Council considers funding to change City Hall’s look
Much of City Hall’s ground floor remains behind chain link fencing because of crumbling marble. The city’s $4.9 million rehab plan would leave the marble on the ground floor but replace the marble veneer on the floors above it with a metal veneer. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
The $4.9 million in funding would replace much, but not all, of the 55-year old structure’s exterior marble veneer.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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