For 50 years, Centennial Park’s Art Center has served as a community hub for exhibits and teaching workshops. But there was a time when the arts center was a bathhouse for one of the city’s segregated pools during Jim Crow. Now, this hidden history will have a permanent reminder.
Kids can now learn how to prepare basic meals while participating in Metro Parks’ food program
Metro Parks is expanding its youth food program to teach kids basic food preparation skills.
The debate continues over COVID-19 money to clean up homeless encampments in Nashville parks
Metro is considering funding to monitor homeless encampments with security cameras.
Metro Parks Board won’t alter its rules to name a park after civil rights icon Diane Nash
Some members of the Metro Parks Board were unwilling to waive a rule to rename Nashville’s Public Square Park after Diane Nash.
Record investment in Metro Parks proposed in Nashville’s latest capital spending plan
Funding is up this year in Nashville’s latest blueprint for tackling city infrastructure projects.
Curious Nashville: Those Sculptures You Wondered About In Centennial Park Are Finally On Track For Repairs
A combination of local fundraising and a state grant will bring some attention and care to historic concrete structures in Nashville’s Centennial Park.
North Nashville’s Historic Hadley Park Is One Step Closer To Being Renamed After Freedom Fighter
North Nashville’s historic Hadley Park is one step closer to being renamed. The Metro Board of Parks and Recreation voted for the site to be called Hadley-Lillard Park to include the deceased civil rights activist Kwame Lillard.
Long-Awaited Mill Ridge Park Breaks Ground In Antioch
Nashville’s latest multi-phase park project is getting closer to completion after a yearslong administrative process.
Once Endangered, A Downtown Nashville Pocket Park Returns With New Design And Programs
Church Street Park in downtown Nashville officially reopened last week and it has already begun to hum with new activity.
Nashville’s Parks Get Mixed Scorecard As City Slips Down National Ranking
Nashville’s ranking continues to fall in a national assessment of city parks systems, now ranking 86 out of the 100 most populous cities. Just a few years ago, the city was in the middle of the pack.