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“Amazing and worth a visit. Took the Christmas dinner cruise and had two hours of fun. Nice meal from an attentive staff to excellent music from their in house band. Sights of the Mississippi at night against the lights of Memphis was awesome and highly recommended.” Luke F.

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“Our group did the evening cruise and had a phenomenal time out on the river. The food was okay, the band was great, and the views out on the river were fantastic. Definitely a fun non-Beale Street option!” Robert L.

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“Tour guide is so funny and knows a lot of the history. This is a fun tour where you learn why you Don't swim in the Mississippi!” ML A.

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Long sought after transformation of Memphis riverfront happened over the last six years

Today, memphis riverfront is creating new experiences, restoring the ecosystem, helping improve health outcomes, introducing school students to its wonders and building a stronger sense of community..

Tyree C. Daniels is chair of Memphis River Parks Partnership.

This is the spring Memphis has waited 100 years for.

A century ago, in 1924, legendary urban planner Harland Bartholomew , in our city’s first comprehensive plan, challenged Memphis to do more with its riverfront.

 “Today, the riverfront is not merely unattractive, but represents a flagrantly unprofitable use of the property … With proper architectural design, attractive lighting and the exercise of care in both public and private construction, this riverfront could be transformed into a picture of combined commercial and recreational activities truly representative of the city’s character and unsurpassed in attractiveness in any other city.”

Bartholomew’s prophecy was right about the power of a transformed riverfront, and today,  Memphians are voting with their feet in support of a great riverfront, with more than 500,000 visitors to the new Tom Lee Park alone in its first seven months.

How Carol Coletta brought urgency to riverfront revitalization

Over the intervening 100 years and despite dozens of plans and studies, the Memphis riverfront remained undervalued and underused, a reality punctuated by a featureless, formless Tom Lee Park.

That lack of action changed in 2017 when City of Memphis named a special riverfront task force to develop a concept for an engaging, welcoming and seamless five miles of riverfront parks. The following year, the Memphis River Parks Partnership was formed and charged by the City of Memphis with executing the task force’s plan.  

To bring the ambitious vision into reality and to do it with a sense of urgency, we needed C arol Coletta, lifelong Memphian ranked No. 12 by Planetizen among most influential women urbanists.

As senior fellow at Kresge Foundation, the initiative she helped create, Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative, had resulted in $8 million for public spaces in Memphis, including Cossitt Library, River Garden and Fourth Bluff Parks, and learning journeys for partners at Overton Park, Memphis Parks Division, Bloom, The Heights CDC, The Works CDC and Innovate Memphis.

The Partnership’s board’s appeal for her to join us led her to step down from her national platform and lead the riverfront parks’ transformation. Carol, along with her dedicated team and Partnership Board of Directors, have accomplished more on the city’s riverfront in recent years than any other city that comes to mind.

Park construction exceeds expectations of the City of Memphis

Within two years, two former Confederate-named parks were renamed and welcomed everyone, becoming River Garden and Fourth Bluff Park; River Line, a five-mile walking and biking trail on the riverfront, was connected; and new signage that won a national design award had been installed.

The partnership hired a team of internationally acclaimed architects, Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and Kate Orff of SCAPE, to design a new Tom Lee Park in keeping with our philosophy of hiring the best teams possible.

In 2021, Memphis broke ground on a reimagined Tom Lee Park, and on Labor Day of last year, the reimagined Tom Lee Park opened.

By then, its construction had produced a record-setting 42% in MWBE (Minority or Women-owned Businesses) participation, exceeding the 25% set by City of Memphis.

Equity is a founding principle for our work along the river

This month, Tom Lee Park will welcome its 500,000th visitor from the more than 125 ZIP codes – from families in Memphis and students on field trips to visitors from other states and other countries and even NBA players.

The rich potential of our riverfront has now been unlocked, and Tom Lee Park is a vibrant, distinctive park helping to brand Memphis as “America’s most fun city,” according to The (London UK) Times.

