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Conaway: Let’s give all these crazy ideas a name — Lauren Crews

By , Daily Memphian Updated: August 23, 2024 5:42 AM CT | Published: August 23, 2024 4:00 AM CT
Dan Conaway
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I’m writing about Lauren Crews and his crazy ideas. Again. Maybe we’re both crazy.

Maybe so is the state of Tennessee. Maybe so is the mayor of Memphis.

They’re both using Crews’ crazy ideas, and neither is giving him any credit.


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Crews and I first talked about all of it while sipping whiskey years ago at sunset on the bluff behind the Metal Museum, gazing out on the river’s big, bold bend south of the Harahan Bridge, the most dramatic river view in Memphis, dramatic enough to accommodate big, bold vision. 

At that first meeting, Crews told me that people think he’s crazy.

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