Nearly six months after the Mark Twain Apartment building, formerly Mark Twain Elementary School, was destroyed in a fire, work to demolish the building is almost completed.
“I’d say we’re at 80 percent right now and expect to be finished by early February,” said David Furnell, whose Furnell Companies has owned the building since 1994.
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