It is but the latest media accolade from national and international media that have praised the park’s emphasis on ecology, public art and exploration, and as Memphis’s tribute to our city’s own unique character as interpreted through the heroics of Tom Lee.

The special nature of Tom Lee Park has been endorsed by the awarding of competitive grants from the Mellon Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and U.S. Congress. With these grants and the generosity of local foundations, individuals and business leaders, the Partnership has delivered a riverfront that exceeds all expectations and is poised to do even more.

Today, our new riverfront is testament to the power of our history on this great river, especially by reflecting on equity as a founding principle for all of our work.

Today, our riverfront is creating new experiences, restoring the ecosystem, helping improve health outcomes, introducing school students to its wonders, building a stronger sense of community and creating common ground where every citizen of Memphis can come together. We’re building on these values to imagine improvements and new uses for all riverfront parks, including Mud Island Park.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the riverfront Memphis has waited 100 years for. We are proud of what we have accomplished in only six years and the overwhelming response from the public. Now we look to how the Partnership, working with the administration of Mayor Paul Young and Memphis City Council, can continue to elevate the city we all love.

TDOT shows what a new I-55 bridge could look like on Memphis skyline

M EMPHIS, Tenn. — A video released over the weekend shows a glimpse of what a proposed new bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis might look like.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation is studying plans for a new bridge to replace the current 75-year-old bridge that carries Interstate 55 over the river.

“We have applied for this grant with the Federal Highway Administration. It’s part of their large bridge grant. It’s for a replacement of the I-55 Bridge,” said Nichole Lawrence, TDOT spokesperson.

The proposed bridge would span about one and a half miles.

TDOT presented several options for how many towers and spans the proposed bridge might have, but the options shown in the video have a similar, modern design compared to the old steel bridges that now cross between Tennessee and Arkansas.

► Video: Proposed new I-55 bridge

The current Memphis Arkansas bridge was built in 1949 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. TDOT says it was not designed for modern interstate standards and has narrow, 11-foot lanes with almost no shoulder.

“The current condition of the bridge, the I-55 is really questionable. It’s not wide enough to provide any kind of emergency lanes on either side. So, it’s not as safe as it should be,” said John Dudas, Greater Memphis Chamber Transporation Committee Chairman.

The new bridge would have four 12-foot lanes with wide shoulders on each side.

“You guys know this as well as I do, you all are from Memphis. You drive these roads every day and that bridge, it’s not seismic or retrofitted,” Lawrence said. “The lanes are very narrow. So, this replacement would fix a lot of those problems.”

TDOT also says it would increase safety making it more earthquake resistant, bridge modernization would reduce maintenance costs, and improve route resiliency critical for freight rail and air cargo routes.

They are now asking for feedback about the proposed project.

“We got three days left for everyone to provide their comment,” Lawrence said. “They can go on the America’s River Crossing webpage and provide those comments for the next three days.”

TDOT is asking for feedback on the bridge proposals. You can leave feedback here.

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Lauryn Hill reunites with the Fugees at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn. on May 4, 2024.

Strands of chartreuse, gold and sapphire lights reflect off of the dark, rolling currents of the Mississippi River as Lauryn Hill takes the stage. Trading bar for bar with fellow Fugee Wyclef Jean at the forefront of a 10-piece band, the reunited hip-hop act electrifies a swarm of smartphone lights and the occasional cigarette lighter burning into the swampy, southern air.

As a mid-song interlude transitioned into the first melodies of Hill’s effervescent 1998 hit, “Doo Wop (That Thing),” the lights begin to pierce through a smokey haze wafting over a crowd on the Memphis riverfront.

Memphis has been hosting a music festival on its riverbanks in May since 1977. Almost without fail, the festival coincides with the coming of summer rains and thunderstorms pounding a dark, cloudy line over the flatlands of eastern Arkansas before smashing straight into the 100-foot bluffs holding the city’s foundations.

