Homicide record and MLGW-TVA top City Council agenda
Also: Demolition of Summer Avenue churches will be discussed
J. Max Hamidi (in a file photo) is managing broker for Sperry CGA. His client recently bought Highland Heights United Methodist Church on Summer Avenue with a plan to tear down the church and build a gas station. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The council discussion of the record number of homicides so far this year could venture into past discussions of police reform. The City Council also discusses a rezoning of Summer Avenue to preserve four churches along the busy thoroughfare after one was about to be demolished.
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