Overview
- Fire crews responded to towering flames just after midnight at the Stadium Flats site and reported the blaze had engulfed the under-construction building and a crane.
- Firefighters evacuated residents of the neighboring Diamond View Apartments and stopped the fire from spreading to that 60-unit building and the nearby South Bend Cubs training facility.
- Officials said several top-floor windows of the Diamond View building were heat-damaged but no injuries or deaths were reported.
- City and fire officials have contained the blaze and opened an investigation into its cause while the extent of structural and financial damage to the Stadium Flats project remains unclear.
- Stadium Flats had been planned to add 92 affordable units with a spring 2027 completion timeline, a schedule that is now likely disrupted and will be reassessed as officials and insurers evaluate the site.