September 2004 Update: The Pusch Building was demolished.

June 12, 2004 UPDATE: "...the city plans to sell a prime block of Downtown for $100 to a developer who will build up to 61 loft condos over a row of restaurants and shops, a project valued at $23 million.
The proposal by Bourn Projects Inc. includes a surprise decision to save the 19th-century Pusch Building, commonly known as Talk of the Town, and incorporating it into the eight-story project.
"It's the best news preservationists have had about Downtown in a very long time," said Sandee Brooke, a member of the Tucson-Pima County Historic Commission."I'm so shocked. I'm so knocked out." The 60-year-old Bank One Annex next door would also be saved, and its original historic façade restored, under the new proposal going to the City Council on Monday. ..." ARIZONA DAILY STAR article by Joe Burchell
 

This 115 year-old building is due for demolition by the end of the year. It was last known as Talk of the Town and still houses the "longest bar in Arizona" inside.
Members of the John Dillinger gang stayed at the Hotel Congress before they were captured here in 1934. Charlie Makley, the first member of the gang to be arrested, was nabbed inside this building looking at police radios. Old-time Tucsonans know this building as Grabe Electric.
"It breaks my heart," said Joana Diamos, whose father built the historic Fox Theatre just down the street, on the other side of Congress. "I wish it could be saved. It's just wrong."

A full article about this building was written by Joe Burchell for the ARIZONA DAILY STAR 12 April 2004