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Abilene touts zoo expansion, new rec centers and pet adoption center funded partly by private donations

2245550 · February 6, 2025
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City leaders highlighted several quality-of-life investments: a privately funded pet adoption resource center, zoo exhibit and parking work, a Recreational Outdoor Complex built mostly with private funds, a relocated dog park with new amenities, and two new city rec centers funded by 2023 bond dollars.

City leaders used the State of the City presentation to showcase recent and upcoming parks, zoo and recreation investments intended to increase walkability and family amenities.

Mayor Waldenhurst said Allkind (the city’s animal services partner) moved into the new Jane and Field Guitar Pet Adoption Resource Center, which the mayor described as an adoption resource center rather than a pound. He said the facility was built with city funds supplemented by…

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