The University of Windsor is pulling out of plans to take over the Paul Martin building in downtown Windsor.
AM800 news has learned the university has notified the city, federal and provincial governments that it will no longer pursue the building as a potential new location for its law school.
In 2014, safety concerns were raised by Revenue Canada workers about exterior pieces of the building were falling down. The building on Ouellette Ave. was built in 1933 and sold to the city $1 more than five-years-ago.
University President Alan Wildeman cites the lack of financial support from the province. He says the pieces simply didn't fall into place.
"It's been five years that we've been trying to make this work and we simply were not able to get over the finish line to line-up all the pieces that we needed to do it," he says. "A couple of weeks ago we informed the city, the province, and the federal government that the university will not be able to take the building."
Wildeman says the university will now look at other options to address issues with its law school on campus.
"We'll start a process to look at what options we have on main campus with our existing buildings," says Wildeman. "The current building was built for a law program that was much smaller at the time, and it's a building that no longer suits the need, so we have to start the planning process on that."
Wildeman says the city had offered up $15-million towards the project.