Editing Memphis Pyramid (section)

{{Short description|Arena in Tennessee, United States}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox building
| name                = Memphis Pyramid
| former_names        = Great American Pyramid<br>Pyramid Arena
| alternate_names     = The Pyramid<br>Bass Pro Shops Pyramid<ref name="wreg">{{cite web |last1=Falcon |first1=Russell |title=What’s the deal with the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis? |url=https://wreg.com/news/whats-the-deal-with-the-bass-pro-shops-pyramid-in-memphis/ |website=WREG.com |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=19 August 2023}}</ref><br>Tomb of Doom<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sills |first1=Joe |title=The Unbelievable True Story Of How The Memphis Pyramid Became A Bass Pro Shops |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/joesills/2020/08/26/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-how-the-memphis-pyramid-became-a-bass-pro-shops/ |website=Forbes |language=en |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=26 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Hollis |last2=Taylor |first2=Kate |title=We stayed in one of the largest pyramids in the world, a Bass Pro Shops-owned lodge filled with alligators, swamps, and rumors of an ancient curse. Here's what it was like. |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bass-pro-shops-pyramid-photos-2018-7 |website=Business Insider |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
| image               = [[File:Bass Pro Shop, Memphis, TN (33126417384).jpg|border|250px]]
| caption             = The Pyramid in 2016
| cost                = US$65 million<br>(${{formatprice|{{Inflation|US-GDP|65000000|1991}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}} dollars){{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}
| ren_cost            =
| owner               = [[Memphis, Tennessee|City of Memphis]]
| current_tenants     = [[Bass Pro Shops]]
| address             = 1 Bass Pro Drive
| location            = [[Memphis, Tennessee]]
| public_transit      = {{rint|bus|1}} [[Memphis Area Transit Authority|MATA]]<br>{{rint|heritage|tram}} {{RouteBox|Main Street Line|Main Street Line (MATA Trolley)|magenta|white|bold=}}<br>{{rint|heritage|tram}} {{RouteBox|Riverfront Loop|Riverfront Loop (MATA Trolley)|green|white|bold=}}
| groundbreaking_date = September 15, 1989<ref name="Baird">{{cite news |title=Memphis Will Celebrate|first=Woody|last=Baird|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_vohAAAAIBAJ&pg=2543,7125018&dq=en|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=September 15, 1989|access-date=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
| opened_date         = November 9, 1991<ref name="news.google.com">{{cite news |title=Big Pyramid, Little Wonder|first=Woody|last=Baird|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pAFOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5002,1577415&dq=en|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=November 9, 1991|access-date=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
| renovation_date     = November 2011–April 2015
| height              = {{convert|321|ft}}
| architect           = [[Rosser International|Rosser Fabrap International]]<ref name="construction">{{cite journal |last1=Griffis |first1=Larry |title=The Great American Pyramid |url=https://cedb.asce.org/CEDBsearch/record.jsp?dockey=0066385 |website=[[Civil Engineering Database]] |date=1990 |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=56–58 |publisher=[[American Society of Civil Engineers]] |access-date=March 29, 2025}}</ref><br> O.T. Marshall Architects (Bass Pro Shops improvements)
}}

The '''Memphis Pyramid''', formerly known as the '''Great American Pyramid''' and the '''Pyramid Arena''', and colloquially known as the '''Bass Pro Shops Pyramid''',<ref>{{cite web|last=Murtaugh|first=Frank|title=The Mall of Memphis : Remembering the Marketplace of the Midsouth &#124; Main / Pyramid|url=http://www.mallofmemphis.org/Main/Pyramid|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111202346/http://www.mallofmemphis.org/Main/Pyramid|archive-date=January 11, 2012|access-date=January 14, 2012|website=The Mall of Memphis}}</ref> is a pyramid-shaped building located in downtown [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]], United States, at the bank of the [[Mississippi River]]. Built in 1991 as a 20,142-seat [[arena]], the facility was owned and operated jointly by the city of Memphis and [[Shelby County, Tennessee|Shelby County]] until Shelby County sold its share to Memphis in April 2009.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McMillin |first1=Zack |title=Once filled to the rafters, Pyramid sits empty as its future is debated |url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/may/10/quiet-as-a-tomb/ |access-date=March 29, 2025 |newspaper=[[The Commercial Appeal]] |location=Memphis, Tennessee |date=May 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511152231/http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/may/10/quiet-as-a-tomb/ |archive-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> Its structure plays on the city's [[Memphis, Egypt|namesake]] in [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]], which is known for its ancient [[pyramid]]s. It is {{convert|321|ft}} (about 32 stories) tall and has base sides of {{convert|591|ft}}; it is by some measures the tenth-tallest [[pyramid]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=The World's Tallest 15 Pyramids|url=http://thehungrysuitcase.com/the-15-tallest-pyramids-in-the-world/|website=The Hungry Suitcase|date=November 17, 2013|access-date=July 19, 2015|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721230553/http://thehungrysuitcase.com/the-15-tallest-pyramids-in-the-world/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Memphis Pyramid has not been regularly used as a sports or entertainment venue since 2007. In 2015, the Pyramid re-opened as a [[Bass Pro Shops]] megastore, which included shopping, a hotel, restaurants, a bowling alley, and an archery range, with an outdoor observation deck adjacent to its apex. [[Ducks Unlimited]] also operates a museum on [[waterfowl hunting]] and wetlands conservation inside of the store.