Audubon Park redesign draws heckler, questions at groundbreaking
Memphis Parks director Nick Walker met with Audubon Park neighborhood leaders and park users after the Monday, Sept. 26, groundbreaking for the $2.6 million improvement plan for the city park. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Neighbors of the park generally supported the new playground and picnic pavilion planned, but voiced concerns about a rendering from earlier this month that appeared to show the park’s lake as part of the golf course expansion. The city’s parks director says the rendering wasn’t accurate.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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