Boosters have high hopes midtown New Mexico Innovation Hub will make Santa Fe a tech player

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Santa Fe is known as a global hub for the tourism industry. But David Perez wants to see it known for more than that.

Through the New Mexico Innovation Hub that Perez has founded on the city’s midtown campus, the tech entrepreneur seeks to establish Santa Fe as a center for the innovation economy — Silicon Valley in the Sangre de Cristos, perhaps.

“We want to leverage Santa Fe’s natural beauty and unique quality of life to attract innovators from around the world,” Perez said.

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David Perez, founder of the New Mexico Innovation Hub, stands inside the former Shellaberger Tennis Center on Jan. 23, which is home to companies such as Woodruff Engineering and the New Mexico Fusion Igniter.

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Thea Vernon, left, New Mexico Consortium office manager, and Carrie Talus, New Mexico Consortium public relations and communications manager, install signs at Benildus Hall on the New Mexico Innovation Center campus on Jan. 23.

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David Perez, founder and CEO of the New Mexico Innovation Hub, stands inside a common area inside Benildus Hall on Jan. 23.

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