Kiewit named contractor for Denver Zoo’s $50M Asian Tropics exhibit
Published by the Denver Business Journal
— November 30, 2009 — The Denver Zoo said Monday it has selected Kiewit Building Group from among five bidders as general contractor for the zoo’s 10-acre Asian Tropics exhibit, the largest exhibit in its 113-year history.
The exhibit, budgeted at $50 million, is to be built along the zoo’s southern edge. When finished in 2011, it will be home to Asian elephants, Indian rhinos, Malayan tapirs and other endangered Asian animals.
The zoo will break ground on the exhibit Wednesday. Mayor John Hickenlooper, zoo President/CEO Craig Piper and Denver Zoological Foundation Board Chairman Patrick Green will be among those on hand.
Kiewit — a unit of privately held, Omaha-based Kiewit Corp. — previously built the Denver Zoo’s Bird Propagation Center in 2007.
Other bidders on the project were J.E. Dunn, G.E. Johnson, Haselden Construction and PCL.
