County approves bid for land sale to AEP

County approves bid for land sale to AEP

MARFA –– American Electric Power (AEP) was the lone bidder on a 5-acre property near Vizcaino Park northeast of Marfa, and county commissioners accepted the $350,000 bid The company will start building its “Marfa Shorthorn Substation” there, according Fred Guerrero, AEP’s external affairs manager. More than a year of meetings on the initial proposal to build the substation in Marfa on a residentially-zoned lot at Oak and Aparejo streets ended in…