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Georgia Aquarium Bolts Atlantic Station for New Coke Museum

ATLANTA-In a blow to locally based Jacoby Development's 140-acre Atlantic Station, the $200-million aquarium, touted as a major attraction for the redevelopment, will locate on nine acres at Coca-Cola's 21-acre Downtown property where a new World of Coca-Cola museum is planned.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on August 14, 2002

ATLANTA-Two local benefactors, the Coca-Cola Company and Bernie Marcus, co-founder of the Home Depot, team up to couple the Georgia Aquarium, a $200-million donation from Marcus, with a new World of Coca-Cola museum to be located just north of Downtown’s Centennial Olympic Park.

Coke has donated nine acres of the 21-acre site, formerly known as the Coca-Cola Olympic City property, to the Georgia Aquarium, Inc., a new organization formed by the Marcus Foundation to operate the planned aquarium. Coke acquired the property for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

This Coke/Marcus partnership removes the 250,000-sf aquarium from locally based Jacoby Development’s Atlantic Station redevelopment project under way on 140 acres of reclaimed land at the former Atlantic Steel Mill in Midtown.

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