A new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Downtown would open in 2022 at the earliest and cost $110 million along with an endowment.

“It’s going to be a little bit of a moving target. What we want to do is to build the endowment,” said Brooks director Emily Ballew Neff on the WKNO/Channel 10 program “Behind The Headlines.”

2. Last Word: 2018 Head Start, Tax Reform Bill Votes and Tigers Basketball in Decline - Friday, November 17, 2017

Can you smell the paper? Friday is the first day that candidates in the 2018 elections can start picking up qualifying petitions for their place on the ballot – in this case the May county primary elections in Shelby County. Here is the scene setter.

3. City Announces 10-Member Zoo Parking Advisory Team - Saturday, October 7, 2017

A 10-member city advisory panel will be part of the process for settling on a specific design for expansion and reconfiguration of Memphis Zoo parking in Overton Park.

The city administration announced Thursday, Oct. 5, the names of 10 people to the panel, which will first offer feedback on the preliminary work of designers and then select a concept plan.

4. City Announces 10-Member Zoo Parking Advisory Team - Friday, October 6, 2017

A 10-member city advisory panel will be part of the process for settling on a specific design for expansion and reconfiguration of parking for the Memphis Zoo in Overton Park.

The city administration announced Thursday, Oct. 5, the names of 10 people to the panel, which will first offer feedback on the preliminary work of designers and then select a concept plan.

5. Last Word: The Brooks Question, Boyd's Answer and Tigers In the Polls - Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Art as a real estate consideration. One of the more unusual of many considerations as the Brooks search for a new site – a possible new site, I should add, becomes the city’s favorite topic. So from the CRE vantage point – here are two more possible sites to think about if you haven’t already – Cossitt Library and the Fairgrounds, as well as right where it has been for the last century.

6. Overton Park Conservancy Embarks On Master Plan - Wednesday, September 20, 2017

As leaders of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announced this month they are considering a move to a newly built facility elsewhere in the city, the Overton Park Conservancy was beginning to develop a master plan for the Midtown park, including the museum, Memphis Zoo, Memphis College of Art and Levitt Shell.

7. Overton Park Conservancy Meets $1M Goal in Parking Compromise - Tuesday, June 13, 2017

The Overton Park Conservancy raised $1 million by the June 11 deadline to move ahead with the Overton Park-Memphis Zoo parking compromise. The conservancy announced Sunday afternoon that it met the goal with hours to spare.

8. Greensward Compromise Text, Discussion Differ on Cost Split - Thursday, March 23, 2017

At the end of a surprising day at City Hall, Memphis City Council member Worth Morgan was anticipating what might happen in the three weeks until the next council session to the compromise for zoo parking in Overton Park.

9. Impasse Compromise Wins Council Approval, Union Acceptance - Wednesday, March 22, 2017

No more lottery balls for the Memphis City Council in the spring. The council approved Tuesday, March 21, an overhaul of the city’s impasse procedures – the rules for the council settling stalled contract talks between the city’s municipal unions and the city administration.

10. Zoo Parking Space Dimensions Emerge as Issue in Greensward Compromise - Monday, January 9, 2017

Some members of the city’s Overton Park Parking Committee want to talk about changing one of the key ground rules for reconfiguring and expanding the Memphis Zoo’s parking area.

And the zoo’s representative on the committee that met Thursday, Jan. 5, is adamant that the requirement for parking spaces to be 10 feet by 20 feet should remain as it is.

11. Zoo Parking Space Dimensions Emerge as Issue In Greensward Compromise - Friday, January 6, 2017

Some members of the city’s Overton Park Parking Committee want to at least talk about changing one of the key ground rules for the rearrangement and expansion of the Memphis Zoo’s parking area.

And the zoo’s representative on the committee that met Thursday, Jan. 5, is just as adamant that the requirement for parking spaces to be 10 feet by 20 feet should remain as it is.

12. Arrests, Metal Barriers, Lawsuits All Played Role in Greensward Parking Compromise - Thursday, December 29, 2016

Spring at City Hall is budget season and it can be stormy for a new mayor, not to mention a city council with six new members. But that wasn’t the case in 2016.

The real spring political storm was the Overton Park Greensward – specifically overflow parking from the Memphis Zoo on the greenspace south of the zoo.

13. Last Word: Mud Island Round 3, Newsmakers Notes and North Midtown - Thursday, October 13, 2016

Cue the organ. You know, the one from those old soap operas or radio dramas. And prepare for the latest episode of Island of Mud. When last we looked in on Mud Island River Park, the city had two finalists to redevelop all or a part of the southern half of the island that is really a peninsula.

