During the Popular department store’s heyday in Downtown, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s father, Salvador, spent 45 years dressing the building’s window displays.

Digital renderings show what the historic Popular Dry Goods building, once known as Fallas, could look like following plans to transform the abandoned building into a retail and living space.

The Popular building has been sold, according to Nadia Baem, Senior Associate, Grayce Property Consultants.

An iconic building best known as a department store will be the next major residential project in Downtown El Paso.

The El Paso City Council has approved a $2.4 million tax rebate to support the renovation of downtown's historic Popular Building.

Tucked in the neighborhood between Montana and I-10 known as Franklin Heights, just northeast of Downtown, stands a century-old mixed-use building that holds just as much history in its brick façade as it does potential.