LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The owner of a vacant building that caught fire in the Historic Westside area Sunday told Channel 13 he believes homeless people are responsible.
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Owner Shlomo Meiri also says the City needs to do more to help keep people out of vacant buildings.
The fire was reported around 6 p.m. near H Street and Owens Avenue at a building that used to be Tokyo Casino. Originally, it opened as Town Tavern in 1955.
The building is now owned by a California businessman who says he wants to tear it down to make way for a new mixed-use development.
"The last two months, it's been overwhelmed over there with people standing around the building, homeless, " he said. "The city's code enforcement came a few times. The police came many times."
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
