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Tech firm is building $1billion city in New Mexico
Daily Mail ^ | 10/6/15

Posted on 10/06/2015 2:47:50 PM PDT by Kartographer

Telecommunications and tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings is planning to build a full-scale American town in the New Mexico desert, a place which they hope to open to researchers developing technologies for modern living.

Pegasus plans to spend $1billion creating the 15-square-mile town, called CITE, with construction to begin sometime next year and opening as early as 2018.

CITE will include a town big enough for 35,000 people, with a business district downtown surrounded by terraced housing suburbs - but no one will ever live there.

Instead, companies will have the opportunity to test such innovations as driverless vehicles and natural disaster-proof homes in a human-free, practically risk-free, environment.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: newmexico
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To: Disambiguator
Any idea where in NM they want to put this place?

In that part of the desert where a variety of trees, lush green grass will flourish, and water fountains will gush from the earth. And no snakes, scorpions,and assorted wildlife don't invade.)
Must be your part of NM desert, ‘cause it sure ain't mine!

21 posted on 10/06/2015 3:10:59 PM PDT by WestwardHo
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To: Disambiguator

Groundbreaking is scheduled to begin in fall 2015 outside Las Cruces

http://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/05/planned-ghost-town-city-future/


22 posted on 10/06/2015 3:12:03 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Kartographer

Nobody would want to live in that drug war zone


23 posted on 10/06/2015 3:13:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kartographer

It is private money so good for them. I don’t see a problem with it, especially if it can help bring new tech into reality faster.


24 posted on 10/06/2015 3:14:51 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Kartographer

I recall this was big news in Hobbs back in 2012 or 2013 when I was out there. They were going to build it west of Hobbs going towards Artesia... last I read it all fell through, though.


25 posted on 10/06/2015 3:17:31 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: thackney

I recall Hobbs was buzzing because they were planning on it like west of Hobbs or Jal.... that was 2-3 years ago, that is was in the paper when I was out there.


26 posted on 10/06/2015 3:19:57 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Kartographer
What the hell lind of language is this !???!


"Telecommunications and tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings is planning to build a full-scale American town in the New Mexico desert, a place which they hope to open to researchers developing technologies for modern living."


Isn't a New Mexican desert .... American ?

27 posted on 10/06/2015 3:23:20 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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It will make a fine FEMA Camp

I was trying to figure out some money laundering angle, but you may have figured out what is really going on.

28 posted on 10/06/2015 3:25:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Kartographer

I can’t wait until the parasites move in and tank the whole project. They have rights, too, ya know!


29 posted on 10/06/2015 3:27:55 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Kartographer

The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was a concept developed by Walt Disney near the end of his lifetime. This planned city was his intended purpose for the property purchased near Orlando, Florida, that eventually became the Walt Disney World Resort. Its purpose was to be a "community of the future" designed to stimulate American corporations to come up with new ideas for urban living.

- From Wikipedia entry on EPCOT

Walt Disney's original E.P.C.O.T film (1966)

30 posted on 10/06/2015 3:29:27 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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31 posted on 10/06/2015 3:31:24 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: knarf

http://www.nmmagazine.com/one-of-our-50-is-missing/

New Mexico Magazine articles on how people constantly think we’re not in the USA.


32 posted on 10/06/2015 3:34:50 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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It will make a fine FEMA Camp


Good thinking.


33 posted on 10/06/2015 3:55:48 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Kartographer

I don’t believe it. Reminds me of the Glomar Explorer; a purported private adventure being funded by the government. So what is the government up to in this adventure?


34 posted on 10/06/2015 4:05:28 PM PDT by rcofdayton (.)
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To: rcofdayton

See my post #20 this thread!


35 posted on 10/06/2015 5:26:53 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Build it and they will come?


36 posted on 10/06/2015 5:28:22 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Kartographer

Sounds creepy!


37 posted on 10/06/2015 5:30:04 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: kjam22; Ditter; rcofdayton; laplata; Slyfox; PAR35; blackdog
There's another answer:

No way you are getting away from Rover not with miles and miles of desert surrounding you!

38 posted on 10/06/2015 5:36:16 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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But at least the Village was used as a resort hotel when it wasn’t being used to break prisoners. They don’t have that good of a cover story for this one.


39 posted on 10/06/2015 5:52:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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They couldn’t find a town, already built, that was up for sale?

Movie Stars buy towns all the time, as well as private islands and miles and miles of shoreline.

It keeps the Riff Raff out! *SMIRK*


40 posted on 10/06/2015 6:16:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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