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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Once you turn onto West Tuscumbia Cove in Collierville you can hear Christmas music and see all the lights.

Some people told Action News Five Friday night was their first time going to see the lights. Others said taking a trip to see the lights is now a Christmas tradition.

Dozens of families drove nearby.

“We come every Christmas, and we love it,” said Kristi Collins, who said she has gone to see the lights for 6 years.

And others drove a little further.

“We came from Holly Springs, Mississippi,” said Zelma Allen.

Actavatis and Zelma Allen brought their grandkids to see the thousands of Christmas lights at homes on Tuscumbia Cove or the “Holiday Cove” as some have nicknamed it.

From Santa Claus to penguins and anything in the middle families can see it glowing from the top of the street.

“As soon as we hit the curb, we saw all the beautiful lights. We couldn’t hardly hear anything because our grandkids were yelling and screaming,” she said.

Some walked around and others drove by, but they all agreed the sparkling lights put them in the holiday spirit as Christmas approaches.

“But this brings it all to fruition. It’s just wonderful, it’s wonderful to see the families together. And see the children get excited,” said Collins.

One of the homes’ displays even had a special guest, the Grinch.

“I sat right by him, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to sit by the Grinch.

Some were excited to see the Grinch.

“I like the Grinch and I love the Grinch,” said one child.

But there were also some mixed feelings about the person in green.

“The Grinch is very mean... He took my presents,” said another child.

The light display is free to the public, but there is a donation box near the homes where people who stop by can donate. The proceeds will go towards the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. , Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, LLC ("Aphorio Carter"), the critical infrastructure and data center division of Carter Funds, announced today that it has acquired a fully leased enterprise data center property in Collierville, Tennessee, for approximately $13 Million.

The property is a corporate data processing facility situated on the 118-acre FedEx World Technology Center Campus in a suburb of the Memphis metropolitan area. Spanning 4.62 acres, the facility boasts over 86,000 square feet of space, including 41,000 square-foot raised floor area.

Built in 2001, the data center is 100% net leased to a globally recognized logistics powerhouse company.

"We are enthusiastic to incorporate this property into our portfolio, offering strategic opportunities as nationwide demand for data centers continues to grow. In the first half of 2023, CBRE reported that vacancy rates for North American data centers stayed exceptionally low, hovering around a historic record of 3.3%. AI technology and the digital landscape supported by data centers continues to evolve at a remarkable pace," said John Regan, chief investment officer of Aphorio Carter.

This acquisition marks Aphorio Carter's fifth critical infrastructure real estate investment within the last 16 months, aligning with the company's strategy to acquire mission-critical, technology-related real estate.

About Aphorio Carter

Aphorio Carter is a Carter Funds company investing in high-quality income-producing mission-critical infrastructure, data centers, switch sites, and high-growth technology-related real estate. Led by an experienced team that has acquired more than 125 data centers across the world, Aphorio Carter specializes in sourcing and managing accretive digital infrastructure real estate and implements systematic support services aimed at adding long-term value on behalf of the investment funds the company manages. Together, the principals of Aphorio Carter have a century of real estate and transaction experience in the digital infrastructure space totaling an excess of $5.3 billion in value. Aphorio Carter targets acquisitions that are net-leased to creditworthy tenants and include wholesale, enterprise, colocation, edge, switch, and cloud data center properties – the critical real estate that powers the digital age.

Media Contact:Stacy SheedyVice President, Marketing, Carter Funds[email protected]813-358-5982

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A local pizza franchisee has opened its second Memphis-area location with plans to increase its local presence within a notable mixed-use development in DeSoto County.

Rotolo’s Craft & Crust welcomed patrons on Monday at its new Collierville pizzeria at 1337 W. Poplar Ave.

Blaire Bobo, who is the co-owner of Rotolo’s along with her husband, Taylor, said the restaurant held a soft opening Saturday for invitation only. Bobo noted her brother-in-law, Riley Bobo, is the general manager of the Collierville Rotolo’s. The restaurant is expected to staff 30 to 40 employees.

Rotolo’s occupies a 3,800-square-foot space in Suite 101 at the Water Tower District in Schilling Farms next door to the new SOB.

“There is a lot of growth happening in Collierville, and it’s a great family community,” Blaire Bobo said. “We really thought it was a need for a Rotolo’s, for our concept here.”

Bobo said the dining room inside the Collierville Rotolo’s seats up to 118 people, while the courtyard area offers outside seating for 50. She said the Rotolo’s East Memphis, which opened in May 2022, seats 182, indoor and outdoor combined.

Bobo said from finding a space, signing the lease, being under contract and doing the buildout that it took about a year for the Collierville Rotolo’s to be completed.

Those familiar with Rotolo’s will continue to see many of the items on the menu that the pizzeria is known to serve at 681 S. White Station Road in the White Oak Shopping Center.

The restaurant features a variety of pizzas, including deep dish, Chicago cracker thin crust, original crust and specialty pizzas. Other choices on the menu include burgers, salads and a variety of appetizers. Rotolo’s will be open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

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In addition to Rotolo’s opening its second Tennessee location, the Bobos also have plans to increase its Memphis-area presence with a Southaven location in the works going in at the $200 million, 228-acre Silo Square development. Bobo said that Rotolo’s location is slated to open in the late summer 2024.

