More than 120 jobs are coming to Mesilla Park

Governor Susana Martinez joined the Mesilla Valley economic development alliance to announce that the company New Mexico Greenhouse Holding will be investing more than $6 million to buy and renovate a vacant greenhouse.

The company will transform it into a state-of-the-art agricultural facility. According to the governor, construction, and the eventual operating of the new greenhouse, will create about 123 jobs over the next four years in Mesilla Park.

New Mexico Greenhouse Holding will partner with New Mexico State University for the project.

“If it is successful and keeps growing – the partnership with the university – and they continue to develop great agriculture, plus flowers beds and things like that, I think this is going to be an amazing different product that we can export all over the world,” said Governor Martinez.

The director of the state’s economic development department, Jon Barela, praised the governor’s business-friendly policies, saying money and capital — like water — flow through the course where there is least resistance.

During the announcement, Barela also said a government that punishes productivity runs the risk of sending companies away,

“I can assure you, they will find geographies where their capital is welcomed and they will invest in those geographies,” said Barela.

According to him, the U.S. census bureau now ranks New Mexico as the 4th best state in the U.S. when it comes to starting a business.