Week of March 9, 2009. HP's start of steel erection:
Construction pictures of HP's 218,000 SF facility in the Central Business District: Feb. 23, 2009
HP Breaks Ground on January 7, 2009:
Governor Bill Richardson
HP Vice President of Volume Sales
Newton Walpert
Groundbreaking
Mayor Tom Swisstack
Dec. 4, 2008: Hewlett-Packard has begun operations at its temporary site in Albuquerque located at Jefferson and Interstate 25. The Fortune 14 company's new, permanent facility, located in Rio Rancho's Central Business District, is expected to be complete by the end of 2009.
Intel did it in the 1980s and 1990s; Rio Rancho officials are counting on computer giant Hewlett-Packard to do it starting next year.
They say the construction and opening of HP's 218,000-square-foot customer and technical support center in Rio Rancho will jump-start local economic activity much the way Intel's massive chip-making plant did here 20 years ago.
Hewlett-Packard has said it will provide 1,300 high-tech, high-pay jobs when it opens a year from now, Rio Rancho officials said Wednesday. The company expects to break ground next month.
HP has already begun making job offers from a temporary office in Albuquerque.
"We're actually here, and we're hiring," said Randall Davis, HP's Rio Rancho site manager. . . .
