Albuquerque Development Thread

[ABQalex]

KRQE last Friday had a story about a new national TV show that's being filmed in Albuquerque that will feature the highlights of living in the city, including on Mesa del Sol. The story featured aerial footage of the Netflix Albuquerque Studios expansion project. You can see the new office building, mills and soundstage structures under construction there. At least six new structures can be seen underway at the studio complex.

https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-n...n-albuquerque/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – American Dream TV, a national television show spotlighting real estate and lifestyle in cities across the country, will soon be featuring Albuquerque. It touches on why people should call Albuquerque home.

“Most people really don’t know what Albuquerque has to offer and what new things have come, so in this show, we’re hoping to highlight all of the reasons people from outside of the state are moving into Albuquerque and what we actually have to offer that most people don’t know,” Kristina and KiKi Salcido said.

The Salcidos are the owners of K2 Simply Real Estate in Mesa Del Sol and will also be a part of the new season called “Selling Albuquerque.” They’ll highlight the staples of the city like the tram, the Breaking Bad store in Old Town, many restaurants, and their home, the growing community of Mesa Del Sol.

“We got Netflix and a bunch of other things, so we’re definitely going to highlight all of those, and I think one of the episodes will definitely be focusing on what we have out here.”

While there will be some real estate, the main part of the show will focus on the city as a whole, with all of the local businesses tucked inside.

“Will bring you some really cool listings if we see some, will tell you about new developments. Our first episodes actually going to be focusing on a new development and a local builder.”

They hope the show will shed some light on all the special places and people within the 505.

“As Albuquerque becomes more of a prime marketplace, bringing more businesses, and people into Albuquerque, I think it’s very important.”

“Selling Albuquerque” will hit airwaves in March on all your local channels, the Travel Channel, and stream on Roku, Apple TV, and more. The Salcidos hope this will be the first of many more seasons to come in the Land of Enchantment.

They hope the show will shed some light on all the special places and people within the 505.

“As Albuquerque becomes more of a prime marketplace, bringing more businesses, and people into Albuquerque, I think it’s very important.”

“Selling Albuquerque” will hit airwaves in March on all your local channels, the Travel Channel, and stream on Roku, Apple TV, and more. The Salcidos hope this will be the first of many more seasons to come in the Land of Enchantment.

The Salcidos are looking for their next listing to be featured on the show. If you’re looking to sell your house this year and want to be a part of it, head to K2 Simply Real Estate’s website.

Here's another picture showing the Netflix construction and cranes from a neighborhood at Mesa del Sol after a recent light snowfall.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nmtatman5...85162423091200



Here are a few more pictures of the early construction last year that I never got around to posting here in this thread. The first is a pic from an Albuquerque Business First story about the construction cranes and vertical construction work beginning at the site back in early November. The others are from Chavez Concrete on Facebook and Instagram.

https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquer...expansion.html



https://www.instagram.com/p/CjlpaYHvaQN/







https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi...00041945385616





Here's a pic of the entrance arch of Albuquerque Studios and a new 3-D rendering of the soundstage structures from the general contractor on LinkedIn. They say that they will be constructing 485,000 sq ft of structures at the site.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lpr-c...44992769-y80q/





Below are a progression of construction pics of the 318-unit apartment project at Mesa del Sol that got underway in July last year. It was renamed as Encanto Mesa del Sol from its original moniker, the Gateway Apartments. The pics span from August through earlier this month. In many of the pics you can see the Netflix construction site as well, as it's across the street. The nearby New Mexico United training facility is visible in one of the pics as well.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj6aWwMp310/







https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbNFQmr2Rr/



https://m.facebook.com/pavilionconstruction









https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...3941676244992/





https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...7700048785408/

[ABQalex]

The first phase of the Los Ranchos Village Center project had its groundbreaking and officially got underway late last year. The Trailhead at Chamizal will have 204 apartments and over 27,000 sq ft of ground-floor commercial space in three 3-story buildings. There were protestors who tried to ruin the event and stood in the background with their stupid signs the whole time, but I'm glad that the opponents didn't prevail in stopping the project.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico...-north-valley/

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Bernalillo County officials broke ground Wednesday on a new multi-use housing and retail development in the north valley. The Trailhead at Chamizal Complex will be located at the corner of 4th St. and Osuna Rd.

The new development will feature a 204 unit multi-family affordable housing complex and 20 retail spaces with an outdoor dining patio and small amphitheater. $29 million was approved for the purchase of the land and construction of the development.

Los Ranchos Mayor Donald Lopez spoke on the positive impacts of the new development. “It improves a corner of the village that was experiencing economic decline. It will be an income generator. And most importantly, it brings new capital to the village, money the village doesn’t have, to make the kinds of improvements we want and deserve,” Lopez said.

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https://www.abqjournal.com/2545836/t...roversial.html







Here are some new and updated renderings of the project from its page on the Los Ranchos village website. They include a look at the hotel/microbrewery/community space portion of the project. I'm disappointed that the water tower feature at 4th and Osuna has been eliminated. It also looks like the internal compuerta gateway structure has been removed from between the two regular apartment buildings. The one on 4th Street itself looks to still be included in the current plans. It's still a very nice project, certainly not a "blight" as one of the dumb protest signs called it.

https://www.losranchosnm.gov/village-center-project







Here's an updated site plan and project layout. As you can see, the single family/market-rate housing portion is still evolving. It may have up to as many as 60 units, most likely in the form of townhomes. A specialty grocery store is also in the plans for a future phase.



