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Old Posted Jul 7, 2016, 6:50 AM
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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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And here,

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it's 1951 and the Broadway tunnel is gone (and with it most of Ft Moore), but the building perseveres, now housing a Mexican place, as it would in forthcoming years

—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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