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Byline: Diane Velasco Journal Staff Writer
* Real estate investment company buys the little retail strips beside Wal-Marts
Las Cruces native Edgar Lopez has come a long way from shining shoes as a child for extra money.
Today, Lopez is president of Las Cruces-based IMA Inc., a national real estate investment company with a portfolio worth more than $125 million.
Lopez founded the company in 1973. But it is within the last three years that he discovered a niche that has garnered attention from big-city real estate investment trusts -- Super Wal-Mart strip centers.
Twenty-two of them, to be exact.
In one eye-popping, $40.5 …