Overton Park greensward compromise plan moves forward
Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan, speaking, says federal funding for the Memphis Zoo parking plan will have an impact on a new walking trail, upgrade of Rainbow Lake and pavilion beyond the immediate parking goal. Seated behind her are Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, left, and U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
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.
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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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