Business

Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet Set For Oct. 24

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MainStreet News:

Friday Oct. 24, 4-6:30 p.m., Los Alamos MainStreet hosts Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet in downtown Los Alamos.

Last year more than 3,000 people attended the event. Local businesses and organizations will open their doors and set up tables along Central Avenue to hand out treats to costumed trick-or-treaters.

A performance by Dance Arts Los Alamos will start at 5 p.m., followed at 5:15 p.m. by the High Flyers Gymnastics. The Hallowiener Parade will march down the street at 5:30 p.m. followed at 6 p.m. by a New Mexico Dance Theater performance. Find a complete event list at losalamosmainstreet.com/events. Read More

Heinrich Discusses High-Tech Manufacturing, Job Creation At Albuquerque Photonics Facility

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Sen. Heinrich with OptiSource staff Oct. 10 in Albuquerque. Courtesy photo

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., toured OptiSource, a photonics manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, to discuss its latest projects and how research and development can help spur innovation and job creation.

Optisource, a local photonics business, manufacturers wave plates, mirrors, prisms, and laser beamsplitters for purchase by industry and research and development groups at universities and laboratories. 

“Photonics manufacturing facilities Read More

Bring The Band Perry To Los Alamos!

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The Perry Band. Courtesy photo

STATE FARM News:

Local State Farm Agents Abe Dispennette and Lou Santoro have partnered together with Los Alamos High School to help raise awareness for safe teen driving.

First, the not-so-good news: More teens die from car crashes than any other cause. And the first year of driving is the most dangerous.

The good news: There’s something we all can do about it. And it involves a celebration!

That’s what Celebrate My Drive is about – celebrating this big, new life of freedom that comes with a driver’s license. Part of that life means making smart choices behind the wheel, Read More

Los Alamos 3rd Quarter 2014 Housing News And Statistics

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Chart of the median sales prices for the 3rd Quarter of 2014 for the Los Alamos Area. Courtesy/LAAOR

LAAOR News:

  • Los Alamos Area Condos & Townhome Sales Up; Single Family Home Sales Hold Steady

Single Family home sales inched up from 67 in the 3rd Quarter of 2013 to 69 this quarter. Single Family home sales volumes also saw an uptick from $19.8M in 2013 to $21.1M for the 3rd Quarter of 2014.

Condo and Townhome sales more than doubled in the 3rd Quarter of 2014 to 14 units compared to six units sold in the same Quarter of 2013. The median price of Condo and Townhome sales noted a rise of 4 percent when comparing Read More

Los Alamos Named 2014 Google eCity For New Mexico

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BUSINESS News:

Los Alamos has been named the 2014 Google eCity of New Mexico. The eCity Awards recognize the strongest online business community in each state – the digital capitals of America.

These cities’ businesses are embracing the web to find new customers, connect with existing clients and fuel their local economies. Los Alamos joins the ranks of America’s leading cities in the digital economy. 

Google will recognize the Los Alamos’ innovative businesses by holding a community celebration with the Los Alamos Commerce & Development Corporation at 10 a.m. Friday, Read More

Council OKs Manhattan Project Restaurant Liquor License

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Victor Medina, left, whose parents own the Manhattan Project Restaurant at 1789 Central Ave., speaks with County Administrator Harry Burgess following Friday’s noon Council meeting. Council members approved a new liquor license for the restaurant 6-0. Councilor Steven Girrens was absent. Medina explained that he wanted to drive the signed paperwork to the state office in Santa Fe that afternoon and he and Burgess headed upstairs to get it done. Medina told the Los Alamos Daily Post that even though the state has up to 30 days to sign and send the license to the restaurant, he anticipated Read More

Letter to the Editor: Los Alamos Is Place Of Big Ideas With Talent To Pull Them Off

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By RICHARD NEBEL
Los Alamos
 

This is a letter in support of the recent post by Andy Andrews and the people from LABi. Although I’m not a member of LABi and I don’t speak for them or any other Los Alamos business, I strongly support the type of economic development that they are trying to promote. 

We are a one horse town and the fact that we do not have a diversified economy is the biggest long-term danger that this community faces. Fortunately, there are some things that we can do about it both individually and collectively. Since I’m not sure that we have enough of a consensus to do things collectively Read More

LAVA Founder To Reveal Plan To Rapidly Transform Los Alamos’s Business And Scientific Landscape

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Ashok Rao, founder of several multi-million dollar global startups.

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

Palo Alto … Boston … Houston … Los Alamos. That’s right, Los Alamos. Innovation-led economies have created sustainable, prospering economies which continue to change how we interact with technology, or bring new medical devices or vaccines to market, or technology to improve how we meet the world’s energy needs.

So why is Los Alamos in this select company?

Well, at noon Oct. 24 during a public presentation at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Venture Accelerator (LAVA) founder Nicholas Seet will reveal Read More

Udall, Heinrich Announce More Than $780,000 To Spur Entrepreneurship, Economic Development

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich have announced more than $780,000 in federal funding for two projects to spur economic development in New Mexico.

These funds, made available by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), will increase access to microloans for small businesses and support the renovation the iconic Santo Domingo Trading Post.

The EDA has awarded $270,000 to support the implementation of ACCION New Mexico’s Presto Loan program to promote and develop entrepreneurship throughout New Mexico. The program, which provides Read More

Finalists Announced/Survey Open In Apartment Renaming Contest

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STAFF REPORT

Plateau Property Management has announced the finalists in the ‘name that apartment’ contest for the recently puchased Los Cerros Apartments and 40 units on Gold Street.

For Gold Street:

  • The Cottonwoods
  • Mountain View Apartments
  • Vista Buena Apartments

For Los Cerros:

  • High Desert Apartments
  • Ponderosa Pines Apartments
  • Whispering Pines Apartments

Enter your top pick for each complex here by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13.

The winner for each apartment complex will receive $250 in chamber bucks and whoever wins honorable mention for each apartment complex will receive

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