Foote Homes to South City continues story of change

By , Daily Memphian Updated: September 30, 2018 4:00 AM CT | Published: September 28, 2018 4:10 PM CT
<strong>Foote Homes was the last of the city's public-housing projects to be demolished to make way for a new mixed-use, mixed-income redevelopment that will be known as South City.</strong> (Brandon Dahlberg/Daily Memphian file)

Foote Homes was the last of the city's public-housing projects to be demolished to make way for a new mixed-use, mixed-income redevelopment that will be known as South City. (Brandon Dahlberg/Daily Memphian file)

The path to end the city’s large public housing projects was a 20-year journey that brought city leaders to a tent last week near the corner of Vance and Lauderdale.

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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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