November 26-December 2, 2021, Vol. 14, Issue 48

BLUE OVAL CITYFord Motor Co. returns to roots in ‘vertically integrated’ Blue Oval City P. 2

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The sun sets on the future site of Ford Motor Company’s plant at the Megasite of West Tennessee on Oct. 8. 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/The West Tennessee News)

RENASANT CONVENTION CENTER Renasant Convention Center boasts $200 million makeover P. 3

COLLIERVILLE Town leaders clean, ‘make Collierville a better place’ P. 4

Urge to preserve early Black inventors’ stories fuels author’s work P. 3

Hiring remains a challenge as the ‘Great Resignation’ gains momentum P. 5

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TOM BAILEYThe West Tennessee News

For much of the 20th century, Ford Motor Company operated the world’s largest single industrial site at its Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

What’s now called the Ford Rouge Center was 2,000 acres with 103,000 em-ployees in its heyday 90 years ago. Now comprising 600 acres and 6,000 employ-ees, the Rouge remains Ford’s largest, single industrial site.

But not for long.Ford’s Blue Oval City at the Megasite

of West Tennessee will measure 3,600 acres and, if all goes to schedule, open in 2025 with about 6,000 workers on the payrolls of Ford and its suppliers.

Old Henry Ford built the Rouge to be “vertically integrated manufacturing,” meaning the automaker produced and assembled on site nearly every compo-nent of the Model T and Model A Fords.

“For Henry Ford, this meant making as much of the cars as possible in this complex and it also meant making the steel, glass, tires and other things like that,” Prof. Harley Shaiken said.

The University of California, Berkeley professor emeritus who studies labor and globalization put into perspective the scale of Blue Oval City.

It’s unclear what portion of the parts for the electric-powered pickup trucks Ford and its suppliers will make 40 miles northeast of Memphis at Blue Oval City.

But the sheer amount of acreage sug-gests Ford is returning, or at least giving a respectful nod, to its roots in vertically

integrated manufacturing. Ford had gone horizontal by decentralizing manufactur-ing in the last half of the century, when off-site suppliers played a bigger role.

“The company will utilize the major-ity of the site as part of its plans to verti-cally integrate its production operations as much as possible on the site,” Lindsey Tipton said.

She is spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development, which led the recruitment of Ford to the Megasite of West Tennessee.

Blue Oval City likely will never come close to employing the 103,000 workers that the Rouge employed in 1932.

But Ford, battery-maker and joint-venture partner SK Innovation and their suppliers in the Megasite’s “supplier park” are projected to create nearly 6,000 jobs. And that’s just at the start, in 2025, of Blue Oval City’s work to make Ford Lightning pickups.

The acreage there portends the pos-sibility of expanded operations down the road, Shaiken said.

The 3,600 acres is “far more than you would need even for a mega-assembly plant and a large battery plant,” he said.

The site is six times larger than today’s Ford Rouge Center.

“That indicates future expansion on a large scale and a significant number of suppliers locating on the site,” Shai-ken said.

“We’ve seen Ford do that in green fields outside the U.S. One that immedi-ately comes to mind is a Ford plant that came online in the early 1990s in Mexico.

There was a lot of room for suppliers right next to it,” Shaiken said. Ford did not re-spond to questions about the scale and role of suppliers at Blue Oval City. But sup-pliers will locate both within and close to the Megasite, the state official said.

“We anticipate there being a signifi-cant supplier presence in Blue Oval City,” said Tipton, of the Economic and Com-munity Development office.

“However, there will be a need for some suppliers to locate in close proxim-ity but not necessarily on campus.”

In its September release announcing plans for Blue Oval City, Ford officials said the six-square-mile campus “will encom-pass vehicle assembly, battery production and a supplier park in a vertically inte-grated system that delivers cost efficiency while minimizing the carbon footprint of the manufacturing process.

“The assembly plant will use always-on cloud-connected technologies to drive vast improvements in quality and pro-ductivity. The mega campus is designed to add more sustainability solutions, in-cluding the potential to use local renew-able energy sources such as geothermal, solar and wind power.”

State officials don’t yet know how many of the 6,000 employees will work for Ford suppliers, Tipton said. She added that her department “is actively working with Ford as the company builds out its supplier strategies.”

Critical to electric vehicles are the batteries, which is why SK Innovation will locate in Blue Oval City in the joint venture with Ford.

The South Korean company will make lithium-ion batteries at the Megasite in Haywood County.

Shaiken noted the relevance of the current problem General Motors is expe-riencing with batteries made by its sup-plier, LG, and how Ford is designing Blue

Oval City to prevent such issues.General Motors this year recalled

142,000 of its Bolt electric vehicles after identifying battery defects that caused at least 10 Bolts to catch fire.

