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Memphians mostly "wanted things that already existed in smaller neighborhood parks", says Jeanne Gang, founding principal and partner of Chicago-based Studio Gang. DEPARTMENTS IT'S LITERALLY the stuff of legend (local Memphis, in this case): on May 8, 1925, a Black riverman named Tom Lee singlehandedly rescued 32 people, all white, from drowning, when the steamboat M.E. Norman capsized in the murky waters of the Mississippi. The first completed section of the new Tom Lee Park was Cutbank Bluff, with its gently sloping switchback path serving as a direct, ADA-compliant link between Vance and Beale streets and the northernmost section of the park, where visitors enter through a sweeping gateway plaza anchored by a misting fountain. [Extracted from the article]