Fire station demolition makes way for the new Brooks
Demolition began Monday, Aug. 22, on the recently closed Memphis Fire Department station and headquarters at Union and Front. A new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will be built on the site. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Until recently, the building housed a Memphis Fire station and headquarters for the department.
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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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