El Paso businessman Renard Johnson on Tuesday will become the first person to formally announce that he’s running for El Paso mayor in the November 2024 election. “El Paso has given me so much. It’s given me and my family a number of successful businesses here. It’s given me my education. And my father’s always said, you can’t just take, take from a community. You need to give back,” Johnson, 57, said in an interview with El Paso Matters ahead of his announcement. “So I’m at a point where my business will be 30 years old next month, and I want to give back to the community. It’s given me so much, and now it’s time for me to give back.”