Lee tours new, $51M coronavirus care facility in former CA building
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee takes off his face mask after touring an emergency hospital in the former Commercial Appeal building on Monday, May 18. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis Division is leading the conversion project of turning the former newspaper building into a makeshift hospital that would house overflow patients due to the COVID-19 outbreak. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The hospital will open when numbers of COVID-19 patients make it necessary; they will arrive by ambulance in a drive-up bay off Beale Street.
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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