KOB-TV back in October had a story about a new food hall planned at Winrock Town Center in a corner space on the ground floor and basement of the former Montgomery Ward structure that has been converted to mostly medical uses.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/winro...n-albuquerque/
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – There are new places to sleep, new places to work, and new places to relax in Uptown Albuquerque.
Pretty soon there will be a new food hall. The team behind the Winrock redevelopment is now working to bring another new food hall to Albuquerque.
The area will have space for at least 10 to 15 local vendors, and a new sports bar downstairs.
“We’ve had a lot of food trucks out here, and they’ve been so popular, we just assumed that it would be that much better to put kind of food truck-style vendors, if you will, permanent vendors, in a space like this, and really drive the energy here in the at Winrock, especially with the park open right now,” said Darin Sand, vice president of development at Goodman Realty Group.
A corner space is the future home of the new food hall. Developers say they still need to tear down some walls, build a new patio, and renovate a massive basement. But that’s really just scratching the surface of all the work planned at Winrock.
“We’re designing two buildings on either side of the women’s Dillards. We’re also looking at another hotel right over on the west side of the park as well,” said Sand. “Plus, there’s a comedy club that’ll be opening in just a few months.”
When it’s all done, the Winrock Town Center is expected to be just that, a new town center in Albuquerque.
“A lot of other cities that are comparative to Albuquerque have these amenities, and we feel like our city needs it,” Sand said.
Winrock is not the only big project in Uptown. This is the future home of the Park Square Market, and there’s another new food hall under construction just across the street.
“Albuquerque hasn’t seen anything like this, and I’m really proud of how it’s turning out,” said Jackie Moss Apodaca, vice president of Heritage Real Estate Company.
The Park Square Market project is also promising to bring several local food and drink options to the Uptown area, but with a specific vibe.
“This is more of an upscale urban audience. In these two towers, we have over 800 employees who need somewhere to eat, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Along with, we’re building a fitness center, a medical spa and an onsite concierge doctor. So we really want to provide them everything that they’re going to need while on property,” said Apodaca.
Both food halls are expected to open next year. Park Square Market in March and then Winrock’s sometime in the fall. Despite the similarities, developers believe there’s plenty of room for both projects to thrive.
“We want to help build the city economically, and that’s why we took on Winrock, and that’s why we’re doing the kind of things that we’re doing,” said Sand.
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This is at least the third iteration of plans for a food hall at Winrock. Remember that they had plans to put one in the former Garduños structure and then announced not that long ago plans to put one on the ground floor of a new office structure opposite the parking garage entrance from the Portland Building.
Although Winrock has had some success with the new park, etc. it still feels like a crapshoot in terms of things actually coming to fruition and overall still has a haphazard and scatterbrained development pattern. It just feels like a bunch of moving between ideas and whatever comes along, and never really sticking to a good and firm plan or vision for the site. Perhaps it will all come together nicely one day, but for now it just feels incomplete and uncoordinated.
Here are a few more things that are planned or have come to fruition at Winrock Town Center over the last year.
Gimani Pizza opened last April in the anchor space at The Corner structure.
https://www.instagram.com/gimanipizza
The 4D theater at Winrock looks like it has gotten back on track after it was derailed by the pandemic. A renovation is underway to replace the seats in all the auditoriums at the Regal Cinemas structure with recliners. One of the 16 auditoriums will add new recliner seats with the 4DX technology. The project is expected to be completed by the summer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque...uction_to_add/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque...installed_two/
The FarmaKeio pharmacy finally opened at Winrock Town Center back in early November after a few months being delayed. It had continued operating in its original location Downtown as Albuquerque City Drug until it finally made the move to Uptown.
https://www.facebook.com/abqdrug/pos...Qv9DPyW2Cwbgql
Work on the Hyenas Comedy Club in the basement of the former Montgomery Ward structure is underway. As the KOB-TV story above said, it's supposed to open sometime early this year.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...49.-2207520000
A new indoor pickleball venue is also in the works for the basement of the structure. The story below by KOB-TV says that Vault Pickleball could be opening as soon as this month.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/indoo...ng-to-winrock/
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – The City of Albuquerque is investing thousands of dollars to bring more pickleball courts to more neighborhoods. But there are also some new companies out there, bringing a new type of pickleball experience to Albuquerque.
“Everybody’s kind of like, ‘This is really cool. Albuquerque needs something like this,’” said Jessica Moose, co-founder of Vault Pickleball.
Moose and Colton Davies are no strangers to a pickleball court. Davies helped create the Albuquerque Pickleball Meetup Group last summer, not realizing just how many players are out there.
“We’re over 400 members, and that’s without doing any promotion, any marketing for it at all, people are just seeking it out,” said Davies.
The skyrocketing popularity is bringing dozens of new courts to Albuquerque, but they’re all outdoors, and just a place to play the game.
“We kind of realized the potential of pickleball with especially how busy, and how the courts are in Albuquerque, and how popular it’s getting nationwide worldwide, that we could create this experience where folks could come and play and socialize in a more casual setting,” Davies said.
They’re bringing that idea to the Winrock redevelopment, which is still under construction near I-40 and Louisiana.
It’s called Vault. The roughly 26,000 square foot facility will house eight indoor pickleball courts, each with their own courtside lounge.
The duo says the speakeasy-inspired venue will also have places to eat, and a bar to loosen up a bit. But some folks might not need the extra courage.
“We’re really just trying to be another option for people to get into the sport, and have a place to connect with new friends. Maybe hang out with old friends,” said Moose.
They also have plans to host tournaments for the serious players.
Davies and Moose say they’re still figuring out a court reservation system that could include drop-in hours for newcomers. But at the end of the day, Vault will be a place for pickleballers looking to have fun.
“That’s a core facet of why we’re doing this in the first place,” said Davies. “You can never have too many fun and engaging things to do. And I know that there’s a lot of opportunity in Albuquerque to create more spaces like this, where you can not only go out and have a drink and have a bite to eat, but socialize and play a sport at the same time.”
Davies and Moose say they’re tentatively planning to open in January 2025. But you never know what supply chain issues could get in the way.
They told KOB 4 Vault could be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. — perfect for an after work hangout. But they’re still figuring out those fine details.
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A new Bath and Body Works location is also close to opening at Winrock Town Center on the western side of one of the last areas left of the old mall structure. Below is a pic from when the project was first announced. If you notice in the aerial drone video that I posted previously, the renovation and finishing touches for the space are much further along by now.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...66193618426329
Ground was broken at Winrock for the city's second Chicken Salad Chick location back in September. It will have 2,800 sq ft of space and be built on an outparcel on the western side of the property. It will share roughly half of the 5,500 sq ft structure with a tenant space. It will have no drive-thru, unlike the first Chicken Salad Chick location on the Westside, but it will have an outdoor patio.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...2524551897088/
The new Fidelity Investments structure was also completed and opened a few months ago at Winrock Town Center. It's located on an outparcel along Louisiana Boulevard next to one of the main entrances to the property and along the Uptown Loop Road. Below are several nice aerial pics of the structure from a real estate listing. Fidelity is apparently only leasing the space.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2100...e-NM/29413737/
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