Zoo Quality vs City Quality

[DavidBrown]

I think Zoo Atlanta is over hyped compared to Atlanta proper. It is a few rockstar exhibits but not trip worthy other than Pandas. With the money that is in the Atlanta area they could have a much nicer zoo.

From some of the news posts here it sounds like they are planning to rebuild much of the zoo with a new reptile house, elephant exhibit, etc. No idea what the timescale is. It seems like the Georgia Aquarium now gets much of the attention that the Atlanta Zoo once got.

 

[reduakari]

Boston and San Francisco are arguably two of the premiere centers of wealth, intellectual prowess and quality of life. Home to two (three if you count Stone Zoo) of the most unloved and disappointing zoos in the US.

Why?

 

[ungulate nerd]

From some of the news posts here it sounds like they are planning to rebuild much of the zoo with a new reptile house, elephant exhibit, etc. No idea what the timescale is. It seems like the Georgia Aquarium now gets much of the attention that the Atlanta Zoo once got.

Thats what it seems like because I have a friend that is a hardcore zoo enthusiast like all of us here on ZooChat, but when he goes to Atlanta he usually skips Zoo Atlanta and decides to go to Georgia Aquarium instead

 

[tschandler71]

From some of the news posts here it sounds like they are planning to rebuild much of the zoo with a new reptile house, elephant exhibit, etc. No idea what the timescale is. It seems like the Georgia Aquarium now gets much of the attention that the Atlanta Zoo once got.

the big problem though is its limited in size because of location. The money in Atlanta could be better invested in a large zoo out near Dunwoody than the ghetto zoo that can't expand that basically lives off one animal species.