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Contractor Kiewit Building Group has been selected by the Denver Zoo from a field of five bidders to build the $50 million, 10-acre Asian Tropics exhibit. When complete, in 2011, the exhibit---which will house elephants, rhinos, and myriad other animals---will be the largest in the zoo's 113-year history, notes the Denver Business Journal [2]. Kiewit, of Omaha, Nebraska, built the zoo's Bird Propagation Center in 2007. A groundbreaking ceremony featuring Mayor John Hickenlooper, zoo President/CEO Craig Piper, and others is scheduled for tomorrow. Many of the diverse animals that will be included in Asian Tropics are highly endangered, according to the zoo [3]. Currently, the zoo is showing off Kai, a hyena, born on the grounds in August (via 9News [4]).
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[1] http://www.5280.com/tag/authors/michael-de-yoanna
[2] http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/11/30/daily7.html
[3] http://www.denverzoo.org/asian_tropics/asian_tropics_exhibit.asp
[4] http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=126867