Cinco de Mayo 2014, Downtown Brownsville, Texas

609, 611 & 615 E. 11th St.  Monies for remodeling these properties is on the

5/6/14 City Commission agenda:  

Action Items

11.  Consideration and ACTION on Resolution Number 2014-038 to amend the General Fund Budget to provide $115,000 for the E. 11th Street Buildings Renovations (Lupe Granado-Finance)

Two of these properties were purchased during the City Commission's real estate buying spree of 2012 with a third bought with money from the $3,060,000 AEP Texas Refund.  The original plan called for a "central, downtown mayor's office and police substation."  That was later changed to a "substation and community room."  The latest revised plan calls for a police substation, museum and "Downtown Revitalization Headquarters."  Interestingly, a Downtown Brownsville Revitalization Information Office sits across the street at 1101-A E. Washington that has hardly been used since the taxpayers were put on the hook for a lease October 8, 2013.(The money for the lease also came out of the AEP Texas Refund.)

Sign in front of City-Annexed El Tapiz Building

Announcing "May Is Bike Month"

Downtown Dance