Zoo parking lot reconfiguration begins
Crews begin repaving the parking lot of the Memphis Zoo Thursday, July 27. The zoo began directing cars to its Galloway lot off McLean Boulevard. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
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.
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