“I think that’s one of the reasons why having a joint venture and working more closely, they hope to avoid those qual-ity problems,” Professor Marick Masters said of Ford and SK Innovation. Masters

Ford Motor Co. returns to roots in ‘vertically integrated’ Blue Oval City

Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO, speaks during a presentation on the planned factory to build electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant in Tennessee is to be built near Stanton, Tennessee. Blue Oval City is the name given to the facility's campus. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley projects 40% of Ford’s sales to be fully electric cars by 2030. (Ziggy Mack/The West Tennessee News)

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November 26-December 2, 2021 3The West Tennessee News

ROB MOOREThe West Tennessee News

Two years, a once-in-a-life-time global pandemic and $200 million later, the Renasant Con-vention Center is ready to serve Memphis as a world-class facility for meetings and events.

While the recently renovat-ed convention center reopened several months ago, Memphis Tourism hosted an open house and dedication ceremony for the public Thursday, Nov. 18, to showcase the massive project, which began in 2019 and was fi-nanced through local hospitality industry resources.

The western-facing facade, once encased in concrete from the original 1968 construction,

is now almost entirely glass, of-fering sweeping views of the Mis-sissippi River.

“As we dedicate the newly transformed Renasant Conven-tion Center today, it serves as a strong symbol of something that is emblematic of what’s happening in our city right now,” said Memphis Mayor Jim Strick-land during the event Thursday, Nov. 18.

“Our Accelerate Memphis projects, private development such as One Beale and 100 N. Main, and so many other things are happening around our city,” Strickland said.

“They show real progress, and while we certainly have our challenges, we have so many

JULIA BAKERThe West Tennessee News

What do golf tees, curtain rods and doorknobs have in common? They were all dreamed up by African American in-ventors during the 19th century, product pioneers who didn’t always get the proper credit for their work.

The 19th century was known for many things, including the abolishment of slav-ery and as an era of rapid scientific dis-covery and invention. The combination of the two things led to African Americans playing a pivotal role in many of the in-ventions we use even to this day.

Debra Rich, a cosmetologist and ac-tive community member in South Mem-phis and Horn Lake, spent years research-ing these innovators, and this year pub-lished her findings in “Black Inventors Who Changed History.” The book chroni-cles the accomplishments of more than 75 African American inventors and change-makers throughout the 19th century.

Her research began 25 years ago when she participated in a Black history pro-gram at her church.

“I just felt immediately back then, ‘Hey, I gotta do something with this infor-mation,’” Rich said. “I just felt like, I can’t just have this information, throw away the papers, and not do something major.”

She began recording her findings five years ago but started seriously working on her book when the pandemic halted many things. She thinks the book’s in-formation is needed in communities and schools and that children and students of all backgrounds and races can benefit from reading it.

“A lot of information is not in school but should be,” Rich said. “To be honest, it needs to be taught not just to Black students or kids, I think it’s for everyone.

I think it’s more inclusive. It shines a brighter picture of what happened in the 1800s and 1900s.”

Her words ring in harmony with the opening quote by Lerone Bennett Jr., an African American scholar and historian, which reads, “If our children are to make history, they must first know their own history.” Lessons on aspects of history, starting with the beginning of the slave trade, are woven between information about Black inventors.

Rich’s research shows some of the best inventions were created by African Ameri-cans who were accustomed to manual labor and naturally came up with ways to ease their work.

But many Black people did not receive credit for their inventions, Rich writes, because back then, slaves and freemen alike were often not allowed to file pat-ents for their ideas. Many times, slave owners and other white people took the credit. As a result, for a time, identifying African American inventors proved dif-ficult, the author said.

But Henry Edwin Baker Jr. did the leg-work to find the inventors behind some of the most well-known creations, allowing people like Rich to provide a narrative of their innovations.

Baker, who was the third African American to enter the United States Na-val Academy, later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Pat-ent Office, and chronicled the history of African-American inventors.

Inventors in Rich’s book are listed in order of dates patents were filed. Thomas L. Jennings, the first Black inventor to ever receive a patent, invented the dry clean-ing (or scouring) process.

But he was much more than just an inventor. A successful businessman, he

spent a majority of his income on abo-litionist activities and on freeing his en-slaved family.

His actions contrast a game-changer like Henry “Box” Brown, who freed him-self, but not his family, from slavery.

He got his nickname from shipping himself from Richmond to Philadelphia in a wooden box with only a small hole drilled in it to provide him with oxygen during his journey to freedom. He became a sensation in Philadelphia and Eastern states for his bravery but was also criti-cized for not rescuing his enslaved fam-ily. Instead, he moved to England and remarried.

“He got ridiculed for it,” Rich said. “It’s like, ‘How dare you?’”

One of Rich’s favorite inventors is El-len F. Eglin, inventor of the clothes wring-er in the late 1880s.

Eglin, who had worked primarily as a housekeeper, found washing clothes pain-ful and laborious, so she set out to find a way to make her job easier.

The clothes wringer was a machine that had two wooden rollers. Clothes were placed between the rollers and hand-cranked to wring out the water into a bucket, thus eliminating the pain from physical labor.

“I was inspired by her,” Rich said. “Dur-ing that time, most of the Black women were afraid to really expose their talent because they felt no one would believe them.”

