Southwest Twin Drive-In redevelopment breaks ground
The Southwest Twin Drive-In’s 45-year run as an outdoor movie venue, the city’s second drive-in movie theater, ended in 2001. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The old drive-in movie site in Southwest Memphis will have a police precinct and a public library with plans for private development modeled on the 5-year-old Raleigh Springs Town Centre.
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