CURRENT EL PASO EXPATRIATES (514 Respondents)         

Graduating Classes, Pre 1980

• a coherent plan for the city

• attract clean business opportunities

• attract high level paying jobs

• attract high level paying jobs

• Attract high tech companies. I have been involved in leading-edge network engineering and design and find it interesting that Cisco only maintains a satellite office to support ELP.

• Attract higher paying jobs.

• Attract more high-tech companies

• Better cost of living an d services offered by the city

• Better job opportunities

• Better modes of transportation

• Better paying jobs

• Better paying jobs and opportunities

• Better paying jobs.

• Campaign to enhance EP's image

• clean up downtown

• Clean up the city

• commitment to include low economic areas in plans for economic development for the city

• concrete support for the arts

• Create a more dynamic business environment

• create an environment in which individual initiative and creativity thrive

• create more job

• Crime Prevention

• Deal with crime

• decent media

• Develop a Downtown Entertainment District

• don't know

• El Paso city "leaders" could retire, move away, or simply die

• Encourage more and larger private employers to come to EP

• Enforce border security

• enhance cultural resources

• enhance multicultural environment

• entertainment

• Entertainment and outdoor recreation

• ENVIRONMENT

• Expand the job market to big industry and big business.

• festivals

• Fidelity to their oaths of office

• Fix and repave the streets of El Paso

• Focus on the unique trait it has - the mountains, rivers, desert, and provide a world-famous tourist attraction, like San Antonio's Riverwalk. What about the RIO GRAND!? Rio Grande - It is famous in movies, but ignored by El Paso. Why not create a lovely park around it? Emphasize the beautiful Spanish/Mexican culture and architecture; look what it did for Santa Fe to provide a unique and attractive looking city. The architecture in El Paso has no focus, confusion in identity; you can be a beautiful, unique border city!

• Foster new emerging technologies

• Get major companies to open an office in El Paso

• Get more better paying jobs.

• good social services and happy people.

• Greater emphasis on the arts

• High tech industry

• hire local firms for everything

• I do Not want to move back there now!

• Improve mass public transportation

• Improve the pollution situation

• Improved education and arts

• Increase job opportunities

• increase pay scale

• increase the standard of living

• job growth

• Job Opportunities

• Jobs

• Jobs, jobs, jobs

• Keep a well run, clean city.

• leaders?

• leaders?

• Legalize Gambling at Speaking Rock

• Lose their provincial attitudes

• Lucrative jobs like big cities offer

• Lure high tech companies and provide the education for these jobs.

• major level professional sports

• Make downtown an attractive, vibrant place to lie

• make hiring ex-patriates a priority

• Make improvements to the city so that it is a desirable place to live

• make the schools better, property more valuable

• more access to cultural activities

• more cultural events

• More emphasis on improving environmental concerns.

• more innovation

• More of an international transportation infrastructure

• more outdoor activities

• More progressive programs for the city. More trees for shade

• More secure borders

• More technology - El Paso is soooo behind in technology!

• Much better public transportation, light rail, new buses

• Not a lot

• Offer incentives to small business start-ups

• Offer more functions/activities

• open border

• Pay levels need to go up

• preserve what's left of el paso's architectural heritage

• provide an excellent retirement package

• Provide greater job opportunities

• Provide local talent the opportunity to compete for high paying jobs.

• Provide unique education and cultural niches like a world-class art school (which I could provide), language schools. Offer incentives to entrepreneurs.

• public art and parks.

• Recreational activities

• Recruit and fund bright, progressive leadership to take over

• Recruit better job opportunities

• Reduced crime and pollution

• Remove the equation : Border City = Cheap Labor

• Resign

• SAFETY

• salary

• Scrap the El Paso Times; bring in a real, informative daily newspaper

• solicitation of major companies

• Stop promoting ELP as simply a Maquilla/Border town. Again, that perpetuates the "cheap labor' mentality.

• tell us how you could use our skills and talents

• there are not leaders just greedy bastards

• true cultural diversity

• Vision

• what is the city's 10 year plan for growth

• work for true biracial, bicultural unity and understanding; open a frank dialogue

• Work on reducing crime rate.

• Work together toward common goals

• You don't want people my age

Graduating Classes, 1980-1990

• A better entertainment source.

• a vibrant downtown would be appealing - with a restraint district and live music

• amphitheater to attract large events / entertainment

• Annex the city to Mexico

• Arts & Entertainment

• Attract big business

• attract big business

• Attract big employers

• Attract Fortune 500 companies & higher salaries

• attract high end technology companies

• Attract high tech jobs

• Attract industry that pays higher wages

• Attract large companies

• Attract large companies to headquarter/set up business in El Paso

• Attract large companies/corporations

• Attract larger corporate businesses

• attract more high end job opportunities

• Attract online companies

• attract skilled employment opportunities

• Attracting a larger number of technology companies

• Attract more white collar industries

• Be a "blue" spot in the Texas sea of "red"... a big reason we love the NW is because of the liberal/democratic culture!

• Be a national leader in public schools

• be ethical

• be more inclusive (not just anglo oligarchy)

• Be progressive start thinking outside the box

• Beautify the city, diverse entertainment options

• Better border patrol.

• Better companies with engineering needs

• Better grocery stores, more organic food items

• better improvements for tourist attractions

• Better job opportunities.

• better jobs

• better pay

• better recruiting of utep students by employers in the el paso area

• Better school system

• Better support for UTEP from the city.

• Better support of local business.

• Better/more marketing

• Bring bib business to El Paso again

• Bring companies in through tax incentives

• Bring in better jobs

• Bring in better technical jobs

• Bring in Businesses that pay good

• Bring in companies that will pay what the job title is paid nationally

• Bring in emerging technology businesses

• Bring in high tech companies (IT)

• Bring larger companies in

• bring larger companies into El Paso

• bring more culture into the town

• Bring more high paying jobs

• bring outside culture to el paso by opening cultural institution to other things

• Bring top businesses in!

• Broaden community event offerings

• build a larger middle class

• build more parks

• Build nicer city parks and long running and biking trails

• Capitalize on its strengths, such as the strong military presence, affordable cost of living, family friendly community, low crime, etc...and start advertising itself to outside corporations and its employees.

• City Development

• City improvements(visual appearance)

• Clean downtown and make safe.

• clean the Rio Grande River

• clean up

• clean up and restore downtown!

• CLEAN UP DOWNTOWN AREA!!!!!!

• clean up the city and address the homeless population

• Competitive wages

• Continue revitalization efforts

• Continue to come up with ideas to broaden El Paso and the stigma that it has.

