With the charred wreckage of Mafales Plaza gone, a developer is preparing to build a four-story mixed-use building on Bristol’s Main Street that’s partly intended to offer nearby housing for Bristol Hospital and Wheeler Health employees.

The new structure will have 28 apartments of mostly workforce housing, with a ground floor that could include a restaurant, developer Stephen Shapiro said Tuesday.

Overall, the project will cost somewhere in the field of $7 million to $9 million, Shapiro said, and will benefit from a state financing initiative aimed at providing more housing for Connecticut’s health care workers.

“We’re trying to be a big supporter here of workforce housing for our cops, our teachers and in this case our health care workers,” Shapiro said in a brief talk at the

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