Post by Logan on Apr 21, 2016 15:58:54 GMT -6
St. Louis Zoo reveals 25-year plan, including gondola, hotel, 6-acre flight cage and, perhaps, giant pandas
ST. LOUIS • The St. Louis Zoo has drafted plans for a $500 million, 25-year redevelopment and expansion that remakes the zoo’s southern half, complete with galloping giraffes, free-flying flamingos, a 2,000-foot-long gondola line and — perhaps — giant pandas.
The draft reveals the zoo’s plans to renovate large sections of its Forest Park campus, build a covered multispecies grassland over its southern parking lot, and expand into the 14 acres it bought in 2012 at the former Forest Park Hospital site.
At the same time, zoo leaders are shopping for 300 to 400 acres in St. Louis County to develop as a conservation breeding site, replacing the land they had hoped to buy at Grant’s Farm. They have looked at the 421-acre Emerald Greens Golf Course, for instance, in far north St. Louis County.
The zoo will raise private money to pay for the exhibits and expansion, leaders said.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-zoo-reveals--year-plan-including-gondola-hotel/article_a5d4519b-5554-5fe7-9795-d5f245b25794.html
ST. LOUIS • The St. Louis Zoo has drafted plans for a $500 million, 25-year redevelopment and expansion that remakes the zoo’s southern half, complete with galloping giraffes, free-flying flamingos, a 2,000-foot-long gondola line and — perhaps — giant pandas.
The draft reveals the zoo’s plans to renovate large sections of its Forest Park campus, build a covered multispecies grassland over its southern parking lot, and expand into the 14 acres it bought in 2012 at the former Forest Park Hospital site.
At the same time, zoo leaders are shopping for 300 to 400 acres in St. Louis County to develop as a conservation breeding site, replacing the land they had hoped to buy at Grant’s Farm. They have looked at the 421-acre Emerald Greens Golf Course, for instance, in far north St. Louis County.
The zoo will raise private money to pay for the exhibits and expansion, leaders said.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-zoo-reveals--year-plan-including-gondola-hotel/article_a5d4519b-5554-5fe7-9795-d5f245b25794.html