State to Address Water, Trade

By Alta LeCompte, Las Cruces Bulletin New Mexico’s looming water crisis will top the state’s economic development agenda in the coming year, Cabinet Secretary Jon Barela told a Las Cruces audience on Tuesday, April 2. Barela addressed a hometown crowd that packed two banquet rooms at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces for the Mesilla [...]

Home Care Company to Add 100 Jobs

By 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. [...]

Firm Adds 300 Jobs

By Todd G. Dickson, Las Cruces Bulletin When Cathy Holloway heard on the news that Convergys in Las Cruces was hiring 300 new workers, she grabbed her résumé and collected her letters of references to apply Tuesday, March 26. She moved here from Seattle a couple of weeks ago, but unlike many of the other [...]

Economic Developers to Hold Update Session

By Alta LeCompte, Las Cruces Bulletin With more economic development providers than Caliche’s has sundae toppings, the Mesilla Valley is positioned to do great things. Christine Logan, City of Las Cruces economic development and business assistance director, counts about 38 local agencies doing “good economic development work.” But these providers can do even more if [...]

Workforce Effort Creates Job Opportunities for Students, Filmmakers

Courtesy 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, [...]

West Mesa Industrial Park – Where Industries Capitalize on Location

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin Visible from almost anywhere in the City of Las Cruces, the 1,700-acre Las Cruces West Mesa Industrial Park is located on Interstate 10, eight miles west of Downtown. The city has sold 630 acres in the park, of which more than 275 acres are currently developed. There are 17 [...]

Bi-National Economic Initiative

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin Business leaders from Las Cruces, El Paso and Cuidad Juárez met last week in El Paso to hear plans for the Borderplex Bi-National Economic Alliance, a new region-wide economic development organization. The alliance will include two groups that are merging, El Paso’s Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDCo) and Paso [...]

Barela Outlines New Century Jobs Initiative

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp With or without a fiscal cliff, New Mexico, one of the nation’s per-capita leaders in federal jobs, may lose at least some of those jobs both in the near and long terms. “The federal government can no longer be considered a growth industry in New Mexico,” [...]

Group Rallies for Spaceport Support

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Todd G. Dickson As Spaceport America readies to complete work on lengthening its runway and creating visitor centers, its anchor tenant Virgin Galactic is helping to secure passage of critical legislation. At a press conference Thursday, Nov. 15, in Albuquerque, the newly formed Save Our Spaceport Coalition held [...]

BLM Designates Solar Zone

Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Marvin Tessneer The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has designated a solar energy zone in Doña Ana County that is expected to support utility companies’ efforts to develop clean renewable energy. The county facility is identified as the Afton Solar Energy Zone, which covers 29,964 acres and has [...]