Liberty Park breaks ground after 14 years and three mayors
Dignitaries break ground for Liberty Park youth sports complex Monday, June 14, on the southwest corner of the Fairgrounds property. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
The Monday, June 14, groundbreaking starts with a youth sports complex that is the centerpiece of the $126 million project about where the Libertyland amusement park once stood.
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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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