Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Nashville's $7 Million River Park
Posted by John Branston on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM
While Memphis pours $33 million into Beale Street Landing and figures out what to do with $62 million Mud Island River Park which is closed half the year, Nashville is moving ahead with a $7 million free public river park with water slides, spray park, playground, playing fields, and skate park.
The Nashville City Council approved the project Tuesday, as Nashville television station WSM reported.
It will be located on the east side of the Cumberland river across from downtown and next to the Tennessee Titans stadium.
The site was formerly a barge-building yard.
According to the Nashville city government website, the park will include spray grounds, picnic lawns, tire swings, hammocks, water slides, playing fields, basketball courts, fog emitters, a boardwalk, and skate park.
The goals for the park, which has been under design for several years, include park use day and night 365 days a year, something that can be built quickly, something appealing to all ages, and free public use.
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Only a few short hours up I40, but a world away. Nashville's city planning and management are superior to Memphis in every way. Why is that?
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That's no joke! We've taken our children there for the last 6 years and have been amazed how the city "changes" and "grows". Then we come home to Memphis and hear the same song and dance over and over. It's really sad but we've given up on our city and the people who run it! As soon as a job can be found in Nashville, we are gone!
Wow .. that was an intelligent, well-articulated rebuttal. Maybe instead of profaning the comments of others, you could consider the exodus from Memphis isn't just "haters" and malcontents. Maybe there really is something wrong with the picture here!!
It isn't a matter of their city planning people being better than ours. We have none. The City and City Council have abdicated their responsibilities for the riverfront. The Memphis riverfront is in the hands of a private corporation with ties/sympathies to the development community. Trouble is: It's public land.
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