City and Graceland break standoff over Whitehaven expansion minus arena
Jack Soden and attorney James McLaren look on as the Memphis City Council discusses the tentative agreement between the city and Elvis Presley Enterprises over Graceland’s expansion. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The city and Graceland appear to have an agreement that allows the Graceland master plan to move ahead in some form beyond litigation over an arena that has been a part of the plan.
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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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