News and opinion
Dear Friends, Today’s City Council meeting starts at 3:30pm. Item 35 on the agenda calls for discussion and action on the City ordinance that purports to regulate National Register properties.…
Dear Media and Friends, Tomorrow our City Council is taking up the controversial ordinance which, according to some, stands in the way of establishing a National Register District in our…
Dear Media and Friends, This past Monday, the City’s Historic Landmark Commission, under agenda item 6, approved sweeping changes to the City’s Historic Preservation Code, (Chapter 20.20). These changes include…
Dear Media and Friends, Here is the latest news about the County’s effort to establish a National Register historic district in downtown El Paso that would confer generous federal and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
