NM Partnership focuses on building aerospace, defense and tech

Steve Vierck

New Mexico Business Weekly - New Mexico’s economic development marketing arm will focus on trying to lure a host of companies to the state in the coming year, including aerospace, defense and technology commercialization firms, the organization’s president said. The New Mexico Partnership will also seek out energy and natural resources and logistics, distribution and transportation companies, Partnership President Steve Vierck said. The New Mexico Partnership was formed in 2004 to market New Mexico to companies in other states. It has a $630,000 budget this year to do that marketing, which Vierck said isn’t enough. New Mexico, Vierck added, has lagged behind surrounding states when it comes to economic development relocation deals. From 2009 to 2011, New Mexico landed 19 company relocation deals, putting it in 44th place among the states. During that time Arizona had 136 deals; Utah, 94; Colorado, 68; and Nevada, 56, Vierck said. Read More News New Mexico

NM Partnership focuses on building aerospace, defense and tech