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Mesa del Sol was approved as part of a public-private partnership strategy with the New Mexico, Albuquerque and University of New Mexico. It has been in planning stages since the 1980s. In 2002, after an open bid process, the New Mexico State Land Office selected Forest City Enterprises as the developer of Mesa del Sol. The project broke ground ...
Winrock was New Mexico's first regional shopping center [3] and was viewed as a symbol of progress and modernity, [4] attracting around 30,000 visitors on its first day of operation. [5] The original tenants included Montgomery Ward , JCPenney , S.S. Kresge , and Safeway , [ 6 ] with a Fedway store opening shortly afterward.
Henry N. Jaffa was elected the first mayor of Albuquerque in 1885. The city was governed by a mayor until the transition to a City Commission government in 1917. [1] Under this system, the leader of city government in Albuquerque was the Chairman of the City Commission. In 1975, due to large growth in the city, voters replaced the commission ...
Asbury Automotive Group is an American company based in Atlanta that operates auto dealerships in various parts of the United States. Founded in 1995, it was ranked No. 360 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list.
The Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as Tiguex (named after the Southern Tiwa), [3] [4] [5] is a metropolitan area in central New Mexico centered on the city of Albuquerque. The metro comprises four counties: Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
Albuquerque Studios, a production hub owned by Netflix. Albuquerque is the primary media hub of the US state of New Mexico, which includes Santa Fe and Las Cruces. [1] [2] The vistas and adobe architecture of New Mexico are a major backdrop of Western fiction and the Western genre. [3] [4]
Barelas is an inner-city neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico, located immediately south of Downtown. It consists of the triangular area bounded by Coal Avenue, the BNSF railroad tracks, and the Rio Grande. Originally a separate village, it was absorbed into Albuquerque during the railroad-fueled growth of the 1880s but still retains a ...