A fire ripped through the former Kmart on Lake Street in Minneapolis Friday morning, destroying part of the building and accelerating the city's plans to demolish the structure for a long-planned redevelopment of the site. The blaze brought "newfound urgency," a city spokeswoman said, to Minneapolis' plans to raze the building next spring. City staff will seek quick approval from council for .
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Squatters have used cords, ropes and bedsheets to "climb up and break through the third- and fourth-floor windows to gain access to the vacant boarded building," an assistant fire chief said.