Post by Logan on Jun 28, 2016 21:23:49 GMT -6
Jerry Pacheco has spent most of his professional career stumping for southern New Mexico’s industrial hub of Santa Teresa: attracting new companies, advocating for state investment and linking U.S. and Mexican businesses.
Pacheco has done this for years, even when Santa Teresa couldn’t get much love in New Mexico and had to fend off West Texas competitors.
Now the payoff for all that hard work is coming. More than a dozen new businesses have located in Santa Teresa in the past two years; the state’s exports to Mexico have more than doubled over the same period, and there are more deals in the pipeline. But something has been missing from the picture: homegrown New Mexico companies outside the border region.
Pacheco – who serves as president of Santa Teresa’s Border Industrial Association and senior business recruiter of the state’s marketing and recruiting agency, New Mexico Partnership – has just come off a three-month campaign that took him to Albuquerque and Gallup, Clovis and Carlsbad, Santa Fe, Española, Rio Rancho, Roswell and Hobbs in hopes of getting more New Mexico businesses in on the border action.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/796493/new-mexico-businesses-missing-out-on-santa-teresa-border-boom.html
Pacheco has done this for years, even when Santa Teresa couldn’t get much love in New Mexico and had to fend off West Texas competitors.
Now the payoff for all that hard work is coming. More than a dozen new businesses have located in Santa Teresa in the past two years; the state’s exports to Mexico have more than doubled over the same period, and there are more deals in the pipeline. But something has been missing from the picture: homegrown New Mexico companies outside the border region.
Pacheco – who serves as president of Santa Teresa’s Border Industrial Association and senior business recruiter of the state’s marketing and recruiting agency, New Mexico Partnership – has just come off a three-month campaign that took him to Albuquerque and Gallup, Clovis and Carlsbad, Santa Fe, Española, Rio Rancho, Roswell and Hobbs in hopes of getting more New Mexico businesses in on the border action.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/796493/new-mexico-businesses-missing-out-on-santa-teresa-border-boom.html