The Dallas Zoo on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction of a new parking garage.
The main entrance past ticketing at the Dallas Zoo. The zoo hopes to open a new parking garage in summer 2025.Construction work on a new four-story parking garage “will begin soon,” Dallas Zoo officials said in a news release. Zoo officials and the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday celebrated the start of construction at a groundbreaking ceremony.
The new garage, which will provide nearly 600 more guest parking spaces and will increase the zoo’s parking capacity by about 50%, according to zoo officials. The structure will be built on a 2-acre lot that is adjacent to the zoo’s main parking lot.
Funding for the project came from multiple sources, including money from Dallas’ 2017 city bond program, a grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments, an investment from the Dallas Zoo, as well as private fundraising, according to the news release. The parking garage will include vertical trellises planted with climbing vines and have giraffe-inspired color schemes, the release stated.
“With an efficient layout and a visually striking façade, this new parking garage not only meets practical needs but also stands as a testament to creative and thoughtful design,” the release said.A new ‘little leggy boy’ at the Dallas Zoo: Giraffe born earlier this month, officials say, Breaking News reporter. Hojun Choi covers breaking news. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Dallas Morning News, he was a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman.
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