There are 12 article(s) tagged Overton Park Greensward:

• November 2023

  • Herrington: Lessons learned from the 10-year fight over the Greensward

    The decade-long struggle over a patch of grass in Overton Park has reflected a changing city and served as a kind of proxy battle for larger civic questions. 

    By Chris Herrington November 12, 2023

• October 2023

  • Overton Park greensward compromise plan moves forward

    The $3 million in federal funding is being subbed for $3 million in private funds raised by the Overton Park Conservancy and the Memphis Zoo toward the parking solution.

    By Bill Dries October 31, 2023

• July 2023

  • Zoo parking lot reconfiguration begins

    The parking lot is the first part of a broader plan to end overflow zoo parking on the Overton Park Greensward sometime next year and turn more than 17 acres of zoo land to the Overton Park Conservancy.

    By Bill Dries July 27, 2023

• November 2022

  • Memphis Zoo, Overton Park finalize parking agreement

    Memphis Zoo CEO Matt Thompson met with representatives from the Overton Park Conservancy and City of Memphis Monday, Nov. 21,. 

    By Alicia Davidson November 22, 2022

  • Eight years in the making: The Zoo, the park and greensward saga comes to an end?

    Over the years, possible solutions have included a new parking garage as well as shuttle services as two city mayors, multiple community leaders and even the police have joined the fray. 

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2022

  • Zoo greensward parking to end in 2024

    The Memphis Zoo, Overton Park Conservancy and the City of Memphis are soon to sign off on precise terms that will end overflow parking on the greensward.

    By Bill Dries November 03, 2022

• March 2022

  • Watch: Reviewing the different plans to end Overton Park Greensward parking

    A Reporters Roundtable on WKNO’s Behind The Headlines reviews the new agreement for Overton Park to end overflow parking on the Overton Park Greensward in two years.

    By Bill Dries March 12, 2022

  • How an 8-year standoff led to new Zoo parking, the return of Old Forest acreage

    The agreement, which also preserves the Overton Park greensward in its entirety, draws on a lot of the ideas that have been proposed individually during the years-long controversy.

    Related story:

    Zoo to turn over Old Forest, leave Overton Park greensward intact 

    By Bill Dries March 08, 2022

• October 2021

  • Advocacy group discusses strategies to combat zoo parking plan

    The day after an announcement from the Memphis Zoo, that it would continue with its parking lot expansion plan, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park has already begun discussing strategies to combat the decision.

    By Julia Baker October 02, 2021

  • Memphis Zoo parking lot expansion into greensward back on

    The city is moving ahead with plans to expand the Memphis Zoo parking lot and take part of the Overton Park greensward in the process, the zoo and the city announced Friday, Oct. 1.

    By Bill Dries October 01, 2021

• April 2021

  • Opinion: Close Riverside Drive to cars; open it to those who really count

    What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us? 

    By Dan Conaway April 02, 2021

• December 2019

  • Conaway: There is space for hope at the zoo

    The zoo parking versus Overton Park Greensward debate has come full circle in four years. Now the bulldozers and chainsaws – along with the fate of 200 trees – are on hold.

    By Dan Conaway December 27, 2019