On a clear day in Uptown Albuquerque, the parking lots around Coronado Center feel like their own street grid, with glass doors, bright signs, and the steady pull of people headed inside.
This place began as a plan made in the early 1960s, when a 40-acre piece of the Jeannedale Tract, about 4 miles northeast of downtown, was chosen for a $7 million shopping center that would support the city’s growth.
Plans were announced in January 1962 by Homart Development Company, a real estate arm of Sears, Roebuck & Company, and the project first carried the working name Homart Center…