Work Begins on Widening of Sun Bowl Drive

UTEP's On the Move website has details concerning the widening of Sun Bowl Drive by the Texas Department of Transportation. The $4.4 million project will add an additional lane in each direction and should take 10 months to complete.

No Buyer for Santa Teresa Country Club

The quickly deteriorating Santa Teresa Country Club had no approved buyers at an auction held this morning. State of New Mexico officials tried to sell the club to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes owed for the property.

Housing Authority of El Paso Attracts National Attention

 
The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP) has weathered the austerity storm relatively well, and officials from other cities are taking notice. Most recently, Baltimore officials visited El Paso to get a up close look at how HACEP's approach to diminishing budgets has been largely successful.

Anson 11 Adds to Downtown Restaurant Lineup

There's a new "upscale" restaurant downtown, and it's backed by a well known El Paso businessman: Paul Foster. Anson 11, named for the historic surveyor who helped plan the downtown layout, Anson Mills, is a two level restaurant that recently opened its first floor to the dining public.

'Fountains' Developer Shifts Focus to West Side

The Dallas-based developer that's helping bring the Fountains at Farah to El Paso will also develop 100 acres of land in West El Paso into a shopping center. A story on kvia.com states that the Centergy Retail could open the future center by 2015.