We’re in the home stretch. We have until this Sunday, June 11, to meet our million-dollar goal and begin design work on the project that will return the Greensward to Overton Park. We’ve raised over $850,000 from 700 donors in 30 states and 28 Memphis-area
With about three weeks left before our June 11 deadline to raise $1 million, we’re excited to announce a $250,000 pledge from a generous friend of Overton Park Conservancy! This brings our total to date over $813,000. With your help, we can raise the remaining funds
We’re happy to announce that we have reached the halfway point in our goal of raising $1 million by June 11 to end Greensward parking! Gifts have come in from the 16 states highlighted above, and we’d love your help to make that map even
Three weeks into our campaign to take back the Greensward, we’re happy to report that we’ve raised more than $450,000 toward our million-dollar goal! With your help, we can hit the halfway point quickly. An anonymous donor has stepped up with a $25,000 challenge: every
This weekend, we surpassed the $25,000 mark in donations to the Greensward project, which unlocked another $25,000 in matching funds from an anonymous donor. We’ve also received several large pledges, putting us close to a quarter of our goal in only a week’s time. We
As of Friday afternoon, we have exceeded $21,000 in donations toward unlocking a $25,000 match from a generous anonymous donor. We hope to get the full matching amount by the end of the weekend! (You can double your gift by visiting www.overtonpark.org/greensward.) Thanks to several
Yesterday, Memphis City Council passed a resolution with two major impacts to the Greensward parking project. One amendment removed the July resolution’s mandate that all parking spaces be supersized 10′ x 20′ spaces, replacing it with a standard space size of 9′ x 19′. This
Today City Council’s Parks & Environment Committee voted to send a resolution accepting $250,000 each from Overton Park Conservancy and the Memphis Zoo to its full Council meeting on April 11. These funds represent the full cost of the design and engineering phase of the
Overton Park Conservancy’s Board of Directors has voted unanimously to authorize the release of $250,000 to the City of Memphis, and we will ask City Council to accept these funds at Tuesday’s meeting. This contribution represents 50% of the costs for the design and engineering
The parking steering committee heard three excellent presentations today from teams led by LRK, A2H, and Powers Hill Design. The committee will announce its choice soon, and we’ll let you know as soon as a decision has been made. In the meantime, we wanted to
