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Mesa del sol plans to house a 100,000 people at completion. However, their buildout plans for the development is 50 years, and that was prior to the economy crashing!
I'm from out of state and plan on moving this spring if I buy the business. Have you heard anymore about Mesa Del Sol...I read they may start building residential soon.
I think it all depends on the nature of your business. If it's construction related, might not be a bad swath to own the rights to. If it is upscale retail, not as much of a good idea.
Valencia county in its entirety (Los Lunas & Belen are the primary points of interest) comes in at 70,389 according to Wikipedia. Otherwise mortimer's numbers are pretty spot-on.
Mesa Del Sol's population (at night, not including security personnel, concertgoers, and people working late) is currently about zero. Again, would help to know what kind of business it is to give a recommendation.
South Albuquerque proper isn't included? (Say, south of Gibson?)
Hope you know Spanish if any selling is involved; each of these areas has a higher-than-state-average of primarily-Spanish-speaking people.
Thanks for the numbers.....If you were to guess what do you think those numbers look like in 10 years?? I'm just curious what your off the cuff numbers would be?
I sell to Grocery Stores, Walmarts,Targets, Sams Club. My product is in stores just need to service the stores. Population growth is good for me. Good thing otherwise I'd be complaining about it!! All and all area with growth and new store coming in are good for the business.
I'd guess 175,000 all in all done. Most of that growth would be in the South Valley and in Los Lunas area.
Also, South Valley is defined by some people (not me though) as going well north of Central Blvd outside Albuquerque's western city limits. That "disputed zone" area is probably also destined for growth (perhaps another 75,000), but it all depends on who defines what is where for your purposes.
I would own rights from Central to the north south past Socorro. The airforce base to the east and west until the reservation. I have done my own research now I just want to see what people from Abq area think. Thanks
Well, when you define it like that, I'd say you're at 200,000 already since that includes a fair bit of Albuquerque (including much of downtown). 10 years I'd say will push it to 300,000.
I sell to Grocery Stores, Walmarts,Targets, Sams Club. My product is in stores just need to service the stores. Population growth is good for me. Good thing otherwise I'd be complaining about it!! All and all area with growth and new store coming in are good for the business.
Well, it's going to be a very long time before you see much growth of these sorts
of stores in that area because the mall developers' focus seems to be in Rio Rancho
and the Western Mesa above Central, especially in the area bounded by Central,
I-40, Coors and Unser. There's a LOT of room for retail growth there and there
are existing "seed" stores to grow around.
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