How to keep interest in Downtown Memphis ahead of big projects
An areal view of construction of the Memphis Brooks Museum's new Downtown Memphis home on June 14, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The head of the Downtown Memphis Commission talks on “Behind The Headlines” about what’s beyond Downtown’s waiting period for several new and renovated institutions to come online.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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