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kleinbl00  ·  2145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same

Note the "under construction" part - that's before the sprinklers are in and pressurized, before the sheetrock goes in, etc. And we're talking six buildings. One of those was on my jogging route:

That one is "unsolved" but it was pretty clearly arson. Worthy of note - there are three other larger complexes in the neighborhood that went up at the same time and didn't burn to the ground.