City completes public-housing redevelopment after 10 years
The Thursday, Oct. 9, ribbon-cutting on the sixth phase of residential construction at Foote Park at South City marks the final phase of mixed-income housing development on the site of the old Foote Homes public-housing development. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
City of Memphis leaders marked the opening of the sixth and final phase of South City, the 712-unit mixed income conversion of what was once the Foote Homes public-housing development.
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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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