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One of the county’s historically standout youth athletes, now a prosperous business leader and high-impact philanthropist, made a new mark here. Multi-family housing magnate Ron Terwilliger, together with his attorney brother Bruce, in 2019 gave $1.5 million to the nonprofit partnership that bui ...
The National Park Service closed a section of Beach Drive in Upper Northwest D.C. to vehicle traffic on weekdays, but the decision won't be permanent.
In the latter half of the 20th century, pockets of people across the country called for converting abandoned railways into recreation trails. Bicyclist Peter Harnik, A&S '70, helped make it happen.
Tom Jones is principal at Smart City Consulting in Memphis. Disagreements about parks and local highways form two important and heroic chapters in the history of Memphis, but that’s because the right decisions were made – in favor of parks. One involved Overton Park and it produced a landmark Supreme Court ruling that protected the historic park from the devastating impact of a six-lane expressway. Another related to Shelby Farms Park and it was the Kirby/Whitten Parkway project originally planned as a six-lane highway. Memphis now faces a decision on another that can devastate the pot...