I want them to see the bridge lit at night and to walk across Big River Crossing. There’s nothing about Memphis that depresses me. 88% of students who took our class passed the exam and became AICP* certified. There’s nothing about Memphis that makes me think, It just can’t be done. The organization has also made community engagement a top priority, says Coletta. Season 9 Episode 19 | 26m 30s As a lifelong Memphian, Carol has deep affection for the city, and paired with an illustrious career studying how to build successful, happy communities, she is especially well suited to take on this next opportunity. To learn more about Carol’s work with the Memphis River Parks Partnership, visit memphisriverparks.org. She was really gracious and kind to me.

"In particular, we are leading efforts to define pedestrian and cycling corridors between the riverfront and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as bring attention to the long-overlooked MLK Park south of downtown, to use as an anchor for new investment in the adjacent neighborhood." Carol Coletta of the Memphis River Parks Partnership writes that Memphis has not taken full advantage of the development and investment potential of the riverfront property along the Mississippi River. I think the best advice is people don’t want to hear your story, they want to hear their story. And thank you to Mary Kate Steele for these beautiful photos.

The budget for Austin’s massive transportation plan was cut by nearly a third in the wake of the pandemic, but a tax rate increase to help pay for it is still on the ballot for November.

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Welcome Carol Coletta, our newest FACE of Memphis! So that means it needs to be dense, it needs to be walkable, it needs to be mixed use, it needs to be mixed income, it needs to be well served by something in addition to cars, and it needs to be welcoming to everyone. She was one of the original female disc jockeys at WHER, Sam Phillips’ all-female radio station. This latest in a series of eminent positions augments her role as a senior fellow at The Kresge Foundation, a national philanthropy actively reimagining the Memphis waterfront and the ways our citizens can connect through it. We are so connected to nature – even when we don’t realize it in our heads, we know it in our hearts. All of that, and the fact that our riverfront is not separated from downtown by an expressway. Copy a link to this video to your clipboard, Behind the Headlines is a local public television program presented by. One of the reasons they don’t trust each other is because they have very little interaction with each other. There are things that we have not done as well as other cities, but I also think there are some extraordinary, nationally competitive people and organizations doing work here. The riverfront hosts regular programs, one-off activations and seasonal happenings. Report a Problem | Riverfront Development Corp 125 N Front St Memphis TN 38103. The definitive ranking of graduate planning programs. View pictures, check Zestimates, and get scheduled for a tour of Waterfront listings. Search the definitive online directory of academic programs in urban planning and related fields. My parents thought I’d moved to another country. I moved to Whitehaven at one point and lived there and then came to Midtown in my early adulthood. In Memphis, the story is different. Reviews (901) 521-2832 Website. All rights reserved. We can remove the first video in the list to add this one. Thank you so much, Carol, for your love for and work in Memphis! We’ve got an incredible canvas on which to work. And of course, the power of the Mississippi River at Memphis takes your breath away. Shop our selection of creative children's toys and activities for budding planners and designers. Thank you for helping us improve PBS Video. There’s nothing about Memphis that makes me think, It just can’t be done.“. Creating a riverfront that works for everyone, every day, is the only way to achieve our mission of harnessing the transformative power of the river for all Memphians," says Coletta. See what’s coming soon to the riverfront here. Your report has been successfully submitted. We need a civic commons desperately in our lives because trust among people in America and in our communities is on the severe decline. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Carol Coletta, President & CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, joins host Eric Barnes, to discuss the plans for an extensive Memphis Riverfront expansion. Free programming is another way the organization is working to promote diversity among users of the riverfront. There is so little of it, but I love the Grizzlies and I love the University of Memphis basketball and football. Six miles of publicly owned land is pretty amazing. I started lucky, with a female boss in a moment in time when you wouldn’t necessarily have a female executive. We can remove the first show in the list to add this one. ©2020 StyleBlueprint, a SB Media Company          Site: Bailey Graphic Design, Inc. Andria is an advertising professional, freelance writer, concert presenter and mother who has happily called Memphis home for two decades. This is a cautionary tale. Desiree Stennett covers economic development and business at The Commercial Appeal. You've just tried to add this show to My List. I actually wrote the mayor when I was in high school and told him what he should do with Beale Street. In 1969, a plan for a 16-lane expressway along our riverfront was rejected, and, in 1971, a U.S. Supreme Court decision protected Overton Park from an interstate. I have a real affinity with that part of the city. I went to Holiday Inn Inc., and while I was there, I saw that there was a Court Square Task Force, and I called the woman whose name was in the paper about it. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who helped invent New Urbanism, was the head of the Knight Fellows program in Community Building at University of Miami. Check out our behind the scenes look at 25 careers in Urban Planning. Joan Shigekawa at the NEA was wonderful. Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List. I was raised in South Memphis, which I’m very proud of.