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 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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