Month: March 2013

The City of El Paso is working with the Downtown Management District to ensure that the demolition of City Hall and Insights Museum will not affect Downtown events too much, said City Engineer Alan Shubert on Monday. “Nothing about construction is easy. It’s always a challenge to try to keep access, try to get people

Demolition activity will begin this week at the former Insights Museum building, according to city spokeswoman Juli Lozano. Sunday night, in a news release, Lozano announced Alan Shubert, the engineer for the Downtown ball park project, would presentdemolition details of the former Insights Museum buildingto “ensure that the public is aware” of the demolition process.

Demolition of the building that oncewasEL Paso Science Center Insights Museumhad been in the works for a while now, but until Sunday night, no specifics had been confirmed. Atipster cluedABC-7 in on the city’s plans this week, andABC-7 contacted city officials. ABC-7 didget an email from the city after the inquiry and although the tear

ABCNews Death lives just across the Rio Grande, but rarely crosses from Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso,Texas. Juarez, El Paso’s Mexican sister city, recorded 748 murders in 2012 — more than 2,000 in 2011 — while El Paso counted 17 last year. El Paso Chief of Police Gregory Allen told ABC News that violence “hasn’t