room hotel would have a restaurant and rooftop bar.

Adjacent to the east would rise a six-story structure comprising three layers. The bottom two floors would be struc-tured parking for 226 vehicles. About 35,000 square feet of offices would be on the third floor. The fourth floor would have a pool and terrace as well as apart-ments. And floors five and six would be apartments.

The number of apartments totals 75, with 90 beds. A surface parking lot for another 49 vehicles would be behind the building to the south.

Designed by Fleming Architects, the building’s exterior would comprise brick, metal mesh covering the garage, glass, metal panels and precast concrete.

The three approved cases were to re-voke the existing residential corridor des-ignation, change the zoning from residen-tial urban - 3 to residential 6, and approve the planned development.

Neighborhood opposition includes eight homeowners on Central Cove, a cove of 10 houses immediately east of the development site.

In their joint letter to the planning board, the property owners said the de-velopment would be too tall and too close to their property.

“The proposed developed appears to ignore the height and setback require-ments and buffer areas of the Overlay, as well as, the restriction of the Central Ave-nue Residential Corridor,” the letter states.

“The drawings appear to have a 2 lane road/driveway directly behind the Cen-tral Cove property lines. This driveway is the primary access to the Level 2 parking structure which will necessitate a high density of traffic,” the letter states.

“… Central Cove’s only road access to Central and will be mere inches from the driveway of a Central Avenue home. We believe this will cause increased traffic congestion...,” the letter states.

Planning board approves $100 million development near University of Memphis

A room with a tune: Memphis Listening Lab is a music fan's dream

The Memphis Listening Lab librarian and archivist Jim Cole talks about the new concept on Wednesday, July 7, in the Crosstown Concourse. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

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ed counter-cultures came together. While this series will be scaled back

to two nights a week, the experience will be similar. Other than the Occupy the Shell concert, headliners will take the stage at 7 p.m. each night. The Shell’s already expanded food conces-sion area will feature a rotating array of food trucks, along with different kinds of cool treats from MEMPops and Crosstown Brewery. The Shell’s own bar area will have a different signature cocktail for each concert. 

What kind of “new normal” this re-turn opens into in 2022 remains to be seen.

“Last year was the most difficult year of our history,  and we’re still in re-covery mode,” said Wilson. “But at the same time, I’m looking at our business model to make sure we can sustain our non-profit. The Shell is something that, unless we invest in it, it won’t be here. I have said to our board and my team that it’s going to look different. We’re going to do more, but it won’t be the same.”

Whatever form the annual summer and fall series take in the future, Wil-son wants the Shell to be open to more year-round uses, citing such one-off events as the recent Dreamfest and this fall’s TedX event. She’s also working on a “Shell on Wheels” program that would bring live music into Memphis neigh-borhoods that might struggle to access the Shell itself. 

“We have to find a sustainable bal-ance,” said Wilson. “We will always have free music, but will it be 50? We’re not sure.”

Levitt Shell Fall Concert Series

Friday, September 3 — Nick BlackSaturday, September 4 — Occupy the

ShellFriday, September 10 — Don BryantSaturday, September 11 — Big Ass

TruckFriday, September 17 — Marcella

SimienSaturday, September 18 — Stone Soul

PicnicFriday, September 24 — Chinese Con-

nection Dub EmbassySaturday, September 25 — Reba Rus-

sell & Susan MarshallFriday, October 1 —Sensational

Barnes Brothers               Saturday, October 2  — Stax Alumni

BandFriday, October 8 — Country Blues

Festival presents Blind Mississippi Mor-ris

Saturday, October 9 — Dale WatsonFriday, October 15  — Cameron Beth-

any/UnapologeticSaturday, October 16 — Detective

BureauFriday, October 22 — Acting NaturalSaturday, October 23 — Tropical Fu-

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to do normal functions.”For instance, Bass can’t always tell the

difference between something brown, off-white and cream.

She generally must show someone a bag to confirm a color. For newly re-leased bags, she can go off the written descriptions.

Bass hired her first full-time employee to assist her. She also relies on technology as well as her extensive knowledge of the bags, brands and materials.

“It (Stargardt’s) has affected my ability to run my business, but it has also made my drive even higher to show people that you can do it,” she said. “There are plenty of people out there who are homebound and struggling, who feel like they can’t do

normal things because maybe they’re ab-normal in their minds. It was important to show other disabled people that you can do this.”

Got It In The Bag is already looking to expand and will soon accept job applica-tions. The service fee for sourcing a bag or other luxury items is $150 plus the cost of the bag or product. While the company does not have a storefront, Bass hopes to open a try-on gallery soon so clients can experience how a specific bag or product will look and feel.

“For me, running a business was a very personal thing,” Bass said. “The biggest pur-pose for me to run and start this business was to show my boys ages 16, 13 and 4 that no matter what life throws at you, you can always find a way to do what you want to do, even if there is a detour.”

