Imagination Coast News Service: July 12, 2010
Officials break ground on NOAA's long-awaited Sanctuary Exploration Center (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 7/12/2010)
Shovels in hand, officials representing city, county, state and federal agencies broke figurative ground Monday morning at the heavily traveled intersection of Pacific Avenue and Beach Street, where the $15 million, 12,000-square-foot Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center is expected to open in the spring of 2012.