Regular visitors to Guadalajara’s Galerias mall can be torn between two choices of membership-only warehouse clubs situated on either side of Avenida Rafael Sanzio: Sam’s and Costco.

The first 30 kilometers of the  111-kilometer Macrolibramiento highway to the south of Guadalajara could be open to traffic by the end of 2014.

Colectivo 4:20, a Guadalajara-based group created via social media that is campaigning  to legalize marijuana in Mexico, took to the city’s premier avenue this week to disseminate information about the polemic substance.

The Guadalajara metro area’s green lung, the Bosque de la Primavera, a natural area protected from development by a 1980 presidential decree, has just over 800 owners, including 421 private property owners, about 400 communal agrarian users (ejiditarios) and the state government.

The fate of the of the Villa Panamericana, built on the outskirts of Guadalajara to house athletes and officials participating in the 2011 Pan American Games, is still hanging in the balance.

A government-backed outreach center that provides support, education and accommodation to pregnant girls and young women aged from 10 to 18 has opened in Guadalajara – the first facility of its kind in the country.