City Council rejects used-car lot on Elvis Presley Boulevard
“That owner has been given many opportunities to make corrections,” said Memphis City Council member Jamita Swearengen, as the council voted 0-12 to kill the used-car lot. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The council also discussed the riverfront’s Cobblestone Landing, a blight and illegal dumping task force and police escorts for Donald Trump’s Southaven speech.
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Memphis City Council used car lots Jamita Swearengen Elvis Presley Boulevard Cobblestone Landing Tom Lee Park JB Smiley Jr. Martavius Jones Donald Trump Memphis Police Department Rhonda Logan BlightBill Dries on demand
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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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