Phase 1 for the Greenwood Park and Baton Rouge Zoo Project includes demolition, utility infrastructure, new vehicular access, 500 additional parking spaces, and new bike and pedestrian paths. The scope also includes a new signature connectivity promenade, linking the new zoo entrance with the existing Waterfront Building. A new destination adventure playground will provide opportunities for children to explore the natural environment and play with elements like a giant black bear with a slide wrapping around. Improvements will be made to the J.S. Clark Golf Course ensuring that golfers will have a premiere 9-hole golf course to play and an enhanced driving range facility. New exhibits for pigmy hippo, colobus, red river hogs, and new avaries will occur as well. The new giraffe exhibit will offer guests an opportunity to feed the animals and new nighthouses will be constructed for giraffes, bison, elk, jaguar, and spectacled bear.