Business View Civil & Municipal Apr-2023

37 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 Reeves County, ranking it third in the state for barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) produced. “That is a very stable industry right now, it’s fantastic,” Lino continues. “Moving forward, our focus has to shift to growth that creates recreational and other amenities for the betterment of this community. We have to make sure that we can provide everything our citizens need, right here, in town. We’re a hub and we want to continue to expand on that.” “The old saying ‘quality of life’ is actually quality of place, and Pecos has definitely, within the last decade, succeeded in that aspect,” Winkles insists. “Over the last six years, the Pecos EDC has been moving toward creating more housing opportunities. A smaller 16-unit subdivision of mid- to high-level homes was added back in 2017, and in 2020-21 we progressed onto Meadowbrook, which is a 72-home site, 54 of which already have homes on them and the remainder are under contract.,” Winkles describes. “The next big project my successor will take on is a 40-acre site south of town, near to where the county’s new splash park is going to be. There’s no water, no sewer, no street, no anything out there at the moment, so we’re looking at somewhere between a $6-15M price tag. That 40 acres, over a period of time, will hold another 200 homes for Pecos.” The city already boasts several parks that represent new amenities for that part of town. “We’ve done major upgrades to our parks system over the last several years,” offers Lino. “We have a beautiful memorial called Veterans Park (1006 W. Kerr St.) that highlights a WW2- era plane and a fantastic facility. We also built a state-of-the-art outdoor baseball complex, Cyclone Ballparks, that hosts five artificial turf fields, NCAA Regulation Size, and we’re getting ready to begin Phase 2 construction scheduled PECOS , TE XAS