14. Green Spaces Valuable Assets for Memphis, Citizens - Thursday, October 13, 2016

Shelby Farms Park’s biggest project – Heart of the Park – is open. The Wolf River Greenway is on track for completion no later than 2020. Overton Park has come through the greensward controversy and is moving ahead with park enhancements.

15. Green Renaissance - Saturday, October 8, 2016

As director of Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, Jen Andrews has been on the front lines of what can fairly be called a green revival in Memphis. And she is amazed at how much change has occurred over the last decade, a rebirth that spans not just across the miles but now seems embedded in the city’s psyche.

16. A Greener Memphis Requires More Connectivity - Wednesday, October 5, 2016

It sounds simple enough, the idea that, as Wolf River Conservancy executive director Keith Cole puts it, “One of the basic premises of connectivity is you never want to build a bridge to nowhere.”

17. Last Word: Return of the Balloon Note, SCS and Migrant Teens & Greensward Doubts - Thursday, July 21, 2016

One of the prime culprits in the housing bubble burst that played a role in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression is back – the adjustable rate mortgage.

Numbers from Chandler Reports, the real estate information company that is part of The Daily News Publishing Co. Inc, show the number of such loans has spiked in the first half of this year and are the highest they’ve been since 2008, the year after the bubble burst nationally.

18. Last Word: Greg Davis Gets A New Trial, Overton Park Compromise Done and Tesla - Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The one-time mayor of Southaven is getting a new trial on embezzlement charges.

A Mississippi Appeals court agreed Tuesday with attorneys for Greg Davis, who argued he could not get a fair trial in DeSoto County on the felony charges because of pre-trial publicity.

19. Zoo and OPC Reach Compromise in Greensward Controversy - Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Memphis Zoo and the Overton Park Conservancy reached agreement Monday, July 18, on a compromise to end the zoo’s overflow parking on the Greensward that fills in some of the blanks left in Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposal and changes some of the terms.

20. Overton Park Shuttle Terms Continue To Be Negotiated - Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The mediation effort to resolve the Overton Park Greensward controversy is over.

But all of those involved are still talking privately.

Those talks are centered around a park plan proposed July 1 by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, who acted when the mediation failed to produce a comprehensive settlement by the end of June – Strickland’s deadline for mediation.

21. Strickland Unveils Greensward Solution, Zoo Not Happy - Friday, July 1, 2016

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has put forth his plan to end parking on the Overton Park Greensward.

22. Overton Park Merrymaking Blends With Zoo Poll, Protests - Friday, June 3, 2016

The Overton Park Conservancy’s annual Day of Merrymaking Saturday, June 4, will share the park greensward with the overflow parking area for the Memphis Zoo.

The merrymaking’s hot air balloon ride and beer garden join a spring-to-summer political mix that includes some recent polling by the zoo as well as the regular Saturday presence of protestors who oppose zoo parking on the greensward.

23. Overton Traffic Plans On Display Saturday - Friday, May 6, 2016

All roads in Overton Park except the one in front of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will be one-way streets Saturday, May 7, as the Overton Park Conservancy tries out some traffic and parking remedies on a busy day in the park.

24. Council Members Express Doubts About Solidifying Overton Park Boundaries - Thursday, May 5, 2016

Two months after the Memphis City Council approved a resolution giving the Memphis Zoo control of two-thirds of the Overton Park Greensward, the votes are still there to set park boundaries in stone.

25. Greensward Talks Getting Complex - Wednesday, April 20, 2016

A week ago, the board of the Overton Park Conservancy had a visitor at its meeting – Richard Smith, the Memphis Zoo’s representative in the ongoing private mediation talks between the conservancy and the zoo.

26. Beyond The Greensward - Friday, April 8, 2016

If a crowd shows up some place other than the Greensward, is it a busy spring in Overton Park?

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is undergoing renovations in preparation for its 100th anniversary celebration next month.

27. Overton Parking-Traffic Study Sees Future Garage - Wednesday, April 6, 2016

An Overton Park traffic and parking study released Tuesday, April 5, recommends a phased-approach to creating more parking in and around the park, better coordination of traffic patterns and then a likely move to a 300-space, $7.8 million parking deck on Prentiss Place Drive off McLean Boulevard at the end of 2017.

28. Green Sword - Saturday, March 5, 2016

First it was a rumor – there would be a move by the Memphis City Council aimed at putting a quick end to the long-simmering Overton Park Greensward controversy.

