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Art will soon rise on The Ravine’s flour towers

By , Special to The Daily Memphian Updated: May 18, 2021 5:39 AM CT | Published: May 18, 2021 4:00 AM CT
<strong>One of the two Wonder Bread flour silos recently erected in The Ravine. They are 60 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter. This one rises over what will be the Union Avenue plaza for food trucks and pop-up retail.</strong> (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)

One of the two Wonder Bread flour silos recently erected in The Ravine. They are 60 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter. This one rises over what will be the Union Avenue plaza for food trucks and pop-up retail. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)

Artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum will turn one of The Ravine’s 60-foot-tall silos into public art. The artist for the linear park’s second silo has not been announced yet.

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Tom Bailey

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.