By Ford Wadsworth Mum. That's the way community leaders are playing it after helping to pitch a major mystery New York Stock Exchange-listed corporation on the advantages of relocating office operations to El Paso. Some say the company would be a major player here, and that this is potentially the biggest development deal for El Paso in years. The talks were so secretive that many of our prominent citizens never learned the last names of the people they were pitching, let alone the name of the firm. Pitchpeople included Mayor Carlos Ramirez, UTEP President Diana Natalicio and many others.
Insiders say the city really turned to and made an excellent presentation.
Hopes are high. At week's end El Paso was said to be on a short list of two cities, with Albuquerque being the other. The third city on the short list, Baton Rouge, was eliminated this past week. May. Staffers in El Paso Rep. Silvestre Reye's Washington, D.C., office are packed and ready to move to bigger and better digs. As early as this week they will leave their crowded office, tucked away on the top floor of the Cannon House Office Bldg., for new, larger space on the 5th floor of the Longworth House Office Bldg.