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Riverfront partnership reports 2.1 million visits in 2024; council presses for shared plan on subcontracting and management agreements
Summary
Memphis River Parks Partnership told the council it drew about 2.1 million visits across the five-mile riverfront in 2024 and runs hundreds of free public programs. Council members asked for a strategic, city-aligned plan and clearer management and subcontracting agreements to protect the public character and brand of the riverfront.
The interim CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership told a City Council committee on April 8 that riverfront programming and hosted events drew about 2.1 million visits in 2024 and reach thousands of local schoolchildren, but council members pressed the partnership to provide a shared, citywide strategic plan and clearer rules for subcontracting or subleasing riverfront spaces.
Art Davis told the committee the partnership’s free programming served thousands of youths in 2024 and included school field trips, poetry and spoken-word…
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