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Project Overview

ABQ Uptown is your ultimate destination for upscale shopping, home furnishings, entertainment and dining.You'll find it all in a pedestrian-friendly, open-air lifestyle center. When you see the big blue, yellow, and red “Q” at the intersection of Uptown Boulevard and Q Street, you know you are in the right place. It’s ABQ Uptown, the perfect place to shop, walk, and eat in a just-right, outdoor environment. With approximately 220,000 square feet of retail shops, restaurants, ABQ Uptown has a unique mix of stores that create a completely new and refreshing shopping experience for the community and its citizens.

• Named “Project of the Year” (2006) by the New Mexico Chapter of Certified Commercial Investment Members, a national organization.
• Classic mixed-use city neighborhood that developed on a vacant 20-acre brownfield site between two retail malls in the city’s Uptown area.
• Upscale outdoor mall with 50+ retailer shops and restaurants
• Impetus for the development was a sector plan adopted by the city of Albuquerque that required construction on the site to be high density.
• The development presented some unique challenges such as sitework, retail coordination, infrastructure, zoning, mixed construction types and parking.
• Street landscaping, plazas, fountains, outdoor dining areas, residential courtyards and portals were used to reinforce the urban fabric.
• Today, the highly visible blue, yellow and red lighted “Q” at the intersection of Uptown Blvd. and Q St. invites all to shop and enjoy the Uptown experience.