EL PASO INC: “ARENA” WOULD COST MORE THAN $400 MILLION!
Dear Friends and Media: On Page 8A of today’s El Paso Inc, David Crowder states that “the multipurpose center, or the arena as it’s often called, is regarded by major…
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…
DOWNTOWN NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT: WRITE TO THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Dear Friends, This Saturday the State Board of Review of the Texas Historical Commission will take up the nomination of Downtown El Paso to the National Register of Historical Places.…
CITY’S HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION SENDS OPINION TO TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Dear Friends and Media, As you know, the Texas Historical Commission (THC) wrote to the City on November 10 asking for opinions from the Historic Landmark Commission (HLC) and the…