Another longtime business in downtown Lawrence is leaving the central business district.

Hopkins Sheet Metal is moving out of 1011 Mass., the one-story building that’s been home to a sheet metal shop for at least a century.

Consolidated Properties, a partnership of Lawrence developer Doug Compton and former Kansas University basketball coach Larry Brown, has a contract to buy the place, which offers about 2,600 square feet of street-level space, plus a basement.

“It’s time,” said Terry Hopkins, whose father moved into the building about 1970, marking the fifth sheet-metal shop to locate at the site. “I’m ready for a vacation. After 32 or 33 years of this, I’d like a couple months off.”

Hopkins said his business no longer fit into a downtown that had evolved into a retail and entertainment district from its manufacturing- and service-oriented roots. He holds the evidence in his hand: a yardstick imprinted with the name of Stevens Sheet Metal at 1011 Mass., plus some antiquated contact information.

“The phone number’s 122,” Hopkins said, laughing. “That’s how old this place is.”

Hopkins now is searching for a “much smaller place” to handle his one-man shop, which provides sheet metal and duct work for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning projects, plus custom jobs.

Consolidated Properties now owns all or part of 10 downtown properties, including the nearby Masonic Temple, at 1001 Mass.

Hanna’s Appliance, another longtime fixture downtown, closed Dec. 1 at 933 Mass., where an appliance store had been operating since 1946. Building owner Jennifer Hanna Coen said the building remained available for lease.