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Madison firefighters remain on the scene today of a huge, scorching fire that engulfed an apartment building under construction on the Far East Side on Friday night and sent charred debris flying for miles around.

The blaze in the 105 unit apartment building in the 500 block of Apollo Way appeared to be out Saturday morning but pallets of building materials continued to smolder.

The materials are "pretty densely packed. Sometimes it takes a while to burn out," Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said.

The blaze covered "between one and two acres, and that was just the fire ground," she said.

Wirth said one person driving along Interstate 39/90 near the fire reported the auto's temperature registering at 200 degrees. Another caller to the 911 dispatch center reported seeing debris from the fire falling at Ella's Deli, 2902 E. Washington Ave., about five miles away, she said.

The searing, massive fire sent billowing smoke across much of Madisons Far East Side Friday night, but no injuries were reported.

The fire, at the intersection of Lisa Ann Drive and Apollo Way, just east of Interstate 39/90 and north of Cottage Grove Road, began around 7:30 p.m. and was about 90 percent under control within two hours, Wirth said.

Firefighters could feel the heat a block away as they arrived to find the top two stories of the building engulfed in flames, Wirth said.

When the first fire crew arrived and hooked up to a hydrant, the blaze was so hot that "plastic on the engine was melting and window glass was breaking," Wirth said.

Temperatures reached more than 250 degrees, she said, andfirefighters had to hose each other down so they could do their job. "The radiant heat was really something," Wirth said.

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UPDATE: MADISON (WKOW)A 105-unit apartment building, that was under construction, is severely damaged after a Friday night fire.

According to Madison Fire Chief Steve Davis the call came in just after 7:30. Station 13, Madisons newest fire station, responded. Upon arrival, Davis says the heat made it difficult to park the trucks as close as they would have liked.

Chief Davis says when firefighters arrived, the top two of the four floors were fully engulfed. No one was injured but the building suffered extensive damage and may be a total loss.

Ten nearby homes nearby evacuated. Some of those homes had siding melt from the heat but there was no structural damage.

Blooming Grove and McFarland fire departments assisted on the scene, putting out spot grassfires that started as a result of the structure fire.

The cause is still under investigation. Chief Davis says firefighters will be on scene all night, containing hot spots. It's unclear at this point who owns the building that was under construction.

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Dispatchers report the structure fire broke out around 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of Apollo Way and Lisa Ann Dr., in the Grand View Commons neighborhood, near the interstate.

One witness reports flames jumped the interstate and ignited grass.

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Paul Allens Vulcan Inc. plans to sell all of its South Lake Union apartment buildings and invest the proceeds into eight new office and apartment projects, launching another flurry of construction in the former warehouse district.

The 872-apartment, five-building portfolio is located within blocks of Amazon.coms headquarters. Based on recent apartment sales in Belltown and Capitol Hill, analysts say theyd expect Vulcans portfolio to fetch more than $400 million.

Vulcan put the apartment buildings on the market this summer to be bought together or individually, spokeswoman Lori Mason Curran said Friday. We are expecting final offers in the coming weeks.

Alcyone, Alley24 and Stack House are across from the Cascade Playground, while Rollin Street Flats and Borealis sit on busy transit corridors. Another Vulcan apartment project called The Martin, a 188-unit high-rise in Belltown, is already under contract to a buyer whom Curran didnt identify.

Big investors such as insurance companies and pension funds have shown a huge appetite for property in South Lake Union because of Amazon.coms job growth and the areas rising rents. In December 2012, Amazon bought its 11-building campus from Vulcan for $1.16 billion.

On Thursday, a San Francisco company paid about $508,000 a unit for The Gatsby Apartments in Capitol Hill, records show. In April, Joseph Arnold Lofts in Belltown went for about $515,000 a unit, according to commercial real estate brokerage JLL..

Vulcans portfolio could fetch anywhere between $450,000 to $600,000 a unit, said Seattle apartment broker Kenny Dudunakis of Berkadia. That could mean total proceeds between $392 million and $523 million.

Plans to sell the apartment properties were first reported Friday by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

Curran said the proceeds will pay off debt and be invested into developing three blocks near Lake Union, a full block at Westlake Avenue and Denny Way and a few parcels in between.

If all the proposed Vulcan projects get built, they would add more than 1,650 new apartments, nearly 1.3 million square feet of office space and 86,000 square feet of retail to the neighborhood, according to a Seattle Times analysis of Vulcans filings with the city.

