Connecting the new housing dots and vacant lots in North Memphis neighborhood
Concrete steps on vacant lots where houses once stood have become a symbol of the lack of quality affordable housing in Memphis. Some of those lots are being built on again by a group of emerging developers looking to build a lot at a time instead of creating all new subdivisions. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Working a few lots at a time with different developers, the City of Memphis is beginning to connect the vacant lots in North Memphis neighborhood to form a pattern of redevelopment.
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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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