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The Downtown Paradox

2015-03-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

The buildings all sell for millions of dollars, but you can rent them for hundreds. Everybody’s holding out for the

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The 19th Largest City in the U.S.?

2014-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 4 comments

You have, no doubt, heard the oft repeated factoid that El Paso is the 19th biggest city in the U.S.

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The 5 C’s

2014-10-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

When I was in grade school, shortly after the discovery of fire but before the invention of the wheel, we

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Question

2014-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

This week’s Question and Answer session in the El Paso Inc. is an interview with Patrick Schaefer, Executive Director of

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A Strategic Plan for Downtown Development

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s how you hyper-vitalize downtown El Paso, and develop its reputation as the coolest city in the Southwest: Buy the

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2013-09-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 5 comments

Isn’t anyone from Mountain Star Sports Group interested in a little crisis management?  Don’t they realize that they’re hemorrhaging? Today

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Crazy Joe Muench

2013-07-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media One comment

Two recent columns by El Paso Times’ Joe Muench question the straw men opposing progress in El Paso. Here’s one,

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Bland El Paso

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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