Boulder’s historic train depot building is holding up traffic today.
The building had been scheduled to move overnight to make way for the redevelopment of the Crossroads Commons Shopping Center at 28th and Pearl Streets.
But “due to mechanical difficulties with a moving truck and issues resulting from moving the building over utility lines,” the city said in a news release, the building is stuck in the intersection of 30th and Pearl streets.
Crews hope to have things moving by mid-afternoon.
Meanwhile, Pearl Street between 28th Street and Frontier Avenue, and 30th Street between Walnut Street and Valmont Road are closed.
The building was moving a bit east, to the northeast corner of 30th and Pearl Streets.
Properly called the Union Pacific/Jaycees Depot, the building has been moved before. It opened in 1890 at 14th and Water Street (now Canyon Boulevard). Then it moved to its current location in 1973.
It weighs 350 tons, or 700,000 pounds.
