New VFW Loft Apartments and old AccessTucson mural

A mural on the west wall of the former AccessTucson TV studio downtown was there for years. If you drove through downtown on Broadway, you couldn't miss it:

That photo is from our May 29, 2009 post AccessTucson.

After AccessTucson moved away, the building stood unused for quite a while. On March 12 of this year, I noticed that it had changed:

Now the VIP Loft Apartments are behind bits of the original mural. Here are more photos:

My August 21 post on the Facebook group Tucson Murals and Street Art got this comment from Kat Sabine:

My graduate studies classmate Dr. Jessica N. Pabón-Colón coordinated the artists working on that mural for her studies at UofA. I coordinated with Vikki Dempsey to get permission for the space…All credit to her. There's more to this, but Dr. Pabón-Colón is a brilliant activist/academic and you should learn more from her.

Kat replied to me when I asked to use her comment here:

… I have just coordinated their efforts along the way.

Thanks, Kat!