Another nice and exciting project that was recently announced for Rio Rancho in the Unser Gateway is Margarita Hill, a shipping container community. It's being developed by Roy Solomon, who also developed the Green Jeans Farmery and Tin Can Alley shipping container communities in Albuquerque.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2512673/d...-ex-marga.html
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RIO RANCHO – The developer behind Tin Can Alley and Green Jeans Farmery is planning to bring the food hall concept west to Rio Rancho with the opening of Margarita Hill in mid-2023.
Located near Unser and Westside close to Presbyterian Rust Medical Center, the roughly 14,000-square-foot Margarita Hill will, following the permitting process by the city of Rio Rancho, house eight tenants offering a variety of different foods, according to developer Roy Solomon.
Solomon said construction is expected to begin later this year and take roughly six months to complete.
Like Green Jeans Farmery and Tin Can Alley, opened in 2015 and 2020 respectively, Margarita Hill will focus solely on local vendors.
“Green Jeans and Tin Can Alley are based on being an advocate for local business, so everything we do is local, so all eight tenants will be local,” Solomon said, calling the tenants the “heartbeat” of the building.
Though contracts are still pending, Sadie’s, a local New Mexican food restaurant, is a possible anchor tenant, Solomon said.
Solomon said the rest of the tenants will be announced following the development’s final approval by the city.
The project’s site was approved by Rio Rancho, but the development still needs several permits before construction begins, Hull said.
Several vendors, like Santa Fe Brewing Co., Pho Kup, Amore Neapolitan Pizzeria and SA BBQ, have locations at both Tin Can Alley and Green Jeans, though it is currently unknown if any of those brands will make the move west to Margarita Hill.
Like his other developments, Margarita Hill will utilize Solomon’s now-distinctive shipping containers in the design.
While the shipping containers are now synonymous with Solomon’s food hall developments, when Green Jeans opened in 2015 it was the first project in Albuquerque to make use of the containers, according to previous Journal reporting.
Once completed, Margarita Hill will feature about 3,000 to 4,000 square feet of common area space including indoor and dog-friendly outdoor seating with greenery, Solomon said.
He said there will be “a lot of open space, lots of patios and very community-oriented just like Tin Can Alley.”
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This is a really cool project and I love the rendering! Roy Solomon's project's have gotten progressively better and this looks like the best yet. Tin Can Alley came out looking almost exactly like its rendering and that gives me great hope that this latest project will stay faithful to its rendering as well. Green Jeans disappointed in not staying faithful to its rendering.
Below are some recent pictures of Tin Can Alley posted on Instagram and showing it fairly busy, now that the worst of the pandemic and the restrictions are mostly behind us.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6L3W6Osid/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CfX3EaSOohl/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce-Pi0GuGLk/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce-PJ_su3NB/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce-OXJoOkNt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce-OrnlO8Wm/
That last aerial picture is from a real estate listing for a nearby proposed multilevel storage facility that will include ground-floor commercial space.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6217...e-NM/23879646/
Hopefully the project gets built, it will really add to the coolness of that block, with Tin Can Alley and the Stone Age Climbing Gym facilities. Although, they are a bit incongruous among the rather ordinary suburban building styles surrounding them.
Here are a few pics of Green Jeans from its Facebook page and its architects' website.
https://www.facebook.com/GreenJeansFoodHall/
http://www.mcclain-yu.com/work/green-jeans-farmery