Amanda Bass (shown in her Somerville, Tennessee, home) recently launched Got It In The Bag, a personal shopping company that focuses on getting hard-to-find luxury handbags for customers. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

The West Tennessee News30 January 30-February 5, 2015 www.thememphisnews.com

public notices

8 July 9-15, 2021

Foreclosure NoticesFayette County

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALESale at public auction will be on

July 27, 2021 at 1:00PM local time, at the south door, Fayette County Courthouse, 16755 Highway 64, Somerville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Lou Ella Howse, to Ronnie Tuscan, Trustee, as trustee for CitiFinancial Services, Inc. on December 22, 2006 at Instrument No. 06011399; conducted by LOGS Legal Group LLP, having been appointed Substitute or Successor Trustee, all of record in the Fayette County Register’s Office. Default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of said Deed of Trust and the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable.

Party Entitled to Enforce the Debt: FirstKey Master Funding 2021-A Collateral Trust, its successors and assigns.

The real estate located in Fayette County, Tennessee, and described in the said Deed of Trust will be sold to the highest call bidder. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warrant is intended.

Street Address: 275 Wagon Wheel Dr, Somerville, Tennessee 38068Parcel Number: 035 03607

Current Owner(s) of Property: Betty Richardson

This sale is subject to, without limi-tation, all matters shown on any appli-cable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory right of redemption of any governmental agency, state or fed-eral; any prior liens or encumbrances including those created by a fixture filing or any applicable homeowners’ association dues or assessments; all claims or other matters, whether of record or not, which may encumber the purchaser’s title and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The following parties may claim an interest in the above-referenced property to be affected by the fore-closure: any judgment creditor or lien holder with an interest subordinate to the said Deed of Trust or any party claiming by, through or under any of the foregoing. Such parties known to the Substitute Trustee may include: All parties claiming by, through or under Lou Howse.

Terms of Sale will be public auction, for cash, free and clear of rights of homestead, redemption and dower to the extent disclaimed or inapplicable, and the rights of Lou Ella Howse, and those claiming through him/her/it/them.

Any right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and home-stead are waived in accord with the terms of said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day,

time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. If you purchase a property at the foreclosure sale, the entire purchase price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of a certified/bank check made payable to or endorsed to LOGS Legal Group LLP. No personal checks will be accepted. To this end, you must bring sufficient funds to outbid the lender and any other bidders. Insufficient funds will not be accepted. Amounts received in excess of the winning bid will be refunded to the successful purchaser at the time the foreclosure deed is delivered.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded only by the Substitute Trustee at any time. If the Substitute Trustee rescinds the sale, the purchaser shall only be entitled to a return of any money paid towards the purchase price and shall have no other recourse. Once the purchaser tenders the purchase price, the Substitute Trustee may deem the sale final in which case the purchaser shall have no remedy. The real property will be sold AS IS, WHERE IS, with no warranties or representations of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation, warranties regarding condition of the property or market-ability of title.

This office may be a debt collector. This may be an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained may be used for that purpose.

LOGS Legal Group LLPSubstitute Trustee

10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400

Charlotte, NC 28216Phone (704) 333-8107

Fax (704) 333-8156www.auction.com

File No. 19-117507June 25, July 2, 9, 2021 Fqn14739

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Court Notices

ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIN THE JUVENILE COURT OF

MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEEDocket NO.: 59-53, 465

JUSTIN TRENT BIVENSPetitioner,vs.CHELSEA DIANE SMITH,Respondent.IN THE MATTER OF:Christian Austin BivensD.O.B.: 11/5/2012Abigale Paisley BivensD.O.B.: 10/22/2013Elizabeth Harper BivensD.O.B.: 6/11/2015Tesla Kinsley SmithD.O.B.: 11/18/2016CHILDREN UNDER EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE

ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIt appearing to the Court from the

allegations of the Petition in this cause and the affidavit of the Petitioner that the whereabouts of the Respondents Chelsea Diane Smith, are unknown and that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them,

It is therefore ordered that the Respondent, Chelsea Diane Smith, be served by publication of the following

notice for four (4) consecutive weeks in The West Tennessee News, a newspaper published in Madison, Tennessee.TO CHELSEA DIANE SMITHJustin Trent Bivens has filed a petition against you seeking custody and/or primary residential status to Christian Austin Bivens, Abigale Paisley Bivens, Elizabeth Harper Bivens, and Tesla Kinsley Smith, on the grounds that you have willfully abandoned these children and for others reasons. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. You are therefore, ordered to respond by appearing in Court or filing an Answer to the Petition filed against you. A copy of the Petition may be obtained at the office of the Juvenile Court of Madi-son County, 110 Irby Street, Jackson, Tennessee 38301. This notice will be published for four consecutive weeks. The last date of publication will be July 16, 2021. You must appear in Court on August 31, 2021 at 10am to appear and defend or file an Answer within 30 days or a Default Judgment or judgment on the facts will be taken against you. All future hearings and/or documents filed in this cause shall be filed with the clerk and shall be considered as service upon you. You may request your copy from the clerk.ENTER this the 22 day of June, 2021

Judge Christy R. LittleApproved Entry,Hooper Law Firm, PLLCBob C. Hopper (#18713)Attorney for Justin Trent Bivens19 North Court Square, Suite 205Brownsville, Tennessee 38012(731) 772-2880(731) 772-2804 faxJune 25, July 2, 9, 16, 2021 Cqn14741