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Demolition of the Comanche Hill and Campus Colony off-campus housing apartment complexes began Monday.

The Comanche Hill apartments on Woods Street and the Campus Colony apartments on Comanche Street are undergoing demolition this summer. One of the buildings in the Comanche Hill complex has already been completely demolished into a big pile of rubble, and theyre going to start hauling off all the debris, said Juan Guerra, associate vice president of Facilities.

And the rest of them, both at Comanche Hill and Colony, are scheduled to come down over the next couple of weeks, Guerra said.

Around 9 a.m. on Monday the apartment buildings began to come down, Guerra said.

It doesnt take much to take these buildings down, he said.

The entire demolition process of scheduled to take six weeks and will include clearing the demolition, putting up erosion control measures and security lighting, Guerra said. The goal is to have demolition completed and cleared by the start of the fall semester.

Part of the apartments existing parking lots will be reopened for students to utilize during the fall semester, he said.

The parking that used to be there for the apartments were not gonna tear up all the asphalt, were going to leave it there so that itll continue to be available for parking but Im not sure what kind of permit you need, Guerra said.

No traffic will be affected by the demolition of the apartment complexes, Guerra said. There are no street closures planned for this project.

What were doing is were clearing the site, getting it ready for the future engineering and science complex, Guerra said. Hopefully well have that funded next year when the legislators are back in session

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