New Mexico
The State of New Mexico in the last few days of 2021 pledged economic
assistance to New Jersey-based WTEC Energy Corp. to redevelop a former
Alpo dog food manufacturing facility in rural Doña Ana County and create
315 jobs manufacturing wire cable for both solar and wind energy
generation units. The site, closed down by Alpo in 2014, is in the
federally designated Colonia of Chamberino in the southern part of the
state, and will eventually be used to manufacture wind turbine towers as
well. According to reporting by Gwynne Ann Unruh in The Paper,
Chamberino, located close to the border with Mexico, had a population of
625 in 2019, and was listed a a ghost town by Ghosttowns.com. The state
said WTEC chose New Mexico over Texas for the investment “because of the
collaborative business climate, incentives, and the proximity to the
fast-growing wind and solar installations in the Western United States.”
The state has pledged $2 million from its Local Economic Development Act
(LEDA) job-creation fund to assist WTEC with land, building, and
infrastructure improvements.
Washington
Absci, which describes itself as a “drug and target discovery company
harnessing deep learning AI and synthetic biology to expand the
therapeutic potential of proteins,” recently announced the opening of
its new campus a few miles east of the downtown location that housed the
company for the last four years. “Absci has been an incredibly positive
force in the Vancouver community since establishing its headquarters
here in 2016,” said Washington Governor Jay Inslee. Covering over 85,000
sq. ft. of lab, office and meeting spaces, the new campus features
regionally sourced, renewable, and natural building materials, custom
finishes, and “a vibrant aesthetic,” says the company, with scalable lab
space designed to maximize flow, increase capacity and readily
reconfigure as needed. “We designed the light-filled space around
collaboration and the pursuit of scientific excellence, and we are
thrilled with the pride our Unlimiters feel inhabiting this new campus,”
said Sean McClain, founder and CEO of Absci.
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