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MVEDA Announces New Partners
Private sector funding from the businesses and organizations throughout the New Mexico Borderplex is a mainstay of MVEDA's ability to continue in its mission of creating new employment opportunities for area residents. MVEDA is proud to announce its two newest Partners, Sapphire Energy and Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC. Sapphire Energy is growing algae at the West Mesa Industrial Park to produce a renewable source of fuel for gasoline and jet fuel. It is constructing a research and development...
“Growth Industries in a Down Economy” – MVEDA Regional Economic Development Forum
The Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA) and Memorial Medical Center, our event sponsor, are pleased to invite you to a Regional Economic Development Forum to be held at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces on May 15, 2009. This year's forum will focus on creating high-wage jobs in industries that have a high potential nationally. It will enable you to become more familiar with some of these growing industries that are not significantly prominent in the local economy. MVEDA has...
First Annual Education Launch from Spaceport America
Spaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium will conduct the first annual education launch from Spaceport America at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2009. This historic SL-3 mission will utilize a SpaceLoft XL launch vehicle provided by participating sponsor UP Aerospace and will include 11 multi-sensor experiments designed and created by students from New Mexico schools. The launch is open to the public by RSVP via coach transportation at $10 per person. No private vehicles are...
Commercial Property News Touts Spaceport America Opportunities
John Hummer, Past MVEDA Board Chairman and owner of Steinborn TCN Commercial Real Estate, was quoted in an on-line article in the Commercial Property News regarding the future growth that will be associated with the construction of Spaceport America. According to Hummer, "The spaceport is a strong catalyst for growth, not only in rocketry and related technologies and the tourism associated with commercial space travel, but also the commercial payloads--science experiments and commercial...
Expeditors International of Washington Expands to Santa Teresa
Seattle-based global logistics company Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. has expanded into Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The company has leased a 86,550-square-foot facility in the Verde Corporate Real Estate's Bi-National Park and has already hired about 30 workers. MVEDA President and CEO Davin Lopez said the facility will be helping to handle logistic needs for Foxconn, a Taiwan-based electronics company that is building a factory just across the border from Santa Teresa in San...
WSMR to Test Orion Launch Abort System
Disaster escape system makes last road stop at Space Museum BY TODD G. DICKSON - The Las Cruces Bulletin Call it the first small step to mankind’s next big leap. It’s the launch abort system for NASA’s new flagship rocket, Orion that is intended to take astronauts back to the moon and even possibly to Mars. And it’s being tested at the place that gave birth to the U.S. space program – White Sands Missile Range. That’s why, despite dreary rainy weather Monday, March 9, missile range and New...
City Designates Aerospace Park
As reported by the Las Cruces Sun-News, the Las Cruces City Council unanimously adopted a resolution identifying 182 acres of undeveloped land just south of Las Cruces International Airport for a commercial aerospace business and research park. Companies that can meet the requirements of the city's Local Economic Development Act - by guaranteeing new jobs at or better than the average wage for Doña Ana County residents - would be eligible to build a plant within the research park. "This action...