Tonight, the Fugees join a long line of entertainment greats who have played chicken with the weather to perform in one of the world’s great music cities. Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Mayer and Jay-Z have scattered sonic ashes into the air here. So too have Chuck Berry, Soundgarden, Ed Sheeran, Beck, Weezer and omnipresent hip-hop legends Three 6 Mafia, the reverberations of their creative genius burrowing into the bluffs and bouncing off of the distant, steel pyramid welcoming travelers from the west.

Occasionally in perfect weather with a brisk breeze blowing off of the water; but more often in between soggy deluges, an entourage of the world’s great musicians have performed for a city that in one way or another helped to nurture them all.

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Fans at Riverbeat Music Festival light up a Fugees reunion set with smartphone lights.

“You know I did get to rock it with Mr. B.B. King,” Jean says, before bending strings into his own spin on a blues progression that the Haitian hip-hop megastar could have plucked straight from a Beale Street bar a mile away. Energized by the performance and captivated by the appearance of the almost mythical Hill, the crowd began to pulse into a bobbing, breathing human interpretation of the river’s rolling water, forming a captivating backdrop to one of the band’s rare performances since splitting up in the late 1990s.

But this Fugees performance almost didn’t happen.

In October of 2023, the city’s longstanding festival presenter—Memphis in May International Festival—put its 47-year-old Beale Street Music Festival on hiatus. Citing declining attendance (37,000 in 2023 from a pre-pandemic average of about 100,000), a reduced capacity at its traditional home in Tom Lee Park and a $1.7 million repair bill to refurbish the recently renovated 31-acre riverfront park after its 2023 show, the non-for-profit organization suspended the festival indefinitely.

Six months ago, Memphis—the city that harbored the blues, birthed rock n’ roll and fostered cornerstones of modern hip-hop—was left without a signature summer music festival. Last fall, it seemed that May music in Memphis, of all places, would fall silent.

The news set off a tirade of swirling opinions on Beale Street Music Festival’s decline. Some blamed the pandemic. Others blamed an uptick in violent crime in the city. Some blamed newly relaxed state gun laws for bolstering that crime. Many blamed a $60 million renovation of Tom Lee Park, which saw the festival’s footprint transformed from a massive, open lawn into a more developed urban park with built-in forests, playgrounds and basketball courts.

The truth likely lies somewhere between a blend of the above and a shifting festival economy currently juggling market saturation and production costs.

Beale Street Music Festival is not the only multi-day music festival to hit pause on 2024. On the other side of Tennessee, sibling city Chattanooga canceled its longstanding Riverbend Festival for 2024. Philadelphia-based Made in America Festival was also suspended this year. And Colorado’s signature electronic music festival, Sonic Bloom, has followed suit.

But in Memphis, the beat goes on thanks to Riverbeat Music Festival a new, first-year event that defiantly pieced together a modern, three-day event into the footprint abandoned by its forerunner. Headlined by electronic/dance duo Odesza, rapper-turned-bard Jelly Roll and a reunited Fugees, the event was put together in just six months as a test bed for what organizers say will continue an annual Bluff City tradition.

“We’re going to be here,” says Mempho Presents founder Kevin McEniry. McEniry’s company began producing Mempho Music Festival , a smaller, more rock-focused autumn festival in 2017. “The idea is not to make and earn a lot of money. The idea is to try and build something that is sustainable over time and the city can be proud of.”

Fans revel in the sounds of Odesza on May 3, 2024 at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn.

Though McEniry’s festival is occupying the same ground as its predecessor, Riverbeat feels markedly different than Beale Street Music Festival. In nearly five decades of operation, Beale Street Music Festival garnered a reputation for blending resplendent Mississippi River sunsets and memorable performances with an opposing quagmire of muddy fields. Indeed, veteran festival goers at Riverbeat can be easily spotted by mud-caked hiking boots still bearing the scars of past years.

A smaller crowd and redesigned park with more sidewalk space, paired with Riverbeat’s seemingly more thoughtful approach to crowd flow, have helped keep the mud this year at a bay. Portable toilets, for instance, are no longer located on grassy fields prone to becoming pudding pits after the first real downpour.

