Chicago company proposes zip line adventure park for Mud Island
A proposed adventure park would draw more than 100,000 visitors a year to Mud Island, backers estimate. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The group is scheduled to make a presentation Tuesday, Aug. 9, to the Memphis City Council for a Mud Island version of the “adventure park.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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