Demolition starts

On Friday, June 7th the contractors started demolition of the commercial floor. Here's a short video to commemorate the long-awaited first swing.

Over the weekend the contractors selectively removed walls and wall parts from the commercial floor at ground level.  They are very tidy - piling material by type before removing it from the building.

Organized piles of demo'd walls

The walls are selectively removed to create a large office in back connected to one of the bathrooms with a separation from the front retail space.

Office in back

Front retail space as seen from office

In some locations, we're leaving the existing, original wall trim...

Existing baseboard

Including the trim around the windows.

Plaster removed around windows

We asked the contractor to remove the plaster on the middle floor, since they were already mobilized on-site.  While doing that, they ran across underground conduits leading into the building.  We believe these were originally meant to carry telephone wires that would have run into the building if the original plan to make it a telephone switching building had occurred.

Conduits for telephone wires?