A bit of color can't replace La Placita

Until 2018, the southwest corner of Broadway & Church had the colorful La Placita retail and office buildings:

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Now The Flin apartments are on that corner. (There's more history and photos in the Arizona Daily Star Tucson Time Machine email newsletter… I'm a subscriber; I hope you'll also be able to see the newsletter by clicking there.) At least there's some color in this mural along Broadway, which I found on November 11th:

Here it is, starting at the left (east) end:

Luckily, the plaza that gave La Placita its name is an historic site. I'm guessing that's why the builder didn't tear it down too:

A December 18 Arizona Daily Star article (readable by subscribers only), With rents up to $3K per month, new luxury Tucson apartments are leasing up, says that the apartments are “named after the Flin family, the original operators of El Charro Café that operated there from 1935 to 1968.” The article also says that one building from La Placita wasn't torn down. It has been split between a resident clubhouse and an upcoming location of Savaya Coffee Marketr. And the article quoted Omar Mireles, the president of developer HSL Properties, that they placed metal luminaries next to la Plaza de la Mesilla with cutout names of hundreds of residents and businesses who had to move when La Placita Village [and, I believe, the nearby convention center and more] was built in the early 1970s.

Have an art-ful 2022!