Here are a few pics of the site work that got underway weeks before the groundbreaking ceremony.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryan-...67421953-7y63/







And here are more recent pics showing the foundation work, underground infrastructure and plumbing pipes being laid. Framing panels are beginning to be assembled on site as well, in anticipation of vertical construction.

https://www.linkedin.com/m/feed/upda...3941676244992/



https://www.linkedin.com/m/feed/upda...0144112791552/

[ABQalex]

Here are some pics of the Element Hotel project posted this past week on LinkedIn by the builder of the pre-fab wall panels that are being used in the construction.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shroc...63037952-joSV/







Here are a few more pictures of the project and crane from a couple of weeks ago on Twitter.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MDAnderso...14159472709632







https://mobile.twitter.com/MDAnderso...14199033401344







And here are a few new renderings of the completed project from the architects on Twitter and the project page on the architects' website. The new renderings include a closer look at the rooftop restaurant and outdoor patio area.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Base4_aec...97297197834240



https://mobile.twitter.com/Base4_aec...58001319813120



https://mobile.twitter.com/BlairHild...91105986916352



https://www.base-4.com/portfolio/ele...lbuquerque-nm/

[ABQalex]

KOB-TV had a story yesterday about apartment construction in Albuquerque. The story is based upon the Apartment Association of New Mexico's figure of 4,512 apartment units under construction right now in the Albuquerque metro. They say it's the most ever under construction in Albuquerque at one time. The story includes nice aerial footage of the Monterey Place construction, as well as the Element Hotel construction. Unfortunately, they mistake the Element Hotel for the Markana Uptown and don't actually show that project, other than its rendering. They also mistake the Monterey Place project with the El Vado Place project, but thankfully it's next door and we do get to see it.

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Here's the link to the AANM listing of apartments under construction in Albuquerque right now. I see some omissions and I also am unsure that some of the projects that they say are under construction actually are underway right now. There's also some that are rehab and renovation projects of existing units, which I wouldn't count as new units being added to the supply. I'm gonna try to come up with my own listing based upon the projects I know about and which are confirmed to be under construction.

https://www.aanm.org/news/list-of-ap...in-albuquerque

Here are some pics of the small apartment building under construction just south of Downtown Albuquerque in Barelas at 615 Iron SW. You can see the slight differences in the actual construction from the renderings that were originally released. The final design has six units instead of the original seven.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/615-...e-NM/26354269/







Here are some pics of the Palladium Townhomes that are nearing completion in Downtown Albuquerque. The pics are a few months old and were taken back when a preview event and tour took place for the model unit. The set of 8 townhomes on the northeast corner of the block are further along and may indeed be completed by now.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj6Bsi8vVv9/



https://www.estately.com/listings/in...erque-nm-87102



















Homewise has a graphic on the web page for the project on its website that says 6 of the townhomes are already sold.

https://homewise.org/palladium/



Here are a couple of pics of the Broadway/McKnight apartments that are also nearing completion in Martineztown. I've also included a rendering of the project for comparison to the built result.

https://www.forrent.com/nm/albuquerq...tments/j18qd46







The city's Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency recently posted a video on Instagram showing the three projects under construction right now which they've helped come to fruition. I've posted the link to the video and a screenshot below. The projects are the Imperial Inn, Villa Agave and Silver Jefferson Townhomes. A reminder that the Imperial Inn project will have 16 apartments along with the hotel rooms and commercial spaces.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLIQoRJn9n/



On Mondwy, the Albuquerque City Council unanimously passed the final development agreement for The Downtowner project. The MRA posted about it on its Instagram account as well.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeA_8-LptD/

[ABQalex]

The Albuquerque City Council on Monday also unanimously upheld the approval by the Development Review Board of an apartment project at Paseo del Norte and Kimmick NW. The neighbors and various other groups, including Laguna Pueblo, were appealing the approval based upon all the usual NIMBY reasons. Below is KRQE's report about the project and the city council's vote on Monday night. Hopefully this doesn't end up in the courts. The good news is that it looks like work is already underway for the project. Hopefully the developer continues to move quickly!

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...w-development/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s the end of the road for neighbors fighting the plans to build a huge apartment complex just off Paseo del Norte near the Petroglyphs. Monday night, Mar. 6, the Albuquerque City Council rejected their appeals saying the proposal for the development didn’t violate any rules.

With the three-story and 238-unit apartment complex on the way, neighbors worry both their views of the city and the petroglyphs will soon be gone. “I know development is inevitable but it’s sad,” said Cathy Cable.

The series of appeals started after the city’s Development Review Board (DRB) approved the site plan for the three-story complex near Paseo and Kimmick that would house 238 units. After the city’s planning rules for height and density changed for that neighborhood in 2019, so did the developer’s plans to bump up the building height to 38 feet. That led to more appeals from neighbors, some of which included the Laguna Pueblo and the Westside Coalition of Neighborhood Associations. “Even the open land is pretty, the flatlands are pretty, the deserts are pretty but we won’t see it anymore if I’m contemplating to move,” added Cable.

Neighbors argue the city’s planning department handled the approval improperly saying it needs to review the height and view impacts. But the city says the land use hearing officer was right to recommend denial on their appeals. The LUHO concluded that the appellants did not meet their burden of proof on their claims and did not identify any errors in the DRB’s review of this application.

After a unanimous vote during last night’s city council meeting, the plans to build the apartment complex were approved. Neighbors say they are also concerned about the increased traffic the new development would bring. KRQE reached out to the developer for comment on the neighbors’ concerns but did not hear back.

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These people are really ridiculous. I absolutely detest NIMBYs. Never mind that their own homes have already spoiled the land and ruined the views. They are such hypocrites and selfish pigs. They can move in and live somewhere, but nobody else can.

Here's the layout and renderings for the project. I had posted them a few months ago over at SSC but never got around to posting them here.













Another large apartment project by a national company in this same area was recently revealed in filings before the Development Hearing Officer. Thompson Thrift will enter the New Mexico market and is proposing to build a 300-unit project along Avenida de Jaimito NW between Unser and Paseo del Norte.





Here are a couple of renderings for recently announced projects by Thompson Thrift in Kansas City and Colorado Springs. They are practically indistinguishable, but they give an idea of what we might see proposed here in Albuquerque. Of course, we may see a more Southwestern design here. The Kansas City project will also have 300 units. The Colorado Springs project will have 265 units.





I'm sure the local NIMBYs are gonna come out against this project as well. They're gonna have their plates full, because there are even more projects proposed for the area.

The Universe View Subdivision will have 196 apartments, 162 townhome lots, and over 29,000 sq ft of commercial space. It will be located at Universe and Rosa Parks NW. I'm unsure of whether the townhomes will be for sale or rentals.





