This editorial in the El Paso Times once again shows who they are.
The piece gives credit to their favorite mayoral candidate for bringing a new school of architecture downtown with 500 students.
Let’s start with the fact that the city gave away 16,587 square feet of the Union Depot for 75 years. Actually the taxpayers will get $1 per year for each of the next 75 years so he did get something for our property. It does not take much of a salesman to get someone to move into a beautiful building for free.
Then we have the fact that the Union Depot is not considered to be downtown by many of those over at the city — at least not when it does not suit them.
The editorial made it sound like 500 people would be eating lunch and revitalizing downtown every day. The space involved is 16,587 square feet. How many students can you get in that amount of space?
Maybe there should be an article about this. Is Texas Tech going to build some more buildings to handle 500 people? Have they invented a new system where they can pack lots of people in very little space? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Then again the Times does not inquire when dealing with their masters. They print what they are told to print.
Muckraker
elpasospeak 
This does not even speak to the added cost of moving the Mass Tranist system and will be pay a dollar a year for that facility.
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Someone from the Future El Paso facebook page posted this comment after the online article you referenced above. Texas Tech SchOfAchitecture agrees with you :
Another PR article for Steve Ortega. How much did Bob Moore make from this article? The people are waking up EP Times! FYI: This editorial is false. No where near 500 people will be in that building. The Texas Tech FB Page just posted that they have no idea where you got that number. PROOF that the Times is making stories up to glorify Ortega in attempt to influence the mayoral election. –> https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=652776418082454&id=233033540056746
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