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Property Devastated By Explosion Sold To Developer For $1.3 Million

DENVER (CBS4)- The land where an apartment building once stood before a devastating explosion has been sold. The building on Santa Fe Drive between 3rd and 4th Avenue exploded nearly two years ago.

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Rio Norte LLC purchased the lot in the Baker Neighborhood for about $1.3 million.

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Todd Perkins was sentenced to 195 years in prison for deliberately causing the blast. He was a handyman for the building and lived in a trailer near the property.

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Nine people were hurt, one of them critically.

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