Private investment in buildings like Palacio Astoreca is also encouraging real estate development citywide, including burgeoning areas like Cerro Yungay.
When she decided that my visit, not having included any museums, was short on cultural content, she took me to the Palacio del Gobierno and showed me a three-hundred-kilo tlayuda made of real masa and covered with, instead of beans and meat, depictions of life in Oaxaca.