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In the spirit of baseball season, take time to show some team spirit to our local small businesses. This is key to relationship-building, success in building our local economy and creating jobs. It’s difficult to understate all the changes the business landscape has seen in the past few years, yet...Continue Reading

Housing and tourism are key issues driving community and economic development in Gallup and the surrounding region. The City of Gallup recognizes how housing and tourism impact the regional economy, and it has a team which works closely together and with partner organizations for this important work. Economic development...Continue Reading

It may not pop up on your calendar, but May 8-12 is Economic Development Week. Created in 2016 by the International Economic Development Council, the week highlights state and local efforts to create jobs and improve economic well-being. Unlike market-driven growth, economic development is a deliberate policy initiative to...Continue Reading

In Economic Development, there have traditionally been three legs of the stool that professionals have focused on including: Business Retention & Expansion, Business Attraction, and Entrepreneurship.    This article focuses some time on entrepreneurial development that typically represents the biggest driver of economic activity in the United States.  According to...Continue Reading

Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation (GGEDC) Executive Director Patty Lundstrom traveled to National Harbor, Maryland to attend the 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit, which ran from May 1-4, 2023. The summit is the top event in the United States for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotion. Connecting investors, companies, economic development organizations (EDOs)...Continue Reading

The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) works with the City of Gallup and McKinley County to Use Our Home Field Advantage to Grow the Gallup-McKinley County Economy through assisting businesses and communities in a broad variety of economic development needs. EDD does this through forming relationships and partnerships. The...Continue Reading

By Rose Eason, Executive Director, gallupARTS It’s the bottom of the ninth. The bases are fully loaded. Player number 8 steps up to bat. She swings. She strikes. And it’s outta here! Pardon the obligatory baseball metaphor in honor of “Using Our Home Field Advantage to Grow the...Continue Reading

By Patty Lundstrom, CEcD, Executive Director of Greater Gallup EDC Babe Ruth once said, “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Recently, a former president of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) commented that economic developers “have the best profession on the planet. It’s always...Continue Reading

Economic development is at the core of well-being and quality of life for communities across the United States. It is a group of policies, programs, and activities that seek to create and retain jobs and ultimately facilitate economic growth. Each year, the 2nd week in May marks Economic Development Week. Created...Continue Reading

Economic Development Week 2023 (EDW), May 8-12, increases awareness of local programs that create jobs, advance career development opportunities, and improve the quality of place for their communities. In Gallup and McKinley County, NM, Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation (GGEDC) and our partners have a week’s worth of diverse...Continue Reading

Most Innovative Companies 2023, Fast Company’s definitive chronicle of the novel ideas transforming business and society, was 100% produced by people. We may have asked ChatGPT—the AI chatbot created by our No. 1 company, OpenAI—about certain companies, but only because we wanted to see how it would reply. A very...Continue Reading

Last week, New Mexico’s Albuquerque-based chapter of NAIOP — the commercial real estate development association — put the Inflation Reduction Act on the radar of its membership. A panel of experts, moderated by Dale Dekker, sketched out in conjectural tones some of the opportunities the sprawling piece of legislation...Continue Reading

New Mexico Film Office Director Amber Dodson announced today that a commercial showcasing the Zuni Pueblo is filming through April. Ryan Heffernan, whose past work ​includes RAM and REI commercials, will direct the commercial. Grayson Schaffer of Talweg Creative, who has worked on commercials for YETI and Chevrolet, will...Continue Reading

Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today that nine companies were approved for Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) funds during the February 2023 JTIP board meeting. Out of the nine companies, five are first-time JTIP applicants (Archer Labs, Blue Eye Soft Corp, Moten Salt Solutions, Safe...Continue Reading

  GGEDC enthusiastically welcomes Keegan McKenzie-Chavez to the Region 1 NM Economic Development Department team. She joins Lorraine Ruggles in serving NM's most dynamic northwest region even better! EDD doubles its ability to assist local businesses and communities through its professional cadre of regional representatives SANTA...Continue Reading

Great Gallup Economic Development Corporation (GGEDC) is one of seven community-based Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) recognized for state certification by the New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) because of the high level of expertise and technical support GGEDC delivers to the community. This certification exemplifies a new level of prestige...Continue Reading

There are many factors that companies looking to reach the country – and the world – need to consider when making location decisions. Transportation, distribution and logistics (TDL) companies need a location that offers a talented workforce, access to the world, modern infrastructure and ready sites. Below, we explore these...Continue Reading

The unemployment rate continues to drop in New Mexico and last month was no exception. According to data released Tuesday by the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, the unemployment rate came in at 3.9% in December — a nearly 15-year low and the lowest rate in 2022. The...Continue Reading

Today, virtually every business is a technology business. Emerging technology provides important insight, automation, and efficiency as well as a wide range of business functions, ranging from human resources (HR) and performance management to operations and marketing. As the technology develops, many solutions are becoming more tailored to and accessible...Continue Reading

New Mexico and three neighboring states remain in the race to win federal funding for a regional hydrogen hub after receiving a favorable assessment of their initial proposal. The U.S. Department of Energy issued its first responses Dec. 22 regarding proposals, or “concept papers,” that states submitted in early...Continue Reading

Each turn of the calendar brings with it the excitement of new opportunities and adventures. While 2023 is no different, this new year also presents a healthy dose of uncertainty. In 2022, we saw significant growth and investment across sectors. Expansion took place in the face of — and often...Continue Reading

The landscape of talent supply and development is almost unrecognizable compared to a decade ago. In 2013, labor was plentiful as people and communities were still working to recover jobs lost in the Great Recession. In the early 2020s — amid the third year of a pandemic, the baby-boomer retirement...Continue Reading