Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION

By: Aldo Santin

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JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Only rubble remains Tuesday following Mondays massive fire at an abandoned building on Hargrave Street.

THE vacant downtown apartment building destroyed in a fire Monday 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, Calif., had bought the building, located south of Broadway, as an investment property.

Winnipeg police estimated the loss at $1 million. Adams said he didn't have another figure on the loss.

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