Gone, too, are Beale Street Music Festival’s trio of hulking main stages that often bled sound atop one another. Riverbeat staggers its schedule between two main stages and two smaller stages that allow for an efficient flow between sets. Commutes are relegated to short treks along a riverwalk that is no longer separated from the public via fencing or new, forested paths of some 1,000 native trees planted during Tom Lee Park’s recent remodel.

Tom Lee Park itself, once a backdrop, is now a co-star of the festival. Ample seating areas along the riverfront encourage visitors to sit and sip local brews or lattes beside the swirling water below. A shaded pavilion harboring basketball courts throughout the year doubles as a stand-in for the old festival’s beloved blues tent.

Those touches, along with premium VIP experiences with plush seating in elevated lounge areas, create a less chaotic atmosphere that feels more akin to hanging out with friends in a park that just happens to have a lineup of performing musicians than a dedicated slog through the muddy Beale Street Music Fest of old.

Spencer Stewart of The Band Camino plays a homecoming set at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, ... [+] Tenn on May 4, 2024.

In its first year, Riverbeat’s first year attendance feels light.

McEniry hopes to ultimately draw 22,000 people per day to the three-day event, but Riverbeat is not there yet. They may only be halfway there. If his company is able to achieve their goal going forward, they will still be drawing about 34,000 fewer people than Beale Street Music Festival reported at its peak. But in a world where even professional sports teams are focusing on luxury experiences instead of raw numbers, perhaps a more boutique festival is a new perfect fit.

In this music city, the tailoring is important.

Festivals feel especially significant in Memphis thanks to an unusual civic glitch: Despite occupying the rarest of air among global music cities, Memphis struggles to host the kind of mid-size concerts where many artists thrive. The 18,000-seat FedExForum, home of the Memphis Grizzlies and Tigers basketball teams, is too large for many tours. The 10,000-seat Mid-South Coliseum has been shuttered for decades. 1,700-seat Minglewood Hall, the 2,000-seat Graceland Sound Stage and 2,500 seat Orpheum Theatre— all wonderful homes for more intimate performances—are too small for major tours. A smattering of nearby venues in North Mississippi often host mid-size gigs in the greater Memphis metropolitan area, but outside of its festival scene, the city that birthed much of the world’s favorite sounds currently has few options for many bands that might otherwise perform in the city.

Without regular festivals, Memphis sits at an awkward crossroads for acts drawing more than 2,500 fans but less than 18,000. And that’s a problem.

It’s a problem because people want to hear live music in Memphis. And people will travel to Memphis to listen.

According to Memphis Tourism CEO Kevin Kane, more than half of the city’s 13 million annual tourists are connected directly to its music destinations, primarily Graceland and Beale Street. The former Presley compound at Graceland is still the most visited private home in the United States, luring in more than 500,000 visitors annually. Beale Street draws in an estimated four million visitors per year, regularly ranking as the number one tourist destination in Tennessee despite the marketing buzz of Broadway’s made-for-tv honky tonks in Nashville.

For Memphis Tourism, an annual music festival in May means a jump start on the summer travel season. “We traditionally got a really good jump on the summer travel season because of Memphis in May having their music festival,” says Kane. “The number one reason most people come is in some form or fashion for the music, whether that is for Elvis, Beale Street, Sun Studio , Stax or the International Blues Challenge .

Black Pumas vocalist Eric Burton glances towards the Mississippi River at stage right during a ... [+] performance at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn on May 5, 2024.

“We have to draw in visitors and we need people staying in hotels, buying food and enjoying this event. We want them to build a following so people come back each year.”

