The state has traded the old Dixon Apple Orchard and 8,800 acres of state trust land in northern New Mexico to Cochiti Pueblo in exchange for the site of a downtown Santa Fe hotel.
The three-party deal announced today gives the Garrett's Desert Inn site in downtown Santa Fe, which also includes the renowned Santa Fe Bite restaurant, to the State Land Office. The property is across the street from the Land Office's headquarters. The Catron family is selling the Garrett's site to Cochiti.
The property being traded to the pueblo has sacred and ancestral village sites and hunting areas that Cochiti has been seeking for years.
It is unclear what the Garrett's property will be used for in the future.
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