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Article: Coastal Carolina's ship comes in. (Special Advertising Section:Wilmington/Brunswick Area)(includes related article)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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Community leaders in the Wilmington area are confident that if they build a large aquarium, the tourists will come.
But they're equally sure the aquarium, currently under consideration, would also lure new business and industry.
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington recently received a grant to study the feasibility of building a $30 million aquarium in New Hanover County. As envisioned, it would be substantially larger than the state-owned one at Fort Fisher.
"The aquarium, should it come to downtown Wilmington or somewhere in Wilmington, would attract a lot of people," says Wayne Zeigler, executive director of the business-recruiting ...