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2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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Dwntwn, Fast and Furious

2013-11-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in

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Promoting Downtown El Paso

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Promoting higher population densities in the urban core is a good thing. Higher population densities, and better public transportation, yield

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Conundrum El Paso

2013-10-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Plan El Paso is the City’s general blueprint for “the built environment.” The Plan adopts the principles of New Urbanism,

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Am I drunk again, or am I still drunk?

2013-09-25 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s dredge up a quote from Saturday’s story in El Paso’s English language daily: MountainStar said it wants to have

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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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How El Paso (and Juarez) Are Different Than Chicago

2013-07-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I was born in Chicago. I don’t remember it well. I was young at the time. There was a time,

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No good deed goes unpunished.

2013-07-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I bet Josh and Woody Hunt, and Paul Foster and Alejandra de la Vega weren’t expecting the negative backlash they

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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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El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an

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