13 city parks benefit from ‘Accelerate Memphis’ funds
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland marks the start of work on the $200 million Accelerate Memphis slate of capital projects in Alonzo Weaver Park on Tuesday, June 29. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland kicked off the city’s $200 million slate of capital projects over the next three years Tuesday, June 29, in a southwest Memphis park.
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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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