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The plan to convert the single family home into a four unit student apartment building starts with demolition. The idea is to turn the balcony and the lower entry area into additional inside space. After that, stairways, walls, and some other permanent structures must be demolished to accommodate the plan for four studio apartments with bathrooms, kitchens, closets, living rooms, and windows with natural light for each of them. To that end, the demolition stage has been started.

The area beneath the balcony had to be lowered, because there was a step up from inside the house.
This is that same area after the broken concrete is removed.
This is the inner staircase that was destroyed–notice the old step silhouette on the back wall.
Temporary stairway.
The start of the kitchen demolition.
The kitchen after demolition.
Taking the kitchen refuse to the street was hard work.
More kitchen cleanup work.
The debris is moved to the sidewalk in front of the house where a city service truck and crew come to take it away.
Loading the truck with debris.
The loaded truck.
Current state of the house.