On stage, Riverbeat’s coalition of around 50 acts represent a flourishing stroke of the city’s impact on multiple genres. Atlanta hip-hop icons Big Boi and Killer Mike have made the short trip over to answer the call from Memphis. Houston’s Tobe Nwigwe joins the frey alongside honorary local ambassadors to Houston 8Ball & MJG. Nashville-based but Memphis born alt-rock trio The Band CAMINO returns home, recounting tales of May music festivals of old that flew under a different banner. And young blues sensations Southern Avenue share a bill with blues royalty like Robert Randolph, Charlie Musselwhite and Kenny Brown.

“There are a lot of artists here who are internationally known but are from the city of Memphis,” says Southern Avenue vocalist Tierinii Jackson, whose five-piece band spreads a modern blues sound across the globe. “It’s a spiritual experience because of the legacy and the history of the city. The city has thrived because of music culture, and in order for the city to continue to thrive, we need to be pouring into that culture. It’s such a rich history, with so many amazing musicians coming out of Memphis.”

Tierinii Jackson of Southern Avenue performs at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn.

“You don’t have a lot of cities like Memphis in America,” adds lead guitar Ori Naftaly. “Almost from the moment that microphones became a technology, the most successful music came out of Memphis and this area. Really, from the beginning, There’s something about the energy here, something in the water here where things come together and seem to go out into the world.”

In the crowd, a mingling of curious locals blend with visitors from across the region that have a wider perspective on Memphis. A pair of travelers from St. Louis cite Memphis as a city on the rise while soaking in a parade of paddlewheel steamboats on coursing through a burning, orange sunset. St. Louis has an arch, they say, but fails to utilize its riverfront along the very same river.

“I’m so happy that Memphis has this going on,” says Monica Keshwara, an EDM fan who flew in from Atlanta to experience Riverbeat’s electronic DJ hub, Whateverland. “I moved to Atlanta but I came back just for this event. The river view vibes are the best. I’m going to make out with Odesza tonight!”

“I love the park,” says Memphian Kenn Gibbs, “I’ve been monitoring its progress over the past several years, and it’s amazing now. Walking along the riverwalk while listening to musicians is one of the best experiences in Memphis.”

Jelly Roll fans converge on the festival closer at Riverbeat Music Festival in Memphis, Tenn. on May ... [+] 5, 2024.

By day three, the rains have finally caught up to Riverbeat and throngs of weathered, mud-caked boots finally begin to prove their worth.

Facing its first real test against the vengeful precipitation and winds ripping across the river delta, show organizers postpone opening the gates for two hours while storms fizzle out. Newly-elected Memphis Mayor Paul Young joins city folk heroes 8Ball & MJG on stage amidst light sprinkles. But by the time Outkast rapper Big Boi’s Atlanta contingent launches into the title track from 1994’s “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” around nightfall, the deluge returns in earnest.

“It ain’t nothin but a little rain,” belts Big Boi, igniting a Memphis crowd well-versed in the back catalogue of their cultural cousins from Georgia delighting in the throwback tracks from Outkast and a cut of “Kryptonite” from supergroup Purple Ribbon All-Stars.

Big Boi performs "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik" in the rain during Riverbeat Music Festival on ... [+] May 5, 2024.

Big Boi has another surprise for the crowd, too—one that’s become a theme over the weekend—a cameo from a Memphis artist. Grammy award-winning engineer and East High School product Renegade El Rey (fresh off of a Grammy win with Killer Mike’s “Michael” album) launches onto the stage with a spellbinding flow backed by bonafide hip-hop royalty.

Moments later, festival closer and country music megastar Jelly Roll finishes sound check as Big Boi’s crowd migrates stages. Winds continue to percolate over the Mississippi River at stage right as a line of thunderstorms flash over the fields of Arkansas. Stretches of grassy lawn in between newly-minted sidewalks, Pronto Pup stands and beer tents begin to return to their familiar, soggy festival forms of old.

Already amped by an energetic performance from Big Boi, the crowd erupts for the opening chords of the Nashville-based Jelly Roll. Paradoxical in a city that’s about as un-Nashville as they come, Jelly Roll unleashes a torrent of twang over a rock-heavy opening salvo replete with fireballs and smoke machines. A cameo from Jelly Roll’s early career co-star, Memphis rapper Lil Wyte, and an improvised “Mafia!” chant referencing his early fandom to Three 6 Mafia work to win over the few fans unaware of the country star’s background.

