Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 Try as it might, the mud couldn’t stop Bike Gate. Set it back a day, sure. Attempt to swallow a crane whole…why not? But in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, February
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 T-minus four days until Bike Gate is complete! Now that we’re in the home stretch, if you’ve been driving down East Parkway this week, you’ve probably noticed the splashes of color in
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 The first piece of Bike Gate is officially in the ground. This afternoon, crews from Wagner General Contractors and Tylur French’s Youngblood Studio are installing the two 13-foot steel towers that will form
A few quick notes on some plant-related matters (our favorite kind of matters!)… A New Tree for the Playground Earlier this month, we had the privilege of working with Memphis City Beautiful and Del-Nat Tire Corporation to plant a beautiful new sugar maple just outside
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 It’s happening! Work started today on the site of the new bicycle and pedestrian plaza at Overton Park, and you’ll continue to see movement at the intersection of Sam Cooper Blvd. and East Parkway
The Bike Gate sculpture is truly in the home stretch, and we need you to help push it across the finish line! You may have been following the progress of Tylur French’s Bike Gate sculpture here on our blog (click here for the most recent
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 Things are moving quickly with the Conservancy’s Bike Gate project…and they’re getting a lot more colorful, too! Artist Tylur French and several volunteers have started painting the components of the
Missed our earlier installments? Catch Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. Bike Gate continues to roll along, with the shape of the sculpture changing every day as new elements are added. “Originally, we thought we’d need about 200 bikes,” says artist Tylur
Missed our earlier installments? Catch Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Bike Gate is getting 33% more awesome. As Tylur French has continued working on the new bike sculpture that will welcome cyclists and pedestrians into Overton Park, he realized the arch could benefit
