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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From the Washington Post: Visitors entering Rebecca Flores’s San Antonio home pass a sepia-toned photo of her large Tejano family
The El Paso Inc. reported this week that there’s a new plan for downtown El Paso. This month, the DMD,
On February 28, 1859, Anson Mills submitted this street plat for the town that was to become El Paso. And
Making downtown vibrant was always a tough task. COVID made it harder. Sealed office buildings where the windows don’t open?
Here’s an op-ed from Morten Naess in the El Paso Times: As a retired Sierra Medical Center emergency room physician,
El Paso has the highest residential property tax rates in the country. Our elected officials used to say that was
Yesterday I walked that downtown area that the Downtown Management District is offering up for brownfield assessment. The tract is
Welcome to my Pity Party The Downtown Management District thinks it’s a good idea to have parts of downtown El
Here’s an interesting story from the Gray Lady: Homeowners have long complained about inequitable assessments, and past studies have documented
This post originally appeared on 21 February 2020. In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan
If you wanted to make a lot of money betting on El Paso’s future, vacant lots would be the way
Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air
The Downtown Management District conducted a survey recently, and guess what? People are optimistic about our central business district. From
The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District
Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s
In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan to foster economic development in the area. According
Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an
From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office
Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that
About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities