[ABQalex]

Albuquerque has been doing quite well lately and its growth will pick up. The Census Bureau has revised its population estimates upward in the latter part of the 2010s and no longer shows population losses due to domestic migration.

You all can laugh and trash Albuquerque all you want but it will return to form in growing quickly this coming decade. All signs are pointing to that being true.

Billions in private investment, thousands of new jobs, especially in tech, and thousands of new residential units and hotel rooms added or under construction. The nation's first Gold standard BRT line, a downtown soccer stadium, TopGolf and many other new attractions and amenities, etc.

Sandia National Labs and Intel alone have hired over 3,000 people in the last two years.

Netflix and NBCUniversal have both created production hubs in Albuquerque with a combined 2,000 jobs created and $1.5 billion in direct spending on productions promised. That most recently has caused Stranger Things to move production and filming from Atlanta to Albuquerque. Thank God for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul!

Albuquerque may have slowed down in suburban growth but the past decade saw urban growth like never before.

But the suburban growth is picking up with all the new jobs. This year is slated to have the largest number of new homes built since before the Great Recession.