Council members split over blight priorities
The “Crosstown mound” is a nine-acre hill for a Crosstown section of I-40 that was never built. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Meanwhile, the council delayed for two weeks a first reading vote on historic overlay district status for the Crosstown area.
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