‘1,000 acres of purpose:’ Project Ranger officially breaks ground

SANDOVAL COUNTY — It was a full house — or rather, a full tent — Wednesday at the Project Ranger site as Castelion Corporation officially broke ground on the hypersonic solid rocket motor facility coming to Sandoval County.

“Today is all about, I think, two things,” said Andrew Kreitz, Castelion co-founder and CFO. “One is for members of the community who have not been following it as closely. We want to help them understand what we’re doing here, why it’s so important to national security … and to let everyone know that we’re moving quickly.

“And then also, to be honest, it’s a huge thank you to all of our partners in the state and inside the community,” he added. “We’ve been able to move really quickly here. We’ve been able to make a lot of progress that’s critical to our customers in the War Department, and we could not have done this without very hard work from the state, city and county.”…

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