The Missouri Botanical Garden announced Monday that it will break ground in January on a new $92 million visitor center.
The new facility, which will be called the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center, is expected to be complete in spring 2022. The project will replace the existing Ridgway Visitor Center, which opened in 1982 and that officials say is intended for 250,000 annual visitors. The Botanical Garden today draws about 1 million visitors per year.
