Affordable housing developers vow to rebuild after massive fire near Redwood City

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Despite a devastating fire that ripped through a housing complex under construction near Redwood City on Monday, developers are set on completing the project, they said Tuesday.

The 8-alarm fire in North Fair Oaks burned in the 2700 block of Middlefield Road and destroyed building B of the planned affordable housing structure which was part of the Middlefield Junction strategic plan for the area. 'This has been devastating to us and much more traumatic than was expected,' said Scott Smith, director of the James E. Roberts-Obayashi Corporation, which is the site's developer.

'This loss could have been so much worse had it not been for the heroic actions of all of our Sheriff's Office personnel who quickly evacuated nearby residents as well as the firefighters who amazingly prevented the fire from spreading to nearby homes and buildings,' she said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

 

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