Plans to build a new headquarters for the Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces have taken an important step forward with a $1.5 million donation to build the facility.
The funding is coming from Project Jupiter, the massive data center project going up in Santa Teresa.
In a statement, Ashley Echavarria, chief executive officer of the club, said the funding makes it possible to “put shovels in the ground and start making the dream of a new Boys & Girls Club a reality for youth in our community.”
The club’s current headquarters is located at 330 W. Las Cruces Avenue in a one-story 6,800-square-foot cement structure it has occupied for the last 60 years.
In early 2024, the club announced that it had purchased a site at 1005 El Paseo Road, with the intention of building a 30,000-square-foot facility that will include a science, technology, engineering and mathematics lab, as well as a gymnasium, and a special section for arts education.
The new expanded facility, according to published reports, will allow the club to increase the number of young people it serves from the current 100 to more than 300.
The site on El Paseo Road is the former home to the Video 4 movie house which was part of the Allen Theaters chain and ceased operations in the fall of 2020 due to a decline in business caused by the Covid 19 pandemic.
The massive $165 billion Project Jupiter is a collection of four separate data center facilities expected to be built in the next three decades.
January 12, 2026
By Garry Boulard