“Many moons ago, I used to go to a similar festival right here called Memphis in May,” quips a markedly candid Jelly Roll. “Back then, we were just fans.”

Riverbeat organizers say they are planning a return to Tom Lee Park in 2025, giving music fans a reason to continue traveling back to one of the world’s great sonic cities.

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Red Lobster website lists 87 locations 'temporarily closed' in 27 states: See full list

Red Lobster has abruptly closed dozens of restaurants across the country.

A look at the restaurant chain's website reveals 87 stores temporarily closed across 27 states, with some of them having their kitchen equipment up for auction on an online restaurant liquidator.

The liquidator, TAGeX Brands, announced Monday it is auctioning off equipment this week from 48 locations that have closed. The website says auctions are live and will end periodically on Thursday, and that each winner will receive the "entire contents of the Red Lobster location they bid on."

USA TODAY reached out to Red Lobster on Tuesday and did not get a response prior to publication.

Here's what we know about the closures, including where they're happening and why these restaurants are closing.

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Closed Red Lobster locations

Each of these restaurants are currently listed as temporarily closed on the website:

• Rohnert Park
• Wheat Ridge
• Altamonte Springs
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Gainesville
• Jacksonville (Commerce Center Drive)  
• Jacksonville (Baymeadows Road)  
• Jacksonville (City Station Drive)
• Orlando (E. Colonial Dr.)
• Orlando (W. Colonial Dr.)
• Orlando (Golden Sky Lane) 
• Tampa (East Busch Blvd.)
• Tampa (Palm Pointe Dr.)
• Bloomingdale
• Indianapolis (N. Shadeland Ave.)
• Kansas City
• Bossier City
• Gaithersburg
• Silver Spring

Mississippi

• Jefferson City
• Bridgewater
• East Brunswick
• Lawrenceville
• Poughkeepsie
• Stony Brook
• Williamsville

North Carolina

• Rocky Mount

North Dakota

• Grand Forks
• Oklahoma City

Pennsylvania

South carolina.

• Myrtle Beach
• Dallas (E. Technology Blvd.)
• Dallas (Vantage Point Dr.)
• Lake Jackson
• Colonial Heights
• Newport News
• Williamsburg

Red Lobster considered filing for bankruptcy in April

The seafood chain considered filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month in an effort to restructure its debt,  according to Bloomberg .

The company had been getting advice from law firm King & Spalding as it looked to shed some long-term contracts and renegotiate leases, Bloomberg reported, noting that Red Lobster's cash flows had been weighed down by leases and labor costs, among other issues.

Red Lobster suffered big losses with 'Ultimate Endless Shrimp' promotion

In 2023, the seafood chain's " Ultimate Endless Shrimp " deal became more popular than expected, inadvertently becoming a key factor in a $11 million loss in the third quarter.

The limited-time promotional deal, in which guests picked two types of shrimp to enjoy nonstop for $20, landed a permanent spot on Red Lobster menus in June. Red Lobster's parent company, Thai Union Group, said in November 2023 that the chain was headed toward a $20 million loss for 2023. Now the endless shrimp deal costs $25.

Thai Union Group CFO Ludovic Regis Henri Garnier said in an earnings report call that the company was aware the initial price for the endless-shrimp deal was cheap. The offer was intended to draw customers into restaurants, but orders exceeded expectations, he said.

"We wanted to boost our traffic, and it didn't work," Garnier told investors in November 2023, according to  Restaurant Business Magazine . "We want to keep it on the menu. And of course we need to be much more careful regarding what are the entry points and what is the price point we are offering for this promotion."

Chris Sims is a digital content producer at Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter:  @ChrisFSims .

Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X  @GabeHauari  or email him at [email protected].