Tuesday at the Business in the Borderplex Luncheon, MVEDA hosted its annual Commercial Real Estate Update. A new addition to this year’s event included an update on the commercial real estate activities taking place in El Paso which was presented by Bob Ayoub, President of MIMCO, Inc. Representing the Las Cruces and Doña Ana County [...]
Read MoreNew Mexico State University‘s economic development hub, the Arrowhead Center, is welcoming a new tenant from the north that demonstrates the growing importance of southern New Mexico. The Albuquerque-based environmental science and planning firm, Marron and Associates, opened a satellite office in Las Cruces at Arrowhead’s technology incubator on the NMSU campus earlier this year. [...]
Read MoreSouthwest Steel Coil Inc. is expanding its plant by more than 45 percent as it awaits its second major new piece of equipment this year. The Santa Teresa, New Mexico, flat-rolled distributor and processor, which has pretty much reversed its business model since starting up in 2000, has ordered a Braner USA Inc. slitting line. [...]
Read MoreBy Justin Bannister, NMSU News Center New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center will host a reception to recognize the 2012 and 2013 Launch competition award winners. The event is open to the public and will take place from 4-6 p.m. April 17 at the Arrowhead Center. Business leader and entrepreneur Bradley B. Gordon also will [...]
Read MoreTwo of MVEDA’s valued private sector partners recently received recognition for their work in their respective fields. Ed Camden, President of Southwest Steel Coil in Santa Teresa, has been selected the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Exporter of the Year for Region VI. The Exporter of the Year award is given to individuals who have [...]
Read MoreBy Todd G. Dickson, Las Cruces Bulletin Over the next 33 months, Heritage Home Healthcare and Hospice will add 100 new jobs to its Las Cruces operations, which will become its regional headquarters. Heritage CEO Len Trainor said he and his wife Liz started the company in 1993 out of their rental home in Albuquerque. [...]
Read MoreBy Brook Stockberger, Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES – Gov. Susana Martinez said she loves the sunlight and warmth of her hometown of Las Cruces because Santa Fe can still be chilly this time of year. She said she also loves visiting southern New Mexico to help announce economic development, a task she undertook Tuesday. [...]
Read MoreBy Justin Bannister, NMSU News Center Gary Schmitt, of the American Enterprise Institute, will take part in New Mexico State University’s spring 2013 Domenici Forum at 1 p.m. April 18 at KRWG-TV studios, inside Milton Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Schmitt will discuss sequestration and its potential impact on U.S. [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of Algae Industry Magazine.com Sapphire Energy has entered into a commercial agreement with Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Tesoro Corporation, to purchase crude oil from Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude Farm in Columbus, New Mexico. This begins the first step of a commercial relationship to process Green Crude oil from Sapphire’s [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by David Salcido Will she or won’t she? That was the question facing New Mexico filmmakers as the 60-day legislative session wound to a close Friday, March 15, and HB379 sat on Gov. Susana Martinez’s desk awaiting a signature. When news broke that Martinez had vetoed the bill, however, [...]
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