From KVIA.com:
El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the Campo del Sol master-planned community to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The amendment clears the way for the construction of a new DPS regional headquarters in Northeast El Paso.
Campo del Sol is that master-planned community on 2,313 acres in Northeast El Paso that the City traded to Paul Foster for those 44 acres on Paseo del Norte and I-10 where City Manager Tommy Gonzalez wanted to put a Great Wolf Lodge.
(If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can find some of El Chuqueño’s coverage of that land swap swindle here.)
Maybe he didn’t need all that land. He’s still got 2,216 acres for his master-planned community. Of course, if houses in the master-planned community were selling like cocaine at a strip club he might have wanted to hold on to those 45 acres.
Originally the developers had planned for 9,000 homes on the 2,313 acres. That works out to about quarter-acre lots. Less than that if you account for all the community amenities, like that water feature the El Paso Water Utilities’ Public Service Board spent $15 million to hose. I wonder if Mr. Foster will keep chipping away at his ambitions and sell off more of his sweet-deal real estate.
(If you’re still feeling nostalgic, you can read some of El Chuqueño’s coverage of that water feature swindle here.)
Would you want to live in a master-planned community next to a Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters? Maybe when the country devolves further into abject anarchy, the ten percenters will need the Public Safety phalanx outside of their stronghold.
The HOA will probably charge extra for it.