ballpark Archives – El Chuqueño

Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2023-07-02 Rich Wright Art, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 06 June 2013. This post has been slightly edited. As an El Pasoan, I appreciate

Ancient History — Mayor John Cook’s Interview with the El Paso Inc.

2023-03-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Mayor John Cook, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From 9 June 2013: “Why are we making a significant investment in Downtown? The answer’s very simple. When I come

Robert Reich — “The Stadium Scam”

2023-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Robert Reich takes on the billionaires in this piece on his website. Ever notice how there never seems to be

What You’ll Get From the Arena

2022-09-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Best case scenario: Collateral development. Maybe other businesses will spring up around the arena. Like what? When they were promoting

Retrovision – TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-08-23 Rich Wright ballpark, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Retrovision, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 04 March 2022. Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when

A New Advertiser

2022-08-11 Rich Wright ballpark, Slider 2 comments

Good news, everybody. The ballpark has a new advertiser. That should help offset some of the expense that the City

Retrovision – What’s Wrong With El Paso?

2022-04-26 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider 3 comments

This was one of El Chuqueño’s first posts. It originally appeared on 28 August 2012. I like El Paso. What

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2022-04-05 Rich Wright ballpark, El Paso Times, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

Downtown in the Age of COVID

2022-01-31 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Downtown, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Making downtown vibrant was always a tough task. COVID made it harder. Sealed office buildings where the windows don’t open?

Quality of Life Much?

2021-12-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Here’s a heartbreaking story from the El Paso Times. I am reprinting it in its entirety. This holiday season, the

I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

Life Choices

2021-10-02 elrichiboy ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Did you go to college? Have you/are you raising kids? Have you ever had a job? Can you imagine doing

Consider the Deck Park

2021-09-20 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, TxDOT 11 comments

The latest push from the people who want to build a deck over the freeway is connectivity. Connect those neighborhoods

He’s a Witch!

2021-09-15 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT 3 comments

From a September 5, 2021 article by Sara Sanchez in the El Paso Inc.: A multimillion-dollar project that includes rebuilding

It’s Always Darkest Before It Gets Lots Darker

2021-08-29 Rich Wright Alexsandra Annello, ballpark, Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Isabel Salcido, MountainStar Sports Group, Peter Svarzbein, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Here’s Tommy Gonzalez’ contribution to that story from the El Paso Times headlined El Paso’s property tax rate is among

Rich People’s Hobbies

2021-08-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

Some rich people collect art. Some collect racehorses. Some collect cars. In El Paso, some rich people collect professional sports

Happy Independence Day, Comrade

2021-07-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. Today is the day we celebrate our nation’s freedoms. The United States

How Your City Representative Voted on Certificate of Obligation Debt

2021-06-18 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, ballpark, Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Joe Molinar, Peter Svarzbein, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Max Grossman did the heavy lifting and went back to research how our elected representatives voted on various issuances of

Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2021-06-15 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Opportunity Costs, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for