{"id":6631,"date":"2009-09-22T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2009-09-22T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:15:28","slug":"city-cancels-rocket-racing-league-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/city-cancels-rocket-racing-league-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"City cancels Rocket Racing League lease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6632\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6632\" title=\"racing league2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/racing-league2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"A conceptual drawing of a Rocket Racing League race. (Courtesy photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/racing-league2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/racing-league2-336x190.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/racing-league2.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual drawing of a Rocket Racing League race. (Courtesy photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketracingleague.com\/\">Rocket Racing League<\/a> took a big hit on Monday when the Las Cruces City Council voted to end a lease agreement with the start-up company.<\/p>\n<p>The council terminated the lease for four parcels at the airport because the company didn\u2019t fulfill the terms of the lease, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_13390747\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we all supported the dialogue around this project,\u201d the newspaper quoted Councilor Gil Jones as saying. \u201cNo one, as I recall, was opposed to the mission of RRL. But I think everyone recognized it was a risky venture. I hope they continue to find success elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company planned to build hangars and its headquarters at the airport. From the Sun-News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInitially the lease covered six 10,000-square-foot parcels (parcels 36, 37, 41, 42, 43 and 44), at $2,000 per parcel per year. The lease required RRL to build facilities on the parcels by a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the council resolution, RRL only built partial hangars, on parcels 36 and 37.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Mexico Construction Industries Division had ordered construction on those hangars stopped, and refused to issue subsequent permits, because RRL had not properly constructed firewalls within the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state ultimately gave RRL a variance to allow that work to continue, however as of last August, the state had not granted a certificate of occupancy for RRL\u2019s remaining hangar, according to the council resolution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The league had plans to hold races that pit up to 10 racers against each other on virtual, closed-circuit tracks in the sky. The racers can fly at up to 320 mph, and the league planned to eventually hold races at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now its plans are unclear. The Sun-News was unable to reach league officials for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocket Racing League took a big hit on Monday when the Las Cruces City Council voted to end a lease agreement with the start-up company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[145,141],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-las-cruces","tag-spaceport-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}