Renovation costs for juvenile detention center more than double
The cost of renovating the old Shelby Training Center on Old Getwell Road has risen from $10 million to $28 million. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The detention center has been a goal of the current county administration and commission since they came to office nearly four years ago.
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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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