PITTSFIELD — Suspended in midair is a brand-new kitchen and bathroom, fully finished roof and one half of the home being built at 72 Dewey Ave. By the end of Friday, the home was expected to be about "85 percent done," officials said.

Modular homes are prebuilt elsewhere — this one is from Wingdale, N.Y. — and then brought onsite for assembly. Homes arrive with a finished interior, full kitchen and most of the siding done.

A crane places the first half of a modular home onto a prefabricated foundation at 72 Dewey Ave. in Pittsfield, a property purchased by the Westside Legends to transform into affordable housing for the community.

Westside Legends, a nonprofit with a mission of improving the quality of life at Pittsfield’s West Side, bought the lot at 72 Dewey Ave., prepared it for the modular home and oversaw its installation.

By the end of the process, a new three-bedroom, two-bathroom ranch will be ready for someone to move in. The total length of the project is only six months, and Westside Legends sees modular homes as one way to bring housing to Pittsfield.

For Marvin Purry, co-executive director and treasurer for the organization, building a housing stock using modular homes makes sense for a variety of reasons.

"With the modulars using open land, you have your set price," Purry said. "It helps us with budgeting, it helps us with trying to move forward with trying to beautify and create value for the neighborhood."

Another advantage modular homes have is their more set schedule, he said.

But not just anyone can buy a modular home. Dealers like Timothy Face are the intermediaries between serious buyers and modular home builders.

He said the home being installed at 72 Dewey Ave. was brought to Pittsfield in two "boxes," from Wingdale, N.Y., by Westchester Modular Homes.

To prepare for the home's arrival, a basement was dug and set, with water, sewage and electricity already predrilled into the area. Trees and other debris were cleared, too.

The two boxes were assembled as rehearsed.

A crane lifted the first section of the home using ropes. Then they lifted the home a couple dozen feet into the air, lining it up with the already dug basement. Finally, as the home was lowered onto the basement and workers set up support beams in pre-poured concrete to help support the mid-section of the home.

Once the first half of the home was set, a fully finished kitchen and a few rooms peeked out in the holes where doors would soon be placed. Of course, this would be after the other half of the home was set.

The home needs plumbing, heating, flooring and some exterior work before it will come to market, but it has fully wired electricity and, besides the flooring, a fully finished interior.

The whole process will take six months, Purry said. "We anticipate this'll be done by December."

Workers lift support posts into place in the basement before lowering the first half of a home on top of them during an installation at 72 Dewey Ave. in Pittsfield.

Although a specific price can't be nailed down yet, Purry said Westside Legends will sell the home below market rate.

This won't be a one-off project either, he said. "We're hoping that we can get more empty lots on the West Side. And create the housing, create more houses."