Fire damage estimated at $5 million to building in Forum Flats development
A building in the Forum Flats apartment development at Danny Thomas Boulevard and Martin Luther King Avenue was consumed by fire Friday morning in a three-alarm blaze that appeared to damage part of another building. The $16 million project is under construction and set to open in the fall. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Damage is estimated at $5 million to one building under construction in the 205-unit development at Danny Thomas and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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Yolanda Jones covers criminal justice issues and general assignment news for The Daily Memphian. She previously was a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.
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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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