Every billionaire needs a hobby. And every city, it has come to seem, needs an aquarium.
How convenient, then, that Bernie Marcus, who opened the first Home Depot store here in 1978, has spent the past few years designing, building and obsessing over a $200 million aquarium he hopes will be the world's most impressive fish tank.
As Marcus, 76, said in a recent interview at the offices of the Marcus Foundation, "I love big fish, OK?"