City floats a raft of riverfront improvements
Could recreational uses come back to McKellar Lake? Or a dock of paddle boats in the Wolf River Harbor?
Topic: Memphis River Parks Partnership
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March 2025
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February 2025
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As MRPP looks for new leader, Davis happy to continue wearing new hats
Art Davis, the interim executive director of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, has been an accountant, a construction overseer and even Santa Claus during his time with the organization.
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Parade, other events to mark 100th anniversary of Tom Lee’s river rescue
Memphis River Parks Partnership officials announce plans to honor Lee, who on May 8, 1925, pulled 32 survivors of a capsized steamship to shore, making five trips and working by lantern light.
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January 2025
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Riverfront group names acting CEO
The Memphis River Parks Partnership is conducting a national search for someone to replace former CEO and President Carol Coletta.
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December 2024
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Celebration planned for 100-year anniversary of Tom Lee’s heroism
This coming May will mark 100 years since the 1925 river rescue, when Tom Lee saved 32 people from the Mississippi River south of Memphis after their boat capsized.
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November 2024
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Learn more about the work to improve Memphis’ public spaces
The Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative has been funded in Memphis and nine other cities since 2016. It’s now embarking on a new round of work.
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October 2024
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Memphis Flyway construction offers rare river’s edge wilderness view
“This flyway provides (an) opportunity to get closer to the river, to see a natural habitat and to enjoy the quietness of this area of the park,” Memphis River Parks Partnership COO Art Davis said.
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August 2024
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Carol Coletta leaving Memphis River Parks Partnership helm
Coletta’s tenure running the group that manages 6 miles of the city’s riverfront saw the $61 million redesign of Tom Lee Park and a push to better connect the riverfront to the rest of Downtown.
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City working toward total riverfront plan
Meanwhile, Mud Island’s River Terrace restaurant has a new tenant and the I-55 construction near the set of three bridges will include a pedestrian path.
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July 2024
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Memphis River Parks, contractor still fighting over 2020 wire fraud
A nearly $400,000 scam has a local construction firm and the Memphis River Parks Partnership embroiled in a yearslong legal dispute.
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Mud Island amphitheater’s foundation unstable
For Memphis River Parks Partnership, one question is: Can the amphitheater be repaired? The second is: Should it be?
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June 2024
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Construction begins on Tom Lee Park’s boardwalk
The flyway is a boardwalk that will lead to a view of the Mississippi River from an overlook where Tom Lee Park becomes Ashburn-Coppock Park.
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May 2024
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Opinion: The hurdles facing a Mud Island Amphitheater renovation
“We at Memphis River Parks Partnership have taken a decidedly business approach to Mud Island’s future. We’ve been working ... to create a context for how our community can make the wisest decision for the future.”
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99 years later, Tom Lee’s heroism remains relevant in poetry competition
Against a wall of windows facing a wind-swept Mississippi River, a small group of people at Beale Street Landing raised a toast to Tom Lee Wednesday, May 8, in the park named in his honor.
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April 2024
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Riverside Drive closes in preparation for Riverbeat
Tom Lee Park is expected to welcome its 500,000th visitor this month, eight months after its formal opening on the Labor Day weekend. The park closes next Sunday for the Riverbeat load-in, but will reopen partially between the music festival and the SmokeSlam barbecue contest.
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Riverside Drive to close — but Tom Lee Park will stay open — during most of May
Riverside Drive closes, as it has for decades, on April 22. But Tom Lee Park will be partially open between the Riverbeat and SmokeSlam events in May.
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February 2024
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Tom Lee Park has starring role in documentary
The movie by Last Bite Films makes its debut Feb. 16 at the Halloran Centre at a fundraiser for Memphis River Parks Partnership. Meanwhile, the filmmakers are working on a documentary about the life of Tom Lee.
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November 2023
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How a $3M budget line item for Mud Island prompted an attempt to oust the city council chairman
A delayed grant for Tom Lee Park’s redesign, the Beale Street Landing dock expansion and a pool of money cobbled together years ago to jumpstart a renovation of Mud Island led to a City Council showdown.
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September 2023
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‘Fishing for lives': Tom Lee’s story told by Grammy-winning poet J. Ivy
J. Ivy has written and performed a new piece about Tom Lee to mark the opening of the redesigned riverfront park named in Lee’s honor. The work is the first in a series commissioned by the Mellon Foundation.
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Memphis River Parks sues Memphis in May
The lawsuit over damages to Tom Lee Park seeks $675,000 on a $1.425 million bill due in mid-August. The other $750,000 is covered by a damage deposit paid by the city and the festival.
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The place to be: Tom Lee Park reopening brings Memphis together
After a five-year rollout plan that highlighted a well-documented demolition and a $61 million renovation, Memphis’ signature public park makes its return.
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Redesigned Tom Lee Park ready for debut
Nearly three years after work began on the $62 million redesign, the Downtown Memphis space along the Mississippi River will have a formal opening Saturday, Sept. 2. Here’s what to expect.
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August 2023
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Opinion: The riverfront ‘belongs to all of us’
“We believe that places for people to connect – safely, healthfully and happily – are more than simple amenities; they’re critical to our community.”
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Memphis in May is looking for a new location
In an email to its barbecue teams, Memphis in May President Jim Holt says the festival is “exploring venue options other than Tom Lee Park for the future.”
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Tom Lee Park damages from Memphis In May top $1.4M
A report verified by a third-party arbiter and reviewed by the city administration shows 252 separate items of damage totaling $1.4 million, most of it incurred during the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.
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