New Lester Community Center breaks ground in Binghampton on familiar turf
Recently retired Lester Community Center director Walter Casey Sr. joins Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland for the Tuesday, Dec. 12, groundbreaking for the new Lester Community Center to open in 2025. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The new community center, scheduled to open in 2025, is just yards away from the existing community center, which is one of the most used in the Memphis Parks system.
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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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