Duranguito activists have been on around-the-clock duty in efforts to preserve the Downtown neighborhood from being demolished in order to build a multipurpose arena/center. A week has gone by since demolition efforts started in the neighborhood of...

Protesters and local activists for the Duranguito neighborhood woke up Tuesday morning to news that demolition crews had begun the destruction of five buildings in the neighborhood, despite the fact that the 8th Court of Appeals granted an emergency cease...

  After a temporary court order was issued Monday restricting any demolition in the Duranguito neighborhood for the proposed $180 million arena, demolition crews destroyed significant areas out of five buildings in the neighborhood Tuesday...

El Paso may continue with plans to construct a $180-million downtown multipurpose center as long as it does not construct a sports arena, according to an Austin judge's final ruling Monday morning. "The city may not lawfully expend proceeds generated...

Last week, Austin District Judge Amy Clark Meachum ruled in partial favor of the city’s efforts to build a proposed $180-million arena in the Union Plaza area of Downtown El Paso by ruling that the city can build a multipurpose center, but they may...

After a two-day hearing on the debate over whether a $180-million proposed arena will be permitted in the Duranguito neighborhood or not came to a close Tuesday afternoon as Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum ruled with the city of El Paso...

In the last nine months, El Paso has acted as the civic battleground for the struggle between gentrification and historic preservation. Somewhere along the way, the conflict turned towards the residents of the barrio(ward) now known as Duranguito. Through...

Last week Judge Amy Clark Meachum, Travis County judge in Austin, was presented with a temporary restraining order by the Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid to hinder the discussions to obtain properties for the $180 million proposed arena in Downtown El Paso. Both...

[arve url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FNtdpjEC-D0" /] Advocating against the construction of a $180 million arena near the Union Plaza downtown, about 60 protesters assembled on Saturday at Firefighter's Memorial Park for a “Stand for Duranguito”...

Editor’s note: This is an addition to the three-part series on efforts being made to save the Union Plaza neighborhood.  On Tuesday, Dec. 20, El Paso’s City Council voted 4-2 to exclude the Union Plaza Neighborhood—Duranguito—from the...