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Article: The Georgia Aquarium: Fish tale keeps getting bigger.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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Byline: Jim Tharpe
Dec. 22--It's been on all the chatty morning shows. And the Spanish-language networks. It even made it onto "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
A tidal wave of press coverage has followed the Nov. 21 opening of the ship-shaped Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta, focusing national and worldwide attention on the Southeast's largest metro area just as major downtown upgrades --- the High Museum expansion and the opening of Atlantic Station --- came to fruition.
"We knew it was a big story, but I don't know that any of us expected this level of attention," said aquarium spokesman Dave Santucci.
And it's still playing ...