{"id":1736,"date":"2007-05-17T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/sun-news-wraps-up-series-on-development\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T15:49:00","slug":"sun-news-wraps-up-series-on-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/sun-news-wraps-up-series-on-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-News wraps up series on development"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> wrapped up its five-day series on growth and development today with an overview of what\u2019s been happening in the last few years and a look at how rapid growth only spurs more rapid growth.<\/p>\n

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The retail growth was the most staggering point in the Sun-News\u2019 main article<\/a> in today\u2019s package: Since 2000, Las Cruces has gone from having one Wal-Mart Supercenter to having two and a Sam\u2019s Club, and it\u2019s gone from having no Starbucks to having four (the Sun-New erroneously said three) with another two already under construction.<\/p>\n

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In addition, here\u2019s what the Sun-News didn\u2019t report: Wal-Mart is looking land for a third Las Cruces store on U.S. Highway 70, and Target is currently working a deal to build its second Las Cruces store on Highway 70. Kohl\u2019s is already building on the city\u2019s north side, and Circuit<\/st1:placename> City<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> is also looking for land.<\/p>\n

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The growth really is staggering.<\/p>\n

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In a second article<\/a>, the newspaper took a look at the debate about whether the growth is good and the effort by local governments to develop a regional growth plan. The article was good, but I wish the newspaper had devoted more space to looking into the aspects of open space and comparing Las Cruces<\/st1:city> to other cities, to give us some context on whether Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is growing in a way that is smart and sustainable.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the newspaper did a good job of providing some needed context to the current debate. Check out the newspaper\u2019s editorial on the topic by clicking here<\/a>. The series\u2019 home page can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Las Cruces Sun-News wrapped up its five-day series on growth and development today with an overview of what\u2019s been happening in the last few years and a look at how rapid growth only spurs more rapid growth. The retail growth was the most staggering point in the Sun-News\u2019 main article in today\u2019s package: Since […]<\/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-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}