Four days of community collaboration on the update of Las Cruces’s Downtown Master Plan concluded Friday evening, February 19, with a few reminders and with recommendations for key next steps.
The reception from attendees, many of whom attended multiple meetings during the four days, was enthusiastic.
The four days of community collaboration on the update of Las Cruces’s Downtown Master Plan concludes Friday night. The final event: A presentation and discussion by the project’s consulting team.
Everyone’s invited. The session will be held in City Council Chambers, City Hall, 700 North Main Street.
The message from urban retail expert Bob Gibbs in his presentation to residents and business people on Wednesday, February 17, was the level of pent-up demand for stores, restaurants and lodging in Las Cruces’s Downtown and in nearby neighborhoods.
“For your city to be sustainable,” Gibbs told attendees, “it has to be more than just environmentally sustainable. It has to be economically sustainable.” And what his firm’s analysis suggests, said Gibbs, is that “there’s no question in our mind that your Downtown has the potential for being a very viable shopping area.”
With almost 70 people crowded around tables in the Shannon Room of the Branigan Cultural Center Tuesday evening, February 16, Las Cruces’s four-day collaboration on a next generation Master Plan for downtown got rolling.
The opening night task: Affirm key spots in the Downtown project area where the advantages of city life seem to be already emerging and additional places where the potential for even more activity is promising.
We hope you’ve already saved the dates for our four days of collaboration on Las Cruces’s new Downtown Master Plan. The time, place and topics for all the meetings are here.
(Note: We’ve made some updates and clarifications since the schedule was originally posted last week. So make sure you’re working off this latest version.)