Public Records & Notices Monitoring local real estate since 1968 View a complete day’s public records Subscribe Presented by and notices today for our at memphisdailynews.com. free report www.chandlerreports.com Tuesday, May 25, 2021 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 136 | No. 62 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ Collierville, Bartlett students take top honors in airport art contest ABIGAIL WARREN May 19. Students from schools Meredith Dai, a Collierville painting.” Her artwork depicted the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Courtesy of The Daily Memphian across Shelby County showed off High sophomore, took home first a live concert at Levitt Shell in said during the event. “It was Winners for Memphis Interna- their interpretations of Memphis place for her painting titled “A Overton Park, but highlighted a original. The skill was so strong, tional Airport’s 14th annual High culture. Levitt Picnic.” family enjoying a picnic as many and it felt like I was sitting on the School Visual Arts and Photogra- While 51 pieces will hang in “I love music and I love food enjoy the show. picnic blanket with this family at phy Competition were announced the airport for a year, six received and the community and the cul- “I fell out when I saw that the show.” during a virtual program hosted special recognition and the artists ture of Memphis as a whole,” she piece,” judge Karen Strachan, by cityCURRENT on Wednesday, awarded cash prizes. said. “I tried to fit it all in one youth program coordinator of ART CONTINUED ON P2 commercial artery that runs through or near the economically distressed neighborhoods of Nutbush, Vehicle repair shop isn’t budging Douglass and the Heights. Many years ago, Kroger, Woolco and NBC Bank branch (now SunTrust) were among the businesses that left the Gateway shopping center a mile to from Jackson Ave. home the west. The massive Schering-Plough, now gone. The robust but toxic Velsicol chemical plant, long closed. The Marine Corps Reserve Training facil- ity, now vacant. The Buckeye Technologies plant, now a fraction of its former operation and under different ownership. Next door to Jackson Tire & Alignment, Kentucky Fried Chicken and the KFC franchise headquarters left the building that’s now a used-car dealership. Directly across Jackson, what is now an income tax prep service was a religious bookstore when Curtis arrived in 1971. Also across the street and a half-block toward Memphis National Cemetery was Land’s Big Star grocery. On the other side of the via- duct, the little drugstore Curtis remembers is long gone. The old, mostly vacant strip shopping center a block east of Jackson Tire & Alignment, Curtis recalled, housed an unpainted-furniture store, bar, small-appliance shop and a heating and air-con- ditioning business in 1971 when Curtis started his business.A block west of his shop, Jackson Avenue United Methodist Church stands vacant. “The reason I stayed: We were still making a liv- ing,” Curtis said. “Not a great living. We were paying the bills, feeding our families. “After a while you just feel a little loyalty to the customers and the neighborhood that you are in,” said Curtis. “We just felt like that was the thing to do.” The repair shop also adapted to change, be- coming more creative and digitally savvy with its marketing. The business even tweaked the type of service it provides. “Went from basically tire service Jackson Tire & Alignment technician John Speer changes tires Thursday, May 20, 2021 on Jackson Ave. and sales to an automotive service,” Curtis said. “We (Mark Weber/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) catered to small business accounts that had small fleets of vehicles, started taking care of them.” TOM BAILEY mechanical Paymaster check-writing shop with five service bays and a devot- Some of those accounts are not so small. For Courtesy of The Daily Memphian machine. ed customer base has stayed put over a example, Jackson Tire & Alignment services much The 1960s drink machine in Jackson And the vehicle-repair shop at 3506 half-century of immense change along of the fleet driven by St. Jude Children’s Research Tire & Alignment’s lobby still dispens- Jackson Ave. is still going strong, 50 years the Jackson Avenue Corridor. Hospital. es cold cans of Coca-Cola for 50 cents. after owner Jim Curtis took over in 1971. Most of the neighboring business- The office in back continues using a What’s equally remarkable is that the es have closed or moved away from a VEHICLE CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Public Records ���������������� 4 Public Notices ��������������� 15 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Marriage licenses are unavailable ©2020 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company while Shelby County Clerk’s Office Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 