"As the Scrap Exchange and other artist organizations eye a new home near Golden Belt, some city officials and downtown advocates say the city needs to maintain ties with owners of the now-condemned Liberty Warehouse. The city condemned the former tobacco auction house owned by Greenfire Development on May 16 and restricted about 35 tenants and others' access to it. The action followed a partial roof collapse during a thunderstorm, but the city shut down the entire 200,000 square-foot building saying a leaking and rotting roof that made it unsafe."

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Durham News (6/1/2011)