{"id":316507,"date":"2026-08-08T01:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316507\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:44:38","slug":"manhattan-city-commission-approves-mccown-gordon-construction-to-work-on-sunset-zoo-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316507\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan City Commission Approves McCown Gordon Construction To Work on Sunset Zoo Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Shea Smith \/ photo provided by Canva<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the August 4 Commission meeting, the Manhattan City Commission unanimously approved a Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) agreement with McCown Gordon Construction and a professional services agreement with Anderson Knight Architects for the Lemur and Americas Exhibit Project at Sunset Zoo, the city said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CMAR will oversee the construction and incur any extra costs if the project goes above the guaranteed maximum price of the project they negotiated with the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the city, Anderson Knight was previously attached to the project and has already developed 30% of the preliminary design. The next phase will advance the project to 70% design completion through a $561,442 agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nonprofit Sunset Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Trust will pay for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city stated that once this phase is completed, a new funding agreement with the Sunset Zoo Trust will be presented to the City Commission for approval before the next phase begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No construction start date has been reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Shea Smith \/ photo provided by Canva During the August 4 Commission meeting, the Manhattan City Commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-316507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}