NBCUniversal also announced plans last year to build a TV and film studio in Albuquerque, promising 330 full-time jobs and aiming for $500 million in direct production spending. The streamer last year purchased Albuquerque Studios, the state’s largest soundstage complex, and said it expected to spend $100 million every year on production in the state for the next 10 years.

Perhaps best known recently for productions such as “Breaking Bad,” New Mexico has seen filming rise to the point that Netflix has even made Albuquerque its U.S. Once we removed all the casino equipment and furniture from the casino area, that became another large vacant space, and then with any business we had an entire administrative area with cubicles and offices that became perfect for their offices to move in.”īrown said the corporation is aiming to take advantage of a filming boom in New Mexico, spurred in part by the state’s economic incentives. “So we had an events center that we did concerts in and large parties that was a big vacant space.

“Casinos, inherently, if you take out all the games, are big empty spaces,” said Timothy Brown, president and CEO of the Pueblo of Tesuque Development Corporation.

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