How a Mission activist has gone about trying to save a nationally listed building
MISSION, Texas - It was Mission activist Irma Flores Lopez who first noticed a demolition crew preparing to tear down the historic Roosevelt Auditorium, a building placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
She called friends and then the media and the protests began. Flores Lopez and others are hoping Mission CISD's board of trustees will reverse course and understand that preserving part of Mission's education history is worth more than building a parking lot.\xa0
Flores Lopez provided the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service both with historic images of the auditorium and an audio interview. Here is the interview.
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