Another project in this area that I know will be rental townhomes is the MX at Petroglyph. It will be located at Kimmick and Rosa Parks NW and will have 28 units.





















Finally, a 325-unit rental townhome community is planned at Paseo del Norte and Woodmont NW. The project was before the Development Review Board last year.

[ABQalex]

KRQE has a report about a mixed-use proposal that will go before the Albuquerque Development Commission next week. The Pearl will have 34 units in a 4-story building at 16th and Central NW in West Downtown. There will be ground-floor commercial space as well. The story says that the developer is seeking $250,000 in tax breaks for the $8 million project.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...abqs-downtown/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The stretch of Central from Downtown to Old Town has undergone a major makeover over the past decade or so. Now, one of the last blighted properties is about to get new life.

Up and down along Central, you’ll see condos, apartments, and restaurants, and a pair of abandoned houses sits right in the middle of it all.

Dwight Auten has been living in that part of town for 30 years and said this development will be very positive for the area. This new development could soon be coming to Sixteenth and Central in West Downtown.

“When I first moved here, tourism was pretty good. People walk by our house. I sit on the porch and everything and then it declined down, but I believe it’s on the way back up,” said Auten.

The property is now an empty lot but recently it looked like this, with two vacant homes.

“You know, when you’re trying to renovate a corridor of the city like Central, you want to have the least amount of vacant space as possible you want to engage people along that sidewalk so that they’re seeing store fronts,” said Metropolitan Redevelopment Director Terry Brunner.

The four-story Pearl will have 34 units with retail space on the ground level.

Len Romano is the vice president of Ripe Inc, a nearby business.

I’m all for progress and forward movement anybody that wants to invest in Albuquerque, especially on Route 66, where we’ve had a tough time in the last few years,” said Romano. “Anybody that wants to create something and bring something new and a spark of life and a spark of energy, that’s great. You know, we should all be for that.”

The project is expected to cost almost $8 million. There’s no word yet on when construction could start.

The developer is looking for $250,000 in property tax breaks as part of the city’s push to fix up run-down areas. The proposal will go in front of the Albuquerque Development Commission next week.

This looks to be The Clyde project by Jay Rembe under a new name. I haven't had a chance to look into the proposal and supporting documents from the ADC meeting to be sure, though.

[ABQalex]

I've had a chance to look at the supporting documents from the Albuquerque Development Commission for the request by the developer of a Redevelopment Tax Abatement, which is one of the new tools that the city has added to encourage redevelopment of blighted properties in designated areas.

https://www.cabq.gov/mra/documents/c...pplication.pdf

This is indeed the proposal by Jay Rembe to expand his Country Club Plaza to the north across Central Avenue. The project has been renamed as The Pearl in honor of George Pearl, the noted Albuquerque architect who designed such local landmarks as the Main Library. Below are various screenshots from the application that describe and depict the proposed development.

[ABQalex]

A nice jobs announcement for the Albuquerque metro area was made yesterday. Dallas-based Arcosa Wind Towers will invest between $55-60 million to purchase and renovate an existing facility in Belen for their needs and create 250 manufacturing jobs. As the company name suggests, the facility will build wind towers for wind energy projects in New Mexico and the Southwest. The governor touted this as an example of New Mexico moving towards a clean energy economy and creating sustainable jobs for the future.

https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquer...productio.html

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) announced Tuesday the Dallas-based company would open a wind-tower production facility in Belen under its Arcosa Wind Towers subsidiary. 

The facility is slated to open in mid-2024 and employ 250 people, according to a news release. 

Arcosa is expected to receive $4 million in Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) funds which will be provided when Arcosa meets economic development benchmarks. 

The company is also eligible for Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) funds which pay companies a portion of employee training costs. The City of Belen plans to assist with Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs).

The facility is estimated to have an economic impact of $314 million over the next 10 years. Arcosa will now invest $55 to $60 million to buy, modify and equip an existing plant occupied by Keter in the Rio Grande Industrial Park, according to the release.

Antonio Carrillo, president and CEO of Arcosa, said in a prepared statement, the company is experiencing robust demand for new wind projects. 

“Our new facility will strengthen our position in the wind-tower market and enable Arcosa to benefit from growing wind investment in the Southwest,” Carrillo said. 

Arcosa has received $750 million for new wind-tower orders, the majority of which are in New Mexico and the Southwest, according to the release. 

"To have a company that is so highly respected in North America coming to Belen is a huge step in our growth and shows how the City of Belen is dedicated to industrial businesses coming into our community,” Joshua Kerns, Belen's community and economic development director, said in a statement.

Here's a link to the official release and a snippet from the New Mexico Economic Development Department about the project with more details.

https://edd.newmexico.gov/stories/wi...for-expansion/

Arcosa chooses Belen to expand its wind-tower manufacturing business.

Dallas-based Arcosa, Inc., a manufacturer of infrastructure-related products and solutions, announced that Arcosa Wind Towers, an Arcosa subsidiary, will open a wind-tower production facility in Belen and anticipates hiring 250 New Mexico employees.

New Mexico was chosen over other locations due to its supportive partnerships and competitive incentives, the company said.

“We look forward to expanding our manufacturing capacity to New Mexico, where market demand for new wind projects is robust,” Antonio Carrillo, President and CEO of Arcosa, Inc., said. “Our new facility will strengthen our position in the wind-tower market and enable Arcosa to benefit from growing wind investment in the Southwest. We are pleased to create new jobs in the State of New Mexico, which has been a supportive partner and a strong proponent of wind-energy development.”

Arcosa has received new orders for wind towers totaling $750 million, with the majority of those for projects in New Mexico and the Southwest. Arcosa Wind Towers is purchasing an existing facility, formerly occupied by Keter, along a Burlington Northern rail spur at 1951 Highway 304, Belen, in the Rio Grande Industrial Park. The facility will service the increased demand in wind-energy development, in part fueled by the federal Inflation Reduction Act.

