The Center, New Mexico

[3] It was originally to have been located on about 15 square miles near the town of Hobbs in Lea County, New Mexico[4] it was to have been a city with no permanent population.

[3][5] Due to the lack of people, The Center was described as a ghost town, since it will not have permanent residents occupying the facilities located on site.

[1] The purpose of The Center is to “provide the opportunity for 'end-to-end' testing, evaluation and demonstration of new intelligent and green technologies and innovations such as for example an energy district to generate electricity through various forms of cutting edge power generating technologies e.g. solar, wind, hydrogen, thorium, geothermal energy plants.

Robert Brumley, Pegasus Global Holdings’ CEO, chose Rock Hill as the model when he saw it from an airplane while flying back to his office from a design meeting about the project, where the participants had discussed the need for a city that combined old and new construction materials and styles and urban and suburban growth patterns.

[5] Robert Brumley said New Mexico was chosen in part because “the state’s leadership in science and technology, strong university system, national laboratories, military bases, renewable energy resources, developing commercial space industry, motivated work force, and land availability made New Mexico an ideal location for The Center.”[3] The Center will make money by charging the researchers for access and through user fees.

[10][20] In June 2014, new reports stated that development had been delayed pending determination of the borders of the new Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument, and that Pegasus had now selected a new location for the project, on Interstate 10 between Las Cruces and Deming, in Doña Ana County and Luna County.

[3] The State of New Mexico, which has already been working with Pegasus Global Holdings for over a year, is assisting with this study through non-financial means.