WTC Nuevo Laredo will begin formal operations in April

World Trade Center Nuevo Laredo will begin operations in the city next April, joining thus the largest network worldwide which currently has 328 licenses to operate facilities of WTC distributed in 91 countries and regions.

The one in Nuevo Laredo is number 71 of WTC’s opened in North America and number 13^th starting operations in Mexico.

In August 2017, Carlos Ronderos, regional director for WTCA Latin America, and Martin Salloum, regional director for WTCA North America, visited Nuevo Laredo as the first approach to explore the possibility of settling offices here and they met with a Municipal and State Government delegation.

After difficult managements, and due to the great economic potential growth, its infrastructure in international trade and the importance in Nuevo Leon industrial development, the request of Nuevo Laredo to open the facilities of WTCA was approved, and later, the permit was granted for its facilitates.

The secretary of Economic Development, Francisco Javier Solis Morales said that WTC will be a new engine of economic development in the city with an important trigger for this border and the Laredos region in connectivity matters, as part of the largest business network in the world.

“We are seeking to have a 24/7 service.  A project that will have service areas, business connection and entertainment: an attractive concept for Nuevo Laredo that locates the city as the most competitive from the point of view of the country's border,” he said.

Nuevo Laredo preliminary project is made by the company Impulsora de Proyectos e Innovacion Integral SAPI C.V. for the implementation of such facilities in the city.

As part of the service missions, WTC will have the Center for Socioeconomic and Technologic Innovation (Centro IST,) as well as the Campus Startup Mexico in Nuevo Laredo, offering their services with training areas for entrepreneurs and companies incubation.

The Project to build the new WTC has more than 10 hectares, to house spaces for conferences and congress, in addition of the commercial area, hotels, corporate offices and of business with a preliminary investment of more than 500 million pesos on a first stage.

For this concept, it is expected the creation of 3 thousand jobs in the area of restaurants and services that will be working inside the business complexes.

WTC is the largest nonprofit Association in the world regarding networking and business promotion matters among countries, from there the impact expected for investment attraction in Nuevo Laredo.