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College Board Nips Relocation Plan for Threatened 100,000-SF Structure

DENVER-The end gets closer for the landmark 100,000-sf Currigan Hall, designed to be taken apart and rebuilt like a Tinker toy, with a board nixing a city-civic plan to relocate it across the street to the Auraria Higher Education campus. The city's planning director and a preservationist architect says they will continue to court relocation suitors.

By John Rebchook | Updated on September 11, 2000

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

Denver officials and preservation-minded architects and developers have worked for months on a plan to save the building from the wrecking ball being swung by the expansion of the Colorado Convention Center. The city even is offering to donate $700,000 toward the moving costs. Denver develop Scott deLuise has teamed with the city and RNL Design, the city’s largest architectural firm to push the relocation plan to the state’s largest campus, home to three colleges.

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