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Luxury animal 'Ark' to open in 2016 at New York's JFK Airport
NEW YORK's JFK Airport is to open an upmarket "Ark" next year to house animal cargo and handling that includes luxury quarters for horses, such as a waiting room with individual climate-controlled stalls.
The Ark, a state-of-the-art animal handling and air cargo facility billing itself as "the world's only privately owned animal terminal and USDA-approved, full-service, 24-hour, airport quarantine facility for import and export of horses, pets, birds and livestock,?according to the developers.
The project design is being overseen by the firm Gentler, which has already unveiled a pet-friendly rooftop deck for JetBlue at JFK's Terminal 5.
"Gensler is accustomed to designing airports with an eye to fostering wellbeing for people," said Gensler architect and senior associate Cliff Bollmann in a press release. "The Ark at JFK posed a unique design challenge for us: to create a place that could ease and simplify the sometimes complex process of transporting animals by plane."
The US$48 million facility is being constructed on the site of a 178,000-square foot cargo building that has been empty since 2004, and is scheduled to open in 2016.
It will feature climate-controlled departure lounges with food, water, bedding, and natural light to reduce stress on animals being held while their travel documents are processed; a veterinary hospital; a diagnostic lab; and a 20,000-square foot grooming spa for cats and dogs that includes a bone-shaped canine pool.
The Ark, a state-of-the-art animal handling and air cargo facility billing itself as "the world's only privately owned animal terminal and USDA-approved, full-service, 24-hour, airport quarantine facility for import and export of horses, pets, birds and livestock,?according to the developers.
The project design is being overseen by the firm Gentler, which has already unveiled a pet-friendly rooftop deck for JetBlue at JFK's Terminal 5.
"Gensler is accustomed to designing airports with an eye to fostering wellbeing for people," said Gensler architect and senior associate Cliff Bollmann in a press release. "The Ark at JFK posed a unique design challenge for us: to create a place that could ease and simplify the sometimes complex process of transporting animals by plane."
The US$48 million facility is being constructed on the site of a 178,000-square foot cargo building that has been empty since 2004, and is scheduled to open in 2016.
It will feature climate-controlled departure lounges with food, water, bedding, and natural light to reduce stress on animals being held while their travel documents are processed; a veterinary hospital; a diagnostic lab; and a 20,000-square foot grooming spa for cats and dogs that includes a bone-shaped canine pool.
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