Business View Civil & Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 8

67 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 8 DEMING, NEW MEX I CO access to water, accessible transit infrastructure, and a workforce that just knows how to go to work.” The city’s major industries are agriculture and manufacturing, with some of the larger businesses drawing attention across the state and internationally. Deming is the home of DH Lescombes Family Vineyards, which is the largest winery in New Mexico. Along with the winery’s harvesting vineyards is its bottling manufacturing facility. The city is also home to Olam Americas Inc., the largest jalapeno processor in the country. “We also have some very large agricultural producers – Billy the Kid Produce, Carzalia Valley Produce, and Red Mountain Produce – that run extremely impressive and truly innovative operations,” says Arias-Ward. “And you really can’t appreciate their true value until you see them in person.” In addition to agriculture, Deming also counts its hospital and several manufacturing companies as major employers. Those include Compass Made, which is a harness manufacturing company that also has operations in California, Coca Cola Bottling Co., and Solitaire Manufactured Homes, the only custom manufactured home plant in the U.S. The city also operates two designated industrial parks – The Peru Mill Industrial park off of Interstate 10 and the Deming Industrial Park just east of the quiet town. Peru Mill currently has 1300 developable acres of land available with accessible utilities, while Deming Industrial has 20-acre plots that are ready for development. Deming also has its own municipal airport, located just outside the city limits. The airport, complete with 8,000-foot runway, brings in revenue for the city through fuel costs and contracts with the federal government. “We have facilities there that we can lease to Billy the Kid Produce