One of the Carlsbad Village’s oldest murals has been destroyed by a developer to be replaced by a five office and 2 residential development.
The destruction of this mural comes shortly after another local favorite mural was blocked by two unpermitted storage containers at The Shorehouse Kitchen.
Is the removal of murals for future developments a new trend in the Carlsbad Village? How will Village gentrification effect the local art culture?
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This makes me very disheartened! I don’t know the history of this mural, but it seems such a shame that it’s now gone, and not memorialized in any way. I painted murals at Chicano Park in the 70’s and I still get to appreciate them today, thanks to careful and persistent activism on the part of the residents in Barrio Logan. I’m so saddened by the wanton destruction of art, can we at least have warnings as to what development is coming so we can try to photograph, catalog, document our city’s artwork? Anyone know the policy of notifications about demolition? Thanks for writing about this!
Thanks for caring about old carlsbad. Most developers don’t.
I’ve lived here 40 plus years, and I care a lot! This was a nice, rural community. I don’t like thinking this, but it seems now that money for developers is the big deal.
I’d be happy to help in anyway I can to preserve some of the old Carlsbad art–and way of “old work together friendliness” that made us a really happy place to live.