Las Cruces Community Partners facilitates a Downtown Las Cruces Charrette to evaluate current master plans and studies while articulating today’s collective community vision for Downtown.
The New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance determined that the Las Cruces Downtown Mall was one of the state’s most endangered place, and Las Cruces residents begin working to work together to restore downtown to its former glory.
Main Street is closed off for the pedestrian. The loss of vehicle traffic caused by this closure caused the number of businesses along Main Street plummeted from 160 to about 90.