Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Tucumcari MainStreet has received a $1.7 million grant from the New Mexico Economic Development Department and New Mexico MainStreet for Phase 2 of construction on the Great Blocks on MainStreet project.
Connie Loveland, executive director of Tucumcari MainStreet, said the grant would be used to create new sidewalks, light poles and landscaping on Main Street between First and Second Streets.
Loveland said she was excited to receive the full $1.7 million her organization requested.
“We didn’t expect to get quite that much. It was a pleasant surprise,” she said, adding she was expecting about $1 million.
Loveland said Stantec’s engineering on the project is about 90% done, and she expects construction to begin in May or June.
An earlier phase of the Great Blocks project was two blocks of Second Street downtown.
The award to Tucumcari was one of eight projects that received a total of $6.6 million in funding.
Other projects that received grants were Clovis MainStreet, Alamogordo MainStreet, Clayton-Union County Economic Development Partnership, Santa Rosa MainStreet and Silver City MainStreet.