Zoo greensward parking to end in 2024
Overflow parking for the Memphis Zoo spills onto the Greensward at Overton Park on July 6, 2019. The city will move out of a maintenance facility on East Parkway and split the available land between the Memphis Zoo and Overton Park Conservancy. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
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.
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