The San Antonio Zoo has big plans for expansion and upgrades and it’s a multi-year plan that will cost tens of millions of dollars.
We have a lot of construction going right now, a lot of improvements happening. The main project we have is an all new entrance that is going to greet guests here later this year, at the end of November, beginning of December, and then throughout the zoo. Over the last few years, we’ve invested almost $80 million back into the zoo and really upgrading it and getting ready for these massive projects like this front gate.
The time table is not necessarily set in stone, but families can start seeing big changes over the next couple of years.e’re hopeful to open in the first half of 2025 with gorillas. So really excited. And people will start to see construction in that corner of the zoo in the next couple of months and just really excited about bringing those gorillas back to San Antonio. The habitat is big, one of the biggest, if not the biggest in the country of two acres of gorilla space.
The plan is to make the San Antonio Zoo an attraction and economic driver to bring in people from around the country.We do know people from Austin visit our zoo, and we do know people from Austin because the San Antonio so just like the Spurs, we really want to tap into that audience and be welcoming to them. And get them to San Antonio and hopefully stay a couple of nights in hotels, eat at all the restaurants, and enjoy all these amazing attractions that we have in San Antonio,” Morrow said.
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