Gov. Lujan Grisham has identified sustainable energy as a target industry to receive additional strategic economic development assistance as New Mexico diversifies its economy to attract higher-paying jobs. Arcosa Wind Towers is one of several new businesses that has chosen to expand or relocate to the state since the Governor-led Energy Transition Act became law in 2019.

“The transition to clean energy brings with it more diversified, higher-paying and skilled jobs,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. “Arcosa is repurposing an old factory for new investments in our state and our communities – this is a win-win.”

New Mexico's unemployment figure continued to be at 3.5 percent in January, a figure which has been the same since August, when it was just a bit lower at 3.4 percent.


https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.nm.htm


The state had 860,400 non-farm jobs in January, which is 3.1 percent more than in January 2022.

[ABQalex]

Here's a link to a short video with aerial footage of the Markana Uptown project that Legacy Development and its associated company Kassam Construction posted and reposted to social media recently. I've included a few screenshots of the video as well.

https://www.linkedin.com/m/feed/upda...1991023816705/

















Here also are a couple of more recent pics of the Markana Uptown project that ABQturkey posted over at SSC recently.

[ABQalex]

KRQE has an update on the Uptown Transit Center redevelopment project. It seems the city is pursuing a new $100 million mixed-use project with 409 residential units in three buildings ranging from 5 to 7 stories above underground parking. There would be both affordable and market rate units. And it looks like a new branch for Nusenda Credit Union would be incorporated into the project. The transit center itself would be rebuilt in a $25 million project as part of the overall redevelopment.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...ransit-center/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After almost two decades of talking about redeveloping the Uptown Transit Center into shops and housing, the city is pushing again to get something done there. Environmental studies are in the works and, if all goes well, the Uptown Transit Center could be home to two new apartment towers.

Bobby Sisneros is the Albuquerque Transit Deputy Director. He explains, “What makes this project so unique is that we’re bringing people to transit. Currently, the Uptown center is a parking lot for folks where they can come and park their vehicle, jump on several of our routes. We’re actually going to combine housing units so people can live there and have their motor transportation available to them.”

The city bought the land in 1998 and built a bus station on part of it, but the plan has been to build housing here. According to the city’s Transit Department, about 13,000 people work in the area but they have to commute from all over the city. They believe the project would make it easier for people to live, work, and play in the area.

The three-part plan includes a new $25 million transit facility and more than $100 million to construct north and south towers for residential housing. Sisneros says, “In fact, it’s roughly 215 affordable housing units and 194 market rate, so that puts us at over 400 units that otherwise are in a housing desert. We don’t have anything in that area.”

The buildings would be anywhere from five to seven stories high and would have underground parking. The city would work with a private developer on the project.

There’s no timeline for when all this could get done. The city tried to redevelop the transit center in 2014, and again in 2019, with similar but smaller projects. Those didn’t go anywhere.

This is all quite exciting news! Let's see if the city can get this done. I hope they can. I'm gonna try to dig into this and see whether this is the same project proposed by Palindrome Communities for the site. I hope they're still involved, that would give me great confidence that it will come to fruition, with all the successful projects they have built and have underway now in the metro area.

[ABQalex]

I did a quick Google search for more information about the Uptown Transit Center redevelopment project. It seems the city has recently submitted an application for $25 million in funding from the federal RAISE grant program.

https://www.cabq.gov/transit/documen...pplication.pdf

The project is being called Uptown Connect. This is indeed still the Palindrome proposal for the property that was first revealed back at the end of 2019 before the pandemic. The project will consist of three phases. The city will be involved in the first two phases and the third phase will be an entirely private endeavor.

The first phase will rebuild the transit center and construct portions of the infrastructure needed for the next two phases. The grant money would be used for this phase. The second phase would build the 7-story affordable apartment building with 215 units and the commercial space, including the new Nusenda Credit Union branch. That would allow the third and final phase to be constructed on the current Nusenda location and property immediately south of the current transit center property. The third phase will consist of a 6-story market-rate apartment building with 194 units and 6,000 sq ft of ground-floor commercial space.

The second phase will also include a 5-story building on the east side of the new transit center plaza. It will have commercial space on its ground floor and 19 units of either additional housing or lodging on the four floors above. The transit center plaza will also have four pavilion structures with micro retail spaces. Underneath it all will be a 2-level underground parking garage with 402 spaces, 48 of which will be reserved for the commercial uses.

Below are various screenshots that I took from the grant application PDF file that describe and show the project details, justification and economic impact study for the grant money request. Contrary to what KRQE reported, the project does have a timeline and is projected to be completed by 2026.





















Below is the link that's included in the PDF file to the city’s transit grant page on its website. It includes links to lots more information about the project, which I've not yet had a chance to go through. The links include tne full set of drawings and diagrams for the project. They include conceptual layouts for the building floors and detailed breakdowns of the project square footage, parking calculations, etc. I'll link to that directly below as well.

https://www.cabq.gov/transit/our-dep...transit-grants

https://www.cabq.gov/transit/documen...n_drawings.pdf

[ABQalex]

The overhaul and redesign of the city’s bus system known as "ABQ Ride Forward" is continuing. Two concepts have been developed for the redesign, each with different priorities. One would prioritize high coverage and the other would prioritize high ridership.

KRQE had a story about the effort and the public meetings that are being held this month to get input about the proposals and to gauge which is the priority and changes riders would want. The story includes links to an online survey and the city’s website for the initiative, which has the concept maps and lots of other information about the effort.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...to-bus-routes/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bus service in Albuquerque is slated to get a major overhaul in the next year. Before it happens, the public is being asked to weigh in on the city’s dualing ideas.

ABQ Ride and Bernalillo County are soon slated to hold joint meetings to get feedback on some new bus route options. Those meetings are expected to have a first look at several route concepts that could, in some case, be drastically different from the bus service Albuquerque currently offers.

The first is scheduled for this week, on Thursday, March 23. The public meeting will be held both in-person and online and is sponsored by ABQ Ride. It’s set to take place at the Alvarado Transportation Center, downtown at First Street and Central Ave. SW starting with an open house at 4:00 p.m.

