Brooks Museum says stopping work for court fight could cost $7M
The lawsuit, from Friends for Our Riverfront, claims the museum planned for the block on Front Street between Monroe and Union avenues violates an easement that is part of a public promenade set aside by the city’s founders in the early 19th century. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The lawsuit, due for its first hearing later this month, is a deep dive into past disputes about how to use the “public promenade” the city’s founders created more than 200 years ago.
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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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