Bailey: Another direction for Arlington Town Hall
Arlington will get a new Town Hall but it will take more time. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Clay Bailey
Clay Bailey, a lifelong Memphian, has worked as a reporter in the city four decades. He concentrated on suburban coverage for the bulk of his career, except for a stint as sports editor of The Daily Memphian when it launched in September 2018. He now is suburban editor and also serves as a freelance sports writer for The Associated Press.
Eventually, Arlington will get a new Town Hall. It just seems like it is taking forever.
The northeast Shelby municipality’s offices have sat at the corner of Douglass Street and Airline Road for lo these many decades. While it still looks fine from the exterior, the fact is town staff has outgrown the space.
The Town Hall always looked kind of cramped before the turn of the century, but it represented what was then a small town. A few offices, a meeting room. A spot for the mayor to use if he came by.
But that is not Arlington anymore. It has grown from the 2000 U.S. Census, when less than 3,000 lived there, to a town pushing a population north of 15,000. That number is only going to keep growing as suburban sprawl spreads that way. The potential of BlueOval City up the road in Haywood County will also lead to growth.
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