Quote Originally Posted by Midtowner View Post
There's a lot of land at the Zoo which would work to host this site. There's also probably a great deal in cost savings in already having on-site vet and food preparation facilities. Parts of the existing aquarium could be incorporated into an expansion. There aren't any displays left in the area as most of the animals who were housed in the old stalls on that side of the zoo moved to the Asia exhibit or elsewhere. Once you get past the Manta Ray exhibit and the kids zoo, there's really nothing back there except the sea lions, which I would expect to be part of the aquarium.
As much as I would like an aquarium downtown by the river. It would be a huge value added to the OKC zoo and really put the OKC zoo complex into the national spotlight. If you consider the existing infrastructure and a degree of a post MAPS funding mechanism already in place it seems like something to really consider.