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[email protected] Twitter @VisitSD_PR www.sandiego.org April 2017 For Immediate Release What’s New in San Diego, Summer 2017 Major Attractions In March 2017, San Diego Comic-Con International announced plans to open a museum of popular culture in Balboa Park under an agreement with the San Diego Hall of Champions sports museum and its Breitbard Hall of Fame, currently located in the urban park. The Breitbard Hall of Fame, which commemorates decades of San Diego sports heroes, will move to major league baseball’s Petco Park in the historic Western Metal Building and many of the historical items in the Hall of Champions will be housed at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. The sports museum occupied the former Federal Building that was built for the California-Pacific International Exposition of 1935. Although the Comic-Con Center for Popular Culture does not plan to house permanent collections, it will host a program of rotating exhibitions on comics and movies culled from collectors, museums, galleries and other sources. Organizers aim to provide a year-round interactive celebration of the innumerable aspects of popular art. (4/17) The San Diego Zoo broke ground in August 2016 on a new eight-acre exhibit called Africa Rocks, which is scheduled to open in early summer 2017. The largest in the 100-year-old zoo’s history, the expansion is a $68 million project that will transform 1930s-era grottos and enclosures (formerly known as Cat and Dog Canyon) with new habitats for African plant and animal species that range from savanna to shore.