Memphis Remains At Bottom of Parks Ranking
The Trust for Public Land has published its latest ParkScore annual report about the park systems...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | May 19, 2022 | City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
The Trust for Public Land has published its latest ParkScore annual report about the park systems...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Mar 14, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Parks and Greening | 0
Memphis’ WPA-built band shell in Overton Park has reached back to the 1930s to reclaim its name –...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jan 18, 2022 | Arts and Culture, City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
Memphis has made some monumental decisions and because of it, it’s on the leading edge of a...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Nov 1, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening, Taxation | 0
The last blog post, Unequal Treatment of Overton Park, highlighted the disparate treatment by City...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Oct 28, 2021 | Parks and Greening, Politics and Government | 0
The decision by City of Memphis and the Memphis Zoo to scrap the plan to build a parking deck...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Oct 7, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
The reimagined Tom Lee Park has added yet another milestone that indicates that our aspirations...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Sep 27, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
There are street names, like monuments and parks, that deserve renaming, but a couple of the new...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Aug 2, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
Thumbnail: Tom Lee Park’s is on its journey in becoming a special place in this community as a result of the best-in-class designers who imagined a spectacular riverfront park.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jul 26, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Downtown Revitalization, Parks and Greening, Planning and Urban Design | 0
Thumbnail: A successful downtown hinges on its walkability, and a complaint about removing 62 unsafe parking spaces from Riverside Drive is merely a distraction from a real discussion about equity.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jul 12, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Economic Development, Parks and Greening | 0
How many wake-up calls can Memphis get before one of them is the knock-out punch? It’s the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | May 24, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Livability, Parks and Greening | 0
Thumbnail: Accelerate Memphis could be the jump start that the Memphis parks master plan needs, kicking off what could be the city’s return to one of the country’s great park systems. Today, it is ranked 88th out of 97 cities and to climb to the middle of the rankings, it needs more and varied facilities and more acreage for parks.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | May 17, 2021 | Arts and Culture, City of Memphis Government, Parks and Greening | 0
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