In 1996 UT purchased two warehouses on Stephenson Drive for a total of $5 million. One (the Siler-Bean Warehouse) was populated with art studios (moved from their space in a former residence to clear the site for the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy), the Biology in a Box program, a College of Engineering research program dealing with robotics, theater storage and facilities services storage. In 2004 the Athletics Department announced that the Siler-Bean facility was to be the site for soccer fields and that units would need to be relocated. That facility was razed in 2005, and the other, the Fleming Warehouse, continued to be used for storage, surplus property operations, Parking Services offices, and some research space for the College of Engineering. The art studios relocated to the Kingston Pike Building warehouse area.