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 [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp An agricultural renaissance is taking place in a Columbus, N.M, field that had lain fallow for 40 years. The field, which once grew chile, is now growing a different kind of green. “Green crude” is the nickname Sapphire Energy has given to the end product of [...]
Read MoreBryn Davis, NM Operations & Large Scale Production Development Manager for Sapphire Energy will be the featured speaker for June meeting of the MVEDA Business in the Borderplex Forum. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces, 705 S. Telshor. [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp No matter what business opportunity you have in mind, there’s a way to make it happen in Doña Ana County. At the Business in the Borderplex luncheon Tuesday, May 1, three speakers gave updates on development and plans at Arrowhead Business and Research Park, the West [...]
Read MoreThe May meeting of the MVEDA Business in the Borderplex Forum will be held on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces, 705 S. Telshor. The meeting will begin with a hot entree buffet, followed by a brief update by MVEDA staff. Featured speakers are [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin After finishing its first phase of solar panels in May 2011, a major dairy processing and manufacturing facility in Las Cruces is expediting plans to add more solar electricity to its operations ahead of schedule. F&A Dairy and Sunspot Solar Energy have broken ground on the second and [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin By Marvin Tessneer Sapphire Energy is constructing an integrated algal bio-refinery (IABR) to produce green crude oil on a site near Columbus, N.M., in Luna County, the first commercial facility in the country, according to a company newsletter. Sapphire, which is headquartered in San Diego, also operates a [...]
Read MoreIt is with a great deal of excitement that I present to you MVEDA’s First Quarter results of the 2011-’12 Fiscal Year. It seemed it would be very difficult to match the performance level and results of our last fiscal year, one of MVEDA’s best years ever. In the last fiscal year we experienced our [...]
Read MoreTwo of the three renewable energy projects in Doña Ana County are on-line and producing electricity under a power purchase agreement with El Paso Electric. Construction for the third solar energy project has begun in Las Cruces. NRG Energy, through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, completed construction recently on the Roadrunner Solar Generating Facility, [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance met with community members to discuss the 2010-11 fiscal year for the organization. Though the economy may be in distress, MVEDA showed growth in the Mesilla Valley. “I am proud to present the results of MVEDA’s 2010-11 fiscal [...]
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