The state-owned aquarium carries an estimated price tag of $200 million, and with a four-million-gallon capacity would be one of the largest in the country. Further details of the project, including who would operate it, have not been released.
Construction of the facility required legislative and executive approval in order to override an existing state law barring an aquarium at the Sports Complex, instituted as a means of preventing competition with the Adventure Aquarium, also state-owned, in Camden. The latter is approximately 100 miles south of the Meadowlands site, however.
Opening day for the two-million-sf Meadowlands Xanadu, meanwhile, has been pushed back. Originally scheduled to open in November, the new target date is mid-summer 2009. If all goes as planned, the aquarium would also open in the summer of 2009.
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