ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a big westside investment, where the City of Albuquerque put nearly $2 million in bond money to pave the way for a public food truck park, but months after it suddenly closed, a lot of people are wondering if anything is coming back.
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While the city helped fund this food truck park, the development is now in private hands. An initial person hired to run the park quit over the summer, but project leaders now say a new plan is just days away. “That was a corner of the city where there really wasn’t anything there. It was a vacant lot, and our job is to fill in those missing teeth around the city,” explained Terry Brunner, the Director of the City of Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency.
The Nuevo Atrisco food park at Central Ave. and Unser Blvd. has been a big point of pride for the city. They cut the ribbon to open the project in December, but the venture was short-lived. “The food truck operator that had been brought in gave up on the business about seven or eight months in,” continued Brunner…