It would come quickly and just before the start of the third spring of protests against the Memphis Zoo's use of the northern part of the Greensward for overflow parking.

29. Council Gives Zoo Authority Over Greensward Parking - Thursday, March 3, 2016

The next step in the Overton Park Greensward controversy is up to the Overton Park Conservancy now that the Memphis City Council has given the Memphis Zoo control of the northern part of the Greensward.

30. Council Approves Zoo Control of Overton Greensward Section - Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Memphis City Council members voted 11-1 Tuesday, March 1, to grant the Memphis Zoo control of the northern part of the Overton Park Greensward.

The control comes in a resolution that surfaced earlier in the day Tuesday after a weekend of rumors about such a move by some on the council.

31. City Council to Discuss Greensward Controversy - Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The next setting for the Overton Park Greensward controversy isn’t the park. It is City Hall.

Memphis City Council members have an executive session “discussion of Overton Park” on their committee list at 1:45 p.m. for Tuesday, March 1.

32. Overton Park Greensward Controversy Moves To City Hall Tuesday - Saturday, February 27, 2016

The next setting for the Overton Park greensward controversy isn’t the park. It is City Hall.

Memphis City Council members have an executive session “discussion of Overton Park” on their committee list for Tuesday, March 1.

33. Memphis Zoo CEO: Mediation, Court Action Can Coexist in Greensward Dispute - Saturday, January 23, 2016

The Memphis Zoo’s move to Chancery Court next week in the Overton Park greensward controversy does not damage the mediation process between the zoo and the Overton Park Conservancy.

That’s what zoo president and CEO Chuck Brady said as attorneys on both sides of the controversy prepare to make their cases in court.

34. Zoo Goes To Court Over Greensward - Friday, January 22, 2016

The Memphis Zoo has gone to Chancery Court seeking undisputed legal control of the northern section of the Overton Park greensward.

Attorneys for the zoo filed the suit Thursday, Jan. 21, seeking a declaratory judgment in the dispute with the Overton Park Conservancy.

35. Strickland Proposes Mediation in Greensward Controversy - Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is asking leaders of the Memphis Zoo and the Overton Park Conservancy to enter voluntary mediation over parking in the Overton Park Greensward.

36. Memphis Zoo Removes Trees From Overton Park Greensward - Thursday, January 14, 2016

When the Overton Park Conservancy’s staff noticed 27 trees had been removed from the north end of the park’s greensward Monday, they immediately called Memphis Police.

The conservancy then began calling the other institutions in the park and found the Memphis Zoo had removed the trees donated to and planted by the conservancy four years ago.

37. Memphis Zoo Removes Trees From Overton Park Greensward - Thursday, January 14, 2016

When the Overton Park Conservancy’s staff noticed 27 trees had been removed from the north end of the park’s greensward Monday, they immediately called Memphis Police.

The conservancy then began calling the other institutions in the park and found the Memphis Zoo had removed the trees donated to and planted by the conservancy four years ago.

38. Overton Park Moves Toward Traffic Plan - Thursday, November 5, 2015

All sides in the parking dispute at Overton Park have agreed to hire a planner to coordinate a traffic plan as well as mediate talks among them.

And for the first time there will be a set of public hearings on the matter.

39. Overton Park to Celebrate Itself With ‘Merrymaking’ - Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Since its inception late in 2011, the Overton Park Conservancy has been in motion: removing the invasive and harmful vegetation in old-growth forest, finishing out the dog park, renovating a jogging trail, and completing Rainbow Lake Playground, among other projects.

40. Overton Park Protests Challenge Parking Pact - Tuesday, March 24, 2015

On the first Saturday of spring, a group of eight protesters blocked overflow Memphis Zoo parking on the Overton Park greensward for several hours.

The group of University of Memphis students stood at the gravel path onto the greensward as well as at another greensward car entrance in the first challenge to an agreement announced earlier this year between the city of Memphis, the zoo and the Overton Park Conservancy.

41. Parking Wars - Saturday, June 21, 2014

It’s been a hot, humid and restless spring at Overton Park.

The park has been crowded, but not as crowded as expected given the political tempest over parking on Overton’s greensward.

42. Brady: Zoo Parking Solution Difficult - Friday, June 20, 2014

The president of the Memphis Zoo says solutions to the parking problem at Overton Park won’t be easy and likely will involve change for all of the park’s institutions.

“Overton Park is a community park. … It’s clearly not a neighborhood park,” Chuck Brady told The Daily News in his first interview since protests began in late May over the zoo’s use of the park greensward for overflow parking. “It’s easy to define the problem. But it’s difficult to carve out a solution.”

