ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A part of town struggling with storefront vacancies, tattered signs, and dilapidated infrastructure, could soon get extra attention from the City of Albuquerque. City leaders said the stretch of San Pedro from Lomas to Constitution hasn’t seen significant investment in decades. So they’re hoping to designate the stretch as a Metropolitan Redevelopment Areato give it a boost.
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Albuquerque City Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn (District 7) is sponsoring the resolution. She said the corridor doesn’t feel like the safest of places at the moment due to dilapidation and obstructed sidewalks. But she said if the city could help make it feel like a safer place for people to walk and shop, “It would be a really great opportunity to kind of see what it was like in our city in the 50s and 60s. Right?” she said. “These buildings are historic, and we want to make sure that they stay around and that people have an opportunity to have new businesses in those buildings and attract people to come and hang out on San Pedro and spend their money with mostly local small business owners.”
Fiebelkorn is proposing to expand the current Near Heights Metropolitan Redevelopment Area (MRA). That MRA already includes the south end of San Pedro between Central and Lomas. Her proposal aims to extend it further north, to Constitution Ave near I-40…