There are 13 article(s) tagged Overton Park Greensward:
Families came to the Greensward Saturday as part of the Overton Park Conservancy’s Summer Splash series, which its communications director said she hopes shows the benefit of a large grassy space for something other than parking.
The decade-long struggle over a patch of grass in Overton Park has reflected a changing city and served as a kind of proxy battle for larger civic questions.
The $3 million in federal funding is being subbed for $3 million in private funds raised by the Overton Park Conservancy and the Memphis Zoo toward the parking solution.
The parking lot is the first part of a broader plan to end overflow zoo parking on the Overton Park Greensward sometime next year and turn more than 17 acres of zoo land to the Overton Park Conservancy.
Memphis Zoo CEO Matt Thompson met with representatives from the Overton Park Conservancy and City of Memphis Monday, Nov. 21,.
Over the years, possible solutions have included a new parking garage as well as shuttle services as two city mayors, multiple community leaders and even the police have joined the fray.
The Memphis Zoo, Overton Park Conservancy and the City of Memphis are soon to sign off on precise terms that will end overflow parking on the greensward.
A Reporters Roundtable on WKNO’s Behind The Headlines reviews the new agreement for Overton Park to end overflow parking on the Overton Park Greensward in two years.
The agreement, which also preserves the Overton Park greensward in its entirety, draws on a lot of the ideas that have been proposed individually during the years-long controversy. Zoo to turn over Old Forest, leave Overton Park greensward intact Related story:
The day after an announcement from the Memphis Zoo, that it would continue with its parking lot expansion plan, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park has already begun discussing strategies to combat the decision.
The city is moving ahead with plans to expand the Memphis Zoo parking lot and take part of the Overton Park greensward in the process, the zoo and the city announced Friday, Oct. 1.
What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us?
The zoo parking versus Overton Park Greensward debate has come full circle in four years. Now the bulldozers and chainsaws – along with the fate of 200 trees – are on hold.
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