Site Selectors
Carlsbad is growing and companies who choose to locate here now will benefit from a first mover advantage and more real estate options. The Carlsbad Department of Development is here to help site selectors by providing community and demographic information, assisting in property searches, and presenting incentives and other benefits that are available for companies moving to Carlsbad.
Carlsbad is the best emerging market in New Mexico.
Use the information on our site to help you determine how Carlsbad New Mexico can facilitate your business expansion, and find out why Carlsbad is the best emerging market in New Mexico.
Discover the opportunities available in Carlsbad.
We encourage real estate developers and site selectors to read our recent housing study to see the numbers behind the current and future growth of Carlsbad and South Eddy County. Developers who choose to grow with us may benefit from programs like the Affordable Housing Contribution Program, along with a variety of local grants and loan programs.
Reports:
2015 City of Carlsbad Housing Analysis and Strategic Plan
2017 Housing Report
2018 Housing Availability and Affordabilty Update
Conducted by the CDOD, the 2017 Housing Report is an update to the recent housing studies done in 2015 by the City and the County. To learn for about housing study Click here.
New Mexico also offers tax incentives.
Receipts from selling or leasing tangible personal property or services that are eligible generation plant costs to a person that holds an interest in a qualified generating facility are deductible
Category: State Incentives, Energy
While the Carlsbad Airport Industrial Park has significant water, sewer, gas, communications, and electrical utilities, the City of Carlsbad is willing to assist with additional needed infrastructure for certain
Category: Local Incentives
The City of Carlsbad has some property available for certain industrial projects. This property could also be made available through a job creation-based grant or low rate lease made
Category: Local Incentives
An operator of a refinery in New Mexico, any person who blends special fuel in New Mexico, or the owner of special fuel stored at a pipeline terminal in New
Category: State Incentives, Energy
The value of equipment such as a boiler, turbine-generator, storage facility, feed-stock processor, interconnection transformer or biomass material used for bio-power, bio-fuels, or bio-based products may be deducted in computing
Category: State Incentives, Energy
Since 1999, the Carlsbad Department of Development together with the US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration have managed a Revolving Loan Fund Program. This loan program supplies small businesses and
Category: Local Incentives
Corporations providing or paying for licensed child care services for employees’ children under 12 years of age may deduct 30% of eligible expenses from their corporate income tax liability for
Category: General, State Incentives
The corporate income tax act is amended to reduce the top corporate tax rate from its present law 7.6% to 5.9% over five years. The reduction begins in 2014, with
Category: Manufacturing and Technology, State Incentives
Receipts from fees received for performing management or investment advisory services for a related mutual fund, hedge fund or real estate investment trust may be deducted from gross receipts.
Category: State Incentives, General
Administered by NM Taxation & Revenue Department
A taxpayer who is an eligible employer may apply for and receive a tax credit for each new high-wage economic-base job. The
Category: State Incentives, General
Eddy County and the City of Carlsbad can both issue Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRB) for the expansion and relocation of commercial and industrial projects. Significant property tax and compensating
Category: Local Incentives
Consumables Gross Receipts Tax Deduction for Manufacturers
In the 2012 legislative session the New Mexico Legislature passed, and Governor Martinez signed into law, an expansion to the deduction for
Category: Manufacturing and Technology, State Incentives
Learn about the State of New Mexico's program to assist companies gain ISO-9000 certification.
Category: State Incentives
The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) is granted authority to administer Local Economic Development Act capital outlay (LEDA CO) funds to local governments (county, municipality, or tribal entity) to
Category: State Incentives
New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP) is part of a national network which provides technical and business resources to manufacturers who are prepared to expand their capabilities and
Category: State Incentives
New Mexico has one of the most generous training incentive programs in the country. The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) funds classroom and on-the-job training for newly-created jobs in
Category: State Incentives
A corporate or personal taxpayer who owns a qualified energy generator is eligible for a tax credit in an amount equal to one cent (.01) per kilowatt hour of electricity
Category: State Incentives, Energy
Administered by NM Taxation & Revenue Department
This credit can be applied to taxes due on (state) gross receipts, corporate income, or personal income tax. Rural New Mexico is
Category: General, State Incentives
New Mexico will provide a phased-in election (over five years), for manufacturers to utilize a single sales factor income apportionment methodology. The present law double weighted sales factor with its
Category: State Incentives, General
A qualified small R&D business is eligible for a credit equal to the sum of all gross receipts taxes, compensating taxes or withholding taxes due to the state for up
Category: State Incentives, General
Administered by NM Taxation & Revenue Department
A taxpayer that employs no more than 50 employees, has qualified expenditures of no more than $5 million, and who conducts qualified
Category: Manufacturing and Technology, State Incentives
