DENVER-The end gets closer for the landmark 100,000-sf CurriganHall, designed to be taken apart and rebuilt like a Tinker toy,with a board nixing a city-civic plan to relocate it across thestreet to the Auraria Higher Education campus.

Denver officials and preservation-minded architects anddevelopers have worked for months on a plan to save the buildingfrom the wrecking ball being swung by the expansion of the ColoradoConvention Center. The city even is offering to donate $700,000toward the moving costs. Denver develop Scott deLuise has teamedwith the city and RNL Design, the city's largest architectural firmto push the relocation plan to the state's largest campus, home tothree colleges.

The Auraria board says there isn't enough money or land toaccommodate Currigan, according to Dean Wolf, Auraria's vicepresident of facilities administration. “The civil zeal with whichthe Currigan at Auraria group has approached its project was notedby (Auraria) board members,” Wolf wrote to the city. “However, thisproposed project is not in the best interests of the campus at thistime because of its impact on Auraria.”