GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - The tigers are coming to Grand Rapids, and we don't mean the baseball players this time.
The John Ball Zoological Society announced today they will be bringing tigers back to the Grand Rapids zoo in Phase II of the Zoo Society's Restore the Roar Capital Campaign.
The projects include the Bill and Bea Idema Foundation Funicular and Forest Realm, the Bissell Tree House, which was announced earlier this year, the new Amur Tiger Exhibit, a new Grizzly Bear Exhibit, Visitor Welcome Center, and a Central Services/Commissary facility.
This major zoo expansion and renovation breaks ground this summer with expected completion of the funicular, tree house, welcome center, and central services facility in 2012, completion of Grizzly Exhibit in 2013, and completion of Tiger Exhibit in 2014.