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Old Posted May 28, 2013, 4:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Syndic View Post
It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.
The last building where the Marriott is going up? It was a parking lot and three small buildings housing Las Manitas, Tesoros Trading Co. and Escuelita del Alma - a daycare center. They were torn down for an earlier version of the Marriott that (thank God) didn't get built.

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This was the parking lot and a side view of Tesoros from 2007:

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