Behavioral health agency wants to build $9M crisis center on Summer Ave.
“I want it to be something the community is proud of,” Alliance Healthcare Services executive chief executive Laurie Powell said of plans to build a facility on Summer Avenue. “The proposed development 'really cleans up that area. It’s a blighted area.'” (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Alliance Healthcare Services will seek the City Council's approval to build in Highland Heights a 40,000-square-foot Crisis Assessment Center, where 150 people will work.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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