“There’s a lot of growth there (Silo Square), and a lot of things in the works,” Bobo said. “My husband really kind of had his radar in that area.”

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Rotolo's locations in Louisiana

Bobo said in addition to the restaurants in East Memphis and Collierville that they are also the franchisee owners of a couple Louisiana Rotolo’s in Ruston and Alexandria.

The Rotolo’s franchise was started in 1996 in Baton Rouge near the campus of LSU.

Corey Davis is the Collierville and Germantown reporter with The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at [email protected] or 901-293-1610

Chick-fil-A is looking to build a bigger location that would replace its existing restaurant in Collierville.

The Collierville Planning Commission recently received the latest plans from Chick-fil-A to bring a new store to the area. A request for approval of the preliminary site plan will go in front of the planning commission on Dec. 7.

The proposed Chick-fil-A restaurant — located in the Cartwright Place Business Center — will be almost double the size of the current Collierville location at 1036 W. Poplar Ave.

Planning commission officials said the proposed Chick-fil-A is expected to be 6,110 square feet, while the present restaurant is 3,950 square feet. It was built in 2000.

“They (owners of Collierville Chick-fil-A) had told us all along that they wanted to replace the existing store on (West) Poplar Avenue,” Town Planner Jaime Groce said. "It’s older and has been there for a couple decades. It doesn’t meet their needs.”

The new proposed Chick-fil-A will sit on 2.54 acres located north of Poplar Avenue, west of Bray Station Road and east of Cartwright Farm Lane. Donquetta Singleton, assistant town planner, said the dining area of the restaurant is expected to have indoor seating for 100 and seating for at least 48 on the outdoor patio. The current Chick-fil-A has no outdoor seating and little indoor seating.

The new restaurant is slated to have 72 parking spaces. Groce indicated the preliminary site plan also shows 16 future spaces, which could only be built if the town changes its maximum parking limit regulations for restaurants of this size.

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If the planning commission approves Chick-fil-A's preliminary site plan on Dec. 7, it will move on to the Design Review Commission (DRC) agenda for a recommendation on Dec. 14.

The preliminary site plan is tentatively on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen’s meeting agenda on Jan. 8 for a final decision. If the board approves the preliminary site plan, Chick-fil-A would still need to apply for a final site plan and building permit before it could construct the new restaurant, according to planning commission officials.

What happened to plans for second Chick-fil-A in Collierville?

Chick-fil-A has discussed in the past adding another location in Collierville at Wolf River Boulevard and Houston Levee Road.

In June 2022, the Atlanta-based restaurant filed parking variance cases for each of the new locations to increase parking spaces. The Houston Levee Road project was permitted 55 parking spots, but Chick-fil-A asked for 81. Initially, the Bray Station Road development, which is now slated to have 72 parking spaces, was allowed 53 spots. However, the applicant first requested 60.

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Soon after, both applications were pulled by the applicants before the board of zoning appeals could vote on them.

“They ended up backing off that (Houston Levee Road) site plan right now,” Groce said.

Corey Davis is the Collierville and Germantown reporter with The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at [email protected] or 901-293-1610.

Chick-fil-A had big plans to build a large-scale modern restaurant with an indoor playground and dual-drive-thru lanes in a small Tennessee town.

But the fast-food juggernaut underestimated the tenacity of locals, who rallied against the proposed "mega" Chick-fil-A in Collierville, whose population is just over 50,000.

On Monday night, the Collierville Board of Mayor and Alderman denied Chick-fil-A's plan to build a 6,110-square-foot restaurant in the city. The proposed restaurant, a relocation of an existing smaller Chick-fil-A, was billed by the company as the "latest greatest prototype Chick-fil-A has" in its system.

However, residents who live near the site organized to fight Chick-fil-A. They said they loved the chain's fried chicken but didn't like the long, snaking drive-thru lines accompanying it.

They said a new "mega" Chick-fil-A would result in more cars clogging local roads. They presented the city with their own traffic analysis to show how the larger Chick-fil-A would negatively impact the community.

City leaders agreed. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen rejected the Chick-fil-A relocation project in a 5-1 vote.

"The overall sentiment from the board was that it was not the right location because of traffic concerns primarily related to Bray Station — a two-lane road that would provide access to the restaurant," city spokesperson Jennifer Casey told Business Insider.

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The new Chick-fil-A restaurant had been in the works for months. The chain said it needed the larger restaurant to meet consumer demand for its food.

The new restaurant would have included a 300-square-foot playground, an employee meeting room, a bigger dining room, double drive-thru lanes with the capacity to handle 43 cars, and expanded outdoor dining.

But residents said the chain was simply "shifting" its traffic-causing lines from one neighborhood to another and possibly increasing it by building a larger store.

Resident Raymond Descheneaux told Business Insider that he was happy that city leaders took the time to listen to their concerns.

"They took the time to weigh all the facts, separating promises, good intentions and well wishes with reality," he said.

Chick-fil-A did not return a request for comment.

The city's town planner, Jaime Groce, said Chick-fil-A is a "great corporate citizen, and we hope they will continue to invest in our community."

Groce said the chain's next step is to submit a new plan for a Chick-fil-A location that "fully complies with all town regulations."

The new plan would have to go through various public planning processes before it is approved, Groce said.

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