Walk a few blocks west on Avenida Juarez from the busy intersection of Alcalde and you’ll come across a peculiar bronze statue of a man standing on the sidewalk appearing to be pushing against the wall of a building.
In 1950, a 1,700-ton building on Avenida Hidalgo in the city center, owned then by Telefonos de Mexico (later Telmex), was moved 11.6 meters without disturbing a single brick. 
The man represented in the statue is Jorge Matute Remus, a celebrated local engineer, who in 1950 moved that 1,700-ton building, owned then by Telefonos de Mexico (later Telmex), 11.6 meters without disturbing a single brick. He carried out the feat as part of his plan to widen Guadalajara’s main thoroughfare. The alternative was to demolish the building—weighing around 2,000 tons—and construct another.
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