JFK To Offer New Port For Traveling Beasts

$48 million animal handling facility will provide medical services and temporary accommodations for thoroughbred racehorses, livestock and exotic and common pets that are traveling through the airport.

Source The Wall Street Journal

Jan. 13, 2015
ARK DEVELOPMENT LLC
A rendering of the livestock handling system planned for John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A rendering of the livestock handling system planned for John F. Kennedy International Airport.

A deal that took years to negotiate will provide animals shelter at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

ARK Development LLC has signed a 30-year lease with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to develop a $48 million animal handling facility, which will provide medical services and temporary accommodations for thoroughbred racehorses, livestock and exotic and common pets that are traveling through the airport.

More details here.

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