{"id":4084,"date":"2008-12-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/company-selected-to-build-spaceport\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:00:00","slug":"company-selected-to-build-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/company-selected-to-build-spaceport\/","title":{"rendered":"Company selected to build spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUq6FaZmSuI\/AAAAAAAAJlA\/skPj5Jo7jEQ\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 95px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUq6FaZmSuI\/AAAAAAAAJlA\/skPj5Jo7jEQ\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281238115194129122\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico Spaceport Authority announced today the selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldmartin.com\/services\/owners.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald Martin Construction Management<\/a> of Albuquerque to oversee the building of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldmartin.com\/about\/awards.html\" target=\"_blank\">an award-winning company<\/a> founded in 1974 with offices throughout New Mexico and one in Arizona, according to a news release from the spaceport authority. The company\u2019s team, the release states, will include specialists with experience in aviation facilities, fire and emergency facilities that service aeronautic and rocket facilities, and specialists who have worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe are proud to be a part of this historic endeavor,\u201d James Mee, Gerald Martin\u2019s vice president of construction management, was quoted in the release as saying. \u201cGerald Martin Construction Management has assembled a superb team that will provide specific and focused expertise to all areas of the project at each phase of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Spaceport Director Steve Landeene said the authority is excited to work with the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere were many quality applicants in our selection process, and we feel confident that Gerald Martin has a level of experience, cost effectiveness and local knowledge that will give us the edge as we begin construction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Federal Aviation Administration licensed the commercial spaceport earlier this week, so the only step that must be completed before construction can begin on the $198 million facility is the inking of a formal lease with planned anchor tenant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>. State officials expect that to happen before the end of the year, and plan to break ground on the spaceport in early 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico Spaceport Authority announced today the selection of Gerald Martin Construction Management of Albuquerque to oversee the building of Spaceport America. It\u2019s an award-winning company founded in 1974 with offices throughout New Mexico and one in Arizona, according to a news release from the spaceport authority. The company\u2019s team, the release states, will [&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-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","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=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}