When you have to go to the bathroom in the furnace room, it might be a sign you’re in need of some new office space.
But that’s the situation administrative employees of the Sedgwick County Zoo face daily.
“This is a 60-year-old building that we have here,” said County Commissioner David Dennis. “It was initially a plastics factory . . . it was supposed to be torn down. This is the kind of conditions that our folks are living in every single day to support our zoo.” Help is on the way.
New office space is part of a planned $15 million upgrade of the zoo’s entryway, gift shop, a ride-on solar-powered train and a leopard habitat.
That will be phase one of a master plan to update the county’s No. 1 tourist attraction for the next 25 years.
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