Bernalillo County will also hold two in-person meetings. The first will be April 12 at the South Valley Multipurpose Senior Center, 2008 Larrazolo Rd. SW. (open house is at 4:00 p.m. and presentation is at 5:00 p.m.).

The second meeting hosted by Bernalillo County will be at the Raymond G. Sanchez Community Center, 9800 4th St. NW. Open house is at 4:00 p.m. and the presentation of the bus route options is at 5:00 p.m.

The feedback process to develop new bus routes is ongoing. For more info, check out ABQrideforward.com. To take part in a survey on the two concepts, click here.

Here are the concept route maps developed for each priority. Click the links below each image to it in full size.


https://abqrideforward.com/wp-conten...t-20230220.png


https://abqrideforward.com/wp-conten...t-20230220.png

And here are the maps showing in greater detail how the concepts would affect service in Downtown Albuquerque and the UNM area. Links to the full size images are also below each embedded image.


https://abqrideforward.com/wp-conten...n-20230112.png


https://abqrideforward.com/wp-conten...n-20230220.png

Here's the current system map that was put into effect last year.



The possible bus system redesign is happening while the city has had to cut service on its existing routes due to staffing shortages, something which is happening nationwide. The Journal reported today about the cuts to service that will start this weekend.

https://www.abqjournal.com/2583863/a...rvice-map.html

The city of Albuquerque will halt its Blue Line bus service from the West Side to the University of New Mexico area on Saturday, part of a series of system changes wrought by staffing shortages.

The schedule effective March 25 affects about two dozen ABQ Ride bus routes. Changes include suspending the Blue Line and multiple “commuter” routes entirely and, elsewhere, increasing the time between buses and/or suspending certain morning and evening trips.

The popular Central Avenue-based Route 66, for example, will run less often and eliminate the last two weeknight trips, while the Wyoming route (31) will run less frequently on weekdays.

Routes that currently serve the Bernalillo County and Los Ranchos/Journal Center Rail Runner train stations will continue with a new “dial-a-ride” service operated by the Rio Metro Regional Transit District.

The forthcoming changes were necessitated by staffing shortages, according to city officials. ABQ Ride will “re-evaluate” the schedule if it is able to hire more bus drivers and mechanics, the city said in a news release.

More specific details about the new schedule are available at cabq.gov/schedule-changes.

With the staffing shortages it seems the high ridership concept with less routes makes sense right now, but I wonder if we should allow for future conditions that may change, and go with the high coverage concept. Certainly I think bringing service to all areas of the city is a noble cause. Although, high ridership is certainly an important goal for sustainability.

But, at first glance, I don't like to see so many gaps in service, especially the much leaner service in Downtown Albuquerque. However, I knew that most of these redesigns have gotten rid of the focus on a city’s downtown area in favor of a more grid-like distribution of routes across the city.

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Along with the Uptown Transit Center project, there's a transit-oriented development proposal for the Los Lunas Transportation Center as well. The Village of Los Lunas is looking to partner with an Albuquerque organization to develop a 168-unit project with affordable and senior apartments on land east of the transportation center.

https://news-bulletin.com/affordable...iminary-plans/

LOS LUNAS — The village of Los Lunas entered into an agreement with ABQ Angel LLC to develop affordable apartment housing on village property near the Los Lunas Transportation Center.

“Affordable has really changed; it’s not just something for low-income folks,” Sheldon Jordan, founder of ABQ Angel LLC, told the council earlier this month. “It’s really firemen, teachers, police officers and, as you said, workers that might be working the distribution center.”

In its preliminary plans, the organization proposed a four-building layout with affordable two- and three-bedroom apartments available, plus a clubhouse. Some of the buildings will be reserved solely for seniors.

In order to qualify to live at the complex, Jordan said the income cut off would be anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of the estimated median income, or EMI, of the area, which will be assessed at a later date.

ABQ Angel LLC has plans to construct the complex on two village-owned parcels directly east of the Los Lunas Transportation Center, which will be leased to the organization by the village as the project progresses.

The parcel currently has no utility connections and is mainly utilized as a drainage pond.

While ABQ Angel is still a start-up, Jordan said the company has plans to bring several affordable housing projects to New Mexico within the next year. Recently the organization was invited to be a part of the National Equity Fund, opening the doors for ABQ Angel to support six different housing projects throughout the metro area.

“In terms of why we started ABQ Angel, we understand there is a real need for innovative opportunities to bring investment into communities,” the founder said. “Some of which are different than mainstream, but we do see them as options to bring in affordable housing.”

Village of Los Lunas Community Development Director Erin Callahan said the memorandum of agreement, which was unanimously approved by the council during its May 5 council meeting, serves as a safety net to protect the interest of both parties through the pre-development phases.

She added as the project continues, she and ABQ Angel will return to provide the council with information on the development since the agreement is only for the pre-development stages.

“The purpose of the MOA today is that affordable housing projects rely on competitive funds to develop,” Callahan said. “They will need to put in applications to develop this project. However, they can’t apply for any of these funds without some commitment from the village, (and) if they get the funds, they will be able to move the project forward.”

Callahan said the housing project adheres to the over-arching plans for the area around the transportation center, which have been in development since the construction of the Rail Runner in 2008, to “encourage a walkable, dense area … so that people can have the opportunity to take the commuter rail or bus service to work rather than driving.”

Here's a screenshot from the action report for the Los Lunas Village Council meeting in May last year where the MOA was approved. It gives more details about the project, including the breakdown of the unit distribution. It appears that there will be four 4-story buildings built for the combined project, with one reserved for seniors.

https://www.loslunasnm.gov/165/Mayor-and-Council



Also in Los Lunas, work is underway by Rio Metro to build a transit hub in the village for the buses that serve the area and also feed into the Rail Runner station at the Los Lunas Transportation Center. Below is a rendering and report about the project from KOB-TV back in December.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/rio-m...y-transit-hub/

VALENCIA COUNTY, N.M. — The Rio Metro Regional Transit District is set to break ground on a new transit facility Thursday in Los Lunas.

The groundbreaking ceremony is set to start at 1 p.m. Thursday. It’ll kickstart 10 months of construction on what is set to become the future home of bus services for Valencia County.

