As touched upon in the last post, the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing recently received a millage of $.41 mill after the elections held on Nov. 2. The money that the zoo has received will go towards building new animal exhibits (such as the Rhino exhibit they're currently working on) as well as repairing some of the deteriorating infrastructure on the old buildings, seeing as how this is the zoo's 90th anniversary. It's important to realize how much the rebuilding of the zoo will help out Lansing's economy. Not only will a better zoo attract more people visiting in the area, but it will just look better overall. The zoo lags in the "beautiful" department, so hopefully this will help that problem. Plus, Lansing is the capitol city of our state and we don't want that represented by a zoo that is old and falling apart with hardly any exotic animals. Here's a link to a video I posted on YouTube about the construction going on at the zoo and what a visitor and student felt about the reconstruction going on.
Also, here's a link to a YouTube video a professor at MSU, Bonnie Bucqueroux, posted about a year ago about the zoo and the good and bad things she thought about it, just to get a different side of view.
No comments:
Post a Comment