Because Eglin was not allowed to file the patent as a Black woman, she sold rights to a white person for $18.

Another female inventor for whom Rich expressed admiration in the book was Sarah Breedlove, a.k.a Madame C. J. Walker, an African American entrepre-neur, philanthropist, and political and

social activist who was the first female self-made millionaire. She built an empire with her line of hair products for Black women and her popularization of the pressing comb.

Rich, who works as a cosmetologist with her mother Hazel Moore, said she could not imagine living her life without hair care products and credited Walker for paving the way for her mother’s suc-cess. “Walker was instrumental in the vision my mother had for her successful salon business,” Rich wrote.

“My mother is a successful business and beauty salon owner who is well known for her professionalism, phi-lanthropy, and dedication to her craft throughout the United States. She is a pioneer in her own right.” In the near fu-ture, Rich hopes to publish a collection of inventors from the 20th century.

Urge to preserve early Black inventors’ stories fuels author’s work

Renasant Convention Center boasts $200 million makeover

A dedication ceremony was held Thursday, Nov. 18 at the Renasant Convention Center at 255 N. Main in Downtown Memphis. (Brad Vest/The West Tennessee News)

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Debra Rich and her book “Black Inventors Who Changed History.” (Courtesy Debra Rich)

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Collierville’s top employees got down and dirty Friday, Nov. 19.

About a dozen department heads participated in the state Department of Transportation’s “No Trash November” contest. The monthlong campaign en-couraged community groups and orga-nizations to clean their roadways ahead of the holidays.

“Sometimes we get so chained to our desks and all the things going on, we don’t get the chance to see things close and personal,” said James Lewellen, town administrator.

“This is a great way to give back to the community in more than one way.” The blue jean-clad crew standing out in their brightly colored vests, gathered rubbish along both sides of Poplar just east of Collierville-Arlington Road. The town’s Special Citizen Volunteer Patrol drove alongside staff so cars zipping by would slow down.

In close to an hour, the group col-lected about 700 pounds of litter with the crisp fall temperatures hovering below 50. In the shaded areas, it felt even cooler.

Along the road, discarded cups, straws, hundreds of cigarette butts, doz-ens of empty beer bottles, and various empty cans cluttered the shoulders. Even some car parts were found near the bor-der of Fayette and Shelby counties.

Dale Lane, chief of police, found part of an office chair alongside the road, and Jay Jeffries, director of human resources, recovered a deer skull.

Adam Hamric, assistant city admin-istrator, found a raccoon-sized mandible and an unopened White Claw seltzer.

“I found it, flipped it over and then looked and the top was still sealed,” he said, passing on popping the top and dropping it in the trash bag instead.

Aldermen John Worley and John Stamps joined the employees. Alder-woman Missy Marshall noted many are traveling not only to Tennessee, but to Collierville for Christmas. “Litter affects tourism,” she noted, adding the clean roadsides will help promote a warm wel-come to visitors. Marshall, Jeffries and John Fox, public utilities manager, and Jennifer Casey, town public information officer, climbed over the ditch on the south side of the road and through thick brush to gather debris. “Today was really symbolic of the type of leaders we have working for the town,” Casey said after the event. “No one is above any job. That makes Collierville a better place.”

Many said they enjoyed the opportu-nity to step outside the office and away from their computers for a different form of work. “I believe you lead by example,” Lane said. “Hopefully, I can inspire some-body to make our community cleaner and safer. It’s all about public safety.”

Town leaders clean, ‘make Collierville a better place’

Collierville alderwoman Missy Marshall helps pick up trash along the road on Friday, Nov. 19. (Patrick Lantrip/The West Tennessee News)

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Doubled hiring time, half the job applicants, companies “desperate” for people, a “dating game” between employees and employers.

This is what hiring looks like in 2021.

The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, 3% of the entire workforce. That follows 4.3 mil-lion Americans quitting their jobs in August.

The acceleration of quit rates is evidence that the “Great Resig-nation” is not losing any steam.

It’s “mysterious,” says William Smith, chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Memphis.

“Usually, people come back after a recession, but now people are sacrificing the loss of income,” Smith said. “People, especially in the service industry, are second-guessing their career choices.”

Indeed, food services, leisure and hospitality and retail saw higher “quits” and, regionally, the South and Midwest had more quits.

“Hotels are desperate to find people,” said the general manager of an East Memphis hotel who requested anonymity because he may not comment publicly. “Our industry is upside down.”

About 75% of people who lost their jobs in April 2020 were in the hospitality industry, said Chuck Pinkowski, owner of Pinkows-ki & Co., a hospitality industry consultant.

The Memphis tourism indus-try has lost about 20% of its em-ployees, said Kevin Kane, presi-dent and CEO of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Memphis International Air-port is facing challenges in fill-ing jobs at restaurants, gift shops and service companies, said Scott Brockman, president and CEO of the Memphis-Shelby County Air-port Authority.

