By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,
Category: Economic Development
Dwntwn, Fast and Furious
There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in
Promoting Downtown El Paso
Promoting higher population densities in the urban core is a good thing. Higher population densities, and better public transportation, yield
Conundrum El Paso
Plan El Paso is the City’s general blueprint for “the built environment.” The Plan adopts the principles of New Urbanism,
Am I drunk again, or am I still drunk?
Let’s dredge up a quote from Saturday’s story in El Paso’s English language daily: MountainStar said it wants to have
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Isn’t anyone from Mountain Star Sports Group interested in a little crisis management? Don’t they realize that they’re hemorrhaging? Today
Crazy Joe Muench
Two recent columns by El Paso Times’ Joe Muench question the straw men opposing progress in El Paso. Here’s one,
How El Paso (and Juarez) Are Different Than Chicago
I was born in Chicago. I don’t remember it well. I was young at the time. There was a time,
No good deed goes unpunished.
I bet Josh and Woody Hunt, and Paul Foster and Alejandra de la Vega weren’t expecting the negative backlash they
Bland El Paso
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have
The Road to Economic Development
As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us. (Can I even call
El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View
If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an
The voters have spoken.
The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,