43. Land Grab - Friday, May 16, 2014

It’s been implied, but an agreement on the general idea of building a Memphis Zoo parking garage was put in writing this week by the Overton Park Conservancy as protests over paid zoo parking on the park’s greensward are likely to continue.

44. New Bicycle Trails at Heart of Transit Changes - Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The formal dedication of the Overton Park Bike Gate Saturday, April 19, begins a new season of bike and pedestrian trails, including an ambitious experiment with Riverside Drive once the monthlong Memphis in May International Festival comes to an end with the Sunset Symphony.

45. Hampline Recalls Overton Park Interstate Plans - Thursday, February 27, 2014

In a city with lots of markers and monuments showing where historic events happened, there is an increasing amount of attention to a different kind of Memphis historic event.

And it involves something that did not happen – the interstate that was supposed to go through Overton Park 50 years ago but was first delayed and then stopped for good in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling 43 years ago this coming Sunday.

46. Arc de Overton - Friday, February 7, 2014

The bicycle arch on the eastern side of Overton Park should be installed Saturday, Feb. 8, where Sam Cooper Boulevard dead-ends into East Parkway.

47. Logjam - Friday, July 26, 2013

The Overton Park Conservancy is using the summer-to-fall lull at the park to take another look at how to handle the large crowds the park draws as it adds and renovates attractions.

Shuttle buses the conservancy experimented with twice this year worked well. There might be a way to reconfigure the park’s flow, and all of the institutions in the park are talking with each other regularly about events they are planning.

48. Promoting Play - Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Work crews with ViktorHall Construction have been wrapping up some extensive site work needed to renovate the area of Overton Park that houses the Rainbow Lake Playground.

That work is nearly finished and will offer adventurous youngsters a new Overton Park-themed place where they can play.

49. Overton Park Conservancy Explores Golf Course Management - Monday, March 25, 2013

The Overton Park Conservancy is considering a bid to run the Overton Park Golf Course for the city of Memphis.

“This is in the very, very preliminary stages,” said Tina Sullivan, executive director of the conservancy, which takes in all of the parkland at the Midtown landmark but currently not the nine-hole golf course, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Levitt Shell, Memphis College of Art or the Memphis Zoo.

50. Greenline to Keep Growing in 2013 - Thursday, December 27, 2012

In the coming year, the Shelby Farms Greenline could move a bit farther west from Tillman Street, where it now ends, to the Poplar Avenue viaduct with a goal of linking up with the Broad Avenue Arts District.

51. Aging With Grace - Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Overton Park’s combination party and fundraiser this past weekend celebrated a milestone birthday for the park.

But in addition to serving as a way for supporters to tip the hat in honor of the park’s 111th anniversary and enjoy drinks, hors d’oeuvres, music and dancing in the park’s “formal gardens,” the “Magical Night at Overton Park” event Saturday, Nov. 10, was something more. Tina Sullivan, executive director of the Overton Park Conservancy, said the event was the group’s first major fundraiser.

52. Overton Park Conservancy Meets Milestone With Dog Park - Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Overton Park Conservancy counted 150 dogs of all sizes for the formal opening Saturday, June 2, of the Overton Bark dog park and more humans than that, also of all shapes and sizes.

It is those holding the leashes that the conservancy hopes to hold the attention of through the first summer the park has been under the control of the nonprofit group. Since December, the conservancy has operated the park under a contract with the city of Memphis.

53. Dog Park at Heart of Overton Park Changes - Friday, June 1, 2012

Overton Park Conservancy leaders formally open a dog park Saturday, June 2, with a corporate sponsor paying for the undertaking, a new executive director on the job for about a month and plenty of maintenance work under way in other parts of the Midtown park.

54. Overton Bark to Hold Grand Opening Event Saturday - Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The grand opening of Overton Bark, Overton Park’s new dog park, is slated for Saturday, June 2, south of the Rainbow Lake playground and pavilion at Overton Park in Midtown.

The dog park covers 1.3 acres and was created after an Overton Park Conservancy community survey found that park users desired a fenced dog park.

55. Overton Park Conservancy Names Sullivan Exec. Director - Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Tina Sullivan is the new executive director of the Overton Park Conservancy effective May 1.

Sullivan was recommended by a search committee and the recommendation was approved by the conservancy board.

56. Sullivan Is Exec Dir Overton Park Conservancy - Monday, April 9, 2012

Tina Sullivan is the new executive director of the Overton Park Conservancy effective May 1.

Sullivan was recommended by a search committee and the recommendation was approved by the conservancy board.