It used to take the airport about two to three months to fill a position, but now the hiring time has doubled to four to six months, Brockman said.

Retail is among the hardest hit with more than a million jobs open nationally, said Ed Egee, vice president of government relations and workforce development at the National Retail Federation.

And Egee expects the situ-ation will worsen in the near term, particularly because of the holiday season. Nationally, retail will need 400,000 to 500,000 addi-tional employees to be prepared,

he said. A big part of the Great Resignation is that people who lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic simply do not want to come back, said economist John Gnuschke, president of 901 Economics.

Analysts cite several factors driving that trend, including em-ployees deciding to avoid jobs with demanding work schedules, greater exposure to COVID-19 or toxic workplace cultures.

The hotel industry is a great example, Pinkowski said.

Many hotel employees who were laid off during the shut-downs decided they no longer wanted to work the odd hours re-quired in the hospitality industry.

“You know, 7 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon, 3 in the af-ternoon to 11 at night or 11 to 7 in the morning are weird hours, and working Thursday to Tuesday is a strange schedule,” Pinkowski said.

“You get laid off from that, then you find a job that’s 8 to 5, Monday through Friday, and you say, ‘Wow, this is really different,’ ” he said. “ ‘I kind of like this. And I get Saturdays and Sundays off so I can spend it with my spouse, or my significant other.’ ”

The Peabody is experiencing that as it struggles to hire hourly workers, like housekeepers, bar-tenders or servers.

“If we did a job fair, five years ago, we might have a line all the way down the block for peo-ple wanting to apply,” said Kelly Brock, the hotel’s director of

marketing and communications.Pinkowski said this has

caused many hotels to only pro-vide housekeeping services when customers check out, even if they stay in the hotel for multiple days.

Employee surveys show that hourly workers want normal work hours, flexibility and control over their schedules more than just better pay, said John Waldmann, CEO and co-founder of Home-base, which manages all systems related to workers that are paid hourly, including payroll, sched-uling and hiring.

Younger generations value work-life balance more, said Julie Terry, private wealth adviser at Guildingpoint Financial Group.

“And I do think that the gen-erations coming behind us don’t want to have to work as hard as we’ve worked,” Terry said. “I think they want more balance.”

Amity Schuyler, senior vice president of workforce develop-ment at Greater Memphis Cham-ber, said workplace culture is also important.

“People have choices, and they can vote with their feet more than ever,” Schuyler said. “They don’t have to stay in a place where they have a conflict with a boss, where the customers aren’t expected to behave in a way that is respectful to the employees, where the culture might be bad, or the benefits might not be family-friendly, as an example.

“So when we’re talking about competitiveness in the hiring

processes, it’s not just going to be about the hourly wage,” she said. “It’s going to be about culture.”

More recently, vaccination mandates have become an issue, especially in retail.

“That’s a huge concern for us,” Egee said. “And we’ve asked the (Biden) administration to delay that mandate until after the holi-day season.

“A nationwide mandate, par-ticularly at the time of workforce challenge, is really going to be taxing us on the workforce short-age side.”

But, of course, companies are increasing pay to lure employees back.

Walmart upped its starting pay from $11 to $12 an hour in September; Amazon increased its hourly pay from $17 in May to $18 in September; Costco’s hourly pay has gone from $14 in 2018 to $17 in October, with two hikes in 2020 alone.

And Egee said that retail com-panies might keep increasing the hourly wages. “I don’t think you have a choice,” he said.

Some retailers are even offer-ing first-day payment programs, helping newcomers who may be short of cash, Egee said.

“It’s great for employees,” Kane said. “It’s bad for employers, and maybe bad for the customers be-cause you’re going to pay more ultimately, somewhere down the road for those services.”

The Peabody is offering signing bonuses and referring

bonuses to staff who help land a new employee.

The airport is investing in re-cruitment by giving contractors money to help hire employees.

But the question on every-body’s mind: when will things re-turn to normal?

“If the pandemic goes away, then I think you’re going to see more of them come back,” Gnuschke said. “But if the pan-demic doesn’t go away, and it continues to be a problem, and that just lingers for multiple years, then I think people will tend to stay away.”

Terry expects people to re-turn to work when they run out of stimulus money.

Jozelle Brooker, president and CEO of the Mid-South Minor-ity Business Council Continuum, predicts stabilization starting in March 2022.

Meanwhile, some analysts say this upheaval in the labor market could be an opportunity for com-panies to downsize.

“The goal there is for the com-panies to make money,” Terry said. “They are not in business to not make a profit.”

But not every industry can cut labor costs easily.

For example, The Peabody must maintain staffing levels.

“We still need to remain a luxury, four-star, four-diamond property,” Brock said. “ And that comes with having a team of peo-ple who can fill our guests’ needs at a high level.”

