ENR's Southwest City Scoop: Las Cruces

Overall construction spending expected to increase by almost 4% this year

Non-building activity is forecast to rise 28%, led by the highway/bridge and environmental public works sectors.

City Grill

Larry Nichols
Community Development Director
City of Las Cruces

Growth continues in New Mexico’s second-largest city. Last year, 511 single-family dwellings were built along with two apartment complexes and two triplexes, Nichols says.

Next year, the city will have a new regional hospital, the 95,000-sq-ft Three Crosses Regional Medical Center on Main Street. Nichols says that another hospital, Mountain View, is getting a $15-million addition and renovation. Twenty-one commercial structures, including medical clinics and dialysis centers, were built in Las Cruces last year, he adds.

Firm in Focus

ESA Construction Inc.
645 El Molino Blvd., Las Cruces, N.M.
President: Thomas Preckett
Founded: 1957
What’s new: The firm has contracts for two housing-renovation projects for New Mexico State University: the Las Cruces Dental Plaza and the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine.