Political Roundup: ‘Move 201 Poplar’ and then ‘put a major hotel there’
City Council member Dr. Jeff Warren (top) listens to Memphis Police Department Chief C.J. Davis during a committee session June 13, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
When the Memphis City Council reviewed the budget proposal of the Downtown Memphis Commission during May 20 committee sessions, Council member Dr. Jeff Warren dipped his toe across the city-county dividing line.
The conversation with DMC CEO Chandell Ryan veered into the larger civic conversation about building a new jail.
Warren says a new jail should be built and not on the footprint or near the footprint of the existing jail at 201 Poplar Ave. In fact, he argues it should be built somewhere other than Downtown.
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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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