State-of-the-Art Animal Care Facility Planned at JFK Airport

Port Authority officials said the center will set new national airport standards for comprehensive veterinary, stalling/kenneling, and quarantine services, and create more efficient ways to transport animals worldwide.
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By early 2015, horses and other animals will enjoy a new $32 million state-of-the-art facility at New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport. Port Authority officials said the center will set new national airport standards for comprehensive veterinary, stalling/kenneling, and quarantine services, and create more efficient ways to transport animals worldwide. JFK officials project the number of animals served at 70,000 each year.

Aaron Perl, MD, JD, FCLM, ARK founder and managing director, and general counsel for ARK parent company Racebrook Capital Advisors LLC, said, “Construction will begin in the first quarter of 2014, with operations commencing about a year later.” Perl said that services at the present Vetport facility are phasing out, and the Vetport will close when The ARK at JFK opens.

Architects and designers adapted The ARK at JFK’s design to fit the size and configuration of Building 78 northeast of JFK’s present Vetport. The ARK facility will offer three basic sections: the east wing air cargo services; the central administrative and veterinary clinic building; and the south-wing animal handling center, which will include the equine import/export center, a pet boarding center, and livestock export system. The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine will run the veterinary hospital and rehabilitation center for horses and other large animals.

The equine import center will include a three-day quarantine area. After containers with imported horses are unloaded at the airside loading dock, horses will walk through a disinfecting foot bath and be led to one of 48 independent climate-, waste- and airflow-controlled stalls for quarantine

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Diane Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in agricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin, then married her education with her lifelong passion for horses by working in editorial positions at Appaloosa Journal for 12 years. She has also served on the American Horse Publications’ board of directors. She now freelances in writing, editing, and proofreading. She lives in Middleton, Idaho, and spends her spare time gardening, reading, serving in her church, and spending time with her daughters, their families, and a myriad of her own and other people’s pets.

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