Council plans to turn block of Monroe into ‘Hyde Family Way’

By , Daily Memphian Published: January 13, 2026 7:19 PM CT

The council will take the first of three votes later this month on changing the name of the street between the new Memphis Art Museum and the Cossitt Library. 

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Memphis City Council Hyde Square Chelsea Avenue Greenline Memphis Public Libraries Mount Moriah Station Downtown Command Center Blue Suede Networks M Street Fiber new jail

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Bill Dries

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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