Sketch of the nuclear region of NGC 7469. The approximate locations of the 1.1 μm–selected star clusters are marked with stars. The places where there is molecular gas (traced by CO ﹩J=2{\mbox{--}} 1﹩ emission) are shaded in light gray, whereas the most intense MIR/radio‐emitting regions are shaded in dark gray. The location of SN2000ft (Colina et al. 2001, 2007) is shown as a black star.