Georgia Tech Bets on a Nanotechnology Center for Atlanta

Georgia Tech hopes the Marcus Nanotechnology Building will help make Atlanta the hub of new high-tech industry. (Photos courtesy of Georgia Tech)

Tomorrow the Georgia Institute of Technology will dedicate the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, a project that officials say is one of the most expensive in the institution’s history.

Georgia Tech hopes that theundefined$90-million, 190,000-square-foot complex will attract companies to Atlanta, making the city and Georgia Tech a nanotechnology hub. (News releases about the building compare nanotechnology in Atlanta to technology in Silicon Valley.) The building reportedly has one of the largest clean rooms in the country. See a video of the building here.

The Marcus Foundation—the philanthropic organization supported by Bernie Marcus, the Home Depot founder—gave $15-million toward the building.