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Lawmakers to Get Aviary Building Project Plans

Story Published: May 13, 2012 at 7:44 PM EDT

Story Updated: May 13, 2012 at 7:44 PM EDT

A project, long in the works at Watertown's Thompson Park Zoo, may soon be coming to fruition.

City Council members should get the final plans for turning the zoo's aviary building into a learning center when they meet Monday night.

Lawmakers asked the city's architects to come up with this new design in November, after deciding earlier plans would cost too much money.

The price tag now: somewhere in the neighborhood of $340,000.

"Obviously it's gone through various incarnations to come up with a suitable plan that's affordable," said Watertown Mayor Jeff Graham.

"But it's something city council decided needed to be preserved. It's kind of a unique structure up there and we wanted to keep it," he said.

Graham says he is confident council members will approve these plans and send the project out to bid.

He hopes the aviary reconstruction will be completed by the end of this fall.
 
Sunday, May 26, 2013
, Watertown, NY

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