The latest follow-up to the Pacific Pearl’s series of articles on INAH has a very hopeful outlook. INAH, the national historical agency that is supposed to protect architectural and historical heritage, created animosity and investor worries by over zealous policing of building remodels in the Historic Downtown, and generated a reaction to those policies that extended all the way to the Sinaloa Governor’s office and even Mexico City. At a special meeting between Mazatlán Mayor Ricardo Ramirez and the Old Town Group—a downtown service organization formed as a direct result of those articles—downtown architects, restorer/remodelers, and businessmen expressed their frustration with INAH policies and their negative impact on investment, preservation, and rebuilding the downtown economically and esthetically. During September, several major steps were taken that will probably end the problems with the local INAH office’s policies, to the delight of everybody involved. First, INAH officials from Mexico City visited Mazatlán, met with the Mayor, city planning officials, architects, local INAH reps and the Historic Downtown Project. They then, in an unprecedented