Future of Metro Plaza redevelopment up in the air
“This is new terrain for the county and it is very difficult work to recruit development to an underserved community,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris told commissioners. “We would be taking a chance on South Memphis and the people of South Memphis. That is what this is all about.” (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County Commission postponed indefinitely a plan to buy the Metro Shopping Plaza, which is on the northwest corner of E.H. Crump Boulevard and Danny Thomas Boulevard.
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