The Legado housing and shopping complex is coming back from the dead.
A year and a half ago, it was about 50 percent complete.
Then in the dark of night an arsonist torched it.
Lost were 329 apartments under construction, commercial space and a parking garage.
It covered 700,000 square feet of property in the heart of my town.
The loss was estimated at 60 million dollars.
The site was leveled and cleaned up and earlier this year construction resumed on the rebuilding.
Here's what it looks like today.
The project will rise from oblivion.
The arsonist, believed to be a young man also connected with break-ins and damage at the local high school, has not been apprehended.
Yet.
That's a huge amount of progress!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the update!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a small city already.
ReplyDeleteThat is progress to make the culprit pay or get caught...waste of time and money. Dee
ReplyDeleteOh gosh. I hope he doesn't strike again.
ReplyDeleteI would rename the project, Phoenix Center. There is a similar building down US 1 from us, that burned to the ground because of a careless cigaret tossed by a construction worker into a trash chute. It was rebuilt. My local Aldi store is there.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine being thar youn man? If he has any conscience at all, he would be a nervous wreck. Is he still vandalizing or has he gone quiet?
ReplyDeleteQuiet as a tomb but a police officer I talked to said he'll be unable to resist the temptation to brag about it some day and they'll get him.
DeleteNice to see it coming back!
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