Hiring remains a challenge as the ‘Great Resignation’ gains momentum

Bellhop Hunter Reid loads a cart with guest luggage while working at the Peabody Hotel on Monday, July 12, 2021. The hotel is offering signing bonuses and referring bonuses to staff who help land a new employee. (Mark Weber/The West Tennessee News)

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Josh Whitehead leaving zoning office to join law firm

TOM BAILEYThe West Tennessee News

Josh Whitehead is leaving public ser-vice Jan. 1 after more than a decade and 1,000 meetings overseeing zoning admin-istration for Memphis and unincorporat-ed Shelby County.

The 46-year-old attorney will join the Burch Porter & Johnson law firm after serving as zoning administrator since 2010.

Brett Ragsdale, deputy zoning ad-ministrator, will be acting administrator starting Jan. 1 if a successor for White-head has not been hired by then.

Whitehead helped write the 2010 Uni-fied Development Code (UDC) that con-tinues to change Memphis streetscapes with more walking-friendly neighbor-hoods, where parking lots are built behind buildings instead of in front of them. “The zoning code that preceded the UDC really

mandated site layouts that impeded ur-banization,” Whitehead said.

The Unified Development Code “tilted Memphis from a historically suburban-built city to more of an urbanized city. You can see that over the last few years, with ‘build up, not out’.”

“There’s a growing population that would prefer it that way, be they young or empty-nesters.”

He also helped modernize and re-structure the zoning and code-enforce-ment process, putting applications and information online and the code enforc-ers side-by-side with zoning staff at City Hall.

And, he’s played a major role in mak-ing the city’s long-range plan, Memphis 3.0, a living document that helps guide de-velopment decisions every month instead of one that gathers dust on a shelf. Nearly every month for 11 years, Whitehead has

been the lead planning staff member for one meeting each of the Land Use Control Board, Board of Adjustment, Landmarks Commission, Technical Review Com-mittee, and two of the City Council, one County Commission meeting and one County Commission committee meeting.

Land Use Control Board chair Mary Sharp has volunteered on a lot of different boards over the past two decades, includ-ing United Housing, Habitat for Human-ity, Memphis Housing Authority, and the Downtown Mobility Authority. Of all the staff leaders she’s worked with, “he’s the best,” Sharp said of Whitehead.

“Mr. Whitehead is the most dedicated, knowledgeable, enthusiastic leader I’ve ever served under,” she said.

“He answers all the questions imme-diately,” she said. “You could email him and within a minute to five minutes he was coming back with an answer. Most people take an hour or two or maybe it’s the next day…

And at the meetings, he always had all the answers.”

Whitehead is also quick at composing the language for conditions during Board of Adjustment meetings, said Timothy “Tim” Rainey, that board’s chairman.

Board members often consider ap-proving a zoning variance or some other request if certain conditions are imposed on the applicant.

The need for the conditions usually arises during meetings, and must be writ-ten cogently at the spur of the moment.

“I always put him on the spot,” said Rainey, a real estate attorney who also was a law school classmate with White-head at the University of Memphis.

“One of the best things I think Josh was able to do for us was crafting the conditions, seemingly off the top of his head,” Rainey said.

During board deliberations, Rainey would sometimes notice Whitehead writ-ing information down as if he were antici-pating the need for conditions.

“He’d synthesize what we were talking about to make sense,” Rainey said.

Whitehead attended Christian Broth-ers University, transferring to the Univer-sity of Memphis to study city planning. He went to the University of Cincinnati for his master’s degree and then worked in Cincinnati a couple of years on regional planning initiatives before returning to Memphis to attend law school.

But instead of taking his bar exam, he worked as planning director for German-town for almost five years. That’s when the late Tom Cates, a Burch Porter partner serving as Germantown’s city attorney, encouraged Whitehead to go ahead and take the bar exam.

“It’s fair to say Tom Cates was a men-tor of mine,” Whitehead said. “He was the reason why I took the bar exam.”

Now Whitehead will become one of nearly 40 attorneys at Burch Porter & Johnson.

Nathan Bicks, managing partner at Burch Porter, said the firm is “excited to have someone of Josh’s caliber joining our firm.

“He’s an acknowledged preeminent authority on land use and zoning law in this part of the world,” Bicks said.

“He’s had experience in multiple plan-ning departments and as an (adjunct) professor at the University of Memphis law school.

“He’s the perfect kind of lawyer for our firm,” Bicks said.

“He’s rooted in Memphis and has a unique set of skills that will benefit our client base, both in the private and pub-lic sector.”

One task that Whitehead will contin-ue to perform involves his hobby: Writing and publishing online the richly detailed blog, Crème de Memph.

His photo-rich reports cover the design and history of Memphis’s built environment.

“I was asked 10 years ago about (the blog), and I said I think I have 10 more years of material,” Whitehead recalled.

“That was 10 years ago, and now I think I still have 10 more years of material.”

Josh Whitehead, zoning administrator for Memphis and Shelby County, will join the Burch Porter & Johnson law firm. (Patrick Lantrip/The West Tennessee News)

Bioventus to invest $9.1 million, create 40 new jobs in Shelby County

ROB MOOREThe West Tennessee News

A global medical device manufacturer plans to invest $9.1 million and create 40 new jobs in Shelby County over the next five years.

