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Originally Posted by Beaudry
While I hate to be the bearer of bad news (which one just is, sometimes), it looks as though La Colima is on her way out. The building which the esteemed Michael Ryerson rightfully called "One of and perhaps the most remarkable survivors on the north side."
Here she is in 1929, about seven years after construction (permits are pulled in October 1922)—
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—but now, she's surrounded by demo fencing. Metro is tearing up that giant parking lot to the east, and the lot behind Colima, to build a giant mixed-use "transit village" with retail, lofts, and train stations.
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Colima is down, but this project seems to be taking a very long time:
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Too bad Colima was not incorporated into the design. Developers love a "clean slate".
This area is interesting too, to me anyway, because of the fascinating, but unsolvable mystery of the location of the previous Plaza (there may have been more than one according so some accounts).
Here's one guess:
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