Downtown 2025
The goal of the Downtown 2025 Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan is to make Downtown Albuquerque the best mid-sized downtown in the USA. The strategies in the Plan are:
- Make Downtown a “pedestrian-first,” “park-once” place with excellent pedestrian, transit and bicycle facilities;
- Make Downtown New Mexico’s premier pedestrian-oriented “urban place”;
- Preserve and enhance the character of the neighborhoods which surround Downtown.
- Have at least 20,000 people living within one mile of the Downtown Core, and 5,000 living within the Downtown Core by 2010;
- Create Downtown as an exciting “urban retail destination”;
- Maintain Downtown as New Mexico’s largest employment center and the Region’s Center of Economic Activity;
- Make Downtown Albuquerque a vibrant, urban 24 hour destination for arts, culture and entertainment;
- Make Downtown and the Historic District a “Tourist Destination”;
- Create new parks, open space and plazas that are easily accessible to downtown residents, workers, students and visitors; and
- Develop, maintain, and market Downtown as if it were a single mixed-use project.
Download the Downtown 2025 Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2000, last amended 2004)