Plans and historical records for designated Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas, where the City uses public investment and redevelopment tools to support housing, infrastructure, business activity, and neighborhood revitalization.
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City Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas
Maintains the City’s current index of designated areas, maps, plans, goals, and redevelopment information. The archived plans below preserve records that may be amended, renamed, consolidated, or removed from the live collection.
Current Downtown Plan#
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Downtown 2050 Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2025 archived PDF)
Sets the current 25-year framework for Downtown housing, transportation, economic development, public spaces, cultural identity, land use, public investment, redevelopment incentives, implementation, and the expanded metropolitan redevelopment area.
Historical Capital Programming#
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Metropolitan Redevelopment Fund Capital Plan, 2006–2010 (Archived PDF)
Allocates projected redevelopment spending among East Downtown, Near Heights, Highland Central, West Central, Old Albuquerque High, Sunport West, Fourth Street, new projects, property management, and general-fund activities. Full 2007–2016 capital-program record
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2007–2016 Planning Department Capital Program Summary (Archived PDF)
Schedules the Bicycle Park, metropolitan redevelopment areas, Fourth Street, geographic information systems, KIVA, sector-plan improvements, village-center work, and other Planning Department capital investments. Full 2007–2016 capital-program record
Historical and Retained Area Plans#
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Downtown 2025 Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (2004; retained 2017; superseded 2025 archived PDF)
Preserves the predecessor to Downtown 2050, documenting two decades of downtown land-use, transportation, urban-design, housing, economic-development, public-space, implementation, boundary, and adoption policy for historical comparison.
Current official Downtown redevelopment-area page · Historical official City PDF
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East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2014 archived PDF)
Guides revitalization of Albuquerque’s eastern Central Avenue gateway through public improvements, housing, business support, streetscape, transportation, safety, community identity, redevelopment tools, funding criteria, and implementation priorities.
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Old Albuquerque High School Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (1984)
Documents the redevelopment framework for the former Albuquerque High School property, coordinating historic preservation, renovation, public improvements, private investment, and reuse of a prominent Huning Highland landmark.
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Central/Highland/Upper Nob Hill Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (2005)
Guides reinvestment along Central Avenue through business revitalization, housing, higher-density mixed use, pedestrian improvements, neighborhood stabilization, and coordinated public and private development in the Near Heights.
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Clayton Heights Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2010)
Establishes a redevelopment strategy for the Clayton Heights gateway neighborhood, addressing land use, housing, infrastructure, streets, economic conditions, opportunity sites, community priorities, and implementation tools.
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Coronado Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2016)
Plans environmental remediation, public-right-of-way improvements, and mixed-use redevelopment of the former industrial property, supporting new housing, jobs, retail, entertainment, connectivity, safety, drainage, and a northern gateway identity.
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Coronado Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Enacted Plan Packet (2016 Archived PDF)
Preserves the complete enacted Coronado MRA packet, combining the redevelopment plan with designation and adoption resolutions R-16-93 and R-16-94, findings of blight, boundaries, public actions, remediation needs, infrastructure recommendations, and financing tools.
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Del Rey Metropolitan Redevelopment Project Plan (2006)
Records the negotiated redevelopment plan for the Del Rey area, including project boundaries, housing and land-development conditions, resident coordination, public actions, statutory findings, and implementation responsibilities.
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Los Candelarias Village Center and Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (2001)
Coordinates land use, transportation, pedestrian improvements, building design, drainage, cultural identity, economic revitalization, and implementation for a village center around Twelfth Street and Candelaria Road in the North Valley.
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Preserves the former McClellan Park redevelopment framework, its downtown employment and residential-transition goals, boundary and project amendments, adoption record, and later consolidation into the Downtown redevelopment area.
Current official Downtown redevelopment-area page · Historical official City PDF
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Near Heights Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2000 archived PDF)
Preserves the original Near Heights redevelopment strategy for commercial corridors, small businesses, jobs, neighborhood stabilization, affordable housing, public improvements, community identity, and investment around Central and nearby districts.
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Near Heights Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Expansion Plan (2010 archived PDF)
Extends the Near Heights redevelopment strategy into the Eastern-Alvarado area, addressing commercial revitalization, neighborhood stability, housing, jobs, multicultural identity, public improvements, tax-increment financing, and implementation tools.
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North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (2020)
Sets revitalization strategies for Albuquerque’s North Corridor along Second and Fourth Streets, addressing catalytic sites, infrastructure, trails, transportation, housing, business support, public safety, cultural identity, and redevelopment tools.
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North Fourth Street Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (2010; retained 2017 archived PDF)
Preserves the retained redevelopment framework for North Fourth Street, covering corridor identity, land use, transportation, business development, neighborhoods, public investment, implementation, and the plan’s transition from sector-plan regulations.
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Railroad Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (1986)
Preserves Albuquerque’s 1986 redevelopment framework for the Railroad area, documenting blight findings, property boundaries, acquisition and disposition authority, public improvements, financing, relocation obligations, and implementation provisions.
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Sawmill/Wells Park Community Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2005 archived PDF)
Sets community-led redevelopment priorities for mixed-income housing, walkability, cultural diversity, education, local business, wealth building, transportation, land use, public investment, and implementation in Sawmill and Wells Park.
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South Broadway Neighborhoods Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (1986; Updated Through 2018)
Preserves the long-running South Broadway redevelopment framework, including neighborhood conditions, housing, commercial corridors, industry, community facilities, transportation, historic character, public improvements, adopted amendments, and implementation history.
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South Barelas Industrial Park Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (1992)
Promotes environmentally compatible industrial growth beside Barelas, covering business expansion, vacant-land development, City property disposition, industrial-park image, local hiring, code enforcement, transportation access, and infrastructure improvements.
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St. Joseph Hospital Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (1979; Updated Through 2018)
Preserves the redevelopment record for the former St. Joseph Hospital and Civic Auditorium area, including renovation projects, later development areas, amendments, and the 2017 transition from sector plan to retained MRA plan.
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Tingley Beach Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Designation Resolution R-305 (1983 Archived PDF)
Designates the Tingley Beach Metropolitan Redevelopment Area, records findings concerning the former Beach Motel property along Central Avenue, maps the area, and directs preparation of the redevelopment plan adopted later in 1983.
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Preserves the amended City Council adoption resolution, Metropolitan Redevelopment Commission approval, and attached Project I plan for Tingley Beach, documenting public findings, private redevelopment, displacement, financing, public actions, and statutory approval history.
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Tingley Beach Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Project I Plan (1983)
Preserves the 1983 Project I redevelopment plan for the beach property at West Central Avenue and the Rio Grande, documenting the statutory framework, site conditions, public actions, and proposed reuse.
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West Central Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (2004)
Guides revitalization along West Central through economic development, streetscape and appearance improvements, opportunity-site design, industrial employment, neighborhood retail, mixed-use development, housing, and connections to the Rio Grande Bosque.