The Boathouse, a nautical-themed sports bar planned for Winrock Town Center, has missed its original October opening target and is now expected to open sometime around Thanksgiving, with no firm date yet announced.
The bar was originally supposed to open during Balloon Fiesta season, but that window has come and gone, according to The Business Journals. Developers had previously said the bar would occupy an existing building at Winrock Park and arrive in October, per earlier reporting from abqjournal.com, which described plans for a nautical theme and a patio hovering over the park’s pond.
Winrock Town Center sits at 2100 Louisiana Blvd. N.E. in Albuquerque, according to a visitalbuquerque.org listing for the property. The shopping center has been climbing back from years of decline, and the Boathouse was meant to be one of its more eye-catching additions.
A Redevelopment Years in the Making
Winrock’s turnaround has been a long one. The center has gone from an empty shell with just seven tenants outside the old mall building to more than 90% occupied with 57 tenants, per the same account from abqjournal.com. That steady climb has unfolded over nearly two decades, even as individual projects like the Boathouse have slipped on their timelines…