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San Antonio’s Development Problems

2022-06-20 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

From the Washington Post: Visitors entering Rebecca Flores’s San Antonio home pass a sepia-toned photo of her large Tejano family

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The New Downtown Plan

2022-04-25 Rich Wright Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 10 comments

The El Paso Inc. reported this week that there’s a new plan for downtown El Paso. This month, the DMD,

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Belated Happy Birthday, El Paso

2022-03-01 Rich Wright Downtown, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

On February 28, 1859, Anson Mills submitted this street plat for the town that was to become El Paso. And

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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?

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The Deck Park and the Health Costs of More Traffic

2021-12-05 elrichiboy Deck Park, Downtown, Public Health, Slider, The Trench 5 comments

Here’s an op-ed from Morten Naess in the El Paso Times: As a retired Sierra Medical Center emergency room physician,

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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2021-08-13 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

El Paso has the highest residential property tax rates in the country. Our elected officials used to say that was

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About That Brownfields Assessment

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Downtown, Ethics, Slider, The Environment 3 comments

Yesterday I walked that downtown area that the Downtown Management District is offering up for brownfield assessment. The tract is

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Brand Management Chuco-Style

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Downtown Historic District, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Welcome to my Pity Party The Downtown Management District thinks it’s a good idea to have parts of downtown El

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How Governments Cheat You On Property Taxes

2021-04-04 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s an interesting story from the Gray Lady: Homeowners have long complained about inequitable assessments, and past studies have documented

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Retrovision: Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2021-02-07 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

This post originally appeared on 21 February 2020. In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan

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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 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 City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, 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 ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, 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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