Rio Rancho Growing Pains

As often happens in the flurry of urban growth, Rio Rancho is stumbling in its rush to grow. The city fathers fired the city manager a few weeks ago. He had been in the process of negotiating with a firm to build the actual city center complex. At the time they said that negotiations were almost completed with the firm and there would be no problem in moving forward. Now they have ended negotiations and will have to start from scratch with a new firm.
You have to understand that this complex is in the middle of nowhere at the moment. There is a recently completed event center that houses the hockey team and provides a venue for large concerts and the builders show was there this past weekend. There is a nice road that goes to the event center and skirts what is the site of the proposed city center. There are numerous residential developments between the existing city and the new city center. The University of NewMexico has begun plans to build the campus that will be a major part of the complex....but any plans for the city offices and the retail development areas are back at square one.
So what does this have to do with recycled housing? There isn't a lot of infrastructure in those new developments because they were/are dependent on the major development beingdone by the city for its buildings. There are a lot of half acre lots in the area that had increased in value...there are a lot of new homes that suddenly will not be anywhere near the city center for much longer than their builders thought. Older homes in the existing city with mature landscaping and large lots look REALLY good to a lot of people these days.