Georgia Aquarium
The Georgia Aquarium is a new public aquarium under construction in Atlanta. Funded mostly by a 200 million U.S. dollar donation from Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus (also now owner of the Atlanta Falcons), it is being built downtown next to Centennial Olympic Park. The original location was proposed to be the new Atlantic Station development.Scheduled to open in 2005, it will contain 55,000 fish and other sea creatures, representing more than 500 species. It is already working with Georgia Tech and Georgia State University in Atlanta and the University of Georgia in Athens to help save endangered species through education and research programs.
Other improvements around the new site are being helped along by Central Atlanta Progress, a group of local business leaders which has had a presence in Atlanta for several years.
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