There are 11 article(s) tagged Memphis cobblestones:

• December 2025

  • ‘The very foundation on which this city was built’ finally renovated

    Memphis’ historic cobblestone landing formally opened Friday after at least 19 years of bureaucracy, red tape and the rise and fall of the Mississippi River.

    By Bill Dries December 13, 2025

• May 2024

  • City council moves toward budget wrap up, reviews terms for Liberty Park

    The council takes the second of three votes Tuesday, May 21, on raising the city’s monthly solid-waste fee and decides six wages disputes between the city administration and labor unions. 

    By Bill Dries May 20, 2024

• September 2023

  • Council seeks to codify sewer cutoff policy, federal funds for Cobblestones dock

    The sewer ordinance would solidify a policy of not extending services outside of city borders. The Memphis City Council also votes on $4 million in funds for a floating dock near the riverfront’s cobblestones for restaurants and shops.

    By Bill Dries September 12, 2023

• September 2021

  • Construction crew makes discovery at landing: bonus cobblestones

    The extra, 5,300 square feet of buried stones would expand the area of the cobblestone-landing project by nearly 2% if state and local officials agree to enlarge the restoration site.

    By Tom Bailey September 15, 2021

• February 2021

  • Fairgrounds, Cobblestones funding approved

    The Fairgrounds conversion to Liberty Park got a $4 million boost Tuesday, Feb. 2, to begin some ground work in May as well as to start designing buildings.

    By Bill Dries February 02, 2021

  • City Council takes up $200 million ‘Accelerate Memphis’ plan, financing

    The agenda also includes changes to the city’s financial policies to allow the balloon debt structure to finance the project. 

    By Bill Dries February 02, 2021

• December 2020

  • Cobblestone landing bids under review by city

    The City of Memphis is evaluating bids ranging from $9.4 million to $10.1 million for restoration of and other improvements to the historic Memphis cobblestone landing.

    By Wayne Risher December 31, 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

• June 2020

  • Cobblestone landing project will leave 160-year-old stones unturned

    The design includes two pedestrian overlooks on the west side of Riverside Drive at Monroe and at Union and a six-foot-wide, wheelchair-accessible walkway on the eastern, upper edge of the landing between Court and Monroe.

    By Wayne Risher June 18, 2020

  • Riverfront projects rolling toward fall launch

    Memphis River Parks Partnership expects an October launch of the historic cobblestone landing restoration and November start on the first phase of Tom Lee Park's transformation.

    By Wayne Risher June 10, 2020

• April 2019

  • River turns wheels of industry, stokes city’s economic engine

    The Mississippi River has been lubricating the economic machinery of Memphis since land speculators put down stakes where a high bluff overlooked the muddy terminus of the Wolf River.

    By Wayne Risher April 01, 2019