Hargrave St. building that burned down was going to be redeveloped as apartment building

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By: Aldo Santin

Posted: 04/7/2015 4:47 PM | Comments:

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A vacant building at 44 Hargrave Street is engulfed in flames Monday evening.

The downtown apartment building destroyed in the Monday night fire was about to undergo a major redevelopment.

A local spokesman for the California-based owner said the three-storey brick apartment building on Hargrave Street had been gutted and the owner was about to initiate a major redevelopment of the structure.

"There was a redevelopment underway, rebuilding it as an apartment building" lawyer Rick Adams said. "Very, very preliminary work had just started."

Adams said the owner, Benjamin Bingaman, of San Jose, California, had bought the building, located south of Broadway, as an investment property.

Winnipeg police estimated the loss at $1 million. Adams said he didnt have another figure on the loss.

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Hargrave St. building that burned down was going to be redeveloped as apartment building