Klondike revitalization meets skepticism before final votes by city, county
Klondike resident Annie Phillips Yates voices her concerns at a community meeting Thursday, Dec. 15 at Friendship Baptist Church at 1355 Vollintine Ave. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian
A public hearing highlighted skepticism about past efforts to bring blighted areas back to life, and fears the North Memphis neighborhood’s current residents could be displaced.
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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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