Who determines how riverfront is used? Lawsuit over new Memphis Art Museum narrows.

By , Daily Memphian Updated: March 01, 2025 3:17 PM CT | Published: February 28, 2025 5:03 PM CT

Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson dismissed most of the claims in the Friends for Our Riverfront lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the new museum. But she kept the central question in the case.

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Memphis Art Museum Melanie Taylor Jefferson Friends for Our Riverfront Edward Bearman Bruce McMullen Brooks Museum of Art

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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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