Upcoming Exhibits in American Zoos for 2023

Sacramento is planning to move into an entirely new zoo in Elk Grove (metro Sacramento), I would imagine it is beyond 2025, I suppose it would fit into "Tentative" at this point:
New Zoo - Sacramento Zoo
Preparation of a facility master plan, conceptual and schematic design, a financing plan, and completion of an Environmental Impact Report are expected to take 18 to 24 months to complete. Formal consideration of the Zoo project by the SZS Board of Directors and the Elk Grove City Council, and potential approval that would advance the project into construction, could occur in late 2023.
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For fun, I tried to crunch some numbers and generalizations.

There look to be four new bear exhibits coming next year, but more interesting, three of them will be in Ohio -- at Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo -- with the other in Connecticut.

The Smithsonian, Los Angeles, Bruemmer, Mantiwoc, Roger Williams, Brookfield and Denver all have upcoming exhibis focused on birds - penguins, pheasants, flamingos, birds of prey, and a broader bird house all make them quite distinct projects though. They are a huge class of animals so this is understandable.

Houston and Turtle Back are betting big on island ecosystems.

There doesn't appear to be any primate-focused exhibits coming out in 2023, but several for 2024+, including at Indianapolis, Omaha, Brookfield, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Cheyenne Mountain.

It seems that continent-based complexes are all the rage though -- we have a new Australia exhibit coming to Denver and one to ABQ down the line, but Africa will have seven new complexes in the next three years (Oklahoma, Fort Worth, John Ball 2023, Milwaukee, Nashville, Tulsa 2024, and Nashville) and Asia up to five (Fresno Chaffee, ABQ, Dallas, then North Carolina, Reid Park) with South America gaining new areas at Miller Park, Napes, Santa Ann, Caldwell and eventually North Carolina.

There are four rainforest biome-focused exhibits (San Antonio, Greensboro, Fort Worth, Woodland Park) -- wait, I lied, there are more, because almost all of the primate exhibits will be rainforest habitats as will Dallas' Giants of the Forest for example, so we will be seeing a lot of rainforest, although only those four are themed explicitly on the biome itself as opposed to a region or grouping of animals that inhabit it.

Some of the focuses that seem more unique -- Big Cats at Phoenix, Reptiles at Nashville, Elephants at Tulsa and Cincinnati, I'm sure I've overlooked a few!
 
CGSwans said:
The wholesale relocation of Sacramento Zoo (to a larger greensfields site out of town) is gaining momentum and should probably be added to this list.
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The projected opening of that project is 2027 currently, assuming that the project actually happens (not yet certain, but increasingly likely).
 
DavidBrown said:
The projected opening of that project is 2027 currently, assuming that the project actually happens (not yet certain, but increasingly likely).
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You're much closer to the scene than I am, but they appear to have all the government support they need. The question now will be whether they can obtain finance, which is obviously a lot harder to come by now than it was a year ago.
 
CGSwans said:
You're much closer to the scene than I am, but they appear to have all the government support they need. The question now will be whether they can obtain finance, which is obviously a lot harder to come by now than it was a year ago.
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You are right that the political and governmental support is moving along, as is community support. It is very likely that the project is happening, but as you note funding needs to be in place and final governmental approvals need to happen.
 
JVM said:
There look to be four new bear exhibits coming next year, but more interesting, three of them will be in Ohio -- at Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo -- with the other in Connecticut.
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I updated this in the Cincinnati Zoo thread but worth mentioning here that theirs has been delayed until 2024.
 
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