Two residential homes at the corner of Trowbridge Drive and Chadbourne Street in Central El Paso are set to be torn down to make way for new apartment buildings, part of a $600,000 construction project now listed on the city's permit and licensing page. The addition will rise at 5000 Trowbridge Dr., just across the street from a DK convenience store and only blocks from Loretto Academy and the Nazareth Living Care Center.
The project details come from a city permit listing cited by the El Paso Times, which reports that two new apartment complex buildings are set for construction on the site, replacing the two existing homes. The listed owner is Anibal Acosta, also of El Paso, while Marathon Design and Construction of El Paso is named as the licensed professional and applicant on the project.
Who's Behind the Build
Marathon Design and Construction is described in the report as an El Paso-based company with 15 years of experience that specializes in contemporary architectural construction. Beyond identifying the owner and the construction firm, the city's website provides no additional details on the project, according to the same report — leaving the final design, unit count, and timeline unclear for now.
That gap lines up with how little the public record currently reveals about the site's future. The report notes only that two new apartment complex buildings are planned, without specifying how many units they'll contain or when crews might break ground.
A Property With a Recent Sale and a Mixed-Use Past
Property-listing details offer a partial picture of what currently sits on the parcel, even though they don't establish the scope of the new project. A Trulia listing for the address describes two one-story buildings housing three residential apartments and a commercial business space with a large front window and a functioning drive-through, sitting on a 19,515-square-foot corner parcel. The same listing identifies the existing structure as a 2,735-square-foot multifamily property built in 1963 and notes it was last sold on April 13, 2026.
A separate listing on HAR shows one unit at the address, labeled unit 2 2, as currently not for sale. Neither listing source establishes what will ultimately be built or when, but together they sketch the aging mixed-use property that the new apartment buildings are poised to replace.
Part of a Busier Stretch of Trowbridge
The apartment project isn't the only recent change to hit this stretch of road. A separate Trowbridge Drive improvement project was underway in January 2023, adding parkways, pathways and pedestrian crossings and reducing travel lanes from four to three between Lamar Street and Boone Street, according to KFOX14. That roadwork was funded through the Community Development Block Grant and the Street Maintenance Resurfacing Program, and as of that report, the city had not set a completion date.
It's not clear whether that infrastructure work has any direct connection to the new apartment buildings now planned nearby, and the available reporting does not tie the two projects together. For now, the clearest picture of what's coming to 5000 Trowbridge Dr. remains the brief permit listing: two new buildings, a $600,000 valuation, and a neighborhood watching to see what rises where two houses once stood.
