One last ride: Popular skate park Society Memphis will close Dec. 31
Skater Adrian Akin (right) grinds one of the rails as Jason Weiner watches at the new Society Skatepark & Coffee, an industrial warehouse in Binghampton that was transformed by local skate enthusiasts Mark Horrocks, Matthew Wrage and Zac Roberts. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Society Memphis was built inside a warehouse at 583 Scott St. as an ambitious project to create a space where diverse passions could converge.
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Society Memphis Skatepark and Coffee Binghampton Broad Avenue Arts District skateboardingAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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