VIDEO OF ABC-7 XTRA: DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Dear Media and Friends, Here is the video from my discussion last night with Richard Dayoub and Saul Saenz about the proposed Downtown National Register Historic District. I was given…
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION: STATE HISTORIC TAX CREDIT HAS GENERATED $2.6 BILLION AND 54,000 JOBS SINCE 2015
Dear Media and Friends, There has been much talk about the potential economic impact of historic tax credits on National Register districts in Texas, much like the ones that the…
THE FIGHT FOR THE DOWNTOWN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT
Dear Friends and Media: As I warned a few weeks ago, there is an effort underway by a local law firm, Kemp Smith LLC, to cancel the establishment of the…
AUDIO: STATE BOARD OF REVIEW VOTES TO APPROVE NOMINATION OF DOWNTOWN EL PASO TO NATIONAL REGISTER
Dear Friends and Media, The audio from Saturday’s meeting of the State Board of Review of the Texas Historical Commission is now online here. Item 6 concerns the County’s nomination…
MAJOR DOWNTOWN DEMOLITION AT CORNED OF MESA AND OVERLAND
Dear Friends and Media, In 2014, River Oaks Properties, led by Adam Frank, demolished five historic buildings at the southwest corner of Mesa and San Antonio. The buildings had been…
LUCIANO TENEMENT IN DURANGUITO AGAIN BREACHED BY INTRUDERS, RAIDED BY POLICE
Dear Friends and Media, Sadly, Don Luciano’s tenement at 217-219 W. Overland Ave., located across the street from the “Arena Footprint,” has yet again been invaded by intruders. The attached…
THANKS TO ALL WHO SUPPORT THE NOMINATION OF DOWNTOWN EL PASO TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES!
Dear Friends, Yesterday, the State Board of Review of the Texas Historical Commission voted unanimously to recommend advancing our County’s nomination of Downtown El Paso to the National Register of…
STATE BOARD OF REVIEW VOTES 9-0 TO ADVANCE NOMINATION OF DOWNTOWN TO NATIONAL REGISTER! VICTORY!!!
Media and Friends, I am pleased to announce that the State Board of Review of the Texas Historical Commission has voted unanimously to recommend that Downtown El Paso become a…
COUNTY JUDGE TO TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION: LEAVE “ARENA FOOTPRINT” PROPERTIES IN PROPOSED HISTORIC DISTRICT
Dear Friends and Media, Yesterday, County Judge Ricardo Samaniego sent the attached letter to the Texas Historical Commission in support of establishing a National Register historic district in Downtown El…
MAYOR OSCAR LEESER SIGNALS HE WON’T ACT ON DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Dear Friends and Media, Mayor Leeser just released the attached statement, which reads as follows: Statement by Mayor Oscar Leeser El Paso Downtown Historic District nomination to National Register of…