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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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Are the Wheels Coming Off?

2019-05-09 elrichiboy Breaking News, Downtown, Slider 6 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns

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Widening the I-10 Trench

2019-03-20 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10

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Lessons in Horse Trading

2019-02-14 elrichiboy City Management, Downtown, Slider 5 comments

If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse

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An Old Canard, Revived

2018-10-22 Rich Wright City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an entertaining post from District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez, hyping the benefits of the Children’s Museum. Which is curious,

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Media, The Arena 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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Stuart Blaugrund Drills Downtown

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a letter to the El Paso Times from the lawyer who challenged the Downtown Plan back in the day.

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Elections, The Arena 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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Liquor Laws are for the Little People

2018-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. has a big write-up about Paul Foster’s renovation of the Plaza Hotel this week. The renovated

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