135th year information since 1968 reviews internal policies for its digital Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information platforms� Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Airport lowers rental charges, landing fees BLAKE FONTENAY compared to the current fiscal Courtesy of The Daily Memphian year’s rate of $1.2993. While there have been signs of The airport’s new fiscal year improvement in recent months, will begin July 1. Memphis International Airport “We make every effort to keep has endured its share of COVID- our rates and charges predict- 19-related challenges. able and relatively flat,” said Scott Yet as passenger counts climb Brockman, the airport authority’s and airlines resume flights, the president and chief executive of- cost of operating a business at the ficer. “Barring extenuating cir- airport will decrease in the next cumstances (pandemic, de-hub, fiscal year. etc.) and growing operations and Recently, the Memphis-Shelby flights, rates stay relatively flat or County Airport Authority ap- go down. That is the goal.” proved a new budget for its 2022 Airport officials said terminal fiscal year that includes reduc- rent and landing fees comprise a tions in both the landing fees small percentage of the airlines’ charged to airlines and the rental overall operating costs at airports costs charged to restaurants, and do not have a significant ef- shops, and other businesses that fect on airfares. For the upcom- operate on airport property. ing fiscal year, airport officials Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority’s budget for its 2022 fiscal year includes reductions in both the The $128.4 million budget, ap- are projecting operating revenues landing fees charged to airlines and the rental costs charged to businesses that operate on airport property. proved by authority members by a will increase more than 6 percent (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) unanimous voice vote, decreases compared to this fiscal year. This terminal rates and charges to projected increase in revenue is with $8 million of remaining commercial passenger traffic dur- ongoing recovery,” said Pace $69.99 per square foot, compared due to the initial recovery of air federal COVID-19 Economic Re- ing the pandemic. However, those Cooper, chairman of the MSCAA to $77.01 per square foot in the service from the effects of the lief (CARES) funds, $14.4 million losses were offset to some degree board. “MSCAA is financially current fiscal year. COVID-19 pandemic, which had in new federal Coronavirus Re- by an increase in cargo traffic, sound and is keeping costs as low Airline terminal rental fees are significantly reduced air travel, sponse and Relief Supplemental thanks largely to FedEx Corp., as possible for our airlines and calculated by dividing the termi- parking, and other passenger rev- Appropriation Act (CRRSAA) which operates its main sorting tenants, who are also dealing with nal’s net operating cost by the to- enue at the airport. funding and $4 million in surplus hub at the airport. the financial effects of COVID-19. tal rented space. The current fiscal year’s bud- funds that will carry over from the “The MSCAA staff has worked While it will take time, MEM Landing fees charged to the get included $120.7 million in prior budget. tirelessly to overcome the bud- (Memphis International) is well airlines will decrease to $1.2723 spending. The increase in total Like other airports, Memphis getary challenges of this historic positioned to be a leader in the per 1,000 pounds of landed weight, revenue will be supplemented International took a big hit in pandemic, and the subsequent aviation industry’s recovery.” ART CONTINUED FROM P1 were also honored. Andrew Cunningham, a Hannah Thomas, a Germantown High junior from Bartlett High, won first place. School junior, won second place for her “Stars over Memphis,” a black-and-white “Through Her Eyes,” which depicts a girl photo, depicts the Hernando DeSoto bridge seeing Beale Street for the first time. lit up over the Mississippi River with the sky “When I think of the beauty of Memphis, illuminated by stars. I think of Beale Street,” she said. Second place went to City University “... I wanted to show it from an outsider’s School of Liberal Arts’ Aria Battle, who perspective and showing someone who is graduated as valedictorian of her class ear- experiencing it for the first time. So in my lier this month. art piece, in her eyes you can see the light Her photo showed a view from Bass Pro in her eyes and see her experience.” Vibha Shops at the Pyramid off Interstate 40 and Duraikkannan, another Collierville High landmark buildings of Downtown. White- sophomore, won third place for “Colors of haven High School’s Emeri Thurman, a se- Memphis” which shows the Egyptian en- nior, was awarded third place for her “The trance to the Memphis Zoo.