TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 5, 2019

Davidson County Chancellor Anne Martin yesterday dismissed a petition that would bar Loews Hotels from receiving public incentives for its planned convention center hotel in Memphis, the Daily Memphian reports. The petition was brought by the owners of the Sheraton Downtown Memphis Hotel, who claimed such incentives would give unfair advantage to a competitor. The Sheraton originally filed a separate suite in Shelby County, challenging the legality of actions by the Memphis City Council that sent the project to the State Building Commission for final approval. That petition was dismissed, but lawyers for the Sheraton filed a second suit in Davidson County, challenging the state’s actions. Martin ruled the commission and state’s actions that made the Loews project eligible for the incentives were properly handled.