What:
Woodland
Park Zoo invites the community to two open houses for a new entry to
the west side of the award-winning institution. The
open houses will be at the zoo’s Education Center and at Marymoor
Park in Redmond, Wash. This is an opportunity for you to visit with zoo
staff and project architects, learn about our new west entry, and explore
our design and provide your valuable input.
When/Where:
Saturday, February 9, 2008
10:00 a.m.-noon
Woodland Park Zoo Education Center near South Entrance at
N. 50th St. & Fremont
Ave. N. Free parking
Saturday, February 9, 2008
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Art Barn at Marymoor Park – West Entry,
6046 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway
NE.
Info:
For information about the open houses, call 206.684.4800 or email webkeeper@zoo.org.
Beginning January 25, the zoo’s phone number will change to 206.548.2500.
The zoo’s planned new west entry will be a fun and fresh face to the zoo
on Phinney Avenue. As part of the zoo’s Long-Range Physical Development
Plan, the new “front door” will provide dramatically improved visitor
services and lead guests to the zoo’s signature penguin exhibit. It will
be located one block north of the zoo’s existing entry on the west. The
new penguin exhibit will open in summer 2009 and the west entry at the end of
2009.
While the zoo’s north entrance will be permanently closed, access from
the zoo’s north parking lot and the public park at the northwest corner
of the zoo will be enhanced. A new pedestrian path, open to both zoo visitors
and neighbors, will connect the north parking lot to the west entry welcome plaza.
This will provide walkers with a convenient and scenic alternative to busy Phinney
Avenue, including picturesque views of the zoo’s North Meadow.
The welcoming plaza will offer visitors every amenity needed to begin or end
a fun zoo journey: a new state-of-the-art admittance gate, visitor assistance,
restrooms, a coffee bar and café, a zoo-themed retail store, benches and
tables, play spaces for kids and more.
Accredited
by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), award-winning Woodland
Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting
international standards for zoos all over the world. Conservation,
education and excellent animal care are at the core of the zoo’s
mission. The zoo is helping to save animals and their habitats in
Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow
leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles
and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring people to care and
act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s
future.
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