Monday, January 4, 2016
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A tale of two cities
Howe's old field house. Photo taken in March 2013 Okay, so Howe isn't quite the dramatic Charles Dickens story of London and Paris, however, he might even be impressed with the differences of this one city from just a few years ago to the one in which we find of current state. Two years ago this month, we had the worst football facilities, a defunct downtown commercial district and one of our most historic landmarks in complete disarray.
crisis. Tough decisions had to be made by new Mayor Jeff Stanley and new City Administrator Joe Shephard. They weren't faced with righting the ship, they were faced with keeping it above water. The move to raise water bills was something that the city was not interested in doing, but had to do in order to fix the financial atrocity.
Those moves led Howe to make it through those desperate times Before we can get to 2013, we have during the depths of the economic to go back in time to 2007. That's cesspool that the country found when some mismanagement of city itself in. It hit Howe at the absolute funds by prior city leaders coupled worst time. Had the housing crisis with the ramifications of expected not happened, Summit Hill would growth of the mid-2000's housing have over 120 homes already on the boom that soon followed by the ground and that is just phase one of housing crisis strapped Howe with five that will expand to the south of an enormous water and budget the current property. But the crisis
did happen and houses were not being built in Howe and Summit Hill began to look like a leftover Hollywood movie set that everyone forgot about.
Salvage Junky in September to go along with M&M's Hardware, Designer Cuts and Clinton Upholsery. That, my friends, were the only downtown businesses. Before My Estrella, seven of the But lets fast forward to 2013 nine downtown units were vacant. because it seems like so much has About the time My Estrella settled changed with our city since then. in, Howe ISD was in the process of In April, My Estrella Mexican hiring a young energetic athletic Restaurant opened under new director/head football ownership in Downtown Howe. coach/salesman. I included The restaurant left six downtown salesman in that because it may be units vacant. Howe landed continued on Page #6
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