Workers began demolishing a vacant south Minneapolis apartment complex Wednesday morning after it was damaged in a fire last month.
Vacant apartment building demolished on south Minneapolis' Lyndale Avenue
The three-story building had been damaged in an early December fire. Workers said they expect to finish the demolition by Friday.
January 5, 2023 at 4:46AM
![An apartment complex on the 2300 block of Lyndale Avenue South, destroyed by fire in early December, is demolished Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023 in Minneapolis, Minn. The previously vacant apartment had been occupied by squatters at the time of the fire and one person escaped by jumping from a second story window. ]](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/EX4ZVQQY42RPMSJIQO3D3AHKK4.jpg?&w=712)
The three-story building is at 2312 S. Lyndale Av., about two blocks south of Franklin Avenue. Workers at the site said they expect to complete demolition by Friday, and that the most significant fire damage was in the back of the building.
Firefighters responded to a large fire at the building Dec. 3, which took several hours to put out. No one was injured. The building was recently inhabited by squatters, officials said.
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