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The Rodin Museum is a beloved Philadelphia icon, a taut little neoclassical temple designed for the Parkway by one of the city's master architects, Paul Philippe Cret. The City Branch rail bed is a cultural treasure of a very different sort. Some envision the exuberantly overgrown right-of-way as a ribbon park that could link the Reading Viaduct to the Art Museum.

The two have sat side-by-side for nearly a century - both artifacts from the city's manufacturing heyday - mostly ignoring each other. But now their fates have become intertwined by a proposal for an apartment house over a one-block section of the rail bed, which runs in an open trench behind the museum. The building's south facade would be just 60 feet from the Rodin's back door.

It is a project that manages to be at once both dismaying and intriguing. Commissioned by David Blumenfeld's Cross Properties, the mixed-used building promises to fill in one of the remaining gaps in the booming neighborhood north of the Parkway. Yet the six-story apartment house would drastically alter how we experience these two important historic structures.

The case is more difficult than usual because Cret's museum is among Philadelphia's most recognizable works of architecture. It derives its charm from the serene and aristocratic way it resides on its Parkway site, surrounded by greenery like an isolated country villa. While there are many high-rises nearby, the specific location of Blumenfeld's building could put an end to the fantasy and make the diminutive Rodin look hemmed in by a giant.

The impact on the jungly landscape of the rail bed, which has been dubbed the "low line" by the group that wants to turn it into a trail park, could be equally profound.

Two stories below street level, the trench also benefits from the perception of isolation. Walking its two-mile length, you experience the city at a distance, occasionally glimpsing snippets of the skyline above its massive stone walls. Once capped by the apartment building, the pit behind the Rodin would be reduced, at best, to a dim tunnel. At worst, the corridor would be cut into two useless pieces, rendering the park idea stillborn.

For all that, Blumenfeld's proposal does offer the city something in return.

The building would immediately establish a strong urban presence on Hamilton Street, between 21st and 22d Street. It would be part of a growing line of grand residences stretching from Pennsylvania Avenue - where Cret built his last project at No. 2601 - to the new Granary Apartments on Callowhill Street, behind the Free Library.

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Two construction workers were injured when an elevator malfunctioned coming off its track and falling several feet at a West Village apartment building Wednesday morning, officials said.

The elevator became dislodged as the workers were transporting materials between the eighth and ninth floors of the building on West 11th Street around 11:25 a.m.

Officials said the cables snapped, causing the elevator car to fall before becoming to wedged sideways in the shaft, FDNY officials said.

Emergency workers secured the elevator car to prevent it from falling down the shaft and were in the process of removing the occupants, the FDNY said.

Some construction workers were using the elevators to transport materials, said FDNY battalion chief Dean Koester.

The elevator fell about five or six feet, wedged in the shaft, both workers were removed and brought to the hospital.

Building residents of the building said this wasnt the first problem since time people were have been trapped in the elevator since construction began.

We have been enduring the most appalling conditions, people have been getting stuck in the elevator, there are insane dust levels, noise and just general chaos, said Jane Stubbs. The building is a nightmare at the moment.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) About a dozen families remain homeless after a large crack in the facadeof a Brooklyn apartment building prompted an evacuation on Monday.

The massive crack can be seen in the back of the building at 3405 Kings Highway in the Flatlands section.

The entire building was evacuated Monday afternoon as the Department of Buildings and the FDNY checked the buildings stability.

Most of the residents have since been allowed to return, but those living in two rows of apartments closest to the damage were not allowed back in their apartments.

Im pretty stressed out, I didnt sleep all night, displaced resident Michael Kessler told CBS 2s Weijia Jiang.

That side can collapse, the buildings superintendent Kayhan Sengun told Jiang.

The Citys Department of Buildings posted a notice saying a construction site adjacent to the building caused the damage during the excavation process. The DOB ordered the company to stop work and make repairs. Kessler told Jiang residentsfelt shaking and vibrating at times as crews worked on the foundation of the building next door.

I felt all the rumbles, I felt every vibration when they were pounding, Kessler said.

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Brooklyn Building Remains Under Partial Evacuation Order After Crack Found On Facade

Everyone attending Monday nights Upper Moreland Township public hearing on a proposed apartment building on Davisville Road agreed the new construction would be a positive step toward revitalizing the area.

The only major point of contention between the commissioners and the developers of the Lofts at Davisville involved the number of sufficient parking spaces.

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