Durham, North Carolina-based Bio-ventus plans to expand its existing op-erations in Cordova, according to an an-nouncement issued by Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe.

“Bioventus is a leading medical device manufacturer that we are proud to have in Shelby County,” Lee said in a statement.

“As Greater Memphis continues to estab-lish itself as a global hub for the medical device industry, we welcome these high-quality jobs and continued investment in Cordova.” Bioventus focuses on medical product development around three seg-ments: pain treatments, restorative thera-pies, and surgical solutions.

The company employs more than 1,100 people worldwide through its of-fices in Tennessee, North Carolina, New York, Israel, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Bioventus says the move will allow it to meet its growing customer demands, claiming that it will be able to help more than 500,000 people regain active

lifestyles this year. “In 2022, Bioventus will celebrate its 10th year in the Mem-phis area, and we are pleased to be sup-porting this expansion with new jobs and additional investment in the community as we continue to grow serving clinicians and helping patients return to active lives worldwide,” said Miguel Beltran-Delgado, senior vice president of operations with Bioventus.

Bioventus began operating at 1900 Charles Bryan Road in Cordova in 2012 and its new facility at 7101 Goodlett Farms Parkway is less than a mile away. The new site will encompass 90,000 square feet, dedicating about 55,000

square feet for light manufacturing and operations. The remaining 35,000 square feet will be used for offices and confer-ence rooms.

Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors represented Bioventus in leas-ing the new facility. “Each year, Tennes-see’s medical device manufacturers ex-port more than $4 billion in products, the second-highest amount among states in the U.S.,” Rolfe said.

“This expansion by Bioventus will contribute to one of our state’s strongest sectors, and we appreciate the company for choosing to grow and further invest in West Tennessee.”

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wonderful things of which to be proud.” Some of those “challenges” include

violent crime, with MPD reporting more than 240 murders so far this year.

The ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 18, which was meant to symbolize the Re-nasant Convention Center’s central role in attracting tourists and events, was somewhat overshadowed by news from the previous day, which saw five shooting deaths, including the slaying of beloved Memphis rapper Young Dolph.

Strickland, who was present Thursday, Nov. 18 to tout the renovated convention center, was inundated with questions from the media about gun crime.

He affirmed his office is doing every-thing it can to help make the city safer, including hiring more police officers and pushing for steeper sentencing.

“Crime in Memphis has been a chal-lenge for 50 years,” Strickland said before the ceremony.

“We were making progress in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and then there was the pandemic. Memphis and almost every other big city has seen an increase in gun violence.”

Despite that, president and CEO of Memphis Tourism Kevin Kane said the Bluff City is still ready to rise above its challenges and compete nationally with other convention cities like Las Vegas, with the help of the newly renovated Re-nasant Convention Center.

“Three weeks ago, I was looking at the new Las Vegas convention center expan-sion,” Kane said.

“I was so excited to see what Las Ve-gas had done. I said surely it being Las Vegas, it’s going to have more glitz and more sizzle than what we have here and ... it cannot hold a candle to what we have built here in Memphis.”

Convention centers and the hospital-ity industry in general were among the hardest hit by the pandemic, and while Memphis was no exception, Kane said events and meetings have been gradually returning over the past couple of months, and he expects even more growth in 2022.

In September 2021, AutoZone held its annual national sales meeting at Re-nasant, and last month the Autonomous Mobile Robots & Logistics Conference brought 700 people from across the world to the convention center.

The newly renovated 118,000-square-foot, column-free exhibit hall offers a ver-satile array of options for event planners and event production crews.

Recently, native Memphian and Acad-emy Award-winning actor Morgan Free-man filmed a commercial there for his History Channel series, “Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman.”

The entire commercial was filmed at Renasant, the soundstage serving as the set for an airplane, a hardware store and a diner. “Memphis is a very popular des-tination, and tourism and hospitality is a close to $4 billion industry,” Kane said.

“Obviously conventions, meetings and trade shows are a big part of that mix, and this building is used for so many different things: conventions, meetings, sporting events. There’s all types of activities that take place here.” “It’s a big benefit and a big resource for the businesses and our own community, but it also allows us to bring in people from all over the coun-try,” he said.

studies labor at Detroit’s Wayne State Uni-versity. Ford, he said, is “partnering with somebody who specializes in this area. They can bring the skills and also have the connections with the supply chain to get the raw materials. Lot of advantages with having a joint approach with somebody already established in the industry.” GM’s battery recall will cost $1.8 billion. LG will foot most the expense, but the GM’s image will still take a hit, Shaiken said.

“Ford is not going to make that mis-take,” he said. “Ford is giving every indi-cation, now particularly under CEO Jim Farley, they plan to be one of the leaders of the electric transition globally.

“That means going back to some of Henry Ford’s principles, as far as (manu-facturing) integration,” Shaiken said.