• Continue to make be progressive especially around shopping

• Control property taxes

• Convert existing neighborhoods to retirement-like communities

• Cooperative education among local schools, colleges & universities

• Corporate benefits are important as well.

• corporate headquarter relocation

• Corporations

• Corporations

• Corporations

• Create attractive opportunities for big companies so that they can open corporate offices there.

• Create better ways to connect the city in things like bike lanes and better mass transit

• Create job opportunities at high level technical fields

• Create job opportunities

• Create more high-tech job availability

• Create more high-tech jobs with salaries competitive with larger cities

• create more stable employment opportunities

• create real professional opportunities

• Create service industry jobs that attract higher wage employers

• Cultural Development

• Culture

• Culture (ALL TYPES-not just hispanic!!)

• Demonstrate long term city potential (i.e. International trade, Fort Bliss, etc)

• Develop business opportunities

• Develop Downtown

• downtown improvements

• Downtown needs improvement/upgrade for locals & tourists

• downtown revitalization

• earning potential

• economic development

• Educate citizens about other cultures

• educational opportunities

• Eliminate crime

• Encourage diversification of the culture.

• Encourage more people my age to run for office

• Encouraging "green" businesses to open

• Entice companies to move here

• Expanding on the social and shopping scenes

• figure out a way to recruit former El Pasoans for jobs there

• fix the neighborhoods

• fix the school systems

• Focus on and invest in education (primary, secondary, college and graduate)

• Focus on downtown

• GET ANOTHER GROCERY STORE, ALBERTSON'S IS OUTRAGEOUS. HEB NEEDS TO BE IN EL PASO

• get rid of illegals coming across to attend schools

• Good jobs for professionals

• good public education

• great older neighborhoods

• Have a real estate company show you the wonderful homes there.

• have better organization's for kid sports

• Have more white collar jobs

• Have people speak English

• have the leaders think outside of the box

• help american owned businesses

• Help encourage employers looking for persons with higher education

• High Tech Job Opportunities

• higher paying wages

• Highlight & promote social and cultural events

• Highlight opportunities where people can apply for professional jobs

• home owner associations

• I am not sure because I have been gone so long - but

• I can understand that prices soared for housing in cities like Los Angeles or Austin but El Paso??

• Improve and expand outdoor recreation - bike & hike trails, festivals

• improve downtown

• Improve education in public schools.

• Improve outdoor activities entertainment

• Improve pollution, educate residents

• Improve quality of life / entertainment / recreation

• Improve safety with the close border to Mexico

• Improve schools

• improve the amusement park and get water parks

• Improve the crime index.

• improve the quality of life and not depend solely on climate and access to border

• Improve transportation system

• Improve Zoo - add more family attractions

• Improved city infrastructure

• Improved social life

• improved sports, cultural events

• Improved venues for artists of all kinds

• Improved/increased social life

• Increase safety

• Increase the cultural opportunities (i.e. sports, arts)

• Increase the job opportunities (i.e. medical jobs)

• Invest in both Mexican and US cultural activities

• Invest in infrastructure

• Invest in tourist attractions

• Invigorate downtown

• It’s all about the kids--great programs

• Job creation

• job market

• Job Opportunities

• Job Opportunities

• JOB OPPS IN THE ARTS FIELDS

• jobs

• jobs

• Keep cost of living competitive

• Keep crime rate low

• keep it cleaner, the freeway always has trash!

• keep old downtown buildings great for renovation

• Keeping young people in school

• landscape

• lead the city by offering options that people are not familiar with

• Leaders in El Paso can't change the community and that's where it needs to start.

• less political in-fighting

• Light rail

• Local gov needs to take the interest of citizen not theirs

• look at last question

• Lower property taxes

• Lower taxes

• Lure more big business

• Make better use of businesses and community services.

• Make city more business friendly

• Make it a business friendly atmosphere with incentives and low taxes

• make it cleaner & remove graffiti immediately when it happens

• Make it look and feel like America

• Make it the trendy place to live

• Make the downtown area more vibrant and attractive

• maybe bringing more contemporary art, culture and music - - not just western or border related

• money

• More $ to be put into downtown

• More activities (Broadway shows, concerts, chic restaurants, etc.)

• more advanced degree opportunities (law school, medical school, vet school etc)

• more arts and music sconce

• More Cultural Attractions

• More cultural programs and not just Ballet Folklorico and the canyon emphitheater in the summer

• More Downtown life(it is pretty much dead).

• more growth in regards to social/recreational activities

• More information on available professional jobs

• More job opportunities

• more jobs

• More nightlife for adults, not just college kids.

• more open culture

• More outdoor activity locations (i.e., parks, hike and bike trails)

• more partnerships with national/international level industries - including higher level educational organizations

• More recreational things to do around the city (Day or Night).

• More stringent appearance requirements for housing districts

• More stringent appearance requirements for shopping districts

• Move to Mexico

• Music and art

• national entertainment Concerts/NCAA/NBA/NFL

• need increased major attraction sites

• Need more attractions for businesses and residents, too boring

• Need more corporations to make El Paso their Corporate headquarters

• Not sure at this time

• Offer an opportunity to work with the city as a special project for a year in order to leverage the former El Pasoan's ideas from having lived outside of the city.

• Offer incentives for employers in high demand fields to move here.

• Offer incentives to broader range of industries

• Offer more Grad/Cont Ed courses

• offer tax breaks to investment firms that want to trade with mexico

• other benefits?

• Outdoor recreations

• Outside Recreation

• partner with businesses to increase level of recreational activities (either free or low cost) for individuals and families

• Partner with Fortune 500 firms to open branch offices - - NOT CALL CENTERS...it cheapens the EP brand.

• Pay above market value to recruit employees

• Personal Liaison from the City planning department for new businesses moving to El Paso

• programs to reduce poverty/job training etc.

• Promote arts, theater, etc.

• Promote downtown living w/o too much gentrification

• Promote events at all existing parks and performance venues

• Promote that EP has more well-maintained and well-built public pools than any other city in America

• Properly advertising jobs in demand

• provide better pay

• Provide job opportunity

• provide more cultural activities, better parks and recreation

• Provide more entertainment on the El Paso side for tourists

• Provide opportunities that will make the city grow. Not sure what those are.

• Provide stimulating career opportunities

• PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS HIRING ARTS LECTURERS AND VISITING WRITERS AND POETS

• Put money back into the communities so expats feel the benefits.

• quality of life considerations

• Quit political correctness with Mexico

• Quit.

