ZSL London Zoo Biota Aquarium

sooty mangabey

sooty mangabey

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So, we roll into 2009. Does anybody have any definitive news on what is happening with ZSL's Biota thing - the aquarium which they claim to be aiming to build along the Thames?

Have the plans been dropped, or shelved, or are they still claiming that they intend to proceed? I find it hard to believe that they would still be thinking of going ahead, but you never know.
 
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the last i heard is that it had been scrapped, a victim of the credit crunch :|
 
It would be a real shame if it has been scrapped - its on prime land quite near to the proposed olympic village and I think it would have been very successful if it opened by 2012. ZSL are still pushing the concept on their website, but I think they've removed their estimated completion date (sometime in 2011 last time I looked). Musn't they have already started construction if they'd first predicted to have finished in 2008? If Biota is out of the equation, the expansion of the London Aquarium is starting to make a lot more sense.
 
I think it's a little too hasty to say it's been scrapped. The last I read was that the project had been postponed because the financing is not yet in place. Let's not forget that Biota is wrapped up in the much larger Silvertown Quays project and that it probably won't proceed until market conditions are right for the development as a whole.
 
Dead, buried and beyond any chance of resurrection. I read the original prospectus, cheerily estimating an annual gate of 1.25 million visitors a year, in other words more than London Zoo has had in over thirty years. Enough said.....:rolleyes:
 
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