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El Paso is being squeezed.
In 2019, the Texas state legislature passed SB2 which limits property tax increases to 3.5 percent per year. Meanwhile, most of the city s budget is based on largely unfunded state mandates. And where the state in 2008 funded 45 percent of local education costs, that s been reduced to just 39 percent today.
So even before the COVID-19 crisis hit, The wiggle room we have to spend on projects we think are important becomes smaller and smaller, observes El Paso County Commissioner, David Stout.
El Paso, a city similar in size to Boston and Washington, D.C., is politically a blue triangle at the far end of a sea of red in West Texas â and Stout thinks politics plays a big role in the increasing limits on local spending: The state legislature wants to stop local progressive policies from being put in place.
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A fly-through video released by Gray TV shows how offices could be incorporated near greenspace. (Gray Television image)
Gray Television, an Atlanta-based media company, has purchased Doraville, Ga. s shuttered General Motors facility and will build its own 127-acre master-planned community with a backbone of movie and TV production facilities.
The digital media and broadcasting company operates in 57 markets across the country. Plans call for Gray to turn the former auto plant into what company heads are calling a Studio City, the largest blend of Hollywood/mixed-use in Georgia.
With the finalization of a deal with property developer Integral Group late in March, Gray s initial plans would include 10 television and movie production studios, plus an e-gaming facility. In addition, a large mix of apartments, townhomes, hotel space, restaurants, retail, and corporate offices also is on the drawing board, as well as communal greenspace