You are browsing the archives for September 2009.

An interesting article was published last week in BusinessWeek, ranking Las Cruces #8 of 20 Strongest Building Markets.  The article discusses several markets around the nation where growth is happening, despite the economic downturn nationwide.

From the article:

BusinessWeek teamed up with Costa Mesa (Calif.)-based Hanley Wood Market Intelligence to rank the nation’s strongest building markets. They found booming metros where military, government, and energy jobs—as well as natural disasters—are driving up demand for new construction.

Though the actual article doesn’t mention Las Cruces in its full text, it does discuss the reasons for growth in many other cities around the nation; and many of…