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Plaza Ciudana

Providing a desirable and vibrant urban living experience within Albuquerque’s second oldest community, Plaza Cuidaña is a 3 acre, 68-unit residential development. It is the first phase of a 12 acre revitalization strategy in the Martineztown neighborhood, 1.5 miles north of Downtown Albuquerque. Using positive social urban design concepts, porches and stoops celebrate the front entrance along perimeter and internal …

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The Neighborhoods at Rio Rancho

The Neighborhoods at Rio Rancho is a multi-purpose adult living community, intended to create a living environment that encourages intellectual, social, physical, and spiritual wellness for area seniors. The goal is to serve seniors by providing support services and much needed residential, communal, and recreational space for the aging senior population. The multi-story building is being designed in two phases, …

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BelVedere

BelVedere is a 54 home, urban courtyard housing project located on an entire city block in the historic Huning Highlands, railroad era neighborhood. BelVedere was designed around the concept of urban courtyard living. Courtyard housing is a building type with a rich history in Mediterranean and California lifestyle communities. It enjoys a similar pedigree in New Mexico from the ancient …

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Gold Avenue Lofts

The Gold Avenue Loft Building is a 76,000 square foot, six story mixed-use project in downtown Albuquerque’s Historic Alvarado Transportation District. It was part of a public/private development designed to anchor downtown Albuquerque’s major revitalization effort. It was the first liner building that interfaced with a city parking structure to be built downtown. The multi-use building offers retail on the …

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La Vida Llena

This non-profit, continuing care retirement community needed updated and enlarged common spaces. The original buildings were constructed in 1981 and The Design Group collaborated with the owner and the residents to completely modernize the main entry, lobby, reception area, multi-purpose auditorium, dining facilities, swimming pool and locker rooms. Hospitality design principals were incorporated into this remodel project to create a …

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Uptown Transit Center

In 2009, The Hartman + Majewski Design Group was retained by the City of Albuquerque to determine development potential for an enhanced Transit Oriented Development in Albuquerque’s Uptown area. Thorough analysis of the existing Uptown transit center site and an adjacent available site was undertaken, including market potential and potential of built environment opportunities. The Design Group team generated options …

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Sarasota

To further revitalization efforts in downtown, the City of Sarasota worked in cooperation with private developers to produce an in-fill solution for an old surface parking lot. The Design Group developed a multi-use plan that included 10 stories of high end residential loft units merged with a six-level parking structure and a retail liner building. Our vision included various plan …