Though argument could be made to move City Hall, that’s not in Mayor’s plans
Much of City Hall’s ground floor remains behind chain link fences because of crumbling marble. While Mayor Jim Strickland says the city needs the space, he isn’t ready to say the city has outgrown the 56-year-old City Hall. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian file)
The City of Memphis plans to take 60,000 square feet of office space in 100 N. Main when it is redeveloped.
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Bill Dries
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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