Southwest City Scoop: Construction Starts in Las Cruces
Jim Peach Regents Professor of Economics New Mexico State University
Dynamic activity in the Las Cruces metro area is outside of the city itself, Peach says, and has been influenced by the development of the Santa Teresa rail station, about an hour south of the city. “That is where a lot of the action is,” Peach says. “The threat to that, of course, is any sort of renegotiation or canceling any part of NAFTA. A lot of that traffic is southbound traffic by the rail yard. The border wall would really disrupt things.” Residential construction remains active but is awaiting significant job growth, he adds.