Police say major blaze at derelict Melbourne building site suspicious

It was already approved for development of an apartment tower. Not sure if they’d actually be able to claim anything from insurance when they existing buildings on the site were going to be demolished anyway. You can recover some material to sell as scrap during demolition, but the price of cleaning up the mess after the fire is surely worse than what you’d stand to gain from insurance on buildings you were going to demolish all along.