A passionate dispute over an old pink building on the near West Side might be settled by the City Council this week.
Plans to demolish the Maldonado Building at 1312 Guadalupe St. have created a classic preservation-vs.-progress problem.
In March, the city's Historic and Design Review Commission decided in a 5-3 vote to begin the process to designate the property historic because of its cultural significance.
Built in the early 1920s and later altered and expanded, the building has served many functions as a traditional family-owned business with living quarters in the rear, and is said to have been a hub of early political activity in the Hispanic community in the mid-1900s.
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