Elías Group: In 2019 the Mexican Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development through the Urban Improvement Program chose Ciudad Juarez as a one of the sixteen cities with marginalized neighborhoods to build public spaces to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants. In an area of high marginalization to the east of the city, the Tierra Nueva neighborhood, characterized by being a housing area provided by the state, where a community of migrants coexists who come to this city in search of a better job in the local industry.
With the task of complementing this offer, in the northern section of the park, where it was initially contemplated to provide arts teaching services and under the order of designing a neighborhood garden, the work team of the School of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico decided to establish a space for contemplation and interaction for different generations with recreational and sports activities, where people of different ages could perform outdoor entertainment activities; in the center of these activities would be Skating, a sport that is gaining interest among the youth of the City since in this area it has many followers and currently does not have nearby spaces to practice it.
The project was coordinated by landscape architects Valia Wright and Eduardo Peón and architect Francisco Elías, who together with urban planners, local architects, and sociologists, established as their main goal to understand the relationship between this section of the park with the surrounding neighborhood, and at the same time bring a bit of the natural context of the Chihuahua desert, as a form of recognition of the natural heritage of the zone.