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Memphis Business Group Sells Memphis in NYC
Memphis chamber courts New Yorkers at Griz game
When the Memphis Grizzlies take to the court tonight in New York, a special contingent will be on hand touting Memphis.
The Greater Memphis Chamber has rented a double suite in Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, to wine and dine New York business executives.
The contingent, led by chamber chief executive officer Phil Trenary, reflects a chamber initiative to recruit office jobs to the Memphis area.
About 65 people are expected to be in the suite for the game including a large group of commercial real estate brokers and site relocation executives based in the New York area, chamber spokeswoman Christina Meek said.
Scheduled to join Trenary at the game are a group of Memphians that include real estate executives Kevin Adams, chief executive of CBRE Memphis; Darrell Cobbins, chief executive of Universal Commercial; Larry Jensen, chief executive of Cushman & Wakefield / Commercial Advisors; and Brad Murchison, vice president of Colliers International.
Last year, the chamber hosted a similar meeting in Los Angeles at a Grizzlies game.
“We’re going to be out recruiting in those high-cost markets,’’ Mark Herbison, the chamber’s senior vice president of economic development, said in a recent interview. “We’re doing a lot more external recruiting around the country.”
The chamber has pointed out land costs, office leases, utility rates and wages and salaries are significantly lower in the Memphis area, which attracted the Connecticut headquarters of International Paper Co. in 2006.
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