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Monthly NAIOP attendees are used to sitting down at the meetings, which lately have been at Premiere Cinemas. Those who went to the July 14 meeting were also sitting down – most of the way, at least – but this time in an air-conditioned luxury bus, and treated to a ride taking in and hearing about City of Vision current and future assets – namely buildings and neighborhoods being erected.
They knew what they were doing when they named this huge residential, business and school site in Unit 10 “Los Diamantes,” because that’s Spanish for diamonds and this is development could be a crown jewel for Rio Rancho. It’s been an enormous task to take this 170-acre site, termed “Unit 10” since Rio Rancho Estates was formulated, and have it start to come alive with an elementary school, almost 500 homes and a 38-acre business park.
Speaker: Collaboration, plan vital to stimulate economy
Dove-tailing on his previous talk, at the Rio Rancho Roundtable virtual NAIOP session March 4, Dale Dekker again asked a timely question: How do we diversify our economy?
Dale Dekker
Albuquerque Journal file photo.
In New Mexico, with oil and gas revenue expected to plummet, that’s not an easy question to answer.
But again, Dekker a principal in the architectural firm of Dekker-Perich-Sabatini had ideas for listeners to consider.
“New Mexico needs a strategic business plan,” Dekker said, stressing the importance of “connecting the dots.”
Those dots included critical infrastructure (pharmaceuticals, medical and personal protective equipment, aerospace, microelectronics, advanced manufacturing, critical manufacturing and defense industrial base) with economic development clusters (aerospace and defense, biosciences, cyber security, global trade, advanced manufacturing, green energy and sustainable agriculture)