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Borderplex’s Franklin Mountain Packaging Announces New Mexico Expansion
The new facility is adjacent to Franklin Mountain Packaging's (FMP) current 140,000-square-foot building at 401 Avenida Ascencion, Santa Teresa, N.M. The company expects to add 60 employees in the next three years, bringing its total employee count at its New Mexico facilities to 155. The State of New Mexico is investing $500,000 from its Local Economic Development Act Job Creation Fund (LEDA) to support the expansion. This is the third announcement for businesses expanding to the New Mexico...
2022 New Mexico Borderplex Export Recap
The New Mexico export recap is generated by the International Business Accelerator, which tracks and analyzes the state’s worldwide exports. Companies based in New Mexico exported more than $4.8 billion worth of goods to 151 countries in 2022. This was a 12% decline from 2021, in which exports reach $5.5 billion, which was a record year for the state. The chart below shows New Mexico’s exports for the last 10 years and the percentage change from the previous year. Annual NM Exports to the...
Oro LLC expands to New Mexico’s Borderplex
Oro LLC is expanding this summer to a 20 acre site in one of New Mexicos Borderplex Industrial Parks. When the facility opens in 2024, Oro plans to create 49 jobs in New Mexico with an average salary of $35,710. Oro identified Santa Teresa for its strategic transportation network – due to quick access to the Pacific Northwest and the West Coast. The company provides bulk ingredient sourcing to processors and packaged vegetables for restaurants, food services, and retail customers. Oro has...
Louisiana Pepper Exchange Expands Operations to New Mexico’s Borderplex
Louisiana Pepper Exchange a global chile pepper company announced their major expansion to the Borderplex, located in New Mexico. New Orleans-based Louisiana Pepper Exchange purchased a 10-acre site in the Ironhorse Industrial Park, which provides strategic transportation advantages in processing pepper imports from Mexico and Central America and readies the company to cultivate relationships with growers in Southern New Mexico. The Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA) helped...
Fast Track Permits Approved for Las Cruces Innovation & Industrial Park Projects
The Las Cruces City Council adopted a resolution to establish a Fast Track Permitting Program, aimed at expediting the review and approval of qualifying economic development projects within the city, including the Industrial and Innovation Park. The City Council’s approval of the Resolution came during last Tuesday’s meeting, January 3, 2023, as released by the City Council. The Fast Track Permitting Program will provide a framework that will define the purpose, objective and procedures,...
New Mexico’s Job Training Funds Approved for up to 128 Trainees in the Borderplex.
New Mexicos Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP), approved finding in Mach 2023 for 128 trainees in the Borderplex Region JTTP funds are allocated and paid after all employee training is complete. The Economic Development program encourages companies to move to, stay in, and/or grow in New Mexico’s Borderplex Region and hire New Mexico residents. The number of Borderplex companies awarded this month was small, two total, but is impactful to Dona Ana County, Las Cruces, and the Borderplex...
New Mexico Economic Development Department Announces More “Boots on the Ground” for Rural and Regional Assistance in the Borderplex
New Mexico’s Community, Business, and Rural Development program (CBRD) doubled it to staff who are responsible for assisting businesses and communities at the local level. The CBRD was created by the legislation in 2000 and has evolved by including high-level economic development professionals who provide Technical assistance to communities and businesses in their respective regions, all while guiding these businesses to reach their economic development goals. The New Mexico EDD now has a...
Borderplex College Receives National Diversity Award
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) students, faculty, staff, board members, and supporters gathered on January 20, 2023, to announce the award won by the medical school “At BCOM we are given a platform through which our stories really matter,” BCOM Student Doctor and Executive Board President of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Student Government Association Alberto Velasco said as the school unveiled its 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity...
Borderplex cities (Las Cruces & El Paso) finished in the top 15 in a new ranking of the best cities in the country to raise a family.
According to the survey done by scholarship website Scholaroo, Las Cruces ranked as the 11th best city out of 152 cities across the United States to raise a family and El Paso was ranked 15th. The study ranked cities according to seven categories – safety, health, finance, education, recreation or leisure, quality of life and home atmosphere. Las Cruces was ranked third in quality of life, fifth in home atmosphere, 11th in safety, 44th in both health care and finances, 84th in education and...
Something Has to Change in Video Game Development!
A few years ago (pre-covid), the company I work for went to the GDC (game developers conference) to approach the larger game studios and developers (Microsoft, Activision, Sony etc.) to develop games in Las Cruces, NM, saving 30% on development costs. Their answer was “Not Interested”. I was shocked by this week's news of Microsoft laying off 10,000 employees including gaming divisions such as Xbox and Bethesda all while attempting to purchase Activision for $69 Billion. Thought to myself,...
