About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities
Category: downtown
Are the Wheels Coming Off?
This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns
Widening the I-10 Trench
Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10
Lessons in Horse Trading
If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse
An Old Canard, Revived
Here’s an entertaining post from District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez, hyping the benefits of the Children’s Museum. Which is curious,
Future El Paso
Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in
The “Arena” Looms Large
This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing
Oye, Coño!
Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened
The El Paso Street Debacle
El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the
Retrovision: A Failure in Branding
This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here
Retrovision: More On Dwntwn
This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about
Stuart Blaugrund Drills Downtown
Here’s a letter to the El Paso Times from the lawyer who challenged the Downtown Plan back in the day.
Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars
Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,
Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror
I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on
Liquor Laws are for the Little People
The El Paso Inc. has a big write-up about Paul Foster’s renovation of the Plaza Hotel this week. The renovated
That New Brothel Downtown
God bless those nice people fixing up the Camino Real downtown. Here’s what the El Paso Times reported: The renovation
Ballpark Numbers Updated
An alert reader sent me this spreadsheet which shows the actual numbers for the ballpark. Four years in and we’re
Will Tourism Save Us?
Besides call centers, the City of El Paso’s economic development policy seems to be solely focused on tourism as a
About That Children’s Museum
El Paso Community Foundation President Eric Pearson says the Children’s Museum is going to be an economic driver. From KVIA:
As Goes Baltimore, So Goes El Paso
Here’s an abstract of a scholarly article from the Journal of Urban Affairs. The title of the paper is “Downtown