Comments on: Adios ASARCO, Hello Future!

By: Chuy Licon

Chuy Licon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:41:06 +0000

Solar power is a great idea but one for the outskirts of town. I would put it where old Mountain Shadow Lakes use to be or on the other side of the Little Hueco Mountains, near Ft Bliss.

By: Chuy Licon

Chuy Licon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:38:40 +0000

The solar power idea is a good one too. Never thought of that idea. If the ASARCO site is not cleaned up then solar plant would be the next choice. To make the land a park would take alot of energy and resources.
Expanding UTEP, might be better by looking across from UTEP, at the nearby grain silos and where Old Ft Bliss use to be. Extend Schuster into a bridge over the railroad tracks. There is land south of Yandell and north to those grain silo; all of it north of Paisano. And south of Paisano the Old Ft Bliss buildings. That is where UTEP should expand first. IF that where to happen and IF ASARCO land was beautified into a park, I think our side of the border could affect the other side of the border. Maybe a pedestrian crossing to Mexico for those Mexican Nationals that are also UTEP students. Just throwing my old ideas.

By: Erik Pavia

Erik Pavia — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:58:13 +0000

A lot of those ideas sound good. That property could really improve the quality of life around here as long as they don’t use that space for retail or for apartments or for manufacturing. Retail as we know it is dead people, we need to let go.