• Really play up the already existing wonderful qualities. I genuinely love El Paso and defend it every chance I get, but it just doesn't seem to be moving forward.

• Really promote growth/diversity and back it up

• recreation

• Recruit companies

• Recruit heavily

• recruit people from advanced cities

• Recruitment of new companies

• redevelop downtown

• Reduce crime

• reduce crime

• reduce gangs

• Refrain from advertising El Paso as low skill / low wage

• remodel ....downtown/lower valley....

• Resign

• resources & organizations for art, culture, literature, history

• Retain / attract world class manufacturing companies

• revitalize downtown

• Revitalizing areas with older housing stock

• Run EP like a business in order to bring - not the typical small town mentality

• safe neighborhoods

• Safe Place to live

• Scenery (It's a physically ugly city)

• Secure the border

• should get together with Juárez officials to make living there safer and have more attractions

• Small Business opportunities/opportunities in general

• Sports

• Start Bringing in more Fortune 500 companies

• stop pregnant women from crossing border to have babies in El Paso

• stop whining for money from the state and feds

• Strategically promote online

• Strengthen UTEP's credentials

• subsidized historic building renovation (home or business)

• support a ballet company

• Support citizens first.

• tax benefits for corporations

• tax incentives to attract large businesses

• Tax-break incentives for new millennium business ventures

• Tequila Tuesdays at all bars (free shots)

• The city needs more professional jobs, i.e., accounting, engineering, financial services

• The local government needs to take the heat, and drag El Paso kicking and screaming into the 21st century, thereby creating

• There are still people who think El Paso is in Mexico!

• Thinking has been antiquated by leaders, city is 10 yrs behind

• Top notch companies for better job opportunities

• Try radical concepts to jump start economy: medicinal marijuana

• Try to get corporations to move to ELP

• Turn El Paso into a cultural crossroads (which it truly is) and support all aspects of the arts. Make it a Mecca of culture based on its unique position as an international city.

• unsure

• use salaries as incentives

• Utilize/promote the strengths of the city

• Vote Republican.

• Welcome big businesses to town. It often feels like EP wants help from no one and wants to just be left alone in their little area of TX.

• With the help from the feds, alleviate immigration problems

Graduating Classes 1991-2000

• "class it up" - roads, hotels, shopping, parks, etc need to be modernized

• "free beer fridays" ;)

• $$$$$$

• a commitment to making the city unique-i.e. no assimilation to any town usa

• a more "Metropolitan" look

• A prettier downtown

• activities

• Add more entertainment attractions

• Add more jobs

• Add more restaurants , bistros, coffee shops.

• Address the issue of pollution (air, water, ground) in a more aggressive, people focused manner that does not favor corporations.

• Adopt progressive city policies

• Advertise in relevant magazines and TV shows.

• Advertise more to Large companies like Microsoft, and make El Paso an appealing place to open offices

• Advertise the "prestigious" positions available within the city

• affordable housing downtown - lofts/condos

• Affordable, safe housing in city center

• Allow more job to enter the El Paso area

• and move to great paying jobs

• A significant vibrant and diverse arts district and night life. An art house theater! Small repertoires! Concert venues! Art galleries!

• Attempt to move to service sector instead of manufacturing type jobs

• Attract a medical school or some sort of graduate institute other than UTEP

• Attract another university to El Paso.

• attract art, film

• attract big business

• attract big companies

• Attract bigger business

• Attract business

• attract businesses

• Attract corporations

• Attract Corporations with higher wages

• attract employers

• attract greater variety in the job market

• Attract higher paying jobs instead of low paying jobs because of high bilingual population (being bilingual should be a compensated skill, not a requirement for employment)

• Attract large employers

• attract large, white-collar companies...not call centers

• Attract larger corporations

• Attract leading faculty to head graduate programs at UTEP

• Attract more high tech jobs

• Attract more start-up companies (technology, medical, or other that utilizes El Paso's resources)

• Attract national concerts and other entertainment (i.e. Cirque duSoleil) l

• Attract new business that pay higher wages

• Attract new industry/entertainment/sport presence

• Attract newer/better attractions (Western Playland just doesn't do for me)

• Attract outside resources.

• Attract Pro Sports Team

• attract professional businesses

• Attract Quality Employers

• Attract solid industries; retail stores are not sufficient

• Attracting larger companies to increase the job market.

• be more accepting of small businesses - too many of them go away in exchange for the corporate locales

• Be proactive in global causes

• be willing to give tax breaks for corporations

• be willing to spend more money on improving family activities

• Beautification

• Beef up mass transit (like in Curitiba) so I don't have to drive everywhere

• Better community programs

• better economy which creates more high paying jobs

• Better entertainment / nightlife

• better healthcare

• better hotels

• Better job opportunities

• Better job opportunities; attract businesses as well as supporting higher education and research

• Better Jobs

• Better jobs

• Better music scene

• Better night life

• Better outdoor recreation

• better pay

• BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

• Better public transportation - Light Rail

• Better public transportation. Bring back the trolleys!

• better restaurants

• Better restaurants (not chains), trendy/classy bars and lounges, higher quality retail stores, etc.

• Better Roads

• better shopping

• Bigger gay community

• bigger Jewish population

• Bigger Sport Venues

• Bike friendly roads

• bold projects/initiative

• Bring back Speaking Rock & other unique entertainment

• Bring big business to El Paso - ie Dell, IBM, car manufacturers, celebrities

• Bring in a diverse set of employers willing to pay higher wages (e.g., research labs/settings) for those with college degrees.

• bring in better companies that offer higher paying wages

• Bring in big corporations to create jobs

• bring in bigger companies

• bring in larger corporations

• bring in more business for employment

• Bring in more entertainment

• Bring in more performing arts

• Bring Jobs

• Bring larger companies

• bring more corporate headquarters to el paso by whatever means possible

• Bring more employment opportunities to El Paso

• bring national businesses, including restaurants and retail stores

• Bring new industry to El Paso - dot-coms etc

• bringing in important events/shows such as cirque du soleil

• brining new business to the city

• Broaden The Opportunities That UTEP Provides

• Broadening people's social awareness

• build a major music and arts venue. (establish an annual music and arts festival?)

• Build a new sports facility

• Build museums, theatres (for live performances), etc.

• Build something like a Six Flags/improve Wet 'n' Wild

• Build ties with Mexico in a constructive way. Don't build walls to fence the border, we should be making connections, not enemies.

