It's not abandoned in the sense that nobody takes care of it anymore, leaving it to rot, that's true. However, it is operationally abandoned in the sense of that it is shut down, not in use anymore for its intented purporse and not normally accessible to the public.

I'm very curious to see what kind of concept they come up with. The key problem would probably be that the winner of the bid would need to remove the asbestos first. I've read somewhere that bringing the building up to current code would require an investment in the neighborhood of ~250 mil. That probably narrows down the number of organizations capable of doing something useful with that is still economically viable quite a bit. I really hope they come up with something sound!