1914 translation by H. Rackham Raton’s participation in Great Blocks on MainStreet drives an innovative redevelopment and creative placemaking project designed to catalyze three core blocks of the MainStreet District. The pilot-project addresses deficiencies identified in their Metropolitan Redevelopment Area (MRA) Plan, which cited failing public infrastructure dating from the…

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Written by Elmo Baca, New Mexico MainStreet Program Associate, Economic Development Department A tiny prairie town of 3,200 on the state line in northeastern New Mexico, Clayton welcomes many Texas snowbirds in the winters en route to the New Mexico and Colorado mountains. Long before, Santa Fe Trail wagon caravans…

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