Colonia Verónica Anzures Explained

Settlement Type:Neighborhood of Mexico City
Official Name:Verónica Anzures
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:City
Subdivision Type2:Borough
Subdivision Name2:Miguel Hidalgo
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:11300

Colonia Verónica Anzures is a colonia of Mexico City located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough. The neighborhood is a residential area but it also houses some office buildings, most importantly the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex.

Location

The neighborhood is bordered by:[1]

History

During the late years of the 1800s, Chapultepec was still surrounded by ranches, such as the Anzures, Polanco and La Teja ranches and the La Condesa and Los Morales haciendas.

In 1920, the owner of the Los Morales hacienda, Eduardo Cuevas Rubio, dies, leaving in his testament instructions for the partition of the hacienda in five sections. Sections I and II, then the closest to the center of Mexico City, became the colonia Verónica Anzures.[2] An area that, at the time, was known only as La Verónica, due to the proximity of the Calzada de La Verónica (today Circuito Interior Melchor Ocampo).[3]

In the 1950s, Verónica Anzures started to develop as a residential zone, described by anthropologist Luis Barjau as "an urban zone in the Federal District of middle-class pretentious residents, who wanted to emulate the then sumptuous Polanco, but smaller".[4]

Description

Verónica Anzures has, mainly, residential buildings of art deco and colonial revival styles. The colonia also houses several commercial buildings, Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, headquarters of state-owned Pemex, one of the largest petroleum companies in the world and shopping center Plaza de las Estrellas, being the two most important.

From the first decade of the 21st century, the neighborhood has experienced a process of gentrification, resulting in the restoration of old buildings and the construction of new big residential buildings.

Notes and References

  1. Mapa de colonias de la Delegación Miguel Hidalgo (Map of colonias of the Miguel Hidalgo borough)
  2. Web site: Historia de la Hacienda de los Morales. La Hacienda de los Morales. es. 2018-06-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20170909162611/http://webmail.haciendadelosmorales.com/00_00_Historia.htm. 2017-09-09. dead.
  3. Web site: Promoción inmobiliaria en la ciudad de México (1920-1940) el caso de la colonia Anzures. Connolly, Priscilla. es . 2018-06-14 .
  4. News: Ascensión de la Verónica Anzures hasta la sierra de Michoacán, de Carlos García Mor. Proceso . October 17, 2005 . June 14, 2018 . es .