NM Land Office: Plenty of land for Tesla plant

New Mexico State Land Commissioner Ray Powell has 3 words for Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk as he contemplates where to build his large battery bureau – “state trust lands.”
And those would embody Mesa del Sol, a Albuquerque-based, mixed-use village that still has 9,000 acres of land accessible for development.
“We are actively recruiting suitable businesses and we would acquire Tesla looking during state trust lands,” Powell pronounced in news release. “There are about 9 million acres of trust land via a state that could be developed with mercantile growth potential.”
Powell became a latest open central to residence a Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric automobile manufacturer, now that it has identified Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas as finalists for a $5 billion “gigafactory,” that is approaching to occupy as many as 6,500 workers.
Earlier this week, a state’s congressional commission expelled a minute it sent to Musk, touting a state’s attributes and mouth-watering him to revisit as their guest to “show we all that a Land of Enchantment has to offer in person.”
Powell pronounced he chose to pronounce adult since Tesla’s skeleton for a battery bureau are unchanging with a State Land Office’s story of posterior mercantile growth partnerships “centered on sustainability, purify and renewable energy.”
“I’m weighing in as a statewide inaugurated central with a apparatus that is singular to a western United States,” Powell told a Journal. “Hopefully, that’s useful to a people in a trenches.”
Specifically, Powell cited the NM Land Office as having a purpose in forging mercantile growth partnerships in New Mexico, including:
♦ Innovation Park during Mesa del Sol, a master-planned village that he pronounced is home to 2,500 jobs and would offer as a “welcoming home (to) good business like Tesla.” The 12,900-acre park now houses Albuquerque Studios, Fidelity Investments and a Molina Healthcare information center, among others.
♦ More than 11,000 acres of state trust land in and around Las Cruces, including West Mesa Industrial Park. Located 8 miles west of downtown, a park is home to 17 businesses that occupy some-more than 750 workers.
♦ A 1,400-acre business park in Lea County that is home to Joule, a Massachusetts-based association that operates a renewable-energy trickery in Hobbs.
Tesla has pronounced it will need between 500 and 1,000 acres to build a 10-million-square-foot facility.
“There’s a abounding portfolio to select from,” Powell pronounced of state trust lands. “But we wish to be understanding of any village in New Mexico that has a possibility to attract 6,500 jobs.”
 
By: Nick Pappas (Albuquerque Journal via New Mexico News)
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