Restaurant group buys Murfreesboro TGI Fridays

Daily News Journal: NEW ORLEANS – Southeast Restaurant Group, which currently operates TGI Fridays restaurants in Alabama and Louisiana, announced last week the purchase of an additional 20 Fridays restaurants, including the Murfreesboro location. The purchase of these restaurants expands SRG’s existing relationship with TGI Fridays by adding locations in Memphis, Jackson, Murfreesboro and Nashville; Southaven, […]

Developers Breathe Life Back into New Orleans’ Canal Street

Downtown Upturn: Not long ago, New Orleans’ historic Canal Street looked like a graveyard for dead department stores. Newer suburban malls had rendered the city’s main shopping thoroughfare obsolete, and grand buildings that once housed D.H. Holmes, Krauss, Maison Blanche and Woolworth’s sat empty as an array of mom-and-pop tourist shops mushroomed around them. […]

Good News in New Orleans

Preservation Nation: A New Orleans department store, opened in 1903 but vacant for the past 11 years, has become the first luxury condominium project to open in the city since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. The historic four-story Krauss Building, reborn as 1201 Canal Condominiums, now contains 122 apartments above ground-floor retail space. Developer KFK Group also built a […]