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re: Moving the BR Zoo
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:39 pm to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:39 pm to TeddyPadillac
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People from Baton Rouge would rather drive an hour and a half to the Audubon zoo as opposed to 20 minutes to the baton rouge zoo, and they pay more than double to get in as well. If you're not going to make a zoo that will make your local residents stop going to New Orleans as often, then what's the point of having one at all?
Hammer meet nail. Like I said, a zoo is a destination place, you go because its something unique and you go no matter where it is.
The BR zoo will never match the NO zoo. I should be geared to meet our needs, and not something to compete with Audubon.
People drive a hour and a half to NO and don't go to the one here that's 30 minutes away because the Audubon is much, much better.
I can't see spending 110 million dollars trying to compete with NO.
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 3:43 pm to doubleb
People often opt to go to the BR Zoo because it's cheaper and closer, but for people in LP and AP, it's not that much closer. Also, it has limited classroom space, so it can only schedule one school group at a time. Moving the zoo 20 minutes closer to those schools while adding more classroom spaces and getting their elephants back would make it much more competitive for attracting field trips and day trippers.
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