Mega Projects

            In addition to efforts aimed at promoting foreign investment, four ongoing projects in the state are designed to raise the quality of life.

            The so-called mega projects range from passenger rail service connecting cities along the industrial corridor to a fairgrounds and exposition center in León. The other projects are development of a business center in Irapuato and an inland port at the state’s international airport.

            The projects are intended to help spur economic development, and in some cases to guide and shape development. For example, state leaders want to see León better develop a tourism industry, so they are creating the fairgrounds-exposition center there. In Irapuato, state leaders want to see more growth toward the northern sector of the city and have designed projects intended to lead growth northward.

            The projects are overseen by the state’s economic development office, which...

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