How the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid Became a Memphis Icon. Boyce Upholt. Wed, ... black, stainless-steel pyramid that rises 321 feet above the flat landscape of Memphis, ... A mounted white-tailed deer ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World were to open a rural American South pavilion, no doubt it would look a lot like the ginormous new Bass Pro Shop (1 Bass Pro Drive ...

Long a white elephant along the Mississippi, the Memphis Pyramid was built as a sports arena in 1991, and once hosted the Memphis Grizzlies. But the NBA team moved in 2004 and ever since the world ...

Shopping at Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid is uncharacteristic of most other Black Friday experiences, shoppers agreed. News Sports Memphis Tigers Business Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals NEWS ...

The Tomb of Doom. High strangeness marked the Memphis Pyramid from the start. Before the ambitious construction project for a towering, steel pyramid on the banks of the Mississippi River broke ...

Bass Pro opens megastore in Memphis’ Pyramid by Max Brantley April 29, ... with Bass Pro leasing the Pyramid from the city for 55 years at 2 percent of gross sales a year up to $1 million a year.

In 2015, Memphis' 321-foot-tall "Great American Pyramid" reopened as a Bass Pro Shop megastore after being abandoned for roughly a decade. The 32-floor pyramid contains a hotel, an indoor swamp ...

The Memphis Pyramid, a former sports and concert arena and Mississippi River landmark which has sat largely idle for 11 years, has reopened this week as a retail and entertainment complex which the ...

In 2005, when word leaked that the pyramid might become a Bass Pro Shops superstore, there was a bit of civic unease. Memphis had always prided itself on being the classy cosmopolitan part of the ...