City pauses zoo parking plan to consider 350-space garage
Construction work continues on the Prentiss Place surface lot west of the Memphis Zoo where city and zoo officials say a parking garage could be built to handle overflow parking. The city has paused its plans to expand the zoo parking lot into the Greensward as it reevaluates the possibility of a parking garage. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
City leaders announced Wednesday, Dec. 18, they are pausing the parking plan at the Memphis Zoo to consider instead building a one-story parking deck of 350 spaces.
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