The transmission and electronics are also critical to the pickup trucks, Shaiken said. “They could have research and de-velopment there in electronics,” he said of Blue Oval City. “There’s always an advan-tage to be close to where you are actually making” the vehicle.

Said Masters, “I think (Ford) would want to ensure they have geographically as proximate a relation with their suppli-ers as possible.”

Automakers in the Detroit area, Illi-nois, Ohio and Indiana have OEMs (origi-nal equipment manufacturing) with sup-pliers nearby,” he said. “That creates all kinds of economies of scale.”

Making electric vehicles creates fewer jobs than making ones powered by the internal combustion engine. The drive train of a gas-powered car has about 2,000 moving parts compared to just 20 for an electric car.

If that’s the bad news involving Blue Oval City, the good news promises a high-er and longer lasting upside. Making elec-tric vehicles would seem to future-proof Blue Oval City.

Only 2.2% of new-vehicle sales were fully electric vehicles through June, ac-cording to Edmunds.com. But that’s up from 1.4% compared to the same time last year. And carmakers are in the throes of converting to battery-powered vehicles.

For example, Jim Farley, Ford’s chief executive, projects 40% of Ford’s sales to be fully electric cars by 2030. General Motors has a goal of selling only electric vehicles by 2035. There’s really nothing too chancy about Blue Oval City, Shaiken said. “You can’t force someone to buy an electric vehicle. And they are now a low percentage of the market,” he said.

“But what’s different is, the damage of climate change is wildly out of control now with fires across the West, with flood-ing and extreme weather across the East and South,” Shaiken said. And the United Nations recently reported that 80% of the Earth’s population are being affected by climate change. Corporations like the au-tomakers are committing billions of dol-lars to address climate change, he said. When electric vehicles start to dominate the roadway may be unclear, Shaiken said. “But what we do know is the days of the internal combustion engines are limited, simply because of the broader impact on the environment.”

“… I used to be concerned about this because I didn’t want my grandchildren to experience” the impacts of climate change, Shaiken said. “But it’s not my grandchildren now. It’s me and my wife.”

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Foreclosure NoticesFayette County

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALESale at public auction will be on

December 14, 2021 at 2:00PM lo-cal time, at the south door, Fayette County Courthouse, 16755 Highway 64, Somerville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Stephanie Blayde, to Wesley D. Turner, Trustee, as trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Company on July 26, 2004 at Book D743, Page 256; 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: Deutsche Bank National Trust Com-pany, as Trustee, in trust for registered Holders of Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-4, Asset-Backed Certifi-cates, Series 2004-4, 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: 55 Penny Lane, Oakland, Tennessee 38060Parcel Number: 087J B 041.00Current Owner(s) of Property: Stepha-nie Blayde

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, though, or under any of the foregoing. Such parties known to the Substitute Trustee may include: Long Beach Mortgage Company; U.S. Bank as Trustee; U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for certificate holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities Trust 2005-2, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-2.

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 Stephanie Blayde, 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 400Charlotte, NC 28216

Phone (704) 333-8107Fax (704) 333-8156

www.auction.com File No. 14-059517

Nov. 19, 26, Dec. 3, 2021 Fqn14810

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated February 16, 2018, executed by KYLE WALLACE, conveying certain real property therein described to MONTE S. CONNELL JR, as Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Fayette County, Tennessee recorded February 26, 2018, at Instru-ment Number 18001038; and WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION who is now the owner of said debt; andWHEREAS, the undersigned,Rubin Lub-lin TN, PLLC, having been appointed as Substitute Trustee by instrument to be filed for record in the Register’s Office of Fayette County, Tennessee. NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable, and that the undersigned, Rubin Lublin TN, PLLC, as Substitute Trustee or his duly appointed agent, by virtue of the power, duty and authority vested and imposed upon said Substitute Trustee will, on January 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM at the Fayette County Courthouse, 16755 Hwy 64, Somerville, TN 38068, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash or certified funds ONLY, the following described property situated in Fayette County, Tennessee, to wit:LAND SITUATED IN FAYETTE COUNTY, TENNESSEE:BEGINNING AT A NEW IRON ROD IN THE WEST LINE OF LAGRANGE ROAD (60` WIDE), SAID POINT BEING 1243` +/- NORTH OF ASBURY DRIVE;THENCE N 86° 28` 33” W WITH A NEW SEVERANCE LINE OF THE OAKLAND KICK AND JAMES STEVENS PARCEL (INSTR. 06009301) ADISTANCE OF 798.91` TO A NEW IRON ROD; THENCE N 2° 24` 53” E COINCIDENT WITH THE EAST LINE OF LARRY PARKS (424/112) ADISTANCE OF 212.36` TO AN OLD T-POST; THENCE S 86° 06` 54” E COINCIDENT WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF LARRY PARKS (721/720) ADISTANCE OF 756.37` TO A POINT 0.67` SOUTH OF AN OLD POST; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LAGRANGE ROAD WITH THE FOLLOWINGTHREE COURSES: (1) S 9° 31` 29” E A DISTANCE OF 95.00`; (2) S 9° 01` 29” E A DISTANCE OF 100.00`; (3) S 5° 51` 29” E A DISTANCE OF 17.65` TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 3.75 ACRES, AS PER SURVEY OF BENCHMARK SURVEYING COMPANY,JACK A. MCADOO, SURVEYOR, R.L.S.

