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La Molacha

2021-01-22 elrichiboy downtown, economic development, Slider One comment

If you wanted to make a lot of money betting on El Paso’s future, vacant lots would be the way

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Are Office Buildings Obsolete?

2021-01-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, downtown, economic development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air

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Survey: Downtown’s Looking Up

2020-09-14 elrichiboy downtown, Slider 4 comments

The Downtown Management District conducted a survey recently, and guess what? People are optimistic about our central business district. From

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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Segundo Barrio

2020-06-18 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Commissioners Court, downtown, economic development, History, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s

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Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2020-02-21 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, cost of living, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, economic development, Jessica Herrera, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan to foster economic development in the area. According

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No Pro Sports in the Arena?

2020-02-11 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an

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City To Give $2.4 Million in Cash to Fund Downtown Apartments

2020-02-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, public private partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office

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Wealth Inequality and Income Segregation

2020-02-05 elrichiboy downtown, economic development, Slider Leave a comment

Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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Are the Wheels Coming Off?

2019-05-09 elrichiboy Breaking News, downtown, Slider 6 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns

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Widening the I-10 Trench

2019-03-20 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, downtown, economic development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10

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Lessons in Horse Trading

2019-02-14 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Management, downtown, Slider 5 comments

If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse

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An Old Canard, Revived

2018-10-22 Rich Wright Boondoggles, City Council, downtown, economic development, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an entertaining post from District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez, hyping the benefits of the Children’s Museum. Which is curious,

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, downtown, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, downtown, Media 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy downtown, How to Live in El Paso, what to do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, downtown, economic development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy arena, Brand El Paso, City Council, downtown, economic development One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy downtown, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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