This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/5589.1 Message Board Post: Manzana de Gomez was a whole block of stores and offices in Havana just in front of Central Park and very close to the Capitol and the best places of the city. On the steet level I remember very nice stores, some dedicated to men clothing, very up-dated..they had an Imprenta ...lots and lots of different stores...I remember a luggage store also....leather shoe stores..... In the third floor I know they had offices...accounting....investors..all kind of professional services.... all under one roof....big windows, some cafes..... On today`s terms you will say that was the "first Mall of Cuba... The building is still there... But I don`t know that they had families living on a Shopping & Commercial Center.......