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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 11, 2021 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 136 | No. 56 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ Supply chain issues shackle consumers BLAKE FONTENAY scarce supply. The Great Char- This problem is affecting cars might have not be able to of being in this business,” said Courtesy of The Daily Memphian min Famine of 2020 never fully consumers in a number of dif- find their preferred models on Satish Jindel, president of SJ Con- During the early days of the materialized. ferent ways: showroom floors. Buyers of new sulting Group Inc., a Pennsylva- COVID-19 pandemic, people However, for months the pan- People buying refrigerators homes might experience sticker nia-based company that provides flocked to grocery stores to stock demic and other factors have or other large household appli- shock over the high cost of lum- information services for the ship- up on toilet paper, hand sani- disrupted the supply chains busi- ances might have to wait months ber and other building materials. ping industry. tizer and other household items nesses use to get their products instead of weeks for delivery or- “It is the most out-of-balance they suspected might soon be in into market. ders. Those shopping for new situation I’ve seen in 30 years SUPPLY CONTINUED ON P2 work from her vision board, selected the works of 15 Memphis artists, and created some of the art herself. The Memphian surrounds its “It was a real struggle,” she said of gaining accep- tance from interior design firms. “Because people don’t believe that by adding that many layers, that many colors, that you get a different energy. And it feels very welcoming and homey. ‘pilgrims’ with color and art “It’s eclectic,” she said. “But people are really uncomfortable doing it. I felt like that was what the space needed more than anything because Midtown is so layered and so eclectic. It’s not just Bohemian or off-beat or theater. It’s all of those things. But there’s an elevated nature to it.” After firing a Dallas firm, the Loebs hired one from Nashville. “We asked ‘Will you listen? Will you follow instructions?’” Bob recalled. “And they did the exact same thing. “They want to do stuff from the last couple of quarters of the trade journal because they want their stuff to be photographed,” he said. The 106-room, seven-story boutique hotel opened last week on the Square at 21 S. Cooper. The building’s stately, vanilla exterior sets up the surprise: An explosion of bright colors, shapes and materials greeting visitors the moment they step into the lobby. An evening’s stay is more like a night at the museum. Only, the feel of this museum is hardly institutional. “She is an artist and wants to elevate Midtown with Memphis artists,” Bob said of Mary. The lobby is a sensory experience of vibrant hues. At every turn is neon or jewel tones or a pastel pal- let or animal prints or earth tones or flat finishes or high-gloss finishes. Mary declined to label the look she created. “It’s not something that is one thing,” she said. “I think it’s something you just have to experience.” Art calling back to the early days of Overton Square hangs in the lobby of The Memphian Hotel. (Patrick Lantrip/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Guests tread on a lobby floor with sections of zebra-inspired tile. Above them hangs the feature chandelier, a work TOM BAILEY public art — murals, sculpture and more often whimsical artwork.But this time from the Netherlands that comprises eight or nine Courtesy of The Daily Memphian — in seemingly every nook and cranny the setting is inside The Memphian, the concentric circles of colorful fishing bobbers. It’s one A decade ago, after Loeb Properties of the entertainment district. Loebs’ first hotel. of the hotel’s few pieces not Memphis-made, but the bought and renovated Overton Square, Artist Mary Seay Loeb, Bob’s wife, Mary created the ideas for the in- art relates to the river. brothers Bob and Louis Loeb commis- has now turbocharged the family’s bent terior look and feel, dismissed some sioned and installed colorful and lively for enlivening space with luminous, out-of-town design firms reluctant to MEMPHIAN CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Public Records ���������������� 4 Public Notices ��������������� 16 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 11, 2021 Family’s printing shop in Pinch District turns 100 TOM BAILEY 349-351 N. Main in the Pinch Dis- 5, she was busy at her computer considered closing the business Company will likely fade away in Courtesy of The Daily Memphian trict, according to Davis family organizing a 92-page booklet for and retiring. August 2024 at age 103. Richard S. “Steve” Davis went records. All three of C.A. Davis’s the New York investment com- But then Konica Minolta, mo- Despite challenges to such to work at C.A. Davis Printing sons worked for the business, pany. Meanwhile, Davis stood in tivated to generate more busi- printing shops from internet- Company Thursday, May 6, 2021, including Steve’s dad, Richard. the main shop room preparing ness during the middle of the based businesses, revenue had probably to attack the usual The business employed as a 104-page booklet for the same pandemic, offered Davis “a sweet actually been the strongest ever chores of making business cards many as 30 people in the early firm, which is perhaps the shop’s deal that I couldn’t refuse, to get in 2019, just before the pandemic or printing materials for a New years. The payroll had shrunk biggest customer. a new machine,” he said. slow-down struck, Davis said. He York-based hedge fund. to 13 by the time Steve started Davis typed information into “I’m paying half of what I’d anticipates business rebuilding. Otherwise, this is no worka- working for his dad in 1971 after a Konica Minolta digital press been paying for five years,” Da- But there are no more family day date. It marked the 100th graduating from Central High that stretches 15 feet long. vis said. members who will take over. anniversary of the company’s and attending Memphis State, That machine played a piv- And the new, four-year lease His son Jeremy Davis is a lo- founding by his grandfather. the University of Tennessee at otal role in keeping C.A. Davis for the machine created the ex- cal attorney who was “too smart Ink is in Davis’s DNA. One Martin and Nashville’s Printing Printing operating for perhaps tra benefit of forming a logical to be in the printing business,” family photo shows an 18-month- Industries Technical Institute. the next 3.5 years. timetable for Davis’s eventual re- Steve said. “I tried to get him to old Steve Davis at the desk of his Steve and his wife, Kathy, The shop leases such a huge tirement. That will happen at the work one summer,” he recalled. grandfather, Charles Arthur Da- bought the print shop from the machine, and last August the end of the digital printer’s lease, “He constantly would look at vis. C.A. Davis founded the com- rest of the family in 1986. Today, lease term ended for the previous in August 2024. his hands. Every time he touched pany by buying on May 6, 1921, a the only employees are Steve and digital printer. Which means that unless his something he would look to see small printing plant and setting office manager Lisa Smith, who’s “My choices were to buy it health weakens or someone like if something was on his finger. it up at 253 Madison. worked for Davis Printing for 32 or turn it back in and retire, Pinch District developer Tom “If you are in the print shop His business would migrate years. “I’ve learned a lot,” said or buy a new, more up-to-date Intrator makes him an offer for and if you don’t get dirty fingers to 161 Court, then to 233-235 Smith, herself a child of a print digital press,” he said. Davis was his building that Davis cannot or hands, you haven’t done any- Court, and finally, in 1945, to shop owner. On Wednesday, May over 70 years old, so he seriously refuse, the C.A. Davis Printing thing,” Davis said. SUPPLY CONTINUED FROM P1 pick up wood from sawmills in the region. Simply put, what is out of balance is the “The biggest issue our industry has been relationship between supply and demand, having is with trucking,” Whittington one of the most basic concepts taught in said. “It’s a backlog of not just lumber, but introductory economics classes. all building materials.” Woodson Duna- Demand for products is high, particu- vant, senior vice president of enterprise larly as the economy recovers from the ef- business development and marketing for fects of the pandemic. And supply, for a va- Dunavant Logistics, said many truck driv- riety of reasons, is struggling to keep pace.