SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — One Sioux Falls neighborhood was buzzing with activity Tuesday morning.
People looked on as crews moved a home through the streets.
It all started when the Furniture Mission decided it would to 800 S. Van Eps for its new home.
“We knew that we needed some more parking and genuinely enough we were able to purchase the house next door to create that parking,” Furniture Mission Executive Director and CEO Janean Michalov said.
While the land will eventually become parking, the house that sat there will also get new life.
The Furniture Mission donated the house to the South Eastern Development Foundation for its recycled home program.
It was moved Tuesday to its new location just off 14th street, less than a mile away.
The South Eastern Development Foundation added new windows and siding before the move, and will make more upgrades at the new site.
“On the bottom level will be the two-stall garage, and another bathroom, another bedroom, and the laundry room and upstairs, which is what you saw moved today will be upstairs where the kitchen and other bedrooms will be,” South Eastern Development Foundation President and CEO Lynne Keller Forbes said.
The home will be listed at market rate.
“On the front of it we’re going to put a big full deck, so I think it will be really attractive for someone who wants to live near the downtown area,” Keller Forbes said.
“The Furniture Mission is a repurposing organization, so it just felt like the right thing to do and it worked out very efficiently,” Michalov said.
The Furniture Mission expects to move into its new location this summer after renovations.
The house that was moved belonged to the family of a Furniture Mission volunteer.
Keller Forbes says the family will be able to see the home once it’s finished.
