A $1 billion ghost city in New Mexico

Perhaps the next step-up from Apple's driverless car testing grounds could be this 15 mile stretch of New Mexico desert. The area is the future location for CITE, or The Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation. The $1 Billion project is set to begin in 2016, to be developed by Pegasus Global Holdings.

Produced by Rob Ludacer. Original Reporting by Madison Malone Kircher.

[Furrden]

A test city, an underground lab. Sounds a heck of alot like Raccoon City from Resident Evil to me.

[isaiahortiz]

I live in New Mexico and I have not heard of this at all.

[kevinmontes]

I live in hobbs New Mexico where it was going to be built its been in the newspaper before in 2012 but in 2019 nothing has been built

[Mrchnop]

And to think the U.S. still has a HUGE problem with homelessness.

[BunnyAwping]

So they could finish this in 2018 but it takes construction workers 87 years and 19 days to finish remaking roads smh

[jukih]

they could also film zombie apocalypse films there

[nknighton]

I worked with a guy that was in the marines. He said they had model towns to teach them how to invade urban areas and cities.

[AsaIsrealfuery]

The entire state of NM has a homeless population of under 4k. This city is built to house 35k. Noone sees a moral issue with this?

[frankballesteros]

This project has yet to be realized. This is December 2020.

[fireofacrow]

As of 2019 has anyone from New Mexico ever driven by this site? We have so many unfinished projects here it's absurd. I highly doubt this even Just maybe the 1 billion spent for nothing. Same concept as The ART project EX- Mayor Mr. Richard Berry thought so highly of. He wasted tons of NM tax payers money for crap we can't even

[ethanwasme]

i wonder if I could sneak in and start my own experiment on illuminating the problem of homelessness throughout the world, maybe I win nobel peace prize

[marguz]

it will be stage for a real life truman show

[Streghamay]

Yes.. lets build a billion dollar city in the middle of the desert that can house 35 thousand people, and not let anyone live there, even though there are homeless vets dying in the streets everyday. ONLY IN MURICA.

[johnnylego]

This is part of the places elite will run too to avoid the apocalyptic event on the surface when the great reset is being completed.

[slobama]

Well this is now 2018. where is it? and why is it called a ghost city?

[Zippos_And_Doom_Is_All_I_Need]

or perhaps an excuse to keep people away from Alien Bas- i mean Dulce "mountain" thus take credit for any anomaly to be recorded.

[slump]

The project was abandoned before it began

[badmoose]

This is giving me some Indiana Jones vibes.

[brandenapexo]

You already know the government and scientific community gonna be doing sketchy shit out there.

[BRVvideos]

Most people in the comments believe this is a dumb idea; however, they do not see the benefits. For companies to test their products, such as driving vehicles, they need to gain a lot of government approval which take a long time. With a city like this, they can test their products without government regulations and approval before taking them to test in real cities