Iconic Overton Park landmark starts major renovation
Metal Museum supporters and employees walk with sparklers at the conclusion of a groundbreaking ceremony for the Metal Museum's new home in the former Memphis College of Art building Aug. 29. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A midcentury building in Midtown is undergoing a transformation to become the new gallery and studio space for one Memphis museum.
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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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