Tom Lee Park cutbank bluff to be named for One Beale developers
Chance Carlisle (center) and Chase Carlisle (right) speak during a press conference Thursday, Sept. 15, announcing that the bluff overlooking Tom Lee Park is being named Carlisle Cutbank Bluff. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The Carlisle name follows a $1.5 million donation by the developers to the $62 million Tom Lee Park redesign. It honors the late Gene Carlisle, the family patriarch who called the One Beale real estate “the best piece of dirt in Memphis.”
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