Project Name: Ysleta Port of Entry Engineering Project-Design
Requesting Entity: City of El Paso
Address: 300 N. Campbell, El Paso, TX 79901
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Amount Awarded: $3,000,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for a project-specific design for the expansion of the Ysleta Port of Entry.
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Project Name: Innovation Factory Phase II
Requesting Entity: City of El Paso
Address: 300 N. Campbell, El Paso, TX 79901
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Amount Awarded: $250,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to construct the Advanced Manufacturing District (AMD) Innovation Factory which involves developing nine modular Maker Spaces, back-office support, environmental management, product design and value chain, and access to advanced manufacturing, testing, and evaluation equipment.
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Project Name: Animal Welfare Shelter to Serve Unincorporated Area
Requesting Entity: County of El Paso, TX
Address: 500 E. San Antonio, El Paso, TX 79901
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Amount Awarded: $1,250,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for the construction of a County Animal Shelter and Clinic.
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Project Name: East Montana Water Tower
Requesting Entity: County of El Paso, TX
Address: 500 E. San Antonio, El Paso, Texas 79901
Amount Requested: $2,400,000
Amount Awarded: $1,105,800
Project Description: The funding would be used for the design and construction of the East Montana Water Tower, a 750,000-gallon elevated storage facility to supplement an existing and aging 75,000-gallon water tower.
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Project Name: Corbin Sambrano Community Center
Requesting Entity: County of El Paso, TX
Address: 500 E. San Antonio, El Paso, TX 79901
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for blight removal and clean up, site remediation, foundational soil preparation, and construction of the Corbin Sambrano Community Center.
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Project Name: Transforming Juvenile Justice through Education Facility Expansion
Requesting Entity: County of El Paso Juvenile Justice Center
Address: 500 E. San Antonio, El Paso, TX 79901
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for the acquisition of equipment, furniture, and a prefabricated structure to support vocational and educational programs at the Challenge Academy.
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Project Name: Paso del Norte Trail – Socorro Spine Alignment
Requesting Entity: City of Socorro, Texas
Address: 124 Horizon Blvd., Socorro, Texas 79927
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Amount Awarded: $250,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for the engineering and construction of a 3-mile connection between Ysleta and Socorro along Alameda Ave.
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Project Name: Town of Anthony Police Department Command Post and Technology
Requesting Entity: Town of Anthony TX Police Department
Address: 401 Wildcat DR. Anthony, TX. 79821
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Amount Awarded: $1,184,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to acquire a mobile command post and technology.
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Project Name: Housing Authority of the Town of Anthony Home Upgrades
Requesting Entity: Housing Authority of the Town of Anthony, Texas
Address: 1007 Franklin St., Anthony, Texas 79821
Amount Requested: $1,500.000
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to address critical renovations and upgrades to 26 Public Housing units that require extensive internal and external remodeling, including updates to electrical, gas, and water plumbing systems.
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Project Name: Village of Vinton City Hall Renovation and Expansion
Requesting Entity: Village of Vinton
Address: 436 E. Vinton Rd., Vinton, Texas 79821.
Amount Requested: $1,563,239.82
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Project Description: The funding would be used for the renovation, demolishing, and expansion of the Vinton city hall building.
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Project Name: Manufacturing Research for All Domain Attritable Autonomous Systems
Requesting Entity: El Paso Makes
Address: 501 George Perry Blvd
Amount Requested: $2,200,000
Amount Awarded: $1,184,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to initiate a manufacturing research project with El Paso small and medium manufacturers to develop manufacturing models enabled by digital engineering and automation capabilities to support United States goals to produce All Domain Attritable Autonomous Systems (ADA2) to counter China’s military.
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Project Name: Alberta Avenue Storm and Sanitary Sewer/Domestic Water Improvements
Requesting Entity: El Paso County Hospital District d/b/a University Medical Center of El Paso
Address: 4815 Alameda Ave. El Paso, TX 79905
Amount Requested: $1,847,067.25
Amount Awarded: $1,150,791
Project Description: The funding would be used to replace the existing underground stormwater, sanitary sewer, and domestic water systems of UMC.
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Project Name: TTUHSC El Paso Oncology Center Research Initiative
Requesting Entity: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
Address: 5001 El Paso Drive El Paso, Texas 79905
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Amount Awarded: $1,184,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to acquire research equipment such as linear accelerators, or LINAC, to research the biological and therapeutic effects of varying dose of radiations on the body.
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Project Name: Regional Interoperable Communications Upgrades
Requesting Entity: Rio Grande Council of Governments
Address: 8037 Lockheed, Ste. 100, El Paso, Texas 79925
Amount Requested: $2,167,055.11
Amount Awarded: $1,184,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to acquire and replace end-of-life or upgrade mobile and portable radios, also known as subscriber units.
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Project Name: Regional Food Production, Distribution and Workforce Development Center
Requesting Entity: Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Address: 1380 A&M Circle, El Paso, TX 79927.
Amount Requested: $3,200,000
Amount Awarded: $250,000
Project Description: The funding would be used to acquire and upgrade a 24,556 square foot, large scale, food production, inspection, and distribution facility as a regional, full-scale Food Production, Distribution, and Workforce Center.
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It is my great honor and privilege to serve as your representative in Congress and to ensure that federal dollars are being invested in El Paso. For Fiscal Year 2025, my office will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests. Since the start of Community Projects Funding in Fiscal Year 2022, I have been able to secure funding for 38 community projects, bringing back to El Paso nearly $55 million directly to our cities and towns, our schools, our universities, nonprofits, and companies. I am excited to continue to use this process to deliver for El Pasoans.
PLEASE NOTE: we have not received official guidance from the House Committee on Appropriations on FY25 CPFs. We expect it will be identical to the process last year - this means that Labor, Workforce and Training, Education, Healthcare, and Small Business entities are ineligible from receiving funds in the House in addition to other guidance from last year. Once we receive official guidance, we will update our website and contact those who have submitted projects for any additional information as needed.
The Community Project Funding requests are in addition to the general programmatic and language-based requests which you can learn more about here. Updated reforms require rigorous vetting, limits 15 community project requests from each Member of Congress, public disclosure of potential recipients on the Congressmember’s website, and certification that no Congressmember’s family can benefit from the project.
Staff may follow up for additional information to support the CPF request such as budget justification, documentation of community support and need, or proof of ability to meet match requirements once an initial request is submitted. If you have any questions about Congresswoman Escobar’s project submission process, please email tx16.approps@mail.house.gov.
For list of all previously funding Community Funding Projects from Fiscal Year 2022, 2033, and 2024, please click here.
Please click the form links below to submit your Community Project Funding request:
In order to inform El Pasoans about the available accounts and funding, my office has compiled a comprehensive resource guide. This guide contains descriptions of what projects are eligible, insight on the process, frequently asked questions, and more. To view the resource guide, click here.
