Plans are underway to transform an existing arroyo on the El Paso campus of the University of Texas into a park with a pavilion.
The project will also include the building of a bridge that will connect the school’s Union Building, which is currently being renovated, with a structure called the Texas Western Hall.
In announcing the project, UTEP President Heather Wilson said the new park, which will also include a tree grove as well as terraced lawns, will “offer students a place to study, to socialize, and relax in a natural environment.”
The Austin-based Ten Eyck Landscape Architects is the project architect for the park. In a statement, Christine Ten Eyck, owner of the firm, said the park will serve to connect students with the “vital, historic arroyo that courses from the Franklin Mountain watershed.”
Plans call for the new pavilion to be designed in the Bhutanese architectural style that distinguishes many structures on the UTEP campus. The school first began to incorporate that style into the building of its structures more than a century ago, a style that now dominates nearly 100 buildings on the campus.
An exact timetable for when the two-phase work will begin on the new park, which currently does not have an official name, has not been announced.
March 13, 2026
By Garry Boulard