• buildings/skyscrapers

• Challenge students to succeed beyond current expectations of post-graduate employment

• champion innovators, entrepreneurs and artists that return

• change the flawed perception that el paso is a backwater

• Change the school curriculum-It should be more of a multicultural integrated curriculum so that there is not so much of a segregation between Mexicans in EP, Mexican-Americans, and Americans

• City funding

• city is expensive

• City leaders really need to make ELP more of a "city" and not just a big suburb border town.

• City-wide beautification projects.

• Clean it up- some areas look dirty and cheap

• Clean up all the garbage everywhere

• Clean up downtown in order to make city living a viable option

• clean up the neighborhoods, zoning and city ordinances

• College Loan repayment

• Come take a look at other cities for development, e.g Chattanooga

• Compete for IT jobs that offer competitive wages

• competitive jog wages & benefits

• Competitive higher education institutions

• concerts

• conservation

• consider "urban" living compared to the suburbia island el paso has become

• Contemporize the city without damaging unique El Paso culture

• Continue Downtown Plan

• continue planning for the future, it is difficult to not look at all issues in the short term - in order for the city to move forward much planning needs to be done now to assist el paso in competing with other large cities in the country

• Continue the Downtown renovation but keep Segundo alive!!

• Continue to aggressively recruit new businesses and industries to the city

• Continue to clean up/redevelop the city

• Continue to develop the city

• Continue to encourage big business to open offices here. With the enlargement of Ft. Bliss and the housing of the Army's Future Combat Systems projects, well-educated engineers are going to be moving here, bringing with them their higher salaries and expensive tastes for nicer restaurants, stores and events.

• Continue to enhance the downtown area

• Continue to invest in quality of life issues

• Continue with downtown revitalization efforts

• Continue your efforts to bring larger companies to El Paso that are willing to pay higher rates/salaries (more white collar jobs)

• Cost of Living

• court major industry (in major growth areas) to relocate to el paso

• Create a better social and cultural experience

• Create a high-tech industry park near the university to encourage entrepreneur ventures based from the university (do what Austin did with IBM, Berkeley\Stanford did with HP and Google, etc.).

• Create a job database for high-level positions

• Create a tourist hotspot so that it would seduce other people to think they should move and build business there.

• Create a website or source of information on housing, jobs

• Create an atmosphere for conducive to education (perhaps try to lure the development of new colleges)

• create desirable outdoor spaces and activities (bikes, running paths, dog parks, etc)

• create family friendly atmosphere

• create higher education opportunities at UTEP

• Create jobs

• create jobs (for highly educated MS/PhD) individuals

• create more and better paying job opportunities

• Create more city wide activities like art walks, festivals (Encourage neighborhood festivals).

• create more grants for arts

• create more high paying jobs

• create more non-profit orgs. like museums

• Create more of an entertainment hub

• Create more parks, resorts, golf courses, high end shops/restaurants

• Create more professional level jobs with salaries to match

• create real jobs...not local El Paso-type jobs

• Create some sort of outreach for Young Professionals to be able to interact with each other and have events geared toward that group (Not talking about PDN, there are many more young professionals than the ones in PDN)

• Create top tier undergrad and graduate programs. (This brings in people of a diverse background. Also some portion of students inevitably end up staying in el paso)

• Create tourist attractions especially b/c of the great weather

• create transitional opportunities for college students to work and be retained in businesses pertaining to their studies

• Create venues for "something to do"

• Cultivate Local Based Small Businesses

• Cultural downtown, restaurants, clubs, etc

• Cultural Elements

• cut crime

• Deal with the social and economic problems of our barrios

• decent salary comparable to other big cities

• Decrease corruption

• De-emphasize the need to be bilingual

• Demonstrate opportunities for success

• develop "new urban" living complexes with condos, apartments and retail/services

• develop a young professionals social network

• develop arts and entertainment to attract 30 somethings; concerts, art galleries, museums

• Develop downtown

• Develop downtown While keeping the flavor

• Develop downtown, public (enviro-friendly) transportation

• develop parks for adult recreation

• Direct flights in and out of major cities

• Discourage low wage companies like Wal-mart

• Diversify the city, not everything revolves around the 20-30 age limit

• Do a better job convincing people that taxes are an investment that will pay returns, but invest tax dollars wisely. Build roads, schools, libraries, medical infrastructure, facilitate tourist/shopping-related businesses, give tax-breaks to lure good employers. Do NOT waste tax dollars on projects that are not needed, replicate existing services, or benefit the already-rich (i.e. like a downtown arena).

• Do more to promote UTEP and the medical school. Advocate for a law school. These types of organizations are often the face of a community. Do more to sell them the existing organizations and try to get new ones. UTEP is a crown jewel. Polish it.

• Do something to address the MAJOR expansion of Fort Bliss and what a nightmare that's going to be

• Do whatever is necessary to attract more attractive employers (i.e., those that can pay REAL wages). Expand the kind of industries usually associated with EP. Perhaps try to lure retirement homes, or more government jobs (federal and State), capitalize on the military expansion at Ft. Bliss, etc.

• dog park

• Don't be afraid of change and growth

• don't gentrify downtown, stop the spread of strip malls and cheaply made houses.

• Don't know - am not typical probably in my age group.

• downtown apartments

• downtown improvement

• Downtown rejuvenation, lively city center

• Downtown remodeling WILL NOT DO THE TRICK!!!! ON the contrary, it is a place where of traditions

• Downtown revitalization

• Downtown revitalization (make it happen for real)

• Draw industries to El Paso outside of service industries.

• Drop crime rate

• ecological planning/activities

• economic development

• Economic development, especially downtown

• Economic development: attract industries/businesses that employ college-educated

• educational opportunities

• efforts to become a "green" city

• Elect officials interested in change, not monotony

• ELP needs better jobs that require people who at least have a Bachelors degree, and even graduate degrees (minus J.D.'s and M.D.'s

• Emphasize location benefits

• Emphasize lower cost of living

• Emphasize what other places don't have: culture, family, food, traditions

• Encourage more jobs

• Encourage "Quality of Life" efforts to reduce sprawl and preserve our city's natural beauty. The city is focusing on vast neighborhood development when there are vacancies within the existing city infrastructure which need to be in-filled.

• encourage adult entertainment other than bars

• encourage business development

• Encourage Development

• Encourage economic expansion and diversification

• Encourage local business to hire UTEP graduates who are qualified as opposed to individuals from other cities/states

• Encourage new development to build up instead of across (and please offer an alternative choice to Wal-Mart)

• encourage opening of cultural and social venues for 25-35 age group

• Encourage rehabilitation of downtown

• encourage the arts

• End the corruption and election of uneducated, clueless leaders.

