Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative

Downtown Placemaking From our initial program to bring community placemaking to Civic Plaza which began in 2014, we have grown the program to bring placemaking to the larger Downtown. Through programming with Artwalk, a monthly downtown arts crawl event which we support through grant writing, event coordination, permitting, and promotion, to the Downtown Rail Trail community engagement project, to programs for murals and pop up music and food events, we strive to bring vitality to downtowns vacant and underutilized spaces. These programs are essential to bringing economic opportunity to our downtown businesses and organizations while providing community friendly events for our residents and visitors. Over 25,000 individuals were served.