AmbiZIHón Que Perjudica

That's a pretty unfair representation of before and after. Your after representation shows uncompleted renovation. The final product is yet to be seen. Would be nice if some benches would be installed along the cancha. Personally I think the overall project is pleasing to the eye and brings Zihuatanejo into the 21st century. We can always reach back for our memories of what it used to be and smile.

Time passes on and the world will forever be changing. Get about living or get about dieing.

You're right. For the locals we've only lost some trees we've grown up with all our lives, but for you tourists yes, so PLEASING TO THE EYE like looking down an empty freeway! They will build the exact same FREE loyalty-buying palapa that was built at Tata's, and that will be built at Valeria's II and Daniel's. It will be STERILE, uniform, soulless, a pale caricature of what it used to be. And what has been done is an insult to a lot of locals who unlike daytrippers or whatever you are live here year round and loved our waterfront and its trees. But who cares about what locals think, right? Pleasing to the eye... I suppose if you're into CONCRETE.

The 21st century??? ¡Ubícate, güey! This isn't Los Ángeles or Miami Beach and we sure as hell don't aspire to be! Why did you choose Zihuatanejo? The beach? The weather? Nothing to do with the CULTURE or the AMBIANCE? Maybe you'd be happier in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán or Los Cabos.

The world will be changing? Yes, under the hand of greedy and arrogant humans. Too bad we can't change it for the better. Cutting down all our palm trees and planting sickly looking young ones that obviously didn't grow up on this beach isn't making anything better. It's making certain people RICHER. Please don't pretend this has anything to do with aesthetics or tourism. This is all about a huge self-assigned budget with zero transparency.

All most of the locals wanted was some upkeep and yes, some benches would've been nice. Not tons of concrete now covering about one-third of our beach. That is exactly what we didn't want.

In the first section of the Paseo to La Madera all the plants have died now that the politicians took their photos. In the area next to the museum where the politicians posed for their photo a few months ago with some ugly sign, the plants are already dead. Raised planters lined with concrete on the bottom will be full of dead plants before long, and the little paving stones will soon be chiclet-stained crumbled pebbles. And of course all the lost trees cannot be replaced. This latest remodelación will suffer the same fate as the 6 previous remodelaciones we've had in the past 3 decades. Intentional neglect and decay. A sign of poor public administration.