Insights Science Center igniting imaginations again in Downtown El Paso

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EL PASO — After being dark and dormant for two years the Insights Science Center at its new home in El Paso’s Segundo Barrio is again delighting children with amazing experiments such as a sparking tesla coil that glows in the dark. “We’re letting people know that we’re here and that we are surviving again, you know we are here. And that we are going to make it better than it was,” said Jerry Jaurrieta, Insights’ floor manager. Open to the public for a month now, the center is once again providing hands-on science education; a tradition now 35 years strong. Their former location, which was made especially for the museum was demolished to make room for Southwest University Park, home of the El Paso Chihuahuas, in downtown El Paso.

The total cost of demolition, construction, and relocation of City Hall is expected to between 85 and 100 million dollars. (Paul Reynoso/Borderzine.com)

The demolition of City Hall and the rise of a new ballpark are already giving downtown El Paso a new identity

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EL PASO – In the coming months, downtown El Paso’s skyline will change dramatically as the City Hall building is expected to be demolished to make way for a new Triple-A ballpark that will open next year. But once demolition commences on City Hall and construction of the ballpark begins, the effects will be felt by downtown local businesses and streets that are adjacent to the City Hall area. The Insights Museum on N. Santa Fe St. is just one of many businesses that has already been greatly affected by the major changes. The museum, which first opened in 1980, has cleared out and has been closed for several weeks now.