• engage in complex economic tax incentives for property incentives

• Enhance Graduate Degree Programs

• Enhance the overall appearance of the city to include large retail opportunities and structural enhancement

• enhance vibrancy of Cincinnati/ downtown areas

• Ensure the city has the infra-structure for grad schools

• Entertainment

• entertainment

• Entertainment venues, more metropolitan

• Entice bigger companies to do business in El Paso

• establish a major theme park? an outlet mall?

• Event Venues

• exciting/interesting events

• expand career options

• Expand entertainment and non-Hispanic cultural (arts, theater, music) offerings while also continuing what you currently have to offer

• expand on the southwest not mexico

• Facilitate national and international connections through symposia

• fight for a more sustainable economy and job market for middle to higher paying careers outside of the legal, medical and educational fields, as it seems most others have a difficult time to not only find employment but one that pays well

• fight for law school and med school

• Film Scene. Venues! Venues! Venues!!

• Find away to market El Paso as a place for homegrown, Ex-Pat Entrepreneurs

• Find resources to bring people up instead of keeping the majority of them in those same conditions and just bringing in a few well educated El Pasoans back

• Find ways to bring more industry and "smart growth" to the city

• Focus more on recruiting back 20-35 year old demographic, by creating things that are enticing: arts, diverse cultural experiences, public transportation, etc.

• Focus on the arts, help create a wonderful downtown arts district

• gentrification

• GENTRIFICATION of Downtown

• Get a national sports team

• Get a Pro Sports team

• Get your economic development scouts to bring a major "high-tech"/biomed employer to town.

• Give great tax breaks to corporate America to move offices into El Paso.

• give reason for people to move to el paso

• Good employment opportunities

• Good employments

• Graduate or PhD Program Incentives

• Grants to move back to El Paso to finish Bachelor’s Degrees as well Masters and PhD’s

• Harder hit on gang crime

• Have employers offer loan repayment/forgiveness for young employees

• help create better jobs

• help create new jobs, attract big companies

• High tech jobs

• Higher education/Graduate degree programs

• Higher income

• higher standard of living

• Higher Wages

• Highlight business opportunities available

• Highlight the lifestyles of people our age.

• Home buying incentives for Ex el pasoans to move back

• I wouldn't rely on IT anymore--US immigration policy is so skewed, Microsoft had to build a new IT center in CANADA 'cuz the US won't allow foreigners access to more work visas

• Identify a high growth industry and support it economically.

• If UTEP can gain even more recognition as a top school more younger people come to El Paso to go to school

• If you want to look at it from that perspective UTEP is the most valuable asset El Paso has. It needs to start recruiting/attracting people from across the state/nation. It needs to grow-up from being a commuter school.

• Implement cultural, professional athletics, artistic things to do

• Improve access to technology (Wimax, Wifi)

• Improve business atmosphere to bring in big companies

• improve business/industry opportunities

• Improve city infrastructure

• Improve job opportunities without making el paso into one giant wal-mart.

• Improve mass transit

• Improve neighborhoods

• Improve overall wages

• Improve public school system

• Improve Public Schools

• Improve public schools

• Improve Quality of Life (Outdoor recreation, museums, theater, etc)

• Improve Quality of Live (entertainment and arts)

• improve school districts/education

• Improve schools

• improve schools

• improve SCHOOLS!!!!

• Improve the "cleanliness of the city" streets/neighborhoods/

• Improve the downtown area

• Improve the higher educational opportunities in the city

• Improve the lack of culture (i.e. limited top notch museums, restaurants, shopping, etc)

• Improve the overall level of education for residents.

• Improve the public school system

• Improve the quality and type of recreational activities in the area.

• Improve the recreation sites and parks/ streets/highways

• Improved public schools

• Improvement of school districts

• In regards to working with Cd Juárez, El Paso leaders should avidly promote an equitable business environment that promotes corporate good governance, non-mafia tactics and compliance with the rule of law.

• Increase activities

• Increase connection with the university and community colleges

• increase job opportunities

• increase job opportunities

• Increase museums and other cultural events

• increase number of attractive job opportunities

• Increase opportunities for personal development

• increase the city's resources

• Increase the number of professional jobs

• Increase the pay scale of law enforcement to attract & increase officers.

• Increased Pay

• Increased public safety

• Initiatives to attract the large professional firms found in other cities

• Invest in cultural events such as festivals, live music, art, museums

• Invest in outdoor recreation

• Invest in renovation of the city

• Invest in technology projects

• Invest/Attract more diverse leisure activities

• Investment in city infrastructure

• Investment in the arts and entertainment in the city's urban core

• invite big business

• It's great that "The Arts" in downtown has changed but geez...the price to attend certain events is outrageous

• job market

• job market

• Job opportunities

• Job Opportunities for People with Degrees (Advanced and Technical)

• Jobs

• jobs

• Jobs

• Jobs i think that says it all.

• Jobs where UTEP grads can put their skills to work for the right paycheck

• jobs, jobs, jobs

• Jobs, JObs, JOBS.

• Keep Asaraco from reopening, and lastly, stop fighting about pendejadas.

• Keep border freely open

• Keep downtown free of chains and promote development (as it was doing in 2001.)

• Keep old traditions alive in El Paso (Western Playland, Star on Mountain for Christmas only)

• Keep the city unique and distinct, don't make try and make it into another Dallas, Houston...etc.

• keep up with downtown revitalization

• keep up with the changing times

• keep wages competitive with other cities

• large events

• Learn when to step down and yield to the next generation of leaders.

• less corruption

• Less of a "good ole boy" system of government

• LET NATIVE EL PASOANS/TIGUAS MAKE REQUEST

• Leverage the border to bring corporate offices to El Paso for greater earning potential careers

• Listen to the people

• Literacy.

• Live music

• Loan forgiveness for physicians

• Lobby more effectively for state/federal appropriations

• Look at what other cities are doing

• Lower property taxes over the long term

• lower the taxes

• Maintain the benefits of the food, friendly people and climate. Build on those bits first.

• Make access to leadership opportunities and groups more meritocratic

• Make downtown the hub for business and cultural experience

• Make El Paso a center for something, invest money in a very big technological center

• Make El Paso a place people want to go to visit. I have been to Phoenix and San Antonio they cannot touch EPTX.

• Make El Paso a true hub for international business of all kinds - not just manufacturing!

• make el paso an exciting city destination

• Make el paso more accessible and known to people from outside the region

• Make El Paso more lucrative for big business!!! i.e. Austin

• make it easy to buy own home

• Make it like San Antonio -a real tourist attraction

• make it more tourist

• make it more tourist friendly

• make it rain!!!

