{"id":322,"date":"2006-06-27T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/06\/university-will-be-site-of-convention-center\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T20:51:00","slug":"university-will-be-site-of-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/06\/university-will-be-site-of-convention-center\/","title":{"rendered":"University will be site of convention center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Martin%2C%20Michael.2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Martin%2C%20Michael.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to <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> for the city\u2019s selection of the west end of campus for its new convention center. President Michael Martin and university staffers have worked hard to make this happen, and it\u2019s going to reshape campus.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Las Cruces City Council decided Monday to build its long-delayed convention center on 11 acres primarily used for agricultural research just east of the I-10 bridge over <st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">University Avenue<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are many agricultural buildings (and staffers) that are going to have to be transplanted. Many won\u2019t be happy about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But placing the convention center there, on the city\u2019s southwest side, makes sense. The east side of the city is growing fast enough without the convention center. In the past few years a Wal-Mart and a new hotel have gone up near where the convention center will be built, and the facility will be a big boost to tourism in the Mesilla area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It will also aid Martin\u2019s goal of building a performing arts center on campus, which could be built on the west end and share parking with the convention center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lots of big changes are happening on campus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to New Mexico State University for the city\u2019s selection of the west end of campus for its new convention center. President Michael Martin and university staffers have worked hard to make this happen, and it\u2019s going to reshape campus. The Las Cruces City Council decided Monday to build its long-delayed convention center on 11 [&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-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}