Company entrepreneurs drive for sanctioned homeless encampment at Albuquerque Westside Shelter

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A group of Albuquerque enterprises is pushing to established up a sanctioned homeless encampment at the Westside shelter. The Larger Albuquerque Business enterprise Alliance fulfilled Thursday night time to discuss how to transfer ahead as soon as the campers are cleared out of Coronado Park.

Mayor Tim Keller introduced the metropolis would shut the problem-plagued park around 3rd and I-40 sometime in August but that the city was nevertheless doing work on what to do next. 1 possibility, the mayor mentioned, would be to switch the park into a sanctioned encampment but the small business alliance suggests they do not want to see campers return. “Talking about procedure, the methods to go to them rather of them strolling down sidewalks like they do in our community,” explained Connie Vigil, Larger Albuquerque Organization Alliance.

The remote shelter west of city near Double Eagle Airport demands people today to be shuttled in and out by bus. The alliance would alternatively see an enlargement of solutions there. Mayor Keller states other prospects for Coronado Park involve reopening it as a community park or giving it to the fire office for a station expansion.