Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency

The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency promotes redevelopment (both housing and commercial) in distressed neighborhoods. This is accomplished through strategic planning, creating Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas, working with community groups and leaders to establish their priorities, purchasing property for projects that can act as an anchor for other new development in the area, issuing Requests for Proposals to develop the City owned property and then setting up public/private partnerships where the private sector is the developer.

Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas -

For access to detailed, interactive, on-line information for designated Metropolitan Redevelopment areas please check the City of Albuquerque's GIS website.

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Eastern/Alvarado Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency Project

City of Albuquerque Request for Proposal, Solicitation Number RFP #09-01 [pdf, 8.93MB]

The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency of the City of Albuquerque has issued a Request for Proposals for the development of a City owned property located at the South East corner of Eastern Avenue and Alvarado Street.  The Eastern/Alvarado corner property is located within the designated Near Heights MRA Expansion Area and composed of 3.7 acres with proximity to transportation, medical services, Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, as well as unique local businesses and restaurants.  The property is also located within the newly designated Albuquerque International District. 

Documents related to the Eastern Alvarado Request for Proposals include:  The Eastern/Alvarado RFP, The Eastern/Alvarado Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Designation Report, The September 2009 DRAFT Near Heights MRA Expansion Plan, the Near Heights MRA Plan, The Phase I, Environmental Assessment Plan for the Eastern/Alvarado corner lot, the 2007 Summery Appraisal document for the Easten/Alvarado property, and finally, the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan.  All of these documents are available for pick-up at the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency Office located at Plaza del Sol, 600 2nd Street, Suite 550, Albuquerque, NM 87102.  The primary Eastern/Alvarado RFP document is found here.

For further information Contact: Ralph L. Mims, Redevelopment Planner, 505-924-3472 or email rmims@cabq.gov.

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Albuquerque's Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency is responsible for infill development in established Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas (MRAs), and in accordance with the Centers and Corridors approach to development outlined in the Comprehensive Plan and the City of Albuquerque's goals. The Centers and Corridors concept provides a rational framework for the efficient allocation of public and private resources, concentrating on land uses for greater efficiency, stability, image, diversity and control. MRAs and Centers and Corridors are the areas where problems caused by lack of investment and deterioration have created the need for special intervention on the part of the City. The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency promotes the development of neighborhoods through housing and commercial revitalization. To accomplish these goals, we work closely with community organizations, neighborhood organizations and developers. The Agency utilizes resources of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Fund and Federal Community Development Block Grants, as well as other funds that include local and state capital funds.

A major impediment to restoring sites to their former economic usefulness can be environmental issues. Whether real or perceived, older neighborhoods suffer from blighted conditions caused by properties that have deteriorated to a point that they are too costly to redevelop. The City's Brownfields program is aimed at identifying and remediating environmental contamination on project sites, such as Old Albuquerque High School, the Bell Trading Post and the Hyder Property, as part of the redevelopment process. The program is ongoing and funded by grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

 

 

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Contact Cynthia Borrego at 505-924-3335 or carchuleta@cabq.gov.