Spotlight New Mexico—employment changes across the state

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Text Box: Albuquerque- The State Investment Council has agreed to provide Mesa Semiconductors with $15 million to keep the old Phillips Semiconductors plant open, giving the state a 33% interest in the company if Phillips and Mesa can reach an agreement on the sale. The sale to Mesa will keep 400 of the 600 jobs the plant provides.

2003– October
Text Box: Grants– The Connection, an in-bound call center is closing due to the lack of materialization of work. 45 full time and several temporary employees will lose their jobs. Text Box: Laguna Pueblo– The new 1950’s themed Route 66 Casino opens. The casino is 50,000 sq. ft. and employs about 1200 people. Text Box: Clovis- Construction of Southwest Cheese Company's cheese processing plant is expected to begin in the next 60-90 days. The plant will be located on 3,000 acres about five miles south of Clovis. About 700 construction workers will be needed to build the plant. Text Box: Carlsbad- IMC Global Inc. is laying off 74 workers at its Carlsbad potash mine. Six of the workers were laid off in early September and most of the other layoffs will be in early November. Text Box: Eunice- Louisiana Energy Services has selected Eunice as the site for the $1.9 billion National Enrichment Site. When it expects to begin construction in two years, about 400 construction workers will be needed to build the facility, and about another 200 workers will staff the plant. Text Box: Deming- A new 3,200-square-foot Wendy’s restaurant will be completed by the end of the year. About 25 to 30 employees will be hired to staff the restaurant. Text Box: Shiprock- A new Ace Home center recently built now has about 85 employees and a new Subway has a staff of 14. Text Box: Alamagordo- The Alamagordo Daily News has discontinued printing newspapers in Alamagordo and now uses the printing presses at the Las Cruces Sun News. The move eliminates seven full time and four part time jobs. Text Box: Rio Rancho- Home Depot plans to build a 137,156-square-foot store that would employ about 100 people when it opens in 2004. Stainless Motors, which makes electric motors for clean environments, wants to build a 20,597-square-foot plant that would employ about 20 workers in the first year of operation. Big Lots, a discount merchandiser, opened a 30,000-square-Text Box: Farmington- An agreement to build a power plant has been reached between the Navajo Power Authority and Steag, a German company. The agreement calls for construction of a two-unit plant to start in 2005 and be completed by 2008. The project will sustain about 3,000 jobs during the construction phase and about 250 jobs when the plant becomes operational.

Employment Stats

Locale

Employment

Change

NM

93.8%

 

Albuquerque

94.5%

 

 

Santa Fe

96.3%

 

Las Cruces

93.1%