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Monday, February 02, 2009

PARTNERSHIP IN RIO RANCHO

The University of New Mexico Board of regents approved UNM's partnership with the Sandia Foundation to build the first building located at the new UNM West campus in Rio Rancho. UNM and the Sandia Foundation anticipate the building will be completed in time for classes to begin for the spring semester of 2010.

Nearly three-quarters of the 40,000 square foot building will house classrooms and student support services. The UNM Medical Group will use approximately 10% of the building for administrative functions, with the rest being used for faculty/staff offices and building systems. The building will be designed as a student-oriented, architecurally distinctive, flexible-space learning facility.

The new building will act as an"incubator" for both program and campus development, and may ultimately become multi-institutional in nature as UNM's "2&2" partnership with Central New Mexico Community College is refined and a new partnership with New Mexico State University is developed for the delivery of selected programs such as tourism and hospitality management that do not duplicate UNM offerings. Total project costs are estimated to be $10.98 million.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

RIO RANCHO BOND ELECTION

The bond election for a variety of road rehabilitation,major road construction, and new construction projects throughout the city will be held on March 10,2009.

2009 Bond election- $25 million
Unser Blvd. widening project phase A ---$6.1 million
Paseo del Volcan project ---$10 million
Northern Blvd. widening project phase A ---$1.6 million
30th Street paving (design) ---$300,00
Western Hills Drive ---$2.58 million
Nicklaus Drive from Broadmore Drive to Southern Blvd. ---$2.1 million
Paving Preservation ( preventative maintenance) ---$2.32 million

Polling locations will be open on March 10th from 7:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. Absentee and early voting will be from Feb 11, thru March 6 2009. Contact the City Clerks office, 3200 Civic Center Circle, NE for more information.

Monday, January 26, 2009

ALBUQUERQUE REAL ESTATE REPORT

The local housing market ended 2008 much like the rest of the economy--down, with no sign of recovery in the short-term. Almost every indicator, from sales prices to the number of closed sales and new listings continued to be headed in the wrong direction except in one area: Sales of townhomes and condos have generally been stable or on the rise, depending on the month. The median price in December on townhomes/condos was $164,000, an increase of 13% over the same month in 2007, according to the statistics from the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors. However, existing detached homes saw the median price fall 10% last month, to $179,000, compared with $200,000 in December of 2007. The median price has not seen the $170's since Feb. of 2006.

The average time a home sat on the market in December was 76 days, down from 80 the month before, but up from 60 a year ago.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

RIO RANCHO PARKS AND REC. BROCHURE AVAILABLE

Each year the Rio Rancho Dept. of Parks and Rec. and Community Services publishes three brochures (Spring, Summer, and Fall) which give complete listings of community special events and activities for children, teens, and adults. Brochures provide registration deadlines, activity dates, and prices.
While supplies last, brochures will be available at the following locations:

City Hall Parks and Rec. office

Sabana Grande Recration Center

Star Heights Recreation Center

Meadowlark Senior Center

Loma Colorado Main Library

Friday, January 23, 2009

RIO RANCHO CRIME MAP

The Rio Rancho Police Department Has teamed up with CrimeReports.com to provide maps that show where incidents in the city have occured. Using this system is free and includes the option of signing up for automated alerts when crime occurs near your home,office,school, or other areas of the city. In addition, users can view an interactive map of the city that includes specific information (date,general location, and a brief description). Crime information is automatically downloaded to the system nightly from Police department computer-aided dispatch systems.

Friday, January 09, 2009

TV NETWORK MOVING TO ALBUQUERQUE

New Mexico is getting into a new industry as the ReelzChannel television network moves its company headquarters to Albuquerque. The national cable and satelite TV network specializes in TV shows about movies. The network owned by the Hubbard Media Group is planning to set up in Albuquerque by May 1. The company is expecting to need 100 new employees, from production staff to accountants and writers and will be holding a job fair from 10 a.m.-- 8p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Visit www.reelzchannel.com/careers for more information.