• make Juárez safer and tourist friendly to provide transnational opportunities

• Make known what jobs are out available

• Make the city fun

• Make the city more available to corporate headquarters.

• make the city more welcoming to creative people

• Make them competitive jobs

• make use of wasted downtown real estate

• Make UTEP the best university in Texas

• make utep better for jobs in academia, more influx of young students and their money

• make UTEP more competitive

• Market El Paso as a city "on the rise."

• Market El Paso to those ex-pats with young families, who might have a less kind recollection of El Paso w/r/t safety, schools.

• Market El Paso!!

• Market what makes El Paso different (e.g. culture, location, people)

• Massive investments in bringing large technology companies to town.

• Massive investments in UTEP to promote and offer technical, business and legal degrees.

• Massive investments in youth to keep in school and away from drugs/alcohol/prison.

• mass-transit

• Mixed-use develops where people can walk to restaurants/theaters, etc.

• Model downtown El Paso after Austin or Tempe

• modernize the city

• more activities for young professionals

• More and higher-end restaurants and bars

• more arts funding for theatre, music, and dance

• more bookstores

• more career opportunities

• more cultural opportunities/experiences

• more cultural outlets

• More cultural things to do

• more culture.... music, art

• more diverse industries (arts, tech etc)

• more diverse job opportunities

• more diversified job opportunities-- corporate

• more diversified lifestyle

• more diversity

• more diversity of food and social opps

• more economic investment

• more educational opportunities

• more entertainment

• More entertainment away from the workplace

• More entertainment venues

• More festivals

• More Graduate Degree Programs

• More graduate programs

• More high-paying jobs in creative sector

• More high-quality fine arts (Broadway plays, indie films, boutique restaurants, art exhibits)

• more job opportunities

• More job opportunities

• More Job opportunities

• more job opportunities

• more job opportunity

• more jobs

• more liquor licenses/bars..

• more live music/shows

• More money making opportunities

• more natural recreation like parks and trails

• more opportunities for high-paying jobs

• more outdoor activities

• More outdoor recreation sponsorship

• More outdoor shopping plazas.

• MORE PLACES FOR AMUSEMENT PARKS IN EL PASO

• more police

• More political presence in TX Legislature by EP council

• more professional jobs

• More professional jobs

• more professional opportunities

• More promotion of culture and bi-culture

• more public parks

• More Recreation

• more resources from state

• More restaurants, clubs, events, better shopping

• More Social events like concerts, amusement parks

• more social possibilities for young adults who are done with the club scene

• more support for the arts

• More tax-abatement and advantages for local businesses to bloom (Think Austin and its incredible variety of restaurants and shops.)

• More university fan base

• more urban entertainment areas

• Motivate businesses and organizations who are hiring to target former El Pasoans

• New convention center

• Nice and Safe Bars and Clubs

• Nightlife

• Not be afraid to think and progress. Act!

• not much

• Offer additional organized cultural, recreational, and outdoor activities.

• Offer incentives for those who choose to return

• offer incentives to those in creative fields

• Offer more quality grad programs

• offer perks or incentives for people to return & make a difference

• Offer tax incentives to technology companies.

• offering a more attractive night life

• Outdoor Recreation

• Participate in state/national government

• Partner with UTEP to Increase Programs

• Pay off my student loans (Maine does this)

• Place more responsibility in others

• Plays, Museums, attractions etc.

• Policy consideration for improving, employment, health, education, and housing are key, (or start with seceding from Texas)

• Positive News/Media

• Preserve history (e.g. Mexican Revolution-era buildings) while streamlining projects that bring the region into the 21st century

• Pro Teams

• Professional sports league

• Professional sports team

• Promote cleaner air and cleanliness of the city.

• Promote job growth.

• Promote pride in all facets of city life, i.e., put your money with your mouth is

• Promote safe atmosphere and relative low instances of crime

• Promote Technology

• Promote that immigrants learn/speak more English.

• Promote the beautiful aspects of the city (i.e., the mountains, climate, vibrancy of the cultures) and develop the arts more

• Promote the local music and art scene with festivals.

• Promote tourism;

• promote urban density through zoning as well as bike and public transit initiatives

• Promote/foster graduate-level communities

• Property taxes need to decrease or at least be fair

• Protect historical sites in the city

• prove there is enough water to last at LEAST 200 years

• provide a better downtown area with condos/townhomes

• Provide a better job market

• Provide better jobs and higher living wages

• Provide greater access to top universities

• Provide incentive for higher paying jobs to come to El Paso

• Provide job opportunities

• Provide more social activities/interests of young adults

• Provide programming and funding for entrepreneurs who can just as easily base themselves out of El Paso (through the use of distance-technologies) as out of other cities.

• Provide small business opportunities for many of these ex-pats professionals to return and start their own (small business can be the success of El Paso)

• provide structure/tips on rebuilding social network

• Pursue tax breaks for technical companies to locate in El Paso

• Put more into creating a college town atmosphere

• Quality of Life

• Quality of life improvements: parks, better landscaping

• Quit wasting money on maintaining the status quo

• Raise average wages

• raise salaries w/out changing the cost of living

• Raise the profile of the city nationally (i.e. how San Antonio has positioned itself as the go-to tourist locale for Mexican/American travel)

• Raise the standard of aesthetic & functional design for all local projects

• raising wages

• Recruit more businesses to town, especially tech ones

• Recruit professional services firms to do business in El Paso

• Redevelop downtown and create other centers of commerce, entertainment, etc.

• redeveloping downtown and other part of the city to increase entertainment options

• reduce corruption

• reduce cronyism

• Reduce pollution

• Relocation Assistance

• remove the bad stigma related to border trafficking

• Renovate El Paso to look like a modern city

• Restore Historical and Scenic Site

• Retail development

• Retain and Use Those Historic Areas of El Paso As Part Of Its Identity

• Revamp Downtown El Paso

• Revitalize certain cultural spots, parks, entertainment centers

• Revitalize downtown

• Revitalize downtown to a more tourist friendly place

• Revitalized downtown

• revive Downtown El Paso

• Small Business loans??

• Speed up the downtown development project

• spend more money on the medians and city parks

• Sports

• Sports teams

• Start by engaging the people that are already there with real solutions that incorporates them in the process (not just tokenism)

• Start thinking in a more progressive way about the FUTURE of the city

• start thinking like big cities

• start with real estate (lower to middle class able to buy homes) they will come

• Stop alienating El Paso...embrace being a part of Texas. Realize that El Paso is unique and does have a lot to offer.

