{"id":1462,"date":"2007-03-23T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/virgin-galactic-lease-deal-to-be-announced-monday\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T01:11:00","slug":"virgin-galactic-lease-deal-to-be-announced-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/virgin-galactic-lease-deal-to-be-announced-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic lease deal to be announced Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RgR7Mi_zkdI\/AAAAAAAABuk\/I3ErNTq0XhM\/s1600-h\/virgin_galactic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RgR7Mi_zkdI\/AAAAAAAABuk\/I3ErNTq0XhM\/s200\/virgin_galactic.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045292938044871122\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Officials from the state and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> will announce Monday that they have reached an agreement on the framework of a lease of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a> facility to be constructed northeast of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The announcement will be made at 3:30 p.m. at the university club in the <st1:placename st=\"on\">Stan<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Fulton<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype> on the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">State<\/st1:placetype>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> campus. Officials from the state and Virgin will be present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Rick Homans said Thursday night that negotiations were underway and a deal on a memorandum of understanding that would set the terms of a lease could be reached within days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Apparently, the deal has been reached. It\u2019s not clear if officials will sign the memorandum at the event or simply announce that they\u2019ve reached an agreement. Homans doesn\u2019t expect the actual lease to be signed for a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Details of the deal, which have not been released, have already been approved by the company\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Officials worked hard to reach a deal they could announce in advance of the April 3 election in Do\u00f1a Ana County on whether to raise the gross receipts tax 1\/4 percent to help fund the spaceport. Spaceport tax opponents have criticized the fact that a deal wasn\u2019t in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the state and Virgin Galactic will announce Monday that they have reached an agreement on the framework of a lease of the Spaceport America facility to be constructed northeast of Las Cruces. The announcement will be made at 3:30 p.m. at the university club in the Stan Fulton Center on the New Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}