Levine Properties president Daniel Levine says the project hasbecome too difficult to renovate profitably. He plans to salvagethe materials and reassemble them on another uptown site or onLevine property in the CrownPoint area.

City leaders, however, feel the warehouse facility is worthsaving because it represents buildings that lined uptown's railroadcorridors in the early 20th century. The building was also beingconsidered as a potential trolley stop on SeventhStreet. Extensionof the two-mile line From South End through uptown is due to becompleted in late summer 2001.

Levine Properties owns about 15 acres in First Ward, where ithas preserved and converted nearly a dozen old buildings to newuses. He bought the warehouse in 1985.

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