Video: Hobbs picked as site of scientific ghost town Options

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las cruces have been battling for the chance to have a billion dollar scientific test city built in their area--- a city where no one will actually live. this morning the decision was made -- it's going to be hobbs. stuart dyson is in our newsroom
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06:11 pm with how this test city is going to make money and create jobs. hobbs will be the home of a modern day ghost town a city where nobody will live but where hundreds will work. an international technology consulting company called pegasus will build a replica of a modern city on the prairie near hobbs in lea county - it will be a test center for all kinds of systems - renewable energy - traffic - wireless networks - security - they cakll it c-i-t-e - the center for innovation - testing - and evaluation. " We're not gonna make toasters - we're gonna produce 21st century jobs and the way we do that is through advanced facilities such as C-I-T-E and with the close cooperation of the wealth of research and strength in this state." we're talking 15 hundred workers to build the replica city - 350 people to work there - and
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06:12 pm maybe another 35 hundred jobs in related industries throughout the hobbs metro- plex. no public money involved - groundbreaking next month! - we're talking 15 square miles here and the actual city of hobbs is about 20 square miles! back to you. still ahead at six -- I would be d

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