Four months after starting operations, Invest In Mexico, the investment attraction platform made up of the 10 member states of the Federalist Alliance, completed five investment projects from the United States for a global amount of 5.307 million dollars.

The president of the Invest In Mexico steering committee, and Secretary of Economic Development of Jalisco, Ernesto Sánchez Proal, reported that the first five projects are aimed at the states of Jalisco, Nuevo León, Aguascalientes and Chihuahua, in the areas of advanced manufacturing, information technology and other high-tech industries.

The official also highlighted that, from February to date, the platform has registered 400,000 visits from investors interested in bringing their capital to Mexico; In that period, he said, the countries that have most entered the platform to seek to invest in the country are predominantly North America, Asia and South America.

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Sánchez Proal explained that the states that make up the alliance are Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, but clarified that if the platform captures the interest of investing in some other entity, said project it will be channeled even when it is not part of the alliance.

After its formation, in December 2020, it was constituted as a civil association and five working groups were formed: energy, logistics, investment attraction, supplier development and internal market development.

When highlighting the economic importance of the 10 states that make up the Federalist Alliance, the Secretary of Economic Development of Michoacán, Ricardo Bernal Vargas, highlighted that, together, these entities have a population of 39 million inhabitants that represent 31% of the total national.

According to Solili in 2Q 2021, the sum of total gross demand in the country was 1.7 million square meters. For its part, the net demand totaled a figure close to 900 thousand square meters.

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