A timeline of events regarding two major grants awarded to coalitions led by the University of Texas at El Paso that were intended to expand aerospace manufacturing in El Paso. Read the El Paso Matters investigation of how El Paso won, then lost, a potential $160 million economic development grant.
Jan. 11, 2017 – Then-UTEP President Diana Natalicio signs an interlocal agreement with El Paso County to use up to 9,600 acres near the Fabens Airport for research space that will grow the region’s economic opportunities. The agreement will begin April 1 and terminate March 31, 2027.
May 2018 – Natalicio names UTEP Professor Ahsan Choudhuri associate vice president of the university’s NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research, now known as the Aerospace Center, which he founded in October 2009…