City Hall’s recurring marble problem a sign of age and times
Alison Archibal, Holly Enlow, Sarah Girdner and Ashely Evans walk past Memphis City Hall Friday, Jan. 18, on their way back from lunch. The city has had to install fencing around the façade to protect passers-by from falling material. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
More than 50 years since City Hall opened for business, the marble slabs that define its seven-story exterior are again a problem. It's just one of the challenges facing the aging building that houses city government.
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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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