The company's headquarters now are in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Mn., with production offices in Los Angeles. Though some employees will stay in L.A., the company is expecting to need about 100 new employees here to run the day-to-day operations of the network.

The 24-hour channel shows movies and TV shows about movies, such as "Secret's Out with Leonard Maltin", a show that champions films that may have flown under the radar, "Movie Mob", a show of user-generated content blogs, and "The Critic", an animated show starring Jon Lovitz as a down-and-out movie critic.

Friday, December 19, 2008

PRESBYTERIAN RIO RANCHO MEDICAL CENTER

Presbyterian will create a healthcare system for west side patients and members that is safe, patient-centered,operationally efficient and flexible, environmentally friendly and technologically innovative. Presbyterian has spent more than a year researching, reading, going to other state-of-the-art hospitals and planning to provide New Mexicans with a healthcare delivery system that will meet their needs today and in the future.

Hospitals are complex facilities to build with special considerations given to medical gas lines, safety for patients and visitors and many other factors. The average hospital takes two to three years to build. Presbyterian has broken ground for the new hospital and medical center in the summer of 2008 with completion targeted for the fall of 2010.

The 21st Century Hospital

* 66 acres east of Unser Blvd. & north of Black Arroyo Blvd.
* 120 private patient rooms in 340,000 square feet of hospital space.
* Full-service emergency department with helicopter pad.
* Medical office building with four floors providing more than 110,000 square feet of medical services.
*More than 140 physicans and 500 plus employees.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

AIR FORCE MOVES SPACE WARFARE OPERATIONS TO ALBUQUERQUE

More of the nation's space operations are moving to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque next year. The Battlespace Environment Division, with 175 jobs and an $89million annual budget is transfering from Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts to Kirtland next year as part of the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

The division's missions include developing advanced surveillance technologies and studying conditions in space that can affect military operations. The division has Dept. of Defense wide responsibility to perform basic and applied research and development to provide technologies to warn operators of potential problems and to protect our space assets from the effects of the space environment.

The Battlespace Environment Division is one of three divisions that make up the Space Vehicles Directorate. The other two divisions are already at Kirtland. The Battlespace Environment Division includes the Space Weather Center of excellence and the Battlespace Surveillance Innovation Center. The Innovation Center develops detection and imaging technologies that can provide the military with information about combatant forces in the field. The Weather center studies phenomena in space that can affect military systems and develops ways to predict, mitigate and reduce those effects. These range from radio signal interference in the ionosphere to radiation damage to spacecraft hardware. The Environment Laboratory will develop technologies to improve space systems and operations.

The Air Force plans to break ground in January with a completion date of July 2010.

RIO RANCHO FIREFIGHTERS HOLD FOOD DRIVE

Rio Rancho's firefighter union ( local 7911 ) along with the Rio Rancho Benevolent Association of Firefighters are participating in a food drive to benefit St. Felix Pantry. During the holiday season St. Felix Pantry serves about 800 families a week. Waste Management of New Mexico has donated six containers to use as collection bins which have been set up at fire stations as well as city hall. Firefighters will be taking donations of non-perishable food, toys, household items, and clothing for all ages. Donations will be accepted now through the end of December.

Monday, December 15, 2008

RIO RANCHO NAMED AS THE STATE'S BEST LOCATION TO RAISE KIDS

Rio Rancho has been named by Business Week magazine as the state of New Mexico's best place to raise kids in 2009. For Business Week's second annual list of best places to raise kids they teamed with New York based real estate provider OnBoard Informatics to select a community from every state. Communities with 50,000 residents and a median family income between 440,000 and $100,000 were used as a starting point to create this year's list.

The list was then narrowed using weighted criteria such as school performance, number of schools, household expenditures, crimes rates, air quality, job growth, family income, museums, parks, theaters, diversity, and other amenities. School performance and public safety were weighted the most heavily when assessing a community followed by amenities and affordability.

This past April, Rio Rancho was recognized by Fortune Small Business magazine as one of the best places to live and launch a business in the United States. In addition in 2005 and 2006 the city was listed by Money Magazine as one of the best 100 places to live in America.
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