There are 8 article(s) tagged Memphis riverfront:

• May 2022

  • Brooks to start national search for new director

    The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announced a search committee to oversee the selection of a permanent executive director.

    By Sam Hegenheiser May 04, 2022

• December 2021

  • New details revealed about proposed ‘Sunset Lake’ in harbor

    A proposed lake off Mud Island would be north of I-40 and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. 

    By Bill Dries December 14, 2021

• November 2021

  • New Brooks Museum of Art Downtown may be crown jewel of riverfront development

    Brooks on the Bluff is being designed through a collaboration between the Swiss-based firm Herzog & du Meuron and Memphis’ archimania. 

    By Rob Moore November 05, 2021

• October 2020

  • Tom Lee Park plan nixes beach, adds outdoor ‘lounges’

    The Memphis River Parks Partnership presents a schematic design for Tom Lee Park on Riverside Drive in Downtown Memphis. 

    Related: Q&A on the latest Tom Lee Park changes.

    By Wayne Risher October 09, 2020

• July 2020

  • Cobblestone bids come in over budget

    With bids over budget, options could include re-bidding, scaling down the project or finding more funding.

    By Wayne Risher July 20, 2020

• May 2020

  • Saving Tom Lee Park: $60 million transformation plan spurs civic battle royal

    After input from 5,300 people and 65 meetings, a Tom Lee Park transformation plan has drawn opposition from 4,000 petitioners and 2,200 Facebook followers. Will mediation settle hard feelings?

    By Wayne Risher May 20, 2020

• February 2020

  • Tom Lee Park design retooled to suit mediation, Corps of Engineers

    Designers are revising a proposed revamp of Tom Lee Park according to specifications of a city-ordered mediation agreement and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    By Wayne Risher February 19, 2020

• October 2018

  • Chance to design bluff-top art museum draws global response

    The two large passenger vans stopped at Union and Front on a gorgeous morning Wednesday and disgorged more than 20 architects from around the U.S. and world as well as Tennessee and Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 22, 2018