Tingley...The Downs......What do you think?

[casden]

How about leasing it to Six Flags Amusements Parks and letting them build an amusement park? ...or incorparating with the "International Center" part of Louisiana and Central and having restaurants and shops with a "GLOBAL FLAVOR", and having a Public Marketplace, like Pike Place Market in Seattle, or the International Foods Public Market they have near Oakland, CA. (Emerybay Public Market))?

Emerybay Public Market (Bay Area, California):

http://www.emerymarket.com/


Pike Street Market (Seattle):

http://www.pikeplacemarket.org/frameset.asp?flash=false

[rybert]

I'll second the eco-tourism thing (sans the house cats).

Maybe a solar/wind power museum.

[smartyknickers]

House cats need love, too! lol
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of tigers, servals and leopards rescued from the Everglades rednecks who buy them off the traveling circuses. (no offense to all the sensible, law-abiding rednecks out there. )

But yeah, this city needs to boast ecotourism. I like the idea of a solar/wind power museum or research facility.

[rybert]

Oh... duh.

I had this image of Tingley filled with every breed of small cat available... it was interesting to say the least.

[desert sun]

hey, maybe ABQ can bulldoze the entire fairgrounds and put up a Wal-Mart and a strip mall

[mattywo85]

Originally Posted by casden

How about leasing it to Six Flags Amusements Parks and letting them build an amusement park? ...or incorparating with the "International Center" part of Louisiana and Central and having restaurants and shops with a "GLOBAL FLAVOR", and having a Public Marketplace, like Pike Place Market in Seattle, or the International Foods Public Market they have near Oakland, CA. (Emerybay Public Market))?

Emerybay Public Market (Bay Area, California):

Emerybay public market


Pike Street Market (Seattle):

Pike Place Market

A six flags would be awesome but would the Tingley Area be enough room for an entire amusement park?

[rybert]

Originally Posted by desert sun

hey, maybe ABQ can bulldoze the entire fairgrounds and put up a Wal-Mart and a strip mall

Don't for a minute think that they haven't explored that as an option!

[casden]

Originally Posted by mattywo85

A six flags would be awesome but would the Tingley Area be enough room for an entire amusement park?

Probably not, but it's a little bigger area than Cliff's. Although I was talking about the State Fair Grounds and not just the Tingley area.

My mistake. I'm not living in Albuquerque right now - and I thought (for some reason) you were talking about the entire State Fair Grounds.

[rybert]

Razing the fairgrounds is a bad idea. There are far too many historically significant structures.

I say let RR deal with that stuff.