Clark County commissioners approved a redesigned apartment project next to a rental complex that is being rebuilt after a massive fire.

The commission last month gave the green light to Las Vegas developer Brock Metzka’s plans for a five-story, 255-unit apartment building along Maule Avenue near Buffalo Drive in the southwest valley.

Metzka, owner of Edward Homes , purchased the 5.5-acre site for $7 million this summer, property records show.

Efforts to speak with him about the project were unsuccessful.

All told, his involvement with the site marks the latest chapter for a suburban plot of land with a long history marked by a never-built high-rise complex, years of sitting dormant as a giant hole in the ground, and a new project that was destroyed in a fire a few years ago.

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