Growth Engine: EDGE approves AutoZone PILOT for 'digital expansion project'

AutoZone banked on Downtown years before it was an attractive office market. Today, EDGE banked on AutoZone. The Memphis-based auto parts retailer plans to invest $145 million Downtown as part of a digital expansion project that would add 130 jobs. To help support that growth, AutoZone went before the Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) for Memphis & Shelby County Wednesday, June 19, to ask for a 15-year Jobs PILOT (payment-in-lieu-of-taxes). "The role of technology in the retail space...