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Shelby Park

NashVillager Podcast: Changes coming to Shelby Park

By Nina Cardona

May 15, 2024

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What’s next for one of Nashville’s signature green spaces? Plus your local newscast for May 15, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Friends of Shelby, growth and development, Metro Parks, Shelby Bottoms, Shelby Park

East Nashville is getting a new art center. It looks like a ship.

By Cynthia Abrams

November 2, 2023

A ship-shaped building in East Nashville will soon be revitalized into a new arts and cultural center. Two nonprofits, the Friends of Shelby Park and Bottoms and the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, announced the project plan Wednesday.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts and Business Council, Friends of Shelby, metro, Shelby Bottoms, Shelby Park, US Naval Training Center

There’s Otherworldly, Bright Red Water In East Nashville. A Botanist Explains.

By Tony Gonzalez

January 7, 2020

carolina mosquito fern

Something has turned the water bright red this year in one of the wetlands within Shelby Bottoms in East Nashville. It has caused photos and discussions to pop up across social media.

Filed Under: Science, WPLN News Tagged With: botany, East Nashville, Metro Parks, Shelby Park, wildlife

100 Years of Shelby Park

By Nina Cardona

October 11, 2012

The Friends of Shelby Park are gearing up for a birthday party this weekend. The park known as “East Nashville’s Backyard” is 100 years old. Shelby Park begins where the streetcar line from downtown used to end. In the 1890s, an amusement park was built there, complete with roller coasters. It only lasted a few […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Edward Jones, Shelby Park

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