• Stop bickering with each other.

• Stop marketing El Paso as a place to relocate unskilled labor (i.e. call-centers)

• stop racism

• Stop Suburban Sprawl/Stop Asarco reopening

• Stop the ridiculous political in-fighting

• stop think little, shoot for the stars

• stress to the population the importance of education for all citizens - a city is built on its people and what they contribute to it on all levels of community engagement, cultural activities, and even into the job arena

• Suddenly become more liberal

• Support business that want to improve the city.

• Support downtown redevelopment but a local business level that would make the city walkable

• Support local business

• Support the Arts

• support the arts

• support the creation of high paying jobs in the non-profit sector

• Support UTEP's expansion of graduate programs

• switch wind and solar power

• Take risks and really invest in creating a downtown lifestyle

• Tax incentives for businesses to move there

• Tax incentives for new businesses

• tax incentives for urban infill projects around downtown and UTEP

• The City should offer to pay the educational loan debt incurred in leaving the City

• The growth of other cultures, not just hispanic

• The older generation would embrace the younger generation and allow them to have their own publications, film festivals, radio stations, etc.

• There needs to be a fun diverse city center

• thinking big

• thinking outside the box and unconstrained

• This network is key

• to gentrify or not to gentrify? will this whole "Downtown Plan" work?

• try and get more high profile businesses into the area

• Try attracting larger corporations that hire college graduates and have lots of internships.

• Understand how important investment in high skill job creation, downtown is

• Update downtown areas.

• Up-Grade downtown

• Upgrade the city's look(streets, buildings). It still has the same look as when I left.

• urban renewal

• Urban renewal projects, ie. for downtown

• Urban revitalization, and not just downtown

• Use Phoenix as an example for growth

• Use the desert landscapes and history of the area surrounding El Paso to encourage tourism

• Utilize online social networking tools to communicate about opportunities in El Paso

• Value independent culture and show some support for local independent culture

• With better paying jobs the economy will take care of itself, and people will be happy.

• With the growth of Ft. Bliss and the location of Future Combat Systems in El Paso's backyard, the sixty needs to recruit more professional careers such as engineers, defense contractors and scientists to the area. They will being their higher salaries and different cultural influences to the city.

• Work actively to admit defeat (ideologically) and accept new ideas and foster an environment that promotes progressive change and fiscal responsibility.

• Work Miracles like create opportunities for Culture Workers

• Work on generating an abundance of high rank, high paying jobs

• Work on safety of the city and its reputation

• Work on school ratings

• work on the economy - growth

• Work to further minimize the social problems that plague the Juárez area; El Paso as a border town now has inherited some of the bad name that other border cities have earned, whether deserved or not.

• Work with big business to bring expanded job opportunities to the city

• work with mexican authorities about crime in Juárez

• Work with the University to bring high-quality professors

• Workforce Development

• You simply need more career opportunities

• Young living communities (e.g. uptown dallas)

Graduating Classes, Post 2000

• A better social scene/restaurants

• A larger live music scene

• a more political scene

• A more pro-business municipal climate

• A more respected business network

• accommodate safety for college and younger-aged entertainment seekers, E-bus, walkways, parking, etc

• Active recruitment

• Again, creating more employment opportunities.

• Age appropriate activities

• allow more young people to get involved or to start their own business

• amusement park

• amusement parks

• Attract businesses (Such as whole foods) that thrive in other communities and have social values that uplift communities

• Attract more businesses to the area.

• Attract more companies to have offices in El Paso

• ban panhandling

• Be MORE community orientated and LESS business driven

• Become a more singles friendly city through a greater investment in entertainment and better public transportation

• Become more cosmopolitan through diversifying the businesses that exist

• Better companies/institutions to work for

• Better concert venues

• Better education

• Better education

• Better entertainment venues

• Better Graduate School

• Better Housing

• Better Job opps

• better jobs

• Better jobs

• Better jobs with upward mobility

• Better Law Enforcement

• Better medical facilities

• Better night life

• Better PAY

• better recreation

• better school

• Better schooling

• Better special events

• Better Undergraduate School

• Bigger Market

• bring in attractions like race track

• Bring in better music, and film scenes

• Bring in good companies to have careers in. ( Wal mart, ASARCO , and Wells Fargo should not be the biggest companies)

• bring in major industry

• Bring in more companies that can expand job opportunities for growth

• Bring in more high paying jobs.

• Bring in more quality companies by offering competitive tax breaks

• Bring large corporations to El Paso. Like Boeing, we need more of those.

• bring more youth-targeted entertainment to the city

• build a law school

• Build a selective university - not open enrollment - that will create a better aura for academics

• Build a venue to compete with the Pan American Center

• Build better infrastructure for industries, companies, and people

• Cannot help you with that

• City beautification

• city rebuilding

• Civic engagement

• Clean up downtown

• Clean up downtown

• Clean up downtown and make it a center for entertainment.

• Clean up downtown, fight for real commercial industry to consume it. Breaking news, a Wal-Mart will not "anchor downtown" it will run out any local businesses in the area and lower the value of the property around it. Give real tax incentives to companies that can move downtown and begin an overhaul of what has to be the financial center of the city.

• clean up the city

• closer places to go visit

• Continue to create new and exciting ventures

• Create a more job opportunities for people with college education

• Create a program to help young professionals establish new businesses that are needed in the city.

• create attractions for the day and night

• Create better economic development policies.

• Create cultural and entertainment opportunities

• Create job opportunities

• Create more mixed development areas downtown

• Create something or use something El Paso already has and market it nationally

• Creating jobs for college graduates so they will want to stick around

• Deal with the school district/more money to schools, less to the school board.

• Decrease crime

• Decrease poverty

• DENTAL SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

• develop downtown for the young and upcoming crowd

• Developed Cd Juárez/El Paso area into the primary location for business on the border

• Developing areas that offer recreational activities

• Discourage giant companies (i.e. Wal-Mart) from taking over our city and encourage small businesses.

• don’t know

• don’t know

• Downtown redevelopment

• Downtown renovation! Turn it into a bigger hub for culture and the arts

• El Paso needs to be more tech savvy

• Eliminate corruption

• Emphasis the richness of culture that is in El Paso, not just Catholicism.

• Encourage a self sufficient populous

• encourage bar/club/restaurants in centralized location, like a downtown area

• encourage healthier lifestyles to make the city young and vibrant

• Encourage local employers to step up recruiting efforts at major universities. In my job recruitment in college, I did not hear from one EP employer.

