The historic Lit Brothers Department Store was restored and converted into a retail center on three levels and a massive banking operations center for Mellon Bank on the upper levels. The structure, vacant for 10 years, had to be stabilized, new basement-level retail space was created by lowering the floor three feet, and the entire project had to be coordinated with the rehabilitation of a subway station that connected at the basement level. This historic tax-credit project covers an entire city block and consisted of 15 separate buildings and infill constructed between 1859 and 1907.