Originally Posted by
Sepp
It's the old, empty, Singer factory. Recently-bought empty industrial buildings "mysteriously" burn down (seemingly, the more protected, the more liable to sponaneous combustion) just after being sold all the time ... and then the insurance owners build lucrative apartment developments on the rubble. Look there first.
Yaaah... Russia isn't the only place prone to "mice with matches."
Doubt there was anything of military value there - nothing "cooked off," and it is so socked in by other buildings that the only way one could store vehicles inside would by driving them through the brick walls.
There
is an old pre-revolutionary Singer Sewing business tower (Singer House, a.k.a "House of the Book") in St. Petersburg, RF - maybe that's the connection that caught the attention of the GRU internet sock puppets.