• Encourage more companies to headquarter there

• Encouraging diversity and tolerance so the city will become larger and more accepting

• end corruption in local government

• entertainment

• entertainment

• expand city features/beautify the city more

• find a way to create better paying jobs

• Force people to speak english in schools and offer better spanish instruction to people who don't speak the language.

• Fortune 500 company

• free trade

• fun

• Get a large theme park like Six Flags going in El Paso. It should bring employment and tourism.

• get an mls team

• Get better jobs, jobs with national appeal

• get bigger companies from different industries to operate from here

• Get rid of borderland poverty

• Get something interesting going, like compete with Austin as a venue for live music. or possibly film. something entertainment oriented that will get creative people to want to go back.

• GIVE more money to grassroots organizations who are developing their own communities

• Good education system that doesn’t start at the college level

• Graduate Degree Program

• Have a larger representation of our age

• Have less limitations on new industries

• Have more activities that involves younger crowds

• Higher paying jobs.

• Host events that appeal to college-age students, such as music festivals and craft fairs.

• host something like "first friday" where every first friday of the month, on a street, maybe down town, artists and musicians and other things come out and put out their work

• I do not know

• Implement Smart Growth Communities

• improve high schools

• IMPROVE SOCORRO

• Improve the night life

• Improve the overall city economy and diversity

• Improve the schooling

• improve UTEP so more kids stay in El Paso out of high school

• improve UTEP undergraduate program

• Improve UTEP's standing

• improving public transportation

• Incentives for companies to relocate to El Paso

• Incentives to attract high tech business (similar to albaquerque)

• increase community involvement

• increase investment in el paso

• Increase the level of education

• increase the number of advanced educated individuals

• Increase wages

• increased job opportunities

• Infrastructure issues that need to be addressed (Flood damages/ Border freeway expansion etc)

• innovative environmental implementations

• intellectually stimulating atmosphere

• INVEST in community development that is actually LEAD by the community itself, for example La Mujer Obreras Plan Mayachen

• invest more in cultural development/awareness

• Invest more in the local economy

• Invest on Universities

• investing in offering various social opportunities

• job opportunities

• Job opportunities

• Jobs

• Kick out any leaders tied to the corruption ring that embarrassed the city and its "expatriates"

• large companies

• Less billboards

• Life Style

• Listen to Steve and Beto and Susie.

• Make an effort to get larger corporations to move to the city.

• Make El Paso a more FUN place to live!

• Make El Paso seem like it's going somewhere; that important things happen all the time, and they want to be a part of it.

• Make more opportunities for exercise

• Make more recreational and entertainment subdivisions

• Making downtown a fun place to go

• Many of City Council can go and actually get a BS or BA if not a Grad Degree

• Medical Research Center (Medical School)

• Model your actions to that of Austin, TX

• modify the night life for adults

• More centralized nightlife. Too many attractions are spread out sporadically. Transportation is also a problem due to the drinking tendencies of my age group. Perhaps a mass transit circuit? (Has been used successfully in Austin with the E-bus, which shuttles students from student living areas to downtown entertainment venues. The El Paso system would be a challenge in terms of scale however.)

• More cultural exposure

• More culture

• more diverse El Paso

• More education opportunities

• More grad programs

• More greenery

• more greenery

• More GROWTH AND ENTERTAINMENT.

• more independent businesses

• more job opportunities

• More JOBS

• more jobs

• more jobs!

• More large festivals, high-end retail

• More modern architecture/mentality

• more nightlife

• More open minded

• More opportunity

• more politics

• more things to do

• More things to do/Pro-sports

• Nicer, cleaner neighborhoods

• Night life/entertainment

• nightlife and interesting things to do

• not sure

• Offer competent city leadership

• Offer more Recreational things

• Open more productive job markets

• outdoor recreation: parks, theme parks, shopping centers

• Places to go to: Museums, parks, etc.

• Practice integrity, honesty, fairness. I believe that they can influence El Pasoan business leaders to do the same with their actions.

• prettier environment

• promote el paso as business-friendly

• Promote higher education with quality institutions

• promote positive relationships between high school students around the city

• Provide incentives for El Paso born citizens to move back (not sure the legal implications of this)

• Provide incentives for new business ventures.

• Reach out more to young adults.

• recreational areas

• Recruit more companies

• Redefine zoning and building codes to create communities with character (no more strip malls! no more parking lot megacomplexes for Lowe's and Walmart!

• Redevelop Downtown As An Urban Core

• Redefine the downtown environment for walkable urban living (mixed use buildings, apartments, cool restaurants, offices, greenery etc).

• renovate downtown

• Revenue without exploiting the city

• Revitalize downtown

• Revitalize downtown

• Sacrifice larger tax increases in order to be able to give tax breaks to high paying industries looking to relocate

• Safety

• Salary

• Schools- improving on higher education

• Sorry

• speak highly of El Paso, word of mouth is the best way to Market the city.

• Sports. Primarily Soccer and basketball because they have the highest approximate fan base. Just think of Beckham or Kobe in El Paso. Facilities and funding/ownership would be the most crucial and also the most difficult things to manifest.

• start beefing up grad programs by enticing top professors to come to UTEP--top students will follow

• Stop being retarded.

• Stop building the city "out" and start building the city "up." The desert is actually shrinking in the East side of town, and the slums in the center of the city accordingly are growing, Force the re-development of the poorer neighborhoods and stop urban sprawl.

• Stop playing party politics and get people who are best suited to move El Paso forward elected rather then worrying about if they have a D or R next to their name

• Stronger Education

• subsidize and promote specific industries (clean tech etc.)

• subsidize new and qualified ventures

• Support and educated the community on involvement/supporting its art entertainment outlets

• support UTEP (focus on what a great school it is)

• Take a little more risk in order to keep whats been good( no more Western Playland fiascos)

• Take advantage of the medical school by encouraging biomedical research.

• Theme park of any kind.

• this is the same as the last question, who wrote this survey?

• TOURISM. Play up El Paso's awesome historical significance in the Old West.

• tourist attractions other than the star on the mountain

• transportation system

• Try to get more companies to set up shop in El Paso

• where are the 18+ places to dance?

• Work more closely with business leaders in the community to create job growth

• work on attracting a major sports franchise

• work on education system; dev. more programs

• Work on improving the inner city conditions rather than just expanding outward with pre-fab developments.

• Work with UTEP to make Kern a young neighborhood and reduce UTEP's commuter aspect

• Work with UTEP to significantly raise their academic standards

• Work with UTEP to understand its strengths and incorporate that into enticing businesses to come

• young adult friendly recreation

FORMER EL PASO EXPATRIATES (106 Respondents)