Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the site of a mass shooting that saw 17 students killed in 2018, is set to be partially demolished Thursday.

The building where the shooting took place will be demolished piece by piece, according to the Associated Press, since a controlled implosion would have been too risky for the surrounding buildings.

“I want the building gone,” said Lori Alhadeff, head of the Broward County School Board and whose 14-year-old daughter died in the shooting. “It’s one more step in the healing process for me and my family. My son still goes to school there, and he has to walk past that building where his sister died.”

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Suggestions to replace the building include practice fields for the school band or the ROTC or a memorial to those who died in the shooting.

The building had not been demolished earlier because it was cataloged as evidence in the trial of shooter Nikolas Cruz, according to the report, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2022, and security officer Scot Peterson, who was on the grounds but did not confront the shooter. Peterson was acquitted of wrongdoing, but litigation from victims’ parents continues.