Air Business Center/Alamogordo
Potential Uses
Restaurant - Fast Food/Dining/Brewing, Entertainment, Retail - Freestanding, Retail - Convenience Store, Retail - Grocery Store/Supermarket, Retail - Strip Mall/Shopping Center, Automobile Dealership, Automotive Services, Hospitality - Hotel/Motel, Assisted Living - Nursing Home, Bank/Financial Institution, Offices, Professional Offices, Doctors Office, Pharmacy, Medical Services, Residential - Subdivision, Residential - Apartments/Multi-Family, Residential - Mobile Home Park - RV Park, Church/Worship, School, Government, Self Storage, Office Warehouse, Industrial/Manufacturing/Warehousing, Aviation, Construction, Solar Electric Facility
Property Description
1601 West US Highway 70, also known as 21000 West US Highway 70, is located on the south side of Highway 70, 2/3rds of a mile West of the Airport Road signalized intersection. Highway 70 provides the El Paso/Juarez Metroplex access to extensive summer and winter recreational activities in the Sacramento Mountains. It also provides access to White Sands National Park, a World Class geological formation of 180,000 acres of pristine white sand dunes. This 700-acre property has 3,000 feet of frontage on US Highway 70, with daily exposure to personnel residing in Alamogordo or the mountain communities, who pass this property on their way to work at HAFB and White Sands (Army) Missile Range.
This 700-acre tract is located within the Alamogordo City Limits, allowing it to access City water mains and sewer mains which adjoin or cross the property. It is located in Sections 10 & 15 in Township 17 South of Range 9 East, and is designated as Parcel No. R021605 by the Otero County Assessor.
Airport Road forms the east boundary of this property, with 2600 feet of frontage. In addition, Business Center Boulevard extends from Airport Drive, west and northwest to US Highway 70, opposite an existing highway median cut. Although this 150-foot-wide arterial public roadway easement is of-record, only a small portion of it has been developed to date. The intersection of Business Center Boulevard at US Highway 70 will be the primary entrance to this property when developed.
Property Size
The 700 acres comprising this tract, extending south from US Highway 70 to the Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport (KALM), with 3000 feet of frontage on Highway 70 and 2600 feet of Frontage on Airport Road, is available as a single tract, or is dividable into smaller acreages, subject to size, location and use by the purchaser/tenant.
Utilities
Water and sewer mains exist on the property, providing access to City of Alamogordo water and sewer services. Natural Gas lines accessing Gas Company of New Mexico service adjoin the property. Electric lines cross the property, provided by the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM).
Zoning
M-2 Industrial
Access & Easements
With 3000 feet of frontage, the primary access is from US Highway 70, a divided four lane highway that connects Alamogordo to Interstates 10 and 25 in Las Cruces, NM, 60 miles west. When developed, Business Center Boulevard will be the main entrance to Air Business Center/Alamogordo. The 150 ft wide public arterial road easement is dedicated, but has been only partially developed. The secondary access is along the 2600 feet of frontage this property has adjacent to Airport Road. For AVIATION ACCESS, 8500 feet of the boundary of Air Business Center/Alamogordo shares a common boundary with the Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport (KALM), making possible a controlled access to the airport’s 9,200 foot runway and its full-length taxiway, subject to City of Alamogordo and FAA approval.
Flood Zone
Flood Zone A and X
Neighbors
The Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport, the Otero County Detention Center, numerous businesses along Highway 70 including the newly-constructed (2023) Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep Automobile Dealership, the municipal waste water treatment facility, numerous mobile home and single-family residential neighborhoods. Holloman Air Force Base is five miles west of Air Business Center/Alamogordo, via US Highway 70.
The south boundary of this property is adjacent to the Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport, making it possible for direct-controlled corporate access to the airport’s 9,200 foot runway.
Detriments
Part of the area of Air Business Center/Alamogordo is within Corp of Engineers Flood Zone A. However, elevation readings within the flood zone calculated to be above the Base Flood Zone elevation.
Significant Benefits
Particularly well-located to house non-governmental, non-Department of Defense companies and projects involving Holloman Air Force Base or the White Sands Missile Range, which are not provided on-base facilities.
Ideal for facilities housing high-security systems to be tested on White Sands Missile Range, that cannot be transported on public highways: off-highway access to White Sands Missile Range, its High Energy Laser Test Facility, the High-Speed Sled Track, and other high security facilities, can be achieved.
Air Business Center/Alamogordo’s location adjacent to the regional airport, provides 24/7 transportation convenience utilizing company or charter aircraft.
The Alamogordo area retains Holloman’s military and civilian employees after retirement, who seek second careers, but are already receiving retirement pay and medical care - a highly skilled and responsible workforce!
The adjacent Regional Airport runway is at 4300 feet elevation, benefiting high altitude testing.
The high-desert climate is a rust-free environment.
Attracting younger, energetic, outdoor-oriented employees from out of the region is made significantly easier, because Alamogordo is at the foot of the Sacramento Mountains, the southerly extension of the Rocky Mountains. This range of mountains is a contradiction to “life in the desert.” The Lincoln National Forrest, within the Sacrament Mountains, includes over one million acres of beautiful, natural scenery, open to a variety of summer and winter outdoor activities, with elevations exceeding 9,000 feet. Sierra Blanca, 60 miles from Alamogordo, reaches 12,000 feet and is home to the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation’s resort and casino “Inn of the Mountain Gods”, and Ski Apache, a world class down-hill ski run.
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT USE: Military and civilian personnel and the employees of government contractors, all working at Holloman Air Force Base and on White Sands Missile Range, make up a majority of home buyers in this market. An emerging national customer base is the growing number of military and civil service retirees searching for their retirement home in the Sunbelt. These qualified buyers require close proximity to a military base for economical shopping, health care and military camaraderie. There is a need for residential subdivisions conveniently located on the “base side” of the city. The size of this parcel, 700 acres, makes it well suited for a large-scale master-planned community with multiple land uses.
