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EDO NEWS & VIEWS
Editor
Rob Dickson
Publisher
Lara Simon
The views expressed in EDo News & Views are those of the Editor and Publisher.
EDO NEIGBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors
President
Jim Maddox
Maddox & Co. Realtors
Vice President
Vince DiGregory
Standard Diner
Secretary
Rosa Ciddio
Rebel Workout
Treasurer
Lauren Greene
The Grove Café &
Market
Members
Lisa Adkins
Fat Pipe ABQ
Michael Armijo
Compass Bank
Bill Bice
ABQid, Verge Fund
Daniel Blackwood
The Evolution Group
Daniel Dietz
Innovate ABQ
Mark Gonzales
Mark Pardo SalonSpa
Moises Gonzalez
MarAbi Productions,
Inc.
Terry Keene
Artichoke Café
David Mahlman
Mahlman Studio
Architects
Doug Majewski
Design Group
Architects
Randi McGinn
McGinn, Carpenter,
Montoya and Love,
P.A.
Kristelle Siarza
Siarza Social Digital
Yancy Sturgeon
Hotel Parq Central
Collin Troy
The Octopus and
The Fox
HUNING HIGHLAND NEIGBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors
President
Bonnie Anderson
Vice President
Moises Gonzalez
Secretary
Patricia Oakley
Treasurer
Salley Trefethen
Members
Joe Boyd
Ann Carson
Zoey Finke
Steve Grant
Kathy Grassel
Pam Leverick
Lee Spittler
Ben Sturge
Karla Thornton
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EDo is Open for Business!
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Construction is complete on Central Avenue, and there is plenty of parking available to enjoy all our great local businesses - Artichoke Cafe, Funky Olive Design, The Grove Cafe, Hotel Parq Central (and Apothecary Lounge), Mark Pardo Salon, The Octopus and the Fox, Pizzeria Farina, Rebel Workout, Route 66 Cleaners, Shannon Loves Flowers, Siarza Social Digital, Standard Diner, Two Time Couture, Waves Salon, and others.
You will find little traffic getting here, and Central Avenue is practically brand new! Did we mention plenty of parking?
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Lessons from Greenville, SC
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Long-time Mayor Knox White addressed a recent luncheon at Hotel Andaluz by the New Mexico chapter of Urban Land Institute, the world's leading research and education organization for real estate professionals. Downtown Greenville is nationally recognized for its vitality and inclusiveness. Mayor White's presentation showed clearly that success was the product of specific public policy decisions over the past 25 years. Using city-owned properties as a catalyst, many of which the City did not know they owned, Greenville's private sector partnered with the City to build a walkable, diverse, mixed-income, mixed-use Downtown, driven principally by new residents.
His book "Reimagining Greenville" is an excellent read. We can achieve these same results in Albuquerque, but it will require some reimagining of our own. It was great to see Mayor Tim Keller at the luncheon.
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Daylight Savings Time: What's It Good For?
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The efficacy of daylight savings time is being questioned in a number of countries (and US cities and states), as described in this New York Times article.
We believe eliminating daylight savings time in Albuquerque (which now runs 8 months out of 12) would have the following advantages for all of us:
1. In a hot summer desert environment, keeping a cool, morning daylight hour makes more sense that moving that hour to the hottest part of the day. This is why Phoenix abandoned DST.
2. For those 8 months a year where Albuquerque was not on DST, we would be in the same time zone as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle (and Phoenix). We see many advantages to identifying ourselves with the West Coast in today's global economy.
3. No more physiological and psychological adjustments required twice a year - adjustments shown to reduce productivity and increase accidents of all kinds!
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Public-Private Partnerships Shouldn't Be Handouts
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One of our favorite organizations is Strong Towns, headed by Charles Marohn, a civil engineer by training. He is unwavering in his insistence that all public investments should be subject to objective cost-benefit analysis outside of political influence. We agree.
Here are his 4 qualities of a successful PPP, all of which should be applied to any such partnership undertaken by our City government. We believe that the efforts of Greenville SC, outlined above, have followed this successful PPP approach, as did The Lofts at Albuquerque High project.
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