NUMBER 1701, DATED OCTOBER 19, 2006. SURVEY IS OF RECORD AT INSTRUMENT NO.06009673.Parcel ID: 116-001.17PROPERTY ADDRESS: The street ad-dress of the property is believed to be 3600 LAGRANGE ROAD, SOMER-VILLE, TN 38068. In the event of any discrepancy between this street address and the legal description of the property, the legal description shall control. CURRENT OWNER(S): KYLE WALLACEOTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: The sale of the above-described property shall be subject to all mat-ters shown on any recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. This property is being sold with the express reserva-tion that it is subject to confirmation by the lender or Substitute Trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time. 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. All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The Property is sold as is, where is, without representations or warranties of any kind, including fitness for a particular use or purpose.THIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.Rubin Lublin TN, PLLC, Substitute Trustee119 S. Main Street, Suite 500Memphis, TN 38103rlselaw.com/property-listingTel: (877) 813-0992Fax: (470) 508-9401Nov. 19, 26, Dec. 3, 2021 Fqn14812

Foreclosure NoticesTipton County

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALESale at public auction will be on

December 15, 2021 at 10:00AM local time, at the north door, Tipton County Courthouse, 100 Court Square, Cov-ington, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Rogers Terry, A Single Person, to Arnold M. Weiss, Esq., Trustee, as trustee for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. on December 13, 2006 at Record Book 1317, Page 636, Instru-ment No. 97866; conducted by LOGS Legal Group LLP, having been appointed Substitute or Successor Trustee, all of record in the Tipton 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: Deutsche Bank National Trust Com-pany, as Trustee for BCAPB Trust LLC 2007-AB1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AB1, its successors and assigns.

The real estate located in Tipton 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: 62 Harmony Dr West,

Mason, Tennessee 38049Parcel Number: 138B A 014.00Current Owner(s) of Property: The Heirs of Rogers Terry

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, though, or under any of the foregoing. Such parties known to the Substitute Trustee may include: All parties claiming by, though, or under Rogers Terry.

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 Rogers Terry, A Single Person, 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 400Charlotte, NC 28216

Phone (704) 333-8107Fax (704) 333-8156File No. 17-113234

Nov. 19, 26, Dec. 3, 2021 Fqn14809

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALEWHEREAS, default has occurred

in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of

Trust Note dated August 25, 2014, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded September 9, 2014, in Book No. 1633, at Page 1097, in Office of the Register of Deeds for Tipton County, Tennessee, executed by Gene Campbell, conveying certain property therein described to Charles M Ennis as Trustee for Mort-gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Patriot Bank, its successors and as-signs; and the undersigned, Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., having been appointed Successor Trustee by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable; and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by virtue of the power, duty, and author-ity vested in and imposed upon said Successor Trustee, by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., will, on January 5, 2022 on or about 10:00 AM, at the Tipton County Courthouse, Covington, Ten-nessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder FOR certified funds paid at the conclusion of the sale, or credit bid from a bank or other lending entity pre-approved by the successor trustee. The sale is free from all exemptions, which are expressly waived in the Deed of Trust, said property being real estate situated in Tipton County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows:

Lot 2, Anthony Hayes Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 2, Page 50, in the Register’s Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the center line of Joe Joyner Road (Formerly Campground Road) said point be-ing in the northeast corner of Lot 3; thence south 81 degrees, 50 minutes, 45 seconds east along the centerline of Joe Joyner Road, 78.20 feet to a point; thence south 70 degrees, 59 minutes, 30 seconds east along the center line of Joe Joyner Road, 41.35 feet to a point in the northwest corner of Lot 1; thence south 02 degrees, 54 minutes, 36 seconds east along the west line of Lot 1, 494.29 feet to a point; thence south 85 degrees, 33 minutes, 37 seconds west, 115.15 feet to a point in the southeast cor-ner of Lot 3; thence north 02 degree, 54 minutes, 36 seconds west along the east line of Lot 3, 527.81 feet to the point of beginning.ALSO KNOWN AS: 1243 Joe Joyner Road, Munford, TN 38058-9651

This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive cov-enants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any govern-mental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an ac-curate survey of the premises might disclose. In addition, the following parties may claim an interest in the above- referenced property:GENE CAMPBELL

The sale held pursuant to this No-tice may be rescinded at the Successor Trustee’s option at any time. 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. In the event of inclement weather, the trustee hereby announces that the sale will be postponed for a period of two weeks. In such situations, notices will be mailed to interested parties of record. W&A No. 350472

DATED November 16, 2021WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,

Successor TrusteeNov. 19, 26, Dec. 3, 2021 Fqn14811

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