The facility is set to open in November 2023. Officials say it will accommodate their large and ever-growing fleet.

The $8.8 million project contract was awarded to Weil Construction, which was also behind the North Central Regional District’s maintenance facility in Española.

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The biggest crane at the Intel project in Rio Rancho suffered an "incident" late last week. It doesn't look very damaged, other than the snapped wire and the very tip where the warning lights are located. After the incident it was sitting in its 'resting' position where it is not fully raised, which is its normal position when not being used.

Intel says that nobody was seriously injured in the incident. The New Mexico Occupation Health & Safety Bureau will investigate the incident.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmosh...in-rio-rancho/

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — The New Mexico Occupation Health & Safety Bureau is investigating a crane accident Thursday at Intel in Rio Rancho.

Intel reps confirmed a wire from a crane broke on site. A spokesperson also confirmed the crane is one of the largest land-based mobile cranes in the world.

Intel reps would not provide a formal interview on the accident. Although they reported no injuries, Rio Rancho Fire and Rescue said no officials reached out to them about the crane accident at all.

“Our staff, our inspectors will be conducting interviews, collecting documentation, looking at maintenance records and any other information that’s available related to the safety of that crane,” said Bob Genoway, New Mexico OSHA bureau chief.

This is a developing story. Stay with KOB 4 Eyewitness News and KOB.com for updates.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico...ho-intel-site/

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – On Thursday, Mar. 23, a crane collapsed at the Intel site in Rio Rancho. KRQE Sky News captured a video of the broken crane.

KRQE News 13 is waiting on official word of what happened from Intel and will provide updates as they become available.

https://rrobserver.com/broken-wire-c...dent-at-intel/

A broken wire caused the top half of the giant crane at Intel to come crashing to Earth Thursday afternoon.

No injuries were reported, and the New Mexico Occupation Health & Safety Bureau is investigating the incident.

A statement from Intel read: “The safety and well-being of our employees and those who work on our campus is of the utmost importance to us. Earlier today, a wire from a crane broke on site, and there were no serious injuries as a result of the incident. We are currently investigating the incident and are committed to providing a safe and secure workplace for everyone on our campus.”

The largest crane of the six on site dominates the Rio Rancho skyline. It is 450 feet tall and can usually be seen throughout the city.

The Observer will update this story as more information becomes available.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque...e_crane_broke/



https://www.abqjournal.com/2584767/s...cho-plant.html



Some people have said that it was bent in the incident, but in the picture below you can see that it has always had a slight curve.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLunTqNwbO/



KOAT had a story yesterday with a pic appearing to show that the crane has now been dismantled and is no longer standing.

https://www.koat.com/article/intel-g...apse/43433234#

Intel Corporation has released a statement regarding the partial collapse of the 450-foot-tall crane last Thursday at the site of its Rio Rancho plant on State Highway 528.

"The safety and well-being of our employees and those who work on our campus is of the utmost importance to us," the statement said. "On Thursday, March 23, 2023, a wire from the crane broke on site. There were no serious injuries as a result of the incident. We are currently investigating the incident and are committed to providing a safe and secure workplace for everyone on our campus."

Intel spokeswoman Katelynn Loughlin said Intel should know what the cause and what to do next once the investigation is complete.

The giant crane had attracted a lot of attention and an Instagram page was created in its honor. The page grew quickly after the Albuquerque Journal ran a story about it and the crane eearlier this year.

https://www.instagram.com/onlycranes22/

https://www.abqjournal.com/2569144/y...-fan-page.html

Celebrity spotting! The largest crane at Rio Rancho’s Intel plant, a 450-foot giant with a load capacity of 800 tons, has its own Instagram fan page.

After the Journal ran a story breaking down some of the facts of the massive structure towering above the plant, Intel employee and crane superfan Joee Sanchez reached out to share her Instagram page and the story of its creation, made in honor of the crane.

The crane is part of a $3.5 billion expansion of Intel’s plant, which will enable the company to manufacture new types of semiconductor technology. Last summer, the Journal reported that the company expected the work to be done sometime this year.

Sanchez, a supply line manager at Intel in Rio Rancho, said the crane on the company’s construction site became a source of awe for many of her colleagues. As the metal structure was erected, the workplace obsession grew, and so did her own.

“People would go get their coffee and just stand outside and watch this thing be put up,” Sanchez said.

So, as one does when an oddity appears, Sanchez began posting pictures of the crane to her Instagram account. Soon, her friends were all sending her their own pictures of the towering structure.

Eventually, Sanchez said, someone suggested they vote on the best crane picture. Thus the Instagram account @onlycranes22 was born, with a feed full of pictures of Rio Rancho’s most famous crane from every angle. The page now has 22 followers, with 36 posts on its feed.

The crane pictures were voted on via likes on the app, with the apparent winner of the contest being a black-and-white photo of the structure with a dinosaur image pasted next to it, seemingly as a mock size comparison.

Sanchez said she has no affiliation with the construction company in charge of the cranes, and talked about it with the Journal from “an entertainment standpoint,” not on behalf of Intel.

Despite the contest being over, Sanchez said she still receives pictures of the towering steel structure, and her curiosity persists.

“I just want to know every single thing there is to know about this crane,” Sanchez said.

Here are a few more pictures of the crane that have been captured over the last few months that it's been in use.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmjxANrL45J/



https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmr4Syfp09T/



https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGzo0WNjvK/



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https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJG137Jfl0/



https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGul0Ytfpt/



https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzAUi_POln/



https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzAF81v6iO/



https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzAXo7vcnd/



https://rrobserver.com/photos-giant-...ut-metro-area/



https://mobile.twitter.com/SS_NMWT/s...52053570543619

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The previously announced plan to build a new national cemetery in Rio Rancho has apparently fallen through. The new plan is to build it in Albuquerque on the Westside, just south of Double Eagle II Airport and west of the Petroglyph National Monument. The Department of Veterans Affairs has purchased 230 acres of land at the southwest corner of Atrisco Vista Boulevard and Shooting Range Access Road. The new cemetery is expected to be ready for burials in 2027 or 2028.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...uquerque-area/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new National Cemetery is being planned west of Albuquerque. The new burial ground will allow veterans to receive official burial sites as the Santa Fe National Cemetery runs out of land.

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) announced this month that they purchased 230 acres of land near the Petroglyph National Monument. They paid over $2.8 million for the land.

Currently, New Mexico has two National Cemeteries: one in Santa Fe and one in Fort Bayard. There are also three state veterans’ cemeteries.

The VA expects the Santa Fe National Cemetery to run out of land in the next decade or so. Already, almost 70,000 veterans and family members are buried there – and there are around 81,000 veterans currently living in the Albuquerque area, according to the VA.

https://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/pressrele...ry-Mar2023.asp

VA acquires land in Albuquerque for new National Cemetery

March 10, 2023

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) announced today that it has acquired 230 acres of land in Albuquerque, NM for the future replacement of the Santa Fe National Cemetery. The VA acquired the property from UP II, LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company for $2,840,706. The new land is located adjacent to the Petroglyph National Monument, due west of Albuquerque.

Santa Fe National Cemetery was established in 1875 and has served the Santa Fe / Albuquerque Veteran community for years. Nearly 70,000 veterans and eligible family members are interred there. Santa Fe National Cemetery is projected to run out of land for burials in the next 10 years. This new acquisition will allow VA to continue to provide burial services to our Veterans and their eligible family members for decades to come. There are roughly 81,000 veterans living within the 75-mile radius of the new site in Albuquerque.

VA operates 155 national cemeteries and 34 soldiers' lots and monument sites in 44 states and Puerto Rico.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...869decb99.html

Within a few years, there should be a new resting place for New Mexico’s military veterans.

The Department of Veteran Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration has purchased 230 acres of land in Albuquerque to build a new and long-awaited veterans’ cemetery, one that eventually will provide relief to Santa Fe National Cemetery.

The new facility, near the Petroglyph National Monument on Albuquerque’s west side, could be open by 2027 or 2028, Victor L. Vasquez, the director of the Santa Fe National Cemetery, said in an interview Tuesday.

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The governor formally made the announcement today that the Next Generation Media Academy will indeed be located at the Rail Yards. It will be located in the Boiler Shop building, the second-largest structure at the site. The city has already made several improvements to the Boiler Shop, including putting a new roof on the structure. So far, $30 million is earmarked for the endeavor in Albuquerque. That includes $20 million that will be spent to improve and build out the space further for the Media Academy's needs. Ground was broken yesterday for the satellite facility in Las Cruces.

https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquer...n-grisham.html

It’s finally official. New Mexico's Next Generation Media Academy will call Albuquerque's Rail Yards home, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on Wednesday.

Albuquerque Business First in late October broke the news of the location of the Media Academy, which is a collaboration between the governor, the City of Albuquerque and Central New Mexico Community College.

“State and City partnerships like these are how we create transformative change for New Mexicans,” Lujan Grisham said in a prepared statement. "Our students will be trained by the best-in-the-industry and on state-of-the-art technology to further cultivate the film and digital media workforce and holistic ecosystem we are building in New Mexico."

The Media Academy will be built in the Rail Yards boiler shop and will include hands-on and craft-specific training for jobs in the film, television and digital media industry.

Netflix, NBCUniversal and 828 Productions are all working with the Media Academy to offer paid apprenticeships, according to a news release. IATSE Local 480 will also offer hours toward membership to students who complete apprenticeships.

The ultimate goal is to admit 1,000 students annually, according to a New Mexico Film Office news release.

Fifteen post-secondary film and media institutions in New Mexico have already agreed on the core curriculum.

On Wednesday, Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia Keyes also announced Chad Burris will be the Media Academy's executive director. Burris founded Indion Entertainment Group which has produced numerous award-winning films, according to the New Mexico Film Office. Burris has won the Mark Silverman Award for New Producers from the Sundance Institute, was nominated twice for the Spirit Producers Award and is a Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences member, according to the New Mexico Film Office.

Yesterday, Lujan Grisham was on hand to break ground on the new Creative Campus at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center which will serve as a satellite campus of the Media Academy.

The Creative Campus will include a 4,000-square-foot soundstage and classrooms designed for graphic design, game design, virtual reality and cinematography.

The vision for a dedicated film education program was initially introduced by Lujan Grisham as part of her 2022 legislative agenda as a way to shape the state's future through a 20-year economic report conducted by California-based SRI International on behalf of New Mexico's Economic Development Department.

Last March, Lujan Grisham allocated $20 million in capital outlay money and $20 million in general fund money to create the academy.

The plan calls for $20 million to go towards renovating the site. Another $10 million would come from the state's general fund and be used to pay faculty and staff for the first year.

Here's a rendering of the satellite facility that will be built in Las Cruces.

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The city recently released a new master plan for the Rail Yards. I haven't had a chance to go through it, but below is a link to it in a story by KRQE about the new plan.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...s-master-plan/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The city has come out with a new master plan 16 years after buying the Albuquerque Rail Yards to redevelop and preserve it. The new plan lays out the rules for what can and can’t go at the site. It also lists what they’d like to see from developers.

The makeover for the huge site has been slow-going. Now the new master plan will be a reset as city and community leaders have spent the past year hammering out ground rules to finally get movement at the rail yards. “If we are too restrictive, I think it’s just going to put more pressure on the site getting developed and we could be here for another 10 years and have the same discussion,” said Developer Jay Rembe last June in a Rail Yards Advisory Board Meeting.

The 167-page plan lays out rules, such as maximum height limits for new buildings and mandating shops along Second Street facing the Barelas Neighborhood as the city looks for developers to build apartments, a hotel, shops, restaurants, galleries and performing spaces. They also plan to refurbish old buildings. The updated plan also pushes for a new train stop at the rail yards, underground parking garages, and a rebuilding of the historic turntable and smokestack. Leba Freed with the Albuquerque Wheels Museum said in the same June meeting… “The turntable is the heart and soul of this property along with these historic buildings. so to me, it is very obvious that the turntable has got to be functioning.”

Planners want to keep the yards accessible to the adjacent neighborhoods with no fencing along Second Street and include a bridge or surface crossing over the tracks into the south Broadway Neighborhood with landscaping and trees boarding the site.

Albuquerque’s City Council still needs to officially sign off on the plan. Previously under Mayor RJ Berry, the city of Albuquerque struck a deal with a California developer to fix up the Rail Yards and build condos, shops, and a park. That deal fell through five years ago.

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A new transitional housing facility for homeless veterans broke ground today along I-25 in Southeast Albuquerque, near the airport. The 42-bed facility is the first phase of an overall project that will eventually also include a 33-unit apartment building for permanent housing. There will be support services and resources offered on site as well. The facility is being built by the Veterans Integration Centers of New Mexico. The entire project is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerqu...less-veterans/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Veteran’s Integration Center is breaking ground Wednesday for a new facility to house homeless veterans. The 20,000 square-foot center would be built on about three acres near Gibson and I-25.

Plans for the center include 42 beds and 33 units of low-income housing, along with substance abuse treatment, mental health care and financial assistance. It will also have a food pantry, donation center, walking track, dog park, gymnasium, and more. The entire project is expected to cost around $18 million.

Below are renderings and a layout for the project from the Veterans Integration Centers of New Mexico website. Articles earlier this year about the project said that the apartment building will have three stories. I think they must have added an additional floor to the plans since these images were produced.

https://www.nmvic.org/nmviccampus

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The Albuquerque Journal has a story about Jim Long's plans to renovate and create a food hall at Park Square in Uptown Albuquerque. The food hall will have about 20,000 sq ft spread across four of the structures at the site, including the ground-floor of one of the office towers. There will be room for up to 20 food hall tenants. The story also says that the office buildings will receive interior and exterior renovations as part of the more than $10 million project. It's expected that the new Park Square Market will open in summer next year.

https://www.abqjournal.com/2584981/p...ew-flavor.html

Three years after food hall Sawmill Market opened its doors, developer Jim Long has another food hall in the works, this time in Uptown.

Park Square Market, set to open in summer 2024, will occupy four buildings, including the first floor of one of two office buildings Long owns in the area. Both Class A office spaces will also be included in the more than $10 million renovation of Park Square Plaza on Louisiana and Indian School.

The Heritage Hotels CEO said the food hall will host between 15 and 20 businesses, including a cocktail bar, a craft beer tasting room, a wood-fired pizza shop and more. A few tenants are already set; the existing Japanese Kitchen is joined by the new offerings, which include a Keva Juice and a Gruet Winery tasting room. All in all, the food hall will fill 20,000 square feet.

Office buildings One Park Square and Two Park Square were designed in the late 1980s by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — the architecture firm that designed the Sears Tower. Long bought the first building in 2015 with an investment group, and the second in 2016.

FBT Architects is designing the project. Bruce Farmer, the principal architect on Park Square, said the new food hall will occupy only previously existing structures.

“We’re not really looking to change the architecture,” Farmer said. “Basically, what we’re doing is we’re adding a level of energy and function by creating a friendly kind of elegant environment out there … the biggest thing we need out there is people.”

FBT is actually a tenant of One Park Square, and Farmer’s office overlooks the plaza. He said that the area has craved more traffic for years.

“I walk through that space twice a day coming to and from the office,” Farmer said. “You look at it and go, ‘There’s never any people here.’ But it’s a beautiful space.”

Abigail Plantier, founder of Denver-based design company Maximalist, is the interior designer on the project. She said the current designs pay homage to the buildings’ histories.

“We studied the building at length to really better understand what SOM’s vision was,” Plantier said. “All of it was centered around this square, this plaza full of groves of trees. But the buildings’ themselves, the architecture and the materials that they used were based around these two buildings reflecting each other.”

Plantier said the North and South food halls will be quasi-reflections of each other, with contrasting designs. One hall will have a light, neutral color scheme; the other will be darker. Harkening back to the trees in the plaza, Plantier said, the whole project will include organic designs, juxtaposed with sharp, geometric shapes.

“The story has really started from the name itself, Park Square,” Plantier said. “Think about ‘park’: it’s organic, it’s green, it has lots of movement, it’s vibrant, it’s luscious … then ‘square’, being the complete opposite of that, it’s geometric, it’s hard.”

Farmer said the grove of trees at the heart of Park Square Plaza will be preserved. A new diagonal walking path will cut the plaza in two and make the Sandias more visible.

“One of the original tenets of SOM, they were playing on the way that angle looked at the Sandia Mountains,” Farmer said. “So we’re kind of restoring that kind of vision and hoping people come in … and see all the way through the plaza to the Sandia Mountains.”

Like Sawmill Market, Long said, Park Square Plaza will focus primarily on local tenants, rather than chains. But the design of Park Square Plaza is slightly different, Farmer said, fitting into the urban, corporate landscape in Uptown.

The office spaces will also be renovated. Over the past seven years, Long said, the focus has been on filling vacancies. Now that occupancy is upwards of 90%, “it’s time to focus on the beautification of Park Square,” Long said. Some of the updates include modernizing the facades of the buildings and two parking garages.

Long said the updates have a dual purpose: one, they provide an attractive place to work as employers try to bring workers back into the office, and two, they can entice other employers to move into the area.

“It will be a place that you’re not going to want to stay home and work from home,” Long said.

Here's a link to a piece by the New Mexico Architectural Foundation about Park Square and its design, including the axis and view corridor towards the Sandias that was created and which this renovation seeks to enhance.

https://nmarchitectureguide.org/2019/03/21/park-square/









Here are a few recent aerial pictures of Park Square from a listing on LoopNet. You can see the Markana Uptown construction in the first picture and reflected in the buildings themselves in a few of the others.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6565...ue-NM/4351905/

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Here's some more construction pics and new renderings for the Markana Uptown project. They offer a look at the interior finishes of the project and the final exterior design and color scheme as well. They were posted to social media by the developer and architect.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBolBwJRYP/











https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBrQTfvFeD/