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Harbor Town is a new urbanist-style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres (53 hectares) on a sandbar in the Mississippi River known as Mud Island . It was developed in 1989, [ 1 ] and was a collaborative effort of Memphis developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, and the Looney Ricks Kiss architectural firm from ...
Mud Island River Park Hydraulic scale model of Mississippi Map of the City of Memphis in the Mississippi River Park. Mud Island is a small peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] It is bordered by the Mississippi River to the west and the Wolf River and Harbor Town to the east. Mud Island River Park is within the Memphis city limits, 1.2 miles (1. ...
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Memphis did try to annex this area in the mid-2000s but held it off due to an inability to move services into the area. Per Tennessee law, each county is required to set up urban growth boundaries for it cities. Because of this, Memphis (along with each suburb) has what is known as an annexation reserve that defines the eventual city limits.
The Forge Memphis presented plans to City Council for a $10 million adventure park on Mud Island, including climbing towers, a zip line and more.
In 1959, the Memphis Downtown Airport was opened on Mud Island, which at that time was called City Island. The one-runway airport could be reached by a pontoon-boat ferry and was used mostly by businessmen and shoppers. The Downtown Airport was closed in 1970. [3] It was replaced in the 1990s by the new urbanist Harbor Town development.
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