As I reported previously, the huge Legado Luxury Apartment project under construction here in Prescott Valley burned to the ground early yesterday morning.
Today it's a sad scene in the heart of the city.
What was lost were 329 apartments under construction and the parking garage for a total of nearly 700,000 square feet of property.
Early estimates put the loss at 60 million dollars but a young man who I spoke to, an employee of the general contractor on the project, told me he thought it could run as high as 75 to 80 million dollars.
It was to have housed, in addition to the apartments, a rooftop restaurant and ground floor businesses.
Builders said the apartments were approximately 50 percent complete.
Now they're just rubble.
There are a great number of businesses in very close proximity to the site of this disaster and a large apartment project and the town's public arena lie just across streets from it.
The various fire departments and police agencies are to be commended for keeping the blaze from spreading.
And there were absolutely no deaths or injuries.
Still . . . a woman I spoke to at the scene yesterday told me she had no sympathy for the builders and owners of the project.
"That was just too big for our little town," she said.
I had to gently remind her that Prescott Valley isn't a "little town" anymore.
