Flowers for Memphis, TN

Memphis runs along the Mississippi from the Downtown bluff south to Graceland and east out Poplar and Walnut Grove toward Germantown, and the delivery job changes character as you move across it. Downtown means the South Bluffs, the Pinch, and the tourist stretch of Beale, plus the tight cluster of hospitals in the medical district off Union — Regional One, Methodist University, Le Bonheur, and St. Jude within a few blocks of one another. Midtown is porch-and-bungalow country: Cooper-Young, Central Gardens, Overton Square, the Fairgrounds, and the University of Memphis just past East Parkway. Keep going and the addresses turn to the ranch houses and cul-de-sacs of East Memphis, Chickasaw Gardens, and the Germantown Parkway corridor. The I-240 loop ties it together, but the real bottlenecks are Poplar Avenue at rush hour and the Union Avenue hospital blocks midday, so shops build their routes around both.

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