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The excavation site in Brooklyn that was the scene to the tragic deadly collapse of the adjacent building was owned by an LLC seeking to build a 56,000 square-foot mixed-use building, including a grocery store on the ground floor and eight more stories of residential apartments, city records show. The building that collapsed was a three-story building with a business on the ground floor and multiple apartments inside. It was located next to an excavation site where a one-story building had previously stood before being fully demolished in 2025. According to city records, excavation at this site began in September. That work includes blasting rock. Watch NBC 4 free wherever you are It is unclear what exactly caused the building to collapse, whether it was an issue with that building itself or whether work at the excavation site led to the tragedy unfolding.

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