The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 103

LAS VEGAS ZOO WILL RELOCATE exhibits in and it, several shade domes (he used the term with paddocks around for visitors, and a nocturnal house show-, ing desert animals such as sidewinder rattlesnakes, tarantulas, kangaroo rats and "a high priority" a bat exhibit. The Las Vegas Zoo opened in 1973 and originally was a high school student project. It is on two acres of what was then the city-owned 680-acre Tule Springs Park about 15 miles from Las Vegas on the highway to Reno. The city gave the park to the state in 1977 and it has been renamed the Floyd R. Lamb State Park.

The zoo has a 99-year lease at $1 a year on 250 acres but Emmerson emphasized that there is no intention of developing it all at once. Rather, the plan is to fence and develop about 50 acres as soon as possible and expand late The present zoo has between 200 and 250 exhibits, Emmerson said, 'mostly birds, tortoises, reptiles -not many big animals." The fully developed zoo will have perhaps 1,000 exhibits, including animals as large as camels. The emphasis, he added, will remain as it is, on the animals of the American Southwest and what he called "the arid-adapted animals of the world." Its other function, behavioral and ecological research, will enlarge with development of the new facility, as will its attitude toward visitors. The present operation is quite low-key. "We don't advertise to the tourists," Emmerson said.

"A thousand visitors a day would be too much to handle. Success would drive us nuts!" Tlos ansrlrs Emirs 19 July 9, 1978 -Part VIII Beach Shopping Center Finished The Huntington Beach Commercial Center, a foot shopping center on Beach Blvd. and Terry Drive, has been completed by Mena Constructors Inc. of Westlake Village. Valued at $4 million, the center was developed by Ring Brothers of Santa Monica.

The anchor store is Marshall's with 19 other shops being completed to lessees' specifications. Coldwell Banker is the exclusive renting agent and the stores are 75 occupied. Continued from 14th Page of solar panels, which the zoo will install and use for space- and domestic-water heating. The solar panels are manufactured by Solar Marketing of Omaha. Secondly, both the domes and the solar panels are delivered in kit form and will be assembled by the zoo staff and volunteers.

The domes are delivered completely disassembled, with all structural members and plywood surfacing pre-cut and color-coded, along with an assembly manual, plans and documents for gaining permits and all neceesary hardware, Gunther said. The hardware includes the company's patented metal hubs for putting together the hexagonal and pentago nal elements which form most of the actual geodesic dome. The company offers the domes in two series, the Horizon, which is relatively low in profile, and the Alpine, which is higher and set on a circular first-floor wall. They range in diameter, in each series, from 20 to 45 feet. The Alpine series runs from 300 square feet of interior floor space on one floor, or 500 square feet on two floors, up to 3,500 square feet on three floors in the largest dome.

The smallest Horizon dome also has 300 square feet on one floor and goes up to 2,600 square feet on two floors. Optional extensions add to the floor space of any dome and both series can be clustered. Current prices for the basic dome package range from $4,295 to $9,845 in the Alpine series and from $3,395 to $7,645 for the Horizons. The company has no retail facility and information can be obtained by writing it at P.O. Box 5621E, Riverside 92517.

Gunther would not release exact sales figures but said "several thousand" of the domes have been sold and are in use in nearly all the 48 contiguous states and Alaska and Hawaii. Emmerson's plans for the zoo envision beginning with a main dome and satellite containing the entrance, administrative offices and a food and drink facility. Along with that will be a research laboratory, an educational hall with 1 J. 1 1 I I PMJ liMjJWX GRAND OPENING 1 1 I 1 1 -UVgHflJi i I 1 1 I i i i 1 LJ 1 1 I -bs we I hey say opportunity nevei knocks twice. If the 674 9501 I vv! II 1 bdim den lV.

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