{"id":424581,"date":"2026-09-03T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424581\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:38:09","slug":"new-name-approved-for-lincoln-park-in-south-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424581\/","title":{"rendered":"New name approved for Lincoln Park in South-Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tuesday, the El Paso City Council unanimously voted to change a Central El Paso park’s name to “Lincoln Park-El Paso’s Chicano Park.”<\/p>\n

The park is located at 4001 Duranzo Avenue in South-Central El Paso. It passes under the Spaghetti Bowl and has notable murals painted onto the overpass beams.<\/p>\n

District 2 Representative Josh Acevedo presented the change based on a recommendation from the city’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. <\/p>\n

The name change applied on behalf of the Lincoln Park Conservation Committee. It canvased the neighborhood and gathered signatures in support of putting the item on the council’s agenda. <\/p>\n

According to the application, the name change aims to honor the neighborhood’s 150-year history. The application said the new name refers to what some El Pasoans call the park. <\/p>\n

Documents said Hector Gonzales, a member of the park’s conservation committee, would be responsible for costs associated with the name change.<\/p>\n

Gonzales said the committee collected thousands of signatures in support of the name change despite only 59 being accepted on Tuesday’s meeting due to rules requiring <\/p>\n

During Tuesday’s meeting, Gonzales said renaming the park to include “Chicano” in it would enhance a partnership with the Chuco Park Group in San Diego, California. <\/p>\n

“We lose out on tourism. We lose out on people visiting,” Gonzales said during the meeting. “By adding this name, we get thrown into the Google search. There’s San Diego. There’s El Paso. Now you got a choice.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Lincoln Park will have a new name reflecting the Chicano culture tied to the community.
(Courtesy: KVIA\/File)<\/p>\n

Additionally, the new name reflects El Paso’s Chicano history. Community members often gather at the park for lowrider shows, according to the park’s conservation committee. Many of its murals also have Chicano references.<\/p>\n

Acevedo told ABC-7 this was why the committee didn’t want to a complete name change.<\/p>\n

“They said we want to preserve Lincoln Park because we celebrate that history but we want to extend the name and also honor the other history related to the park,” Acevedo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tuesday, the El Paso City Council unanimously voted to change a Central El…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,5872,140,139,18618,4547,4603,147678],"class_list":["post-424581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-city-council","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-josh-acevedo","tag-lincoln-park","tag-lincoln-park-conservation-committee","tag-lincoln-park-el-pasos-chicano-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}