{"id":518645,"date":"2010-04-06T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fb0f8a9970c"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:09:00","slug":"historic-de-anza-hotel-in-calexico-may-have-been-irreparably-damaged-by-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518645","title":{"rendered":"Historic De Anza hotel in Calexico may have been irreparably damaged by quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prh.noaa.gov\/ptwc\/messages\/hawaii\/2010\/hawaii.2010.04.04.224805.txt\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Click to read hawaii.2010.04.04.224805 message.\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hawaii.2010.04.04.224805 map\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prh.noaa.gov\/ptwc\/messages\/hawaii\/2010\/hawaii.2010.04.04.224805.jpg\" style=\"width: 345px; height: 388px; margin: 8px;\" title=\"hawaii.2010.04.04.224805 map\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\nThe future of the historic De Anza Hotel in Calexico, Calif., remains in doubt because of damage sustained in the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the U.S.-Mexico border region on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> Built in 1931, the three-story hotel was once a favorite spot for Southern California business barons and the Hollywood set when they visited the desert and Baja California.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn recent years, the hotel has had financial problems and a series of owners. It is now being operated as a living space for low-income elderly people. About 110 residents were evacuated Sunday night when cracks appeared in the hotel ceiling, plaster fell to the floor and the statuary outside fell off their pedestals.<\/p>\n<p> The city of Calexico&#8217;s development director, Armando Villa, said that while the hotel is grandfathered in as an unreinforced masonry structure exempt from certain building codes, there are limits.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWhat concerns us now is we&#8217;re seeing a lot of stress marks that may or may not have to do with the structural integrity of the building,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The building, just two blocks from the U.S. Mexico border, has been red-tagged, making it uninhabitable until further study.<br \/>\nCity officials are waiting for a structural engineering report to be completed later this week to determine if the building can be repaired and saved.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, hotel residents have been moved to a number of shelters throughout Imperial County.<\/p>\n<p> Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in the county, which will free up state resources to aid the recovery effort.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake&#8217;s epicenter was in Mexicali, Mexico, just across the border from Calexico. It has been blamed for at least two deaths and at least 230 injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tony Perry in Calexico, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Map: USGS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the historic De Anza Hotel in Calexico, Calif., remains in doubt because of damage sustained in the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the U.S.-Mexico border region on Easter Sunday. Built in 1931, the three-story hotel was once a favorite spot for Southern California business barons and the Hollywood set when they visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}