Project linking Sawmill Market to Rail Trail in Albuquerque to begin next week

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – City leaders are expected to break ground on a streetscape that will connect the Sawmill Market to the Rail Trail. The new streetscape will add traffic calming measures, new storm and sewer drainage, more parking, and additional lighting.

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Drivers will start seeing construction starting next week.”Where you’ll see construction is all the way on Bellamah to Rio Grande to welcome folks in the Sawmill area all the way to 18th, and also on 20th from Mountain to all the way here,” said Director Jennifer Turner, City of Albuquerque Department of Municipal